Austin Powers in Goldmember
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 The theatrical poster of Austin Powers in Goldmember |
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| Directed by | Jay Roach |
| Produced by | Toby Emmerich Richard Brener John S. Lyons Eric McLeod Demi Moore Mike Myers Jennifer Todd Suzanne Todd |
| Written by | Mike Myers Michael McCullers |
| Starring | Mike Myers Beyoncé Knowles Seth Green Michael York Robert Wagner Michael Caine John Travolta Danny DeVito Tom Cruise |
| Music by | George S. Clinton Quincy Jones (song "Soul Bossa Nova") |
| Cinematography | Peter Deming |
| Editing by | Greg Hayden Jon Poll |
| Distributed by |  New Line Cinema Entertainment Film Distributors |
| Release date(s) | July 26, 2002 |
| Running time | 94 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me |
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Austin Powers in Goldmember is the third film of the Austin Powers series starring Mike Myers in the title role. The movie was directed by Jay Roach, and co-written by Mike Myers and Michael McCullers. It was released in late July 2002. Myers also plays the roles of Dr. Evil, Goldmember and Fat Bastard. The movie co-stars Beyoncé Knowles, Robert Wagner, Seth Green, Michael York, Verne Troyer, Michael Caine and Fred Savage. There are a number of cameo appearances including Britney Spears, Quincy Jones, Katie Couric, Nathan Lane and The Osbournes.
In a self-parody of the Austin Powers series, there is a film within the film. Austin Powers is featured in a bio-pic called Austinpussy directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise as Austin Powers, Gwyneth Paltrow as Dixie Normous, Kevin Spacey as Dr. Evil, Danny DeVito as Mini-Me, and John Travolta as Goldmember.
Goldmember is a loose parody of the James Bond movies Goldfinger and You Only Live Twice also incorporating elements of The Spy Who Loved Me. The film took in approximately $288 million from movie tickets worldwide.
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[edit] Production
[edit] Naming concerns
The title of the film Goldmember led to legal action being taken by MGM, the distributors of the James Bond film franchise, that briefly led to the film's title being removed from promotional material and trailers. The dispute was quickly resolved and the film title remained unchanged, on the provision that the film would include trailers in its cinema releases for the then-upcoming James Bond film Die Another Day and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.[1] Ironically, MGM is now the TV distributor for New Line's films and TV series.
[edit] Characters
Austin Powers (Myers), having conquered the '90s and the '60s, travels back to the 1970s and teams up with his nemesis Dr. Evil (also played by Myers) to thwart a new villain, Goldmember (Myers once again). Myers also plays Fat Bastard for the second time, this time parodying the kind of "wire fight" seen in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The film also stars Beyoncé Knowles as Foxxy Cleopatra (parodying a blaxploitation movie heroine, primarily Foxy Brown and Cleopatra Jones ), Michael York reprising the role of Basil Exposition, and Verne Troyer in his second appearance as Mini-Me. The film also introduced a new character named Number 3 A.K.A. the Mole (portrayed by Fred Savage). The actor Clint Howard plays a radar operator in all three movies.
Three actors who appeared in the earlier movies play different characters in Goldmember. Rob Lowe who played the friend of a dead guard in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery reprises his role as a younger Number 2 from The Spy Who Shagged Me, while Neil Mullarkey (quartermaster clerk in International Man Of Mystery) and Eric Winzenried (army private soldier in The Spy Who Shagged Me) appear as the Physician and Henchman Sailor in the Sick Bay.
[edit] Goldmember
Johan van der Smut, better known as Goldmember, is a fictional villain played by Mike Myers (John Travolta played the character in a cameo at the end of the film). The name was inspired by the James Bond villain Auric Goldfinger. Goldmember's Dutch origins and character traits were, according to Myers, inspired by an episode of the HBO TV series Real Sex featuring a Dutchman who operated a "sex barn" north of Rotterdam. The man's distinct forms of expression caught Myers' attention while he was writing.[2]
[edit] Plot
The movie starts with an action sequence, after which the protagonist is revealed to be not Powers, but Tom Cruise playing him, alongside other A-list actors (Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevin Spacey, and Danny DeVito), in a film about Powers directed by Steven Spielberg. Powers is then shown talking to Spielberg during the production of the film, but breaks into his usual dance in the beginning until he and his group stumble on Britney Spears in the middle of a music video shoot (for her song "Boys"). Austin and Britney start a dance off until Britney turns out to be a fembot when twin machine gun barrels pop out of her leather top. She tries to kill Austin but fails, and Austin uses his mojo to make her head blow up.
The year is 2002. In his new underground lair behind the famous Hollywood sign, Dr. Evil outlines his latest evil plan. Using a time machine he will go back to 1975 and bring back a Dutchman, Johan van der Smut (alias Goldmember), who had developed a cold fusion unit for a tractor beam. He intends to use the tractor beam to pull a golden meteor into the Earth to strike and melt the polar ice caps and cause global flooding. However, the plot is discovered by the British Secret Service, and Austin leads a group of commandos to arrest Dr. Evil and place him in a maximum security prison.
Austin is knighted for his services but is disappointed when his father (the famous super-spy Nigel Powers) fails to attend the investiture. However, he later learns that his father was kidnapped from his yacht and that some of the crew have had their genitals painted with gold. It was immediately revealed to Austin that Nigel was kidnapped after he skipped out on the knighting ceremony. In search of answers, Austin visits the imprisoned Dr. Evil, who tells him that the insane Goldmember is behind the abduction and, on the condition that he be transferred to a normal prison to be with his beloved Mini-Me, reveals that he is in 1975.
Traveling back to 1975, Austin infiltrates Goldmember's roller disco club "Studio 69" (a spoof of Studio 54) and begins the search. Austin meets up with Foxxy Cleopatra--an old flame and FBI agent--who is working undercover in the club. Austin locates his father but before they can escape they are delivered into Goldmember's inner sanctum. Goldmember abducts Nigel to 2002 in Dr. Evil's time machine. Austin and Foxxy give chase in the MOD's time-travel device (a pimpmobile).
Back in 2002, Frau Farbissina visits Dr. Evil is in his normal prison and tells him that his son, Scott, wants to take over the family business and has started becoming evil to the point of losing his hair. By way of a (disturbingly) passionate kiss, Frau passes a key to Dr. Evil. The other prisoners are encouraged to start a riot, which distracts the guards and permits Dr. Evil and Mini-Me to escape.
A British Intelligence mole (who, much to Austin's disgust, actually has a large mole on his face) in Dr. Evil's organization informs Austin that Dr. Evil has moved to a new lair somewhere near Tokyo, Japan. Austin and Foxxy fly to Tokyo where they are informed that Dr. Evil's henchman Fat Bastard is wrestling at the Asahi Sumo Arena. Slipping into the changing rooms, Austin confronts Fat Bastard and manages to subdue him after a botched wire-assisted jump. Fat Bastard confesses that a Japanese businessman, Mr. Roboto, is making some sort of contraption for Dr. Evil.
Dr. Evil's new lair is a self-resembling submarine lurking in Tokyo Bay. Goldmember tells Dr. Evil that they have the ultimate insurance policy in Austin Power's father. Mini-Me escorts Nigel to his cell but he starts to subvert Mini-Me, claiming that he will gain as much respect from Dr. Evil as he actually is of him: one-eighths. Later, Scott presents his father with a pair of sharks with laser beams attached to their heads. Overjoyed, Dr. Evil professes his love for his son and seats Scott at his right hand, displacing Mini-Me, who leaves dejected (but not before giving everyone in the room the finger).
Austin and Foxxy meet with Mr. Roboto, who pleads ignorance about Nigel's whereabouts. Unconvinced by his denial, Austin and Foxxy infiltrate Roboto's factory where the command unit for the tractor beam is being loaded in Goldmember's car. Roboto hands Goldmember a golden key which is needed to activate the beam. Foxxy confronts Goldmember, but Nigel is about to have an "unfortunate smelting accident" and Goldmember escapes as Nigel is being rescued. They chase Goldmember through Tokyo, but he reaches the safety of Dr. Evil's sub which departs before they can apprehend him. Austin and Nigel dispute the course of action but cannot agree, and go their separate ways.
In Austin's hotel, the mole has arranged the defection of Mini-Me. Austin, Foxxy and Mini-Me (now an Austin Mini) use Nigel's spy car in submarine mode to reach Dr. Evil's lair and gain entry. Foxxy splits up from Austin and Mini-Me, and they begin to search the sub.
In the control room, Dr. Evil threatens the World Organization with a global flood. To prove he isn't bluffing, he uses the tractor beam to pull a satellite out of orbit. Following the successful trial of the beam, Roboto demands a bonus which Dr. Evil refuses. Becoming more evil, Scott takes over and disposes of Roboto in the shark tank.
Adopting a disguise Austin and Mini-Me are waylaid by the medical officer but obtain a plan of the vessel. Rumbled by the MO, Mini-Me escapes and meets up with Foxxy while Austin is taken to the control room.
Dr. Evil offers to show Austin his plan before killing him, but the activation key is missing. Foxxy and Mini-Me enter with guns and the missing key. Austin now threatens Dr. Evil at gunpoint, but his father intervenes and reveals that Dr. Evil and Austin are brothers, separated at an early age during an assassination attempt. The three are reconciled, but Scott interrupts, angry that now that he's finally become evil his father is turning good. Declaring that he hates them all, he vows revenge and leaves (running away in an extremely effeminate manner).
However, Goldmember intends to complete the destruction of the world. Although Foxxy throws the activation key into the shark tank, Goldmember has a spare: his gold-plated penis. As Goldmember begins to activate the tractor beam, Dr. Evil reverses the polarity of the cold fusion unit, which electrocutes and kills Goldmember and destroys the meteor.
Then it suddenly appears this entire string of events was actually adapted into a film by Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Cruise. The whole Austin Powers cast (aside from Scott) are in the audience of a Hollywood theater, and enjoy watching the film. Upon exiting, they bump into Fat Bastard, but he isn't fat anymore - he took the Subway diet and lost a lot of weight, and is now very thin. Austin and Foxy congratulate him on this achievement, though "Fat" Bastard reveals all of his excess skin sagging off his muscles, and adds that his neck looks like a vagina. Austin and Foxxy kiss under fireworks.
Alone in Dr. Evil's Hollywood lair, a completely bald, maniacal Scott has taken over Dr. Evil's criminal empire and declares, like his father did in the last two films, that he will "get" Austin Powers; he then proceeds to inexplicably get out of his chair and dance like Michael Jackson.
[edit] Cast
- Mike Myers as Austin Powers, Dr. Evil, Goldmember and Fat Bastard
- Beyoncé Knowles as Foxxy Cleopatra
- Michael York as Basil Exposition
- Michael Caine as Nigel Powers
- Robert Wagner as Number Two
- Rob Lowe as young Number Two
- Seth Green as Scott Evil
- Verne Troyer as Mini-Me
- Mindy Sterling as Frau Farbissina
- Fred Savage as Number Three
- Diane Mizota as Fook Mi
- Carrie Ann Inaba as Fook Yu
- Nobu Matsuhisa as Mr. Roboto
- Aaron Himelstein as Teen Austin Powers
- Josh Zuckerman as Teen Dr. Evil
- Eddie Adams as Teen Basil Exposition
- Evan Farmer as Teen Number Two
- Neil Mullarkey as physician
- Tiny Lister as a prisoner
- Jim Piddock as a headmaster
- Esther Scott as the judge
- Leyna Nguyen as an anchorwoman
- Jeanette Charles as Queen Elizabeth
- Brian Tee as Japanese pedestrian
- Masi Oka as The Japanese Copyright Man
- Clint Howard as Radar Operator Johnson Ritter
- Michael McDonald as Royal Guard
- Donna D'Errico as a female vendor
- Greg Grunberg as the shirtless fan with the letter "T" (Greg's brother Brad Grunberg is the fan with the "A")
- Kinga Philipps as Young Mrs. Powers
- Scott Aukerman as Young Nigel Powers
- Kevin Stea as the assistant director of "Austinpussy" (and a dancer)
- Anna-Marie Goddard as a henchwoman
- Nina Kaczorowski as a henchwoman
- Nikki Ziering as a henchwoman
- Ming Tea as Themselves
- Susanna Hoffs as Gillian Shagwell
- Matthew Sweet as Sid Belvedere
- Christopher Ward as Trevor Algberth
- Nathan Lane as a mysterious disco man
- Katie Couric as a prison guard
- Kristen Johnston as a dancer at Austin's pad
- Ted Nugent as Mr. Bigglesworth
[edit] Cameos
- Tom Cruise as himself as Austin Powers
- Danny DeVito as himself as Mini-Me
- Gwyneth Paltrow as herself as Dixie Normous
- Kevin Spacey as himself as Dr. Evil
- Steven Spielberg as himself
- Quincy Jones as himself
- John Travolta as himself as Goldmember
- Britney Spears as herself ("Boys" music video)
- Ozzy Osbourne as himself
- Sharon Osbourne as herself
- Kelly Osbourne as herself
- Jack Osbourne as himself
- Burt Bacharach as himself (during the credits)
[edit] Release
The film took £5,585,978 in the UK on its opening weekend. In the US, it broke the opening weekend record for a spoof movie, surpassing the previous Austin Powers film. The film grossed $73 million on its opening weekend, and grossed a total of $213 million in the United States, according to Box Office Mojo. It is also the acting debut and most successful film of pop star Beyonce Knowles.
[edit] Soundtrack
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| Released | July 16, 2002 | ||||
| Genre | Disco, funk, pop, rock | ||||
| Length | 40:01 | ||||
| Label | Maverick, Warner Bros. | ||||
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The song "Hey Goldmember" is a parody of three '70s disco songs formed into a medley; "Get Down Tonight", "(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty", and "That's the Way (I Like It)", all by KC and the Sunshine Band.
[edit] Original soundtrack track listing
- "Work It Out" – Beyoncé
- "Miss You" (Dr. Dre Remix 2002) – The Rolling Stones
- "Boys" (Co-Ed Remix) – Britney Spears featuring Pharrell Williams of N*E*R*D
- "Groove Me" – Angie Stone
- "Shining Star" – Earth, Wind & Fire
- "Hey Goldmember" – Foxxy Cleopatra featuring Devin and Solange
- "Ain't No Mystery" – Smash Mouth
- "Evil Woman" – Soul Hooligan featuring Diana King
- "1975" – Paul Oakenfold
- "Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)" (Dr. Evil Remix) – Dr. Evil
- "Daddy Wasn't There" – Ming Tea featuring Austin Powers
- "Alfie (What's It All About, Austin?)" – Susanna Hoffs
[edit] Filming locations
The following is a list of known locations during the filming of Austin Powers in Goldmember.
- Moab, Utah (Austinpussy sequence)
- Georgia State Prison (Outside Prison View; Mock internal view of older visitation section)
[edit] Details
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- Another act of censorship, though this is only on the televised version (at least the TBS version) changes the word PLAYBOY on the magazine cover Nigel Powers appears on to PLAYBYO.
- During the news report on the capture of Doctor Evil, the ticker scrolls by reading 'Toronto voted greatest city in the world.', and also 'The Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup.' These are an homage to Mike Myers' hometown and his passion for their hockey team.
- The footage of a younger Nigel Powers during the flashback scene is from actor Michael Caine's film Hurry Sundown (1967).
- Mike Myers has said that his glasses in all three films are meant to look like those worn by Michael Caine in The Ipcress File (1965), so Caine took the original glasses (model "Teviot 74" by UK Optical) to the set and wore them as Nigel.
- The scene where Austin is talking to Foxxy "through" the Nathan Lane character was first done in the movie Caccia alla volpe (1966) (a.k.a. After the Fox) with Peter Sellers. In that movie, the Peter Sellers character spoke to the Akim Tamiroff character "through" the beautiful Maria Grazia Buccella character.
- In a deleted scene, it suggests that Austin got his "sexy bitch" and "yeah baby yeah" when he was a teenager at the academy and he heard two friends say "Jason and Nathan are sexy bitches! Yeah baby yeah!"
- In the scene where Goldmember is escaping to the submarine, he talks over a CB Radio to Doctor Evil and refers to him as Rubber Duck - a direct reference to the 1978 film Convoy.
- At the end of the Austin Powers movie sequence in the beginning of the film, Tom Cruise makes a cameo as Austin Powers and Danny DeVito also makes a cameo as Mini-Me and fires a machine gun wildly into the air. The gun is, appropriately enough, an FN Minimi.
- The names of the Japanese twins, Fook Mi and Fook Yu, are not romanized correctly; the more correct spelling (using Hepburn romanization) would be "Fuku Mi" and "Fuku Yu" (the term sailor fuku also being a style of schoolgirls' uniform which the girls wear). However, a deleted scene indicates that the two girls are actually American, and that they made up these names without knowing Japanese.
- In the film's opening sequence where Austin and his gang interrupt Britney Spears' video shoot, the two have a dance-off. Myers also makes a cameo appearance in the actual music video for "Boys (Co-Ed Remix)" that Spears was "filming". In the video, the two share a rematch dance-off, this time with Spears winning.
- When this film aired on TV, during the scene where Mr. Roboto talks to Austin and Foxxy and the subtitles are being blocked by different items, the "Please eat some shit" ("Please eat some shitake[sic] mushrooms") was changed to "Please eat some dung" ("Please eat some dungeness crab").
- There are several Pokémon characters in the Tokyo scenes of the movie, when Austin's car has a large Godzilla on it, a man in a Charmander suit runs across the street in clear view. In a deleted scene when Austin and Foxy get out of the car in Tokyo there is a person in a Celebi suit standing in the crowd, in another deleted scene, there is a stuffed animal that resembles Dragonite on a vendor's kiosk. Outside Japan, the first three Pokémon films were distributed by Warner Bros., a corporate sibling of New Line Cinema.
- Two future Heroes members make appearances in the movie. Masi Oka appears as the man who talks about the international copyright laws of Godzilla. Greg Grunberg plays one of the Titans fans.
- The rap performed by Dr. Evil while trying to convince the other prisoners to riot is a parody of the Jay-Z song "Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)". In it, he says 'This is for all my homies in Brugges.' Brugges is a city in Belgium, a reference to Dr. Evil's childhood home.
[edit] References
- ^ Spy vs. spy ends amicably. usatoday.com. Retrieved on 2007-04-07.
- ^ USA Today- movie news (date 2002-07-25)
[edit] External links
- Official site
- Austin Powers in Goldmember at the Internet Movie Database
- Austin Powers in Goldmember at Rotten Tomatoes
- Austin Powers in Goldmember at Box Office Mojo
- The Nitpickers Site
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