20 Things You Didn’t Know About GoldenEye (1995)
1. “I Think I’ve Gone To Heaven.”
GoldenEye opens on an undeniable high note when Double-0 Seven bungee jumps off of a dam in Arkhangelsk in the Soviet Union to gain access to a chemical weapons factory undetected.
In reality, the sequence was shot at the Contra Dam (also known as the Verzasca Dam and the Locarno Dam) in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland. British stuntman, Wayne Michaels doubled for Pierce Brosnan when making the 220 metre jump off of the towering structure.
Practically as soon as the film was released, the dam was leased to a company that helped daredevil fans to replicate the ambitious stunt - a practice that continues to this day. Moreover, a Sky Movies poll held in 2002 that the opening bungee jump in GoldenEye was the best movie stunt of all time.
However, Michaels’s involvement in GoldenEye did not end there; a veteran of several Bond films, he returned as the dark-haired French pilot that Xenia Onatopp shoots onboard La Fayette so that she can steal the Tiger helicopter.
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