The opening 220 m (720 ft) bungee jump was performed by British stuntman Wayne Michaels. It was voted the best movie stunt of all time in a 2002 Sky Movies poll, and set a record for the highest bungee jump off a fixed structure.
"GoldenEye" was written by Bono and The Edge of U2. It was performed by Tina Turner. The track reached number 10 on the UK Singles Chart and became a top-five hit in several European countries.
While being evaluated by an MI6 psychiatrist assigned to evaluate his mental state, Bond notices a beautiful woman in a Ferrari who turns out to be a ruthless Soviet sociopath named Xenia Onatopp. The two drivers engage in a dangerous race down the mountain that only ends when Bond's terrified psychiatrist demands that he halt the game.
After retiring to the Admiral's yacht, Onatopp murders the Admiral by crushing his chest between her thighs until he cannot breathe.
Bond attempts to prevent Onatopp from stealing a Eurocopter Tiger attack helicopter, which is capable of withstanding electromagnetic shocks, but he arrives too late to prevent the theft.
After stealing GoldenEye and killing all the employees of the Severnaya Satellite Control Center, they target Severnaya itself to wipe out all evidence of the crime.
TANNER: Electro-Magnetic Pulse. First strike satellite weapon developed by the ... uh ...
M: The Americans and the Soviets during the Cold War. I read the brief. Discovered after Hiroshima. Set off a nuclear device in the upper atmosphere, creates a pulse, a radiation surge that destroys everything with an electronic circuit.
M: The Prime Minister's talked to Moscow. They're saying it was an accident during a routine training exercise.
BOND: Governments change. The lies stay the same.
M: I think you're a sexist, misogynist dinosaur. A relic of the Cold War, whose boyish charms though wasted on me obviously appeal to the young woman I sent out to evaluate you.
BOND: Point taken.
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