Auric Goldfinger Auric Goldfinger Auric Goldfinger is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the James Bond film "Goldfinger", based on Ian Fleming's novel of the same name. His first name, Auric, is an adjective meaning of gold. Fleming chose the name to commemorate the architect Ernő Goldfinger, who had built his home in Hampstead, near Fleming's; it is possible, though unlikely, that he disliked Goldfinger's style of architecture and destruction of Victorian terraces and decided to name a memorable villain after him. According to a 1965 "Forbes" article and "The New York Times", the Goldfinger persona was based on gold
Eurospy film in Goldmember" (2002). The Spanish film ""/"Spy Time" (2015) reimagines the 1964 comic hero for the screen. Eurospy film Eurospy film, or Spaghetti spy film (especially when referring to Italian-produced films in the genre), is a genre of spy films produced across Europe, especially in Italy, France, and Spain, that either imitated or parodied the British James Bond series. The first wave of Eurospy films were released in 1964, two years after the first James Bond film, "Dr. No", and in the same year as the premiere of what many consider to be the apotheosis of the Bond series, "Goldfinger".