Blinded By The Light to Goldfinger

Someone brought up the question about whether songs just occur to me and that made me think of a one-off sync that was nothing more than that.

I was simply watching Goldfinger with the scene where Bond is blinded by the light made me think of ... you guessed it. However, while the "blinded by the light" lyrics work great with the bright lights of the scene this is a tough sync to appreciated as Springsteen obviously has other sources that influenced the lyrics as well as there are so many lyrics (some a bit hard to understand).

Key lyrics

And now young Scott with a slingshot finally found a tender spot and throws his lover in the sand

The young Scot being Sean Connery with Tilly Masterson struck to the ground by Oddjob's metal-rimmed bowler.

Yeah he was blinded by the light Cut loose like a deuce another runner in the night

At gunpoint, Bond gets back into his Aston Martin, the runner in the night was Jill Masterson running for the woods before being struck down. The light is the headlights pointed toward the audience.


And go-cart Mozart was checkin' out the weather chart to see if it was safe to go outside
Safe to go outside is ironic, as Bond looks down toward his ejector button. The weather chart perhaps a reference to the round green screen tracker that is one of the key gadgets in the Aston Martin.

And little Early-Pearly came in by her curly-wurly and asked me if I needed a ride

A whirly birdy is more like it as Bond ejects his unwanted passenger out of the top of the car (thus needing a ride).

Yes and Scotland Yard was trying hard, they sent a dude with a calling card, he said, do what you like, but don't do it here

Another Scot reference with Bond having to change direction as the old lady guard effectively uses a machine gun on him.

He was just blinded by the light Cut loose like a deuce another runner in the night

The deuce is Bond's two seater Aston Martin, a nighttime car chase afoot with a light blinding Bond as he holds his hand up in front of his face

Blinded by the light

Blinded again, Bond shields his eyes with his hand ultimately crashing.


Mama always told me not to look into the sights of the sun

The sun is the distinctively yellow headlight of a chase car. The headlight coming into a close-up.




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