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Space and it is brutal. and connery could always get this look on his face like i'm not going to make it out of this room alive. and that's something that is absolutely essential to an action star. >> gold fingering is when it becomes a super spy film. it has the fantastic cal elements that kind of bond really starts to lean into. we're in fort knox. there are women pilots that are very sexy and you have a hench man who has a hat that can be cut off your head if thrown at you like a frisbee. everything about "gold finger" informs the rest of the franchise. >> do you expect me to talk? >> no, m...

60s line where, you know, just in one moment, kids and adults could see the generation gap and see each other on the other side. >> sorry, luke. i'm just doing my job. you got to appreciate that. >> nah. calling it your job don't make it right, boss. >> i still think he's the last of the old movie stars. when he starts the '60s, he's up against the likes of cary grant and john wayne and marlon brando. and by the end of the '60s, he's up against the likes of steve mcqueen and sean connery. and for mcqueen, i think newman was sort of a target. ♪ >> the great escape is as good a prisoner of war...

You weren't asking for an internal performance from him. he was somebody you could project a fantasy on. >> my friends call me tanya. >> mine call me james bond. >> james bond is created during the cold war by ian fleming, and in cold war terms, james bond is everything that the russians are not. and that becomes a kind of subliminal appeal. >> take it easy, 007. >> in "from russia with love" there's this fight inside a train car that connery has with robert shaw, and it is in a tiny, confined space, and it is brutal. and connery could always get this look on his face like, i'm not going to ma...

>> you have to let it all go, neo, fear, doubt. and disbelief. free your mind. >> whoa. >> "the matrix" changes everything. you have the embrace of eastern cinema into western canon. and you've got them making their actors do the stunts themselves. keanu reeves had already done "point break," and "speed," but this is a different level of action star that he's transforming into. this was six months of training every actor had to go through. one of the things that you get when you're having the actors do their own stunts you can film close-ups of the face while a

>> whoa. >> the matrix" changes everything. you have the embrace of eastern cinema into western canon. and you've got them making their actors do the stunts themselves. quijano reeves had already done ""point break,"" and "speed," but this is a different level of action star that he's transforming into. this was six months of training every actor had to go through. one of the things that you get when you're having the actors do their own stunts you can film close-ups of the face while a punk is being taken, while a punch is being thrown. the action itself becomes story telling. >> as cgi gets ...