The James Bond Thread

[matchmaker]

Margaret Nolan, who was in Goldfinger, has died.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/oct/12/marga...

Also a glamour model with an incredible figure...

[LewG]

Back when Bond films were great RIP Margaret Nolan

[Fundoreen]

LewG said:

Back when Bond films were great RIP Margaret Nolan

Is this the bit where bond gives her a slap on the bum. Apparently Fleming liked that sort of thing so they probably put it in for him.

[anonymoususer]

Licence to Kill is on ITV4 tonight (Tuesday) 8pm
At the time it was thought the least Bond film of any.

[Scabutz]

Fundoreen said:

Is this the bit where bond gives her a slap on the bum. Apparently Fleming liked that sort of thing so they probably put it in for him.

The books are verging on rapey in places.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Scabutz said:

The books are verging on rapey in places.

This does not surprise me. Fleming was very much "of his time", by which I mean a misogynistic homophobic racist. Because back then such things were acceptable (although with the caveat of 'acceptable to whom?')

[anonymous-user]

Scabutz said:

Fundoreen said:

Is this the bit where bond gives her a slap on the bum. Apparently Fleming liked that sort of thing so they probably put it in for him.

The books are verging on rapey in places.

They are indeed. Quite early on in Casino Royale (IIRC) Fleming describes Bond literally ripping a girl’s clothes off.

[Composer62]

Crossflow Kid said:

Scabutz said:

Fundoreen said:

Is this the bit where bond gives her a slap on the bum. Apparently Fleming liked that sort of thing so they probably put it in for him.

The books are verging on rapey in places.

They are indeed. Quite early on in Casino Royale (IIRC) Fleming describes Bond literally ripping a girl’s clothes off.

To balance that a little, in the books he did become quite deeply involved with a few of the leading ladies. He was just about to propose to Vesper in Casino Royale. He had a proper relationship with Tiffany in Diamonds are Forever (And subsequently) and of course did marry Tracy in OHMSS which is referred back to in other books. I think the character is a bit more nuanced and deeper than he's sometimes given credit for.

[Deranged Rover]

anonymoususer said:

Licence to Kill is on ITV4 tonight (Tuesday) 8pm
At the time it was thought the least Bond film of any.

Watched it because Carey Lowell is still my favourite ever Bond girl. The double-take Bond does when she walks into the bank office is priceless!

[Fundoreen]

Crossflow Kid said:

Scabutz said:

Fundoreen said:

Is this the bit where bond gives her a slap on the bum. Apparently Fleming liked that sort of thing so they probably put it in for him.

The books are verging on rapey in places.

They are indeed. Quite early on in Casino Royale (IIRC) Fleming describes Bond literally ripping a girl’s clothes off.

Personally I just find these sequences amusing. It seems ok to stab/shoot/Incinerate/explode people in films but the big no no is treatment of women and minorities and extending it into the past.
Not advocating that every bond film should end like monty python and the holy grail though.

[SpudLink]

A man and his wife are watching Die Another Day “every week until the pandemic passes”. Or presumably until they looselose the will to live.


Edited to correct stupidity

Edited by SpudLink on Tuesday 20th October 11:36

[whitesocks]

SpudLink said:

A man and his wife are watching Die Another Day “every week until the pandemic passes”. Or presumably until they loose the will to live.

I'd rather catch Covid

[Halmyre]

Fundoreen said:

LewG said:

Back when Bond films were great RIP Margaret Nolan

Is this the bit where bond gives her a slap on the bum. Apparently Fleming liked that sort of thing so they probably put it in for him.

Yes, Bond slaps her on the bum and tells her to get lost. "Man talk".

He then puts on one of the least manliest outfits ever seen in human existence.

[nonsequitur]

SpudLink said:

A man and his wife are watching Die Another Day “every week until the pandemic passes”. Or presumably until they loose the will to live.

Fast and Loose. A Bond title if ever...

[nonsequitur]

SpudLink said:

A man and his wife are watching Die Another Day “every week until the pandemic passes”. Or presumably until they loose the will to live.

But they may only live twice at that rate.

[anonymoususer]

Goldeneye is on ITV 4 Tonight 9pm

Pierce Brosnan is often regarded as a poor Bond but this film firmly put Bond on the map again

Gloriously daft in places brilliant in others its one of my guilty pleasures

[anonymous-user]

Probably the best of the Brosnan batch.

[Dr Jekyll]

anonymoususer said:

Goldeneye is on ITV 4 Tonight 9pm

Pierce Brosnan is often regarded as a poor Bond but this film firmly put Bond on the map again

Gloriously daft in places brilliant in others its one of my guilty pleasures

+1

I still sometimes declare 'I am invincible' after sorting out a network problem.

[h0b0]

No time to die is being shopped around to streaming services

$600M would be a big step down from the $1.1B that Spectre made in the cinemas.

[HTP99]

h0b0 said:

No time to die is being shopped around to streaming services

$600M would be a big step down from the $1.1B that Spectre made in the cinemas.

I read about this yesterday and it did make wonder about the future of massive budget films with big stars who command hefty salaries, if there are big changes on the horizon with how people watch new films, ie cinema ends up being not what it was pre Covid and ends up being niche, where will all the money come from for these big movies, will movies end up having to cost a lot less to make and will stars have to take massive cuts in how much money they can currently command to star in a film.