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"Named after your father, perhaps?"
Draco: be thankfull that Santino Corleone didn't come after you!!
This is one of the reasons I feel that Dr. No is such a weak movie. The dialogue in places is terrible, like that line. Another un-pc and terrible line in that movie is "with all that rum in you, you just have to breathe on him". ugh.
As for PC, practically the whole of Live and Let Die would not make it today. Some of my favorites:
"For 20 bucks, I'll take you to a Ku Klux Klan cookout."
"You got a honky on your tail".
"I reckon this ain't exactly your debut at this sort of thing, is it boy?"
It was a white man's world and it shows when Bond deals with women or other races.
But that is the way it was,its part of history,and to me,gives the early films a healthy part of their charm.
This was a time when it was a rareity to see a non-white person on the street and women were (generally) in less powerful positions professionally.
We tend to forget that today.
apart from maybe the Octopussy line which is adhered to in the thread title. I remember flinching a little when that film came out.
Also be considered very unPC ;)
The way Bond stares at Madelaine when she enters the dining car. Within 5 years that will be considered sexual harassment.
Only by a bunch of lesbians of course, but such is the way of the world.
Also, Bond and Vijay had immediately developed a rapport between each other and Bond is making quip. He's just being a smart ass. In other words, my friends and I flip each other s**t all the time and no one takes offence.
I couldn't agree more. In ten years we may be at the point where even shirtless scenes in film are too un-PC. Bond fans could be criticized for liking CR even though the Dan-Man appears shirtless in many scenes.
The current era is almost always looked at as being the most advanced. It was the same in the '90's. I do feel, though in some ways things have gone backwards in the sense that open dialogue on sensitive topics now is like walking on eggshells.
I've actually known people in recent years who would have been more than thrilled if I'd cave in and vow to stop watching 007 movies altogether, just because they either heard the "fetch my shoes" line, or saw some cleavage in the Binder titles and were offended.
When challenged to give up a passion for Bond just for the sake of someone else's political agenda, as Spock would say : "If I were human, I believe my response would be GO TO HELL...... if I were human."
How any such thing can apply to Bond is beyond me. Or anyone else, for that matter.