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Bond: "Suppose she sees me in the flesh, and I don't come up to her expectations?"
M: "Just see that you do."
35 years later:
Bond: "I doubt she will remember me."
M: "Remind her, then pump her for information."
Moneypenny: "You'll just have to decide how much pumping is needed, James."
Some commentators have said that that line was actually just a reference to Prince Charming holding the glass slipper belonging to Cinderella. Just like in the story, Lazenby Bond does end up holding Tracy's shoes as she speeds away in the car. I'm not at all sure if that's intended to be taken seriously but it seems to me that the scriptwriters' intent was obviously a reference to Sean Connery's Bond from the new Lazenby Bond, however veiled it might have been.
Tiffany and Bond meeting cute in her apartment to me in lesser hands then Connery and St. John might have been cringeworthy.
I cringe in Spy when Bond is searching for Kalba and the woman says he is out. Bond then says "Well I had lunch but I seem to have missed dessert." then they start to make out. Creepy I would thin even by 1970's standards. Then I could never figure out why this woman who just met Bond is willing to die for him. Poorly written and executed if you ask me. Why have the woman there at all...okay I am letting this go! LOL!
I think Roger Moore had the most "let's shag" moments with women he had only just met within seconds (like that agent he starts disrobing in MR). I was watching YOLT with a friend who's been watching the films for the first time, and the instance where Aki is suddenly down to shag with Bond really caught her off guard, and I told her that it only got more pronounced in later films.
Definitely parody territory, like something out of a porn.
Those 2 are seriously crap one-liners.
I mean... what???
Bond means the coat tails on the waiters uniform Mr Kidd was wearing.
Bond actually says 'tails' between his legs.
"I'm sure we will be able to lick you into shape"
That's bad - not even Sir Rog could save that line.
@Max_The_Parrot - I'm not a prude, it's just that line is just like "Whoa, steady on old chap!"
You know? "Tone it down a bit gents!" :))
The humor that worked best for Brosnan was when he was more or less being ironic, like during the interrogation with Mishkin. "What, no small talk? No chit chat?" It's not something I could see other Bonds pull off, but it works for Pierce because he had a more schoolboy quality than other Bonds due to his higher pitched voice.
@Thunderfinger a touch, I think. Probably not at the time, but it hasn't aged well
Neither the portrayal of Japanese women in YOLT...
The other one I hate is Jinx's second big cock reference and groin-gaze in DAD. We get "that's a mouthful" early on, when they meet, and "you're a big boy" at the Ice Palace later. Why oh why didn't someone working on the film say, at the time, "hang on guys, she's already done a big cock reference with a Carry On style nod at his todger earlier on in the film". But no, we get two, just in case we fancy a further snigger.
Ugh.
Hahaha typical MooreBond...
Yes, that sort of thing was par for the course in the Moore Bond films.
I am surprised no one has mentioned Sheriff JW Pepper as he had some politically incorrect lines. I think Clifton played him so OTT that you just chuckle at them but they do play into the racist stereotypes of southern police.
By TMWTGG he just felt utterly out of place tagging along with Bond, and his racist remarks over Asians just felt gross.
So true, his expressions delight and fascinate me, and I’ve spent many hours in front of the mirror as a kid trying to emulate them.
I think that’s why Rog is my favourite Bond - you’re getting two actors for the price of one.
His facial expressions makes you think he is taking along for the ride in his latest 007 mission,to me.
Yes, but that very fact serves to show that they are ridiculous racist stereotypes. Nobody who understood the mechanics here will take them at face value. Same goes for Pepper's remarks about the little Thai pointy-heads in their pajamas. There is no way that anyone should take that seriously.
Satire is always at the next level: It never makes fun of the targets of racist, sexist, whatever-ist remarks, but always of the attackers, even if that is by showing their unfiltered "opinions". It sometimes hurts until you realise the intention behind it. If that were different, it wouldn't be satire anymore. And I don't think anyone involved in the making of Bond movies is intentionally racist...no matter how the views may have changed in the meantime. Quarrel, fetch my shoes!
It sort of adds to how Brosnan’s latter three films feel somewhat Americanized compared to those that came before and after. Of course I think Craig was guilty of referring to a mobile phone as a cell phone at one point.
The most obvious moment in this regard is in TND for me. When Dr. Kaufmann says, "Wait! I am just a professional doing a job!", Bond answers, "Me, too!" before killing him. From the beginning on, I think Bond should have said, "So am I!"
You and me both!
Pepper also works as a character in LALD because all the other police officers are presented as being (more or less) competent, likeable and normal. He is the only caricature there.
In my view Pepper was a very clever creation by the film makers, in some ways a necessary character, and it shows the amount of thought that went into LALD.
In Golden Gun he is out of place.
The Pepper character in LALD just illustrates how far the series fell from the characters created by Fleming to the emphasis on jokes and cheap laughs. The frustrated Vegas cop in DAF works better because the time isn't taken to develop him into a broader caricature, just a guy who makes Bond look more clever and cool in comparison.
The bottom line is that boat chase would've worked just fine without Pepper. We didn't need him to remind us that Bond is operating in the deep South of the U.S. They could throw in the wedding crashing and maybe one of the carboat crashes if they needed to maintain the jokes and it would've worked still but Pepper is too much.