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Also, I must say that I somehow never considered Kissy Suzuki as the leading lady in YOLT. Even her name is mentioned nowhere before the credits roll. She's no more than a prop in that pretty idiotic scheme of putting bond in a sort of yellowface.
Of those scenes being up for voting, yeah, it's either Stacey Sutton (why does Trump's present propaganda blonde remind me of her?) or Christmas Jones. OK, I vote "for" Stacey.
The voting shows the following:
TWINE received 12 votes
LTK received 3 votes
AVTAK received 7 votes
QOS received 2 votes
YOLT received 3 votes
Our next Klebbie comes to us from @R1s1ngs0n who has brought forward the following category and nominees. Our man Bond has said some wonderful lines of dialogue. But he has been known to lay a clunker! I present to you the worst/cringeworthy line uttered by Bond, James Bond! The nominees are:
"Fetch My Shoes” from DN
“Most Girls Just Paddle Around, You Swim Like A Man” from TB
“Miss Anders! I Didn’t Recognize You With Your Clothes On” from TMWTGG
“That’ll Keep You In Curry For A Few Weeks” from OP
“I Thought Christmas Comes Only Once A Year” from TWINE
Time for the academy to vote...which line is worst or most cringeworthy. There are some really interesting choices here. I will be interested to see how the academy votes on this one!
TWINE in a landslide.
The other lines may be corny, sexist, racist and what have you. But at least they were delivered with a tongue in cheek attitude.
But this one is just plain mean and wrong on so many levels.
Connery, and by extension Bond, comes off as a real bastard when he utters that line and makes for the only time I truly disliked Bond as a character.
"Fetch my shoes" has been one of those lines that can make me feel very uncomfortable. It was snapped at because danger was arriving, but, the fact the one person of color was told to go and fetch them... yeah.... uncomfortable. And, although I despise my runner up ("I thought Christmas comes only once a year), fetch my shoes is the turkey that is the most uncomfortable and cringey for me.
Dr. No for me.
I can understand the votes for TWINE but I liked it at least the first time I understood it (I didn't understand it as a young and very innocent boy!).
I honestly don't remember the line from OP but I like the line from TMWTGG. Roger is allowed to say such things;)
Exactly. And whereas "you swim like a man” indeed sounds like something Fleming's Bond would say, "fetch my shoes" doesn't. Fleming wrote that Bond and Quarrel's relationship "remained that of a Scots laird with his head stalker; authority was unspoken and there was no room for servility." A remark like "fetch my shoes" denotes nothing but servility.
"Fetch." Woof. The line about curry always made me cringe too, but fetch is just the worst. A kick in the shins for Dr. No.
A honorable mention would go to Bond inexplicably dissing that poor hotel clerk on MR. Even Roger looks disgusted with himself.
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The ‘curry’ line is bad too, but it’s at least meant in a sweet way, ‘fetch’ is just horrible!
I watched Dr No again last week after not seeing it for a few years and was quite struck by how Bond isn’t fully-formed in this one: he’s quite a dick the whole way through! :)
Personally I’m hoping for a ‘filthiest innuendo’ round: with Roger’s ‘lick you into shape’, ‘the trip from Alaska took a lot out of me’ and ‘I’ll fill you in later, Moneypenny’ all being candidates hopefully! :D
Nevertheless, I go for TWINE because it's the last line of the film and there's no chance to redeem himself.
The one from TWINE is stupid but innocent. Only the one from DN leaves a bad aftertaste, so I'm going to go with that one.
Vote goes to the Dr. No line.