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Canadian colonel?
Are you by any chance talking about...
Note: I didn't make the third image, that, that... masterpiece that equals the Sistine Chapel in divine beauty.
-What's new, Janet?
-Well, Billy Jay, they've offered you the lead role in a West End production of Hamlet. Sounds like a great role!
-Does he die in the middle of a shag?
-Well, no, but...
-Then it's crap! Turn it down!
I don't know what I'm waiting for to start the Billy J. Mitchell fan thread. Sounds like a great idea.
Except for the fact I'm his only fan.
Well at least I could start a Billy J. Mitchell-thon and post my reviews of his films and performances in the movie thread.
Me too! Watched it loads of times but never spotted that!
I like a member who enjoys pulling rank.
Yes, really ADMIRAbLe.
Does she ever get to finish it though?
Fun fact: Billy J. Mitchell didn't pass away in 1999, but in 1995, crushed between Famke Janssen's thighs. To avoid a potentially embarrassing situation, this information was concealed from the press, and only in 1999 they were told he had passed away that same year. Several fake roles were invented to make it seem as if he had continued to work after GoldenEye. But he didn't need to. He had fulfilled humankind's maximum potential. Gotten onatopp of Mount Everest. He had crushed it, or rather, had been crushed.
And he left with a smile on his face. I salute you, Billy Jay!
And thanks Famke for making it all possible! (P.S. Call me let's talk some more about this whole thighs situation.)
He's appeared in films opposite three different Bond actors, Sean Connery, Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan.
He's appeared in two different Bond films, Never Say Never Again and GoldenEye.
He's appeared in many film and tv roles, in particular the Superman, Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises.
Billy J, we salute you.
Picking up on another idea a few pages back, smoking in the films would change the rating here in Canada. I believe it is an automatic PG-13 for the film if smoking is featured. There may also need to be a disclaimer in the credits? I remember when Rango was released a number of years ago, some felt that having a character in an animated film marketed to children wasn't cool and I believe the film ended up being rated PG-13.
While I don't think Bond is defined by his sex drive, I don't want him entering celibacy either. He's probably not going to 'blackmail' a nurse into some serious doing-it in the sauna anymore -- and isn't that a good thing, frankly? -- but I hope he can still tell a widow that her late husband was a fool for not paying more attention to her before making love to her.
On the other hand, to ignore the character’s faults in this area would be disingenuous too. The Craig era showed that when some women got too close to Bond (and indeed Bond slept with them in order to gain something) it led to their deaths. It’s a bit of a well worn trope, but an acknowledgment of how Bond uses sex in his profession and the consequences even of ‘getting too close’ to him should be acknowledged.
The whole idea of no-consequence sex (and without moral judgement) became a crucial aspect of the Bond films' appeal. From the very beginning sex was something not to be taken seriously as anything but enjoyable for its own sake, and which very importantly is seen to be enjoyed by women (cf. Sylvia Trench) as much as by men.
It was a conceit present in the very advertising for Bond himself ('Every man wants to be him/Every woman wants to have him'). It was a fanciful notion, this fantasy sex, recognized by contemporary audiences as simultaneously attractive and a little ridiculous, but not to be taken too seriously.
Stick with what they started in the Brozz era, that improved mightily in the Craig years: write strong female characters like Natalya, the concept behind Mrs Carver and Elektra, Vesper, Camille, Mrs. Sciarra, Madeleine...
Cast the best women for these roles...
Write the sexual dynamic with respect.
If women aggressively pursue Bond for their pleasure, great! This is happening across major cities as I write this.
And if Bond desires a woman, have her be an active participant. That's all.
Write these scenes with a heightened sense of adult playtime, have it be fun and sexy, with simple actions between Bond and the love interest showing this is clearly a consensual transaction.
If anyone feels the need to complain at that point, the filmmakers and others will shrug, knowing we can't please everyone.
For example, I think the infamously controversial shower scene in Skyfall could've been solved if they added just a little scene on the boat before the shower scene where Bond reveals he's aboard and then we get the opportunity to see Severine have more of an active part in that sexual dynamic and her pursuing him - maybe even leading him to the shower at the end of the scene - so it feels less like Bond just assumed he could have sex with this woman who has a difficult past involving the Macau sex trade. I understand time constraints and all that but a two-three minute scene, if that, where there's more active flirting on Severine's part would've been nothing in the grand scheme of things.
I love this scene, but I get your point 💯%!
I do think Mendes tried to show this via imagery vs dialogue: the camera pans across an ice bucket of champagne and two glasses.
Although the sex trade history is twisted, I think it's clear Severine wanted Silva dead and she was going to use her body as a transaction so Bond would make good on his word (can he kill Silva? He answers: yes (no pausing, 😂!)...
But, I do see your point, fully.
Absolutely. I have read what some of our members thought and I you’re absolutely right: a scene could have been slipped in just to show a little more of Severine willfully “giving “ herself to Bond.
But I really love that entire sequence from entering the Casino, Severine on the staircase, the discussion of buying a drink, to their deadly conversation about killing her “employer” (I wasn’t a fan of the fight— I get it’s a little bit of comedy, but I’d have rather have seen a more grounded punch up), and I love how Bond enters the shower (it’s uncomfortable, but I love it!).