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But literally wearing a sexy outfit in the middle of a Nuclear Testing Base, with a sports bra and mini shorts? That's not an appropriate thing to wear in such an event.
And for all of that, she's just dragged along by Bond, she's actually not necessary after the detonation of the bomb in the Pipeline, I think it would've been better had her role ended after that detonation scene, she had no use in the Submarine climax either, she just became another damsel in distress, by the climax, her role just worked as an obligatory Bond Girl, more than the one whose essential to the plot.
Well, like what I've said, it's more in the script, that's actually Christmas Jones, she's written that way, Denise Richards just did what's written in the script.
It's like Jinx, no matter whom you cast, it would still be the same as what we've got, and Halle Berry won an Oscar at that time.
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I applaud your suggestion. Fraser could bring an interesting look to a Bond film.
I like Fraser's work on "Mary Magdalene", but I don't know — his style is so ubiquitous in big, brand-name movies these days it would feel too safe and conformist.
"Punch a bad guy"??? When did that become a woman's weapon of choice. Somebody has been watching too many marvel films. You do know why "the female of the species IS deadlier than the male"?
Of course no one is asking for that kind of Bond. But for me the enjoyment of Bond has always been the sex, the glamor, and the action. I reject the notion that earlier Bond's were creepy predators. Sleeping with Bond has always spoken to his sexual appeal. He's a sexually attractive man which is why attractive women desire him, even when implausibly a lesbian switches teams or a Tarot card reading virgin succumbs. I don't regard any of that as real life. I never have. Nor do I read into those scenes more than is presented, so that I am thinking Bond shouldn't have slept with her because of her background and circumstances that make her vulnerable. It's fiction. It's fantasy.
One of my favorite scenes in NTTD is the often cited Paloma sequence. Perhaps in an earlier film Paloma and Bond would have slept together. But this is now and things change. What didn't change is casting Paloma with a beautiful actress wearing a revealing dress. Did she have to be that attractive? Could she have looked like and dressed like the woman in the oil pipeline office in TLD? Without Bond having it on with Paloma, isn't Paloma still somewhat objectified? To be clear, I wouldn't have wanted the scene any other way.
I've seen plenty of films where nudity and sex seem to serve no purpose other than to quality for a rating. With the Bond films (more so than in the novels), sex is part of the Bond DNA. Hopefully that won't change.
I’m not sure why this keeps coming up as if it’s some sort of existential crisis for the character.
I don’t see this part of the character being exorcised any time soon (even in QoS he slept with Fields).
Also, to me, it's plain as day, that when Paloma tells Bond to stay longer next time, sleeping together is definitely in the cards.
Why does anything come up on this site? Opinions and discussions, that's all. Hasn't everything been discussed ad infinitum? I'm sure we all get a bit perturbed by things that keep coming up that we feel have run their course.
I’m not perturbed @CrabKey — I was genuinely asking since it seems some are concerned about this.
I think because the original poster of this topic was talking excitedly about the lack of frivolous sexual interactions in Bond 25 and how "nobody noticed" as some kind of example for how Bond might change in the future.
In NTTD, he's only single for a brief part of the film before he gets back with Madeleine, and during this short period of time, he was fully playing his role as a man who very likely wanted to sleep with Nomi (and gives the audience an indication that his house was very much a bachelor pad over the course of five years), and possibly Paloma as well (although I think he was more taking the Mickey out of her (no different than Moore-Bond and Bibi, but definitely cooler in NTTD)).
There is no indication that Bond won't remain an attractive figure to women (and men), as the series moves forward.
He certainly won't be a puritan, but he also won't be dangling a woman's job over her head if she doesn't have a shag with him in a steam room, nor will he be using his super-sex powers to "turn" a lesbian straight, and he certainly won't be tricking young women into submitting their virginity to him....
They don't need to wait for the end of the SAG strike. The WGA strike has been over for a month. They can hire a writer, develop the script, talk to directors and hire a director. And hopefully they started all that a month ago.
I'd like Bond 26 to be a remake of Thunderball. And at the end, it should say "in memory of Kevin McClory (1924-2006)". I promise I would keep laughing until the release of Bond 27.
That long? Yes, that long. A decade at least!
It's funny. Her long-sought "real man" literally falls from the sky.
Unfortunately, Christmas only comes once a year.
I think you're right, but I suspect we'll still somehow get at least another hundred pages before any real news comes out.
To some members that's a challenge they will accept!
I think EON and Amazon should make a Carry On style Bond film, a comedy with all the usual Carry On type inuendo.
Bring back Lazenby, Dalton, Brosnan and Craig all to play James Bond.
Dont you mean another CR'67? If its to have multiple Bonds? 🤣
Dont you mean another CR'67? If its to have multiple Bonds? 🤣
Once this is done, studios, like Amazon/MGM, can get back to work with their partners, like EoN ( @Colonel_Venus), to develop and greenlight scripts, get casting underway, and start pulling the industry out of the literal darkness of the past six months!