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Only if they're from transexual Transylvania.
Kiss the girl, she drowns in water.
Kiss the girl, she drowns in oil.
Kiss the girl, she's shot in the head.
The misogyny ain't over, just less casual-like.
You forgot: Kiss the girl, she gets tortured and dumped on the beach (Solange)
I'm a woman, but even I was glad to seek Elektra bite the dust. Frankly, she struck me as something of a sexist in her own right.
I was just listing violence directed at women; overall, I think Brosnan's movies had the fewest innocent females seriously hurt or killed.
I was once bum-slapped by a transvestite. It was the Wurst thing to have happened to me...
Did you enjoy Germany apart from that?
A little restless, butt I got off eventually.
Those Germans. No Conshience.
(just kidding)
Haha this is perfect! For "oh so politically correct" tone of the current Bond films, the women sure do meet grisly ends compared to their old school counterparts.
I am not including the villanious murderous types such as Fiona Volpe, Helga Brandt, Elektra King etc. Bond is supposed to deal with these villainesses, if their fellow criminals don't get them first.
DN- nil
FRWL-nil
Dangerous years
GF- Jill and Tilly Masterson
TB- Paula
YOLT- Aki
OHMSS- Tracy
DAF- Plenty
LALD- Rosie
TMWTGG- Andrea Anders
TSWLM- Felicca ( he was making out with her when she was shot by Sandor. She was being groomed as accomplice)
MR- Corinne Dufour
FYEO- Lisl
The safe years
OP- nil
AVTAK-nil
TLD-nil
LTK-nil (I'm not including Della. She was Leiter's responsibility)
GE- nil
TND- Paris Carver
TWINE- nil
DAD- nil
Real dangerous years
CR- Solange and Vesper
QoS- Fields
SF- Severine
As we can see there was a 10 film stretch from GF to FYEO where girls involved with Bond were getting knocked off at a rate of 1 per film.
Post FYEO, things settled down. In 8 of the next 9 films (OP to DAD) being involved with Bond wasn't quite so dangerous.
Although something to consider; in the Broz era we saw an increase in femme fatales (Onatopp, Cigar Girl, King, Frost) so we still had dead girls, just not the good ones, but there are lots of dead bad guys too, so the more interesting study IMO, is the violence on the good girls. Villains getting killed (male or female) is par for the course.
But, a list of Bond's dead male accomplices or friends, would be an interesting comparison vis-a-vis the dead girlfriends.
There are quite a few dead male friends too. Quarrel, Kerim, Dikko, Campbell (OHMSS), Strutter, Luigi, Vijay, Tibbett, Chuck Lee, Saunders, Sharky, Zukovsky, Mathis... so the violence against Bond friends may not be quite so gender biased as it may appear. That male list, I think is quite extensive too.
Edit: Actually counting the females vs males, I've got 16 girls vs 13 males. Not a big disparity really over 23 films.
12 girls vs 12 guys in the pre-Craig era. "dead" even.
In the Craig era, it's back to open season on the girls, with a 4 dead girls over 3 films plus one dead male friend (mathis)
You planted the seed. I suddenly got curious about how many of Bond's male allies got killed versus female friends, and over the first 20 films it turns out to be even.
The Craig era is 4 female versus 1 male, but its a small sample yet.
I think the broader pattern is that Bond tends to lose an ally, be it male or female in each film. The only two exceptions seem to be GE and DAD.
Even in the safe years that I cited for women above, Bond loses a lot of male allies in those films.
In one film, AVTAK, the men get it bad. Bond loses both Tibbett and Chuck Lee, which I guess offsets the double loss of the Masterson sisters, 11 films earlier in GF.
Fleming I guess planted the seed with the dramatic killings of Darko Kerim and Quarrel, along with the Masterson sisters, and the movies have run with the idea.
For Bond's part:
The biggest one for me was in TSWLM where Bond accepts the slave girl sex. Not cool IMO.
The Dink slap, however awkward by today's standards, wasn't a big deal.
Patricia at Shrublands wanted Bond; we all know it... just like Ms. Galore did.
The various facial slaps were warranted to wake the women up to the seriousness of the situations.
The arm twisting of Andrea was only a bit creepy due to Roger being uncomfortable playing it rough like Connery would, so he had a sort of inappropriate easy-going-ness to him that actually made him seem all the more sadistic.
The bikini-top strangle was to a bad girl connected to Blofeld.
One last note to those offended by Bond's semi-rape of Pussy:
She was most definitely NOT an idiot. She was incredibly bright, in fact. She HAD to know she couldn't take Bond in a non-lethal 'Judo barn match'. That was her challenging him. Sexually. And she delighted in his 'winning' her. Hehe heh, you don't open your mouth to a man who's clearly not going to hurt you if you don't want to be deeply kissed.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
When Bond stacks the cards in his favour, how do we KNOW if he didn't Solitaire would NOT have pulled up that card in any case? Again!
He was playing the control card when it wasn't even necessary- therein lies the joke IMO.
Sexist? Not a bit of it.
Honestly, if Connery had been in it, and Kananga's demise was just a bit bloody, it would be my absolute favourite Bond movie!
As much as I enjoy DAF & TMWTGG, LALD is objectively the best of the three IMO.