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[–] [email protected] 185 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Rebecca ass is shockingly tame for old James Bond

Pussy Galore is unironically a character name in Goldfinger (1964)

[–] [email protected] 90 points 4 days ago (3 children)

And is where Austin Powers got the idea for Alotta Fagina

[–] [email protected] 48 points 4 days ago
[–] prettybunnys 35 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

No that's based on Xenia Onatopp

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You're on your way to a smack-bottom, and I don't care who knows it!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago
[–] [email protected] 53 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Bonus fun fact: In the original book Pussy Galore is a lesbian who who gets raped straight by James Bond's magical penis.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

One of the films (Thunderball maybe) starts with him raping a nurse.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago

Thats pretty much how it happens in the film too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 53 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I like that, even in-universe, in 1964, Bond's first reaction to that name is "I must be dreaming". So it's not like the filmmakers weren't aware of how absurd that name is. They just didn't give a shit.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I never read them, but the filmakers were just adapting books by Ian Fleming into movies after they found out how successful they were doing. 50 shades of grey was based off a Fan Fiction novel wasn't it? And those movies came out what I would consider recently.

I think mainstream media just converted Bond into an Icon that was supposed to be more upstanding than he originally was meant to be.

The lastest plays on Bond were the Kingsman. Where a princess tells the main character he can fuck her in the asshole if he saves the world, and he just basically says brb.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, but book Bond and movie Bond are two rather different Bonds. I think Timothy Dalton probably got closest to depicting the literary Bond onscreen, but in so many words: the books are a fair bit darker in tone than some of the movies, and secondly (something Dalton thankfully did not channel), they're exceedingly racist. Yes, even more racist than You Only Live Twice let's-make-Sean-Connery-Japanese racism. One chapter of Live and Let Die set in Harlem NY is titled, I shit you not, "[n-word] Heaven".

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago

Connery was the one they asked if he slapped his wife around and responded something like your damn right I did, and if you ask her, she'll tell you she deserved it. The public was fine with that response, and Fleming wrote the Bond series years before. I looked it up to double check, Fleming was born 12 years before Women got the right to vote. And he died around the time the Jim Crow laws were abolished. Racism and Sexism were likely very prevelant in his life.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What's racist about the japanese Connery? I only remember him dressing in a kimono.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

He literally puts on Japanese face. His eyes are done up and everything.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

James Bond: The name's Bond. James Bond.

Xenia Onatopp: Xenia Sergeyevna Onatopp.

James Bond: Onatopp?

Xenia Onatopp: Onatopp

[–] Disaster 3 points 3 days ago

I love a lady who enjoys pulling rank.

[–] brbposting 1 points 3 days ago

Apparently they wouldn't have been allowed to use that character name, except between writing the script and the studio approving it, the name had already been published by the press. So they had their community reaction to it already known, and the public expected it when the film was to be released.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Aside from Pussy Galore, another favorite inappropriate Bond moment I enjoy is from The Man with the Golden Gun. Bond approaches an Asian woman skinny dipping in a pool and asks her for her name.

She responds: "Chew Mee"

Bond: "Really!?...."

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

Definitely funny!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

She needed to get something off her chest.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 days ago (1 children)

There was a movie named Octopussy

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I thought that's the one Pussy Galore is in?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

No, the name of the character is just Octopussy.

Presumably she has like eight of them down there. One for every day of the week, and a bonus for special occasions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

She reserves #8 for high holy days

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Pussy Galore was in Goldfinger.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Strike that. Reverse it.

[–] mindbleach 3 points 4 days ago

And the actress reveled in every excuse to say it on television.