Bond swearing in "Casino Royale"

DanielCraig007

Bond says "then youre a bloody idiot" to Vesper after she refuses him 5 million extra dollars after hes just lost to le chiffre.
Is this the only time Bond is seen swearing in any of the Bond films?

Napoleon Plural

Well, he says "Watch the dickey bird, you b&stard!" in LTK, along with "P!ss off! when he's about to be tortured.

I can't think of any others. "Damn it man!" in Octopussy, as a bomb's ticking down to go off.

DanielCraig007

Bond is a well mannered man who doesent swear much and when he does it is mild swearing and for a good reason.
He is a good example of how a real man should behave. :007)

thesecretagent

It's quite strange that swearing is done so easily, yet when it should really matter it's the last thing you do. I've seen some action in several warzones and I've been up against it at one time or another with other blokes and when you think that really is it, you revert to simpler emotions. I was side by side with a chap who stepped on an inert landmine and we would have both gone up if there hadn't been a fault. As he realised what he had done he simply said "Oh no..." really quietly. I just closed my eyes and waited, there wouldn't have been time to think about doing anything else... The point is, we both really used to swear at the time in day-to-day conversation when there wasn't any need to. I seldom swear at all now.
I've also noticed how people who swear and shout in a confrontation always seem to come off worse - it's like they use all their ammunition at once and it can only end in them having to back down and lose face or get physical. It certainly gets them nowhere when faced with glass screens and beaurocracy. people who remain calm and measured, yet firm always get what they want.
I think it's good that Bond doesn't swear much. He keeps his head, can show restraint - yet is utterly ruthless if he has to be.

Thunderpussy

I think in one of the novels Fleming says that I'ts impossible to get through the day with out using some four letter anglo-saxon., although there is little swearing in the books.
I wouldn't like to hear an increase in it's use,I'd much rather Bond used a great put down line or two.

Napoleon Plural

thesecretagent wrote:

It's quite strange that swearing is done so easily, yet when it should really matter it's the last thing you do. I was side by side with a chap who stepped on an inert landmine and we would have both gone up if there hadn't been a fault. As he realised what he had done he simply said "Oh no..." really quietly. I just closed my eyes and waited, there wouldn't have been time to think about doing anything else... The point is, we both really used to swear at the time in day-to-day conversation when there wasn't any need to.
I've also noticed how people who swear and shout in a confrontation always seem to come off worse - it's like they use all their ammunition at once and it can only end in them having to back down and lose face or get physical. It certainly gets them nowhere when faced with glass screens and beaurocracy. people who remain calm and measured, yet firm always get what they want.
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Yeah, but then you get jobsworths who are adept at pushing buttons, like, get the guy to lose his rag and swear and officially he's the bad guy.

The rest of your post secretagent will have most of us casting our minds back over our respective lives to find something of a similar nature, only to be found wanting.

0073

thesecretagent wrote:

It's quite strange that swearing is done so easily, yet when it should really matter it's the last thing you do. I've seen some action in several warzones and I've been up against it at one time or another with other blokes and when you think that really is it, you revert to simpler emotions. I was side by side with a chap who stepped on an inert landmine and we would have both gone up if there hadn't been a fault. As he realised what he had done he simply said "Oh no..." really quietly. I just closed my eyes and waited, there wouldn't have been time to think about doing anything else...

I remember reading somewhere that 3 most common last words for airline pilots just about to crash, in any language are: Oh god, Oh sh1t and Oh no, and not necessarily in that order.

The explanation was something like, that in mortal danger you simply don't have time to be "witty". Swearing is intentional social behaviour aimed to send a message, just like any other form of posing. In danger, be in combat, an accident or in sports, to whom would you pose to?

Blood_Stone

Bond calls Tiffany Case a b*tch in DAF and rightfully so. )

jetsetwilly

Thunderpussy wrote:

I think in one of the novels Fleming says that I'ts impossible to get through the day with out using some four letter anglo-saxon., although there is little swearing in the books.
I wouldn't like to hear an increase in it's use,I'd much rather Bond used a great put down line or two.

I love how Fleming uses the phrase "Freddie Uncle Charlie Katie".

JohnMasterson

"Welcome to Hell, Blofeld!"

Call me Hilly

I haven't read the books in a while, but I seem to recall Bond swearing fairly frequently. Fleming usually just writes "Bond swore", rather than explicitly giving the dialogue, although he sometimes gives a few clues.

Hardyboy

Fleming also "blanked" out some words, as when Bond tells Goldfinger to "____ himself." While the 1950s were certainly more liberal than was the Victorian era in terms of what could get into print, publishers were still pretty squeamish about excess profanity.

Moonraker 5

Those around him, oddly enough, are more liable to the occasional sweary word. 'Bastard' is also used in the PTS of Licence to Kill by Michael G Wilson's off-screen character ("We might just be able to grab the bastard") and by M in Quantum of Solace ("It'd be a pretty cold bastard who didn't want revenge for someone he loved"). The sh*t word is also pops up in A View To A Kill, used by both Stacey Sutton and one of the SF policemen at the bridge.

Moore Than

I am sure that M says "I don't give a s**t" at one point in QoS. S**t is implied by Bond (TMWTGG) when he says to Scaramanga "There is a useful four letter word and you are full of it". The F word is very much implied if not actually said by Sheriff J W Pepper as Bond's speedboat flies over him in LALD "What the f..."

welshboy78

"The Bitch is dead"

"Scratching my Balls" etc

Im sure there is a "****" in DCs films too??

Mr Beech

"The Bitch is dead," is a great line in my opinion. He sounds like the young and frustrated Bond in that life-changing situation who we know is about to get left behind for the never-attached Bond we know. Exactly what they were trying to show with this origin story.

HalfMonk HalfHitman

"Do I look like I give a damn?"

The Bond Vivant

In TLD, Kara calls Dalton "Back end of horse", to which he replies, "Are you calling me a horse's arse?"

DaltonFan1

Napoleon Plural wrote:

Well, he says "Watch the dickey bird, you b&stard!" in LTK

I'm pretty sure it was,"Watch the birdy you bastard!"
And rightly so Sanchez was an absolute c***

Lexi

'arse covering prigs'.... in CR...

It's quite refreshing that the swearing is at its least in Bond....you don't need to swear to get your point across! A look can have more power than ANY four letter word! )

Number24

If you use profanity in the most mundane sentences (Where is the f***ing newspaper) the words loose much of their potency. I remember when one of my best friends was in school. Just like me he hardly ever swears, while many of the other boys liked to swear a lot to play tough. Once one of the other boys took his chair, clearly a provoction in the little power games boys play.
-Get off the bloody chair! my friend said. The boy got up at once. He knew my friend was serious because he for once used such strong language. If one of the more foul-mouthed boys had said the same thing no-one would have reacted. Rare and effective use of strong language is the best, also for Bond.

Mr Beech

Number24 wrote:

If you use profanity in the most mundane sentences (Where is the f***ing newspaper) the words loose much of their potency. I remember when one of my best friends was in school. Just like me he hardly ever swears, while many of the other boys liked to swear a lot to play tough. Once one of the other boys took his chair, clearly a provoction in the little power games boys play.
-Get off the bloody chair! my friend said. The boy got up at once. He knew my friend was serious because he for once used such strong language. If one of the more foul-mouthed boys had said the same thing no-one would have reacted. Rare and effective use of strong language is the best, also for Bond.

This is why I never swear. I've used f**k maybe five times in my life maximum, other than just quoting others.

(Also part of why I think Lana Del Rey is attractive. ) I have heard her use f**k only a couple of times, and so perfectly that it is for some reason kind of sexy to me. I believe she only says it in just one of her songs, too, making it just feel perfect and truly packing some meaningful oomph.)

But anyways, me and my best friend both don't swear because we like it to be used with feeling, not as part of natural language. We don't so much get bothered by others using it (we're not religious or from morally strict backgrounds), but we just feel using it too much sounds a bit dirty and trashy. Swearing/cursing can be quite an art if you slice with it rarely and precisely.

Moore Than

I do my best to avoid swearing when in the company of other people because it is rude full stop. But I am no angel and have let out the odd expletive on rare occasions. I hate argument/provocation so will do anything to avoid it. I do not like shouting either, only doing so when I feel it is absolutely necessary.

I'd rather the swear words were left out of the Bond films. But I still enjoy Licence To Kill, for example. It probably has more swear words than any of the others.

Monza860

DanielCraig007 wrote:

Bond says "then youre a bloody idiot" to Vesper after she refuses him 5 million extra dollars after hes just lost to le chiffre.
Is this the only time Bond is seen swearing in any of the Bond films?

Which one is supposed to be the swear, bloody or idiot? ?:) )

Mr Beech

Monza860 wrote:

DanielCraig007 wrote:

Bond says "then youre a bloody idiot" to Vesper after she refuses him 5 million extra dollars after hes just lost to le chiffre.
Is this the only time Bond is seen swearing in any of the Bond films?

Which one is supposed to be the swear, bloody or idiot? ?:) )

I don't think it counts as swearing anymore, but some find it to be an offensive adjective that expresses very negative emotions.

It is even less controversial to Americans.

Turnkey

I thought the B***h is dead comment felt forced.

Mr Martini

Turnkey wrote:

I thought the B***h is dead comment felt forced.

Maybe it was the way it was said? The Ian Flemings novel of Casino Royale ends with Bond saying the above line.

DanielCraig007

Any swearing from Bond in Skyfall or Spectre?

Asp9mm

Connery called Tiffany a stupid twit in DAF




Personally I'd have called her a "brain dead 'careless'".

Asp9mm

Brilliant. Seems AJB uses the same censor software used for SPECTRE )

Sir Miles

Asp9mm wrote:

Brilliant. Seems AJB uses the same censor software used for SPECTRE )

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