Oui, Oui!
jetsetwilly
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Look back over the history of the Bond films. Look at the Bond Girls. Look at the best of them. One thing becomes clear: Bond Girls should always be French. The French seem to have been built to be the perfect Bond Girls. They have a certain - dare I say it? - je ne sais quoi. Other nations do well - the Brits and Italians are also fair bets - but la belle Francais have the edge. Let's look at the evidence:
Mitsouko as Mme La Porte: a tiny role, but she manages to be saucy, seductive and professional. She's willing to muck in with putting the jet pack in the boot, and is also able to flirt during a funeral.
Claudine Auger as Domino: perhaps one of the best Bond Girls of all, Domino is a nimble package of sex wrapped in the tiniest of bikinis. She pouts, she wiggles and, when the chips are down, she fires spear guns into the back of traitorous lovers. Claudine Auger can inflame men with the merest raise of the corner of her mouth.
Denise Perrier as Marie: another teeny role, but wouldn't you rather have had ten minutes of Marie than ten minutes of Plenty O'Toole? Or, God help us, Charles Gray in a paisley blouse?
Corinne Clery as Corinne Dufour: Christopher Wood wrote Drax's helicopter pilot as a Valley Girl named Trudi Parker. With the filming in Paris, a French actress was cast in the role, and her name was changed. Wood deeply regretted not getting the chance to change her dialogue as well. And who can blame him? Ms Clery is far too sophisticated and elegant to convince as the dumb Corinne.
Drax's Girls: a positive bevy of Francobabes. Even an unfortunate curly perm on Signora del Mateo and the Asian girl being made up like the cheapest hooker in a Hong Kong brothel can't distract you from their pulchritudinous.
Carole Bouquet as Melina Havelock: The character is coolly determined and dead set on vengeance, and Carole is superb at that. She also delights in her rare humorous moments, though; I love her giggle as the 2CV bounces over land. And her eyes are rightly featured over and over again in massive close-up.
Sophie Marceau as Elektra: Perhaps the definitive example of a Black Widow in the series, Sophie Marceau is so good, you wouldn't mind being killed after sex. The aristocratic elegance which the French Bond Girls all seem to have is really played to the maximum here, and it works wonderfully. She rightfully overshadows the far less interesting American, Denise Richards.
Eva Green as Vesper Lynd: The producers had to cast a woman who Bond would fall for in a truly devastating fashion. Of course they crossed the Channel to find her. Eva Green is stunningly beautiful - especially in the scene where she wears no make up at all - and she's complex and interesting. Of course she had to die, but Vesper wouldn't have been half as missed if Eva hadn't been so wonderful.
Berenice Marlohe as Severine: At the moment this is just speculation. But based on her appearance at the press conference I can say only one thing - vive la France!
Mitsouko as Mme La Porte: a tiny role, but she manages to be saucy, seductive and professional. She's willing to muck in with putting the jet pack in the boot, and is also able to flirt during a funeral.
Claudine Auger as Domino: perhaps one of the best Bond Girls of all, Domino is a nimble package of sex wrapped in the tiniest of bikinis. She pouts, she wiggles and, when the chips are down, she fires spear guns into the back of traitorous lovers. Claudine Auger can inflame men with the merest raise of the corner of her mouth.
Denise Perrier as Marie: another teeny role, but wouldn't you rather have had ten minutes of Marie than ten minutes of Plenty O'Toole? Or, God help us, Charles Gray in a paisley blouse?
Corinne Clery as Corinne Dufour: Christopher Wood wrote Drax's helicopter pilot as a Valley Girl named Trudi Parker. With the filming in Paris, a French actress was cast in the role, and her name was changed. Wood deeply regretted not getting the chance to change her dialogue as well. And who can blame him? Ms Clery is far too sophisticated and elegant to convince as the dumb Corinne.
Drax's Girls: a positive bevy of Francobabes. Even an unfortunate curly perm on Signora del Mateo and the Asian girl being made up like the cheapest hooker in a Hong Kong brothel can't distract you from their pulchritudinous.
Carole Bouquet as Melina Havelock: The character is coolly determined and dead set on vengeance, and Carole is superb at that. She also delights in her rare humorous moments, though; I love her giggle as the 2CV bounces over land. And her eyes are rightly featured over and over again in massive close-up.
Sophie Marceau as Elektra: Perhaps the definitive example of a Black Widow in the series, Sophie Marceau is so good, you wouldn't mind being killed after sex. The aristocratic elegance which the French Bond Girls all seem to have is really played to the maximum here, and it works wonderfully. She rightfully overshadows the far less interesting American, Denise Richards.
Eva Green as Vesper Lynd: The producers had to cast a woman who Bond would fall for in a truly devastating fashion. Of course they crossed the Channel to find her. Eva Green is stunningly beautiful - especially in the scene where she wears no make up at all - and she's complex and interesting. Of course she had to die, but Vesper wouldn't have been half as missed if Eva hadn't been so wonderful.
Berenice Marlohe as Severine: At the moment this is just speculation. But based on her appearance at the press conference I can say only one thing - vive la France!
Comments
You have a valid point. Research must have been hell... :v
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Difficult to argue with you there, jetset. Carole Bouquet is my favourite closely followed by Claudine Auger and Corinne Clery. And yes, Eva Green is more beautiful without the make up.
I'll second that.
Moore Than already has.
I'll third that.