Do We Bond Fans Celebrate Gratutious Violence?

chrisisall

Hey- imagine for a moment if Kananga's demise had been filmed realistically with his guts all over the place?
EEeewwueeee....

AlphaOmegaSin

You do see his Innards, or at least I think that's what they are floating in the Water -{

Thunderpussy

I think the fishing term is, chum )

AlphaOmegaSin

Or Dog Food

chrisisall

Thunderpussy wrote:

I think the fishing term is, chum )

I wonder if the PM wanted his guts for garters...? ?:)

Higgins

that poor balloon
That was the most gratutious violence that I've ever seen…..

hehadlotsofguts

I don't think we LIKE gratuitous violence. We just get a kick out of seeing the villain get their just desserts in the most awful way.

chrisisall

Higgins wrote:

that poor balloon
That was the most gratutious violence that I've ever seen…..

Agreed. He'd caught the balloon already- there was no need to kill it...

AlphaOmegaSin

'Mr Bond! Mr Boooooonnnnddd!'

Thunderpussy

With those sharks in the water was this his " jump the shark " moment ? )

AlphaOmegaSin

Blofeld on Skis? Why I never!

Thunderpussy

Little bit of Bond Factoids,
The spectre agent who went into the snow plough, was played by .... A dead goat !

Suddenly I fancy a kebab )

chrisisall

Thunderpussy wrote:

Little bit of Bond Factoids,
The spectre agent who went into the snow plough, was played by .... A dead goat !

I might have looked better with a John Doe morgue cadaver. ?:)

Ammo08

Oh yes, generally with a martini and hardy laugh... )

chrisisall

Ammo08 wrote:

Oh yes, generally with a martini and hardy laugh... )

Cadavers drink Martinis & laugh? Or is this an in-joke to make fun of the silly silly American man? )

superado

I think the James Bond phenomenon institutionalized themes that were considered taboo and exploitative before it came along, so much so that when he became a favorite character for little kids (as indicated in the TB featurette, ""How To Blow Up A Motor Car"), parents didn't mind or notice that unlike the wholesome examples that came before it became okay for their kids to pretend to be this guy who sexually objectified women and killed in casual cold blood. Was it an issue of bourgeois thinking of the emerging middle-class, in that, "James Bond" is classy, so I must like James Bond"?

I think that today's full-blown acceptance of gratuitous sex and violence took decades to develop though definitely, Bond paved the way. Even in the midst of the Bond Phenomenon movies like The Godfather, The Wild Bunch and Midnight Cowboy were classified for their adult nature, though nowadays, Bond, who categorically represents those things, is celebrated with a wink in primetime, mainstream media in that parents are desensithized with the sex and violence that their kids ingest not only in Bond movies but everything else they watch.