What exactly is wrong with Dr Holly Goodhead?
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A much misunderstood companion.
I see in the opinion polls she never scores very highly with only Stacey,Christmas and Jinx doing worse. To be honest, Holly rates highly with me. Shes there to counterbalance Bond. She has that little bit of gravitas too countermand his jokes. She also is pretty proficient, handles herself in a fight and takes part in the laser battle.
She also has technical knowledge and is able to pilot the Moonraker to the space station. At the end when he is chasing the globes its her which puts the shuttle on the right trajectory
So she injects the tiniest bit of seriousness in a silly film.
I see in the opinion polls she never scores very highly with only Stacey,Christmas and Jinx doing worse. To be honest, Holly rates highly with me. Shes there to counterbalance Bond. She has that little bit of gravitas too countermand his jokes. She also is pretty proficient, handles herself in a fight and takes part in the laser battle.
She also has technical knowledge and is able to pilot the Moonraker to the space station. At the end when he is chasing the globes its her which puts the shuttle on the right trajectory
So she injects the tiniest bit of seriousness in a silly film.
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Stacy was also very sexy, but as in Fifty Shades of Grey, she'd have to
Be gagged most of the time.
Far better than Anya in TSWLM.
I liked her at exactly ten.I used to watch her play Holly Harwood in Dallas where she took on JR. She was good in Death on theNile. I hear she teaches drama at Houston university nowadays.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=depopTa6ksM
*who am I kidding..!? Especially in that Zorin boiler suit
'Your Powers of Observation do you Credit, Mr Bond!'
Solitaire's entire talents were contingent on her being a virgin.
Goodnight was just a ditzy blonde bikini girl.
Stacy Sutton was 35+ years younger than Roger Moore.
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The movie did make a bunch of dough, though.
Actually, I didn't like her name one bit. I preferred Gala Brand
That sums it up for me, too. Chiles is an attractive woman, but her portrayal of Goodnight is boring and doesn't really stand out in any way. Although I believe the script doesn't give her much to work with, Childs could have put a bit more life into the character if she had tried harder or was a better actress.
What's wrong with the name Holly..? ?:)
Got your night head on, BL?
" She's a little wooden"
She certainly gave me wood !
She's written competitive at the beginning (not in the Jinx league) but the seventies Bond girls were written like that. The screenwriters thought they were doing her a service. They thought it different to write her as a CIA operative rather like Anya who was 007's equal in the KGB. She even has the American equivalent of Q items like he has.
The difference was humour. WhereMoore went overboard with his humour Holly pulls back from that and gives us the gravitas the film desperately needs.
Agree. They wanted to rethink one convention and keep the other. Better a good Goodhead than a bad Goodnight though.
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Goodhead....Goodnight.......whatever! She isn't that Good!
Put that thing away TP!!!
Dr Goodhead seems to tolerate Bond for most of the film, compared with Major Amasova, who sparred with Bond and viewed him as a challenge and a threat - making TSWLM the better film for it.