Irma Bunt's trap for Bond in bedroom scene?
Andy007
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When you look at this scene, I wonder why Bunt needed to be in the bedroom at all, let alone the bed? we hear Ruby giggling in bed, and later the man knocks Bond out so he's hiding in there already. What did Irma set out to achieve by being in there herself? she presumably set the trap up so why not leave the man & Ruby to carry it out? As soon as the man sees Hilary Bray get into bed with Ruby, his orders are to knock him out..Why is Irma even there? was it just for shock factor to catch Bond by surprise, probably but even so it's a bit unnecessary. However it's a good scene and certainly gives you a fright the first time you see it! which is what they wanted I guess.
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What I've always wondered is where Ruby was when she was giggling -- in bed next to Bunt?
Like the flashbacks he had to Q when he was explaining the dart gun in Moonraker.
Bunt needs to catch Bond "red handed." Bond's merely entering the room might not be enough, but his pulling back the sheets to bed one of the patients would be, especially as he is talking to Ruby while doing it.
First place. As their love story unfolded. Could be why he hates
Bond. As Bond has shared a bed with her.
But he's James Bond, its not the first time he's encountered a bad girl in his bed, what happens here?
I say Bond has look-ist prejudices, He's a body-type snob, and for this he risks his whole mission. He finds Irma in bed, he should have just slept with Irma. He was preparing for a night of nocturnal exercise anyway.
Miss Taro's a bad girl, he sleeps with her. As far's he knows Tatiana's a bad girl (and I think she was still loyal to her own mission right up til she actually spent a night with Bond). Pussy Galore as we all know was both won over to the side of good but also converted from lesbianism by Bonds shagadelic superpowers. He tries the same trick on Fiona, but she stays bad. But he does give it a try. Same with Helga. That's his superpower, he always gives it a try.
Then he encounters one more bad girl in bed, and because she's not conventionally attractive in the narrowly defined sense all the others were, he abandons his whole mission and has to escape down that mountain? Come on Bond, you yourself say what you do is for King and Country.
Compare with Felicity Shagwell, when she slept with Fat Bastard, I think to plant a homing device somewhere on his person. Now there is a secret agent devoted to her mission. Bond is only devoted as long as the woman in his bed looks like a fashion model, otherwise that's too much like work and he splits.
I bet Irma was just waiting to hear heavenly choirs sing, so she could repent, and turn to the side of right and virtue, and then Bond would have saved the world almost an hour earlier and Tracy would still be alive.
How can Bond sleep with Bunt when Grunther knocks him out? Bond has no opportunity to seduce Bunt, or he probably would have.
Yes, a very good point indeed, hehadlotsofguts. John Glen of course later made jumpscares like pigeons (and a cat) a recurring motif of his five Bond films of the 1980s.
That's exactly the way I see it. She was not in the least bit interested in Bond's seducing charms. The man who struck Bond was all part of the plan.
Besides I never even saw Bunt as the type of woman to have a bed scene with 007. She just didn't look the part. Unlike other bad Bond girls such as May Day.
Pull his pipe out ! An obvious innuendo
Roger Moore 1927-2017
I find Grace Jones compellingly attractive, but she is the furthest from the rather conventional range of feminine types Bond is seen to sleep with. There are actually other actresses in the series I find less attractive, in my shallow way, but I shall be polite enough not to single them out. But Grace Jones actually is a fashion model!
The real eww and yuk factor with the Jones/Moore love scene is she makes him look so very old and wrinkly in comparison to her own sleek bod, and then she wrestles him down to the bottom position! I don't think he got a chance to show off his rapidly diminishing shagadelic superpowers that night.
?:) So was that a joke or not? I'm confused.
Roger Moore 1927-2017
Well, we wouldn't want that, would we?
Roger Moore 1927-2017
(Any more and we'd be playing the quote game!)
No not at all.
Roger Moore 1927-2017
No, it’s not meant as a joke or innuendo. He’s just correcting her on the right phrase for putting out his pipe before boarding the helo. In a school masterly way in fitting with the character of Sir Hilary.