The Curious Case of Tiffany Case (and other Character changes)
MooseWithFleas
Philadelphia, PAPosts: 754MI6 Agent
Tiffany Case has always been the strangest Bond girl to me. She starts out as a cunning diamond smuggler, who shows cleverness by getting Bond's fingerprints. Then with one line... "YOU KILLED JAMES BOND!!!!!" she turns into a ditzy, helpless, mess of a Bond girl.
She screws up the changing of the tape, her dialogue is delivered in a manner to make her seem like a complete dimwit, she shoots a gun into the air while falling backwards into the ocean... It goes on and on!
It seemed like two different characters to me!
Are there any other characters from the Bond Series that seem to have a strange character shift? The other one that comes to mind is Jaws, but that was at least done deliberately.
She screws up the changing of the tape, her dialogue is delivered in a manner to make her seem like a complete dimwit, she shoots a gun into the air while falling backwards into the ocean... It goes on and on!
It seemed like two different characters to me!
Are there any other characters from the Bond Series that seem to have a strange character shift? The other one that comes to mind is Jaws, but that was at least done deliberately.
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I know what you mean...at first she seemed super cool and confident and later became a bimbo. However, in her defense Bond did a poor job of making it clear that he had already switched the tapes. All he did was stuff the tape in her bikini right?
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The "You Killed James Bond" quote did not hint a change in Tiffany's IQ to me. For me, the quote was an example of the writers' stupidity.
Tiffany was still pretty savvy after that. But when she was kidnapped by Blofeld, the writers transformed her into a ditz. One could criticize her for hiding the tape in her bikini bottoms. But for changing the tapes . . . no. She had no idea that Bond had earlier changed the tape. And for him to insult her for changing it struck me as stupid. Surely Bond knew that Tiffany had no idea of the tape change?
Seems like it was done just for the sound bite.