Are Bond Girls really important to the films?
EllCods7
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I was having a discussion with my brother and we started talking about the significance of the Bond Girls. I believe that Bond girls play an important part in the Bond films, they are strong-willed, resourceful and of course glamorous. They are one of the many things that signify a Bond film. However, my brother said he thinks there could be a Bond film without a Bond girl!
Just wanted to find out other people's opinions. Could there really be a Bond film without a Bond girl?
Just wanted to find out other people's opinions. Could there really be a Bond film without a Bond girl?
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Skyfall had Sévérine.
I also remember the rumblings that in qos bond only sleeps with one girl.
Not really. It's never a romantic relationship. It almost is, but it never goes beyond what Bond and Moneypenny did before. Not every female character has to be a Bond girl or femme fatale.
IMHO, yes. For instance, Camille is not a Bond girl. She's an ally who happens to be female.
eg Tatiana in From Russia or Tracy in OHMSS
even in some of the later film like Anya in The Spy or Elektra in The World Is Not Enough
some are mere eye candy who add nothing to the plot
eg Goodnight in Golden Gun
some were more crucial to the plot as Fleming imagined them but the filmmakers reduced them to more decorative purpose
eg Honey Rider Kissy Suzuki and Tiffany Case
also in several later films the Bondgirl is responsible for exposition, spelling out the technobabble of the villains plot: Holly Goodhead, Stacy Sutton, even the muchmocked Christmas Jones
its true the Craig films have largely dispensed with the convention of the BondGirl as we always knew her
by which I mean: I expect there to be a girl in the liferaft with Bond in the final scene, not just some female characters along the way
and its always better when said character is essential to the plot
we could say at least that the various Craig-girls who don't ever end up in the liferaft at the end are all necessary to advance the plot
Yeah, but that would be like if the only Bond girl in Moonraker was Corinne.
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Of course it would never happen simply due to marketing and promotion etc
Main focus group for the 007 movies are heterosexual young men!
And they are interested in chicks!
Thinking that a Bond movie would be similar successful without a young attractive female role is just wishful thinking!
Now that I gave the definite reply, we can close this thread, thank you! {[]
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
1. Connery 2. Craig 3. Brosnan 4. Dalton 5. Lazenby 6. Moore
You make a very good point about the relationships setting Bond films apart. One of the weaknesses of recent times is the lack of charisma and chemistry, for me it's almost entirely absent and is sorely missed. Some discern it in the Bond Vesper relationship and I can see it on the Train, but for me it's mostly absent. QoS is interesting as the dynamic is unusual and I think there is an unrealised sense of chemistry there which suits the film.