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[–] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 182 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Rebecca ass is shockingly tame for old James Bond

Pussy Galore is unironically a character name in Goldfinger (1964)

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 88 points 3 days ago (3 children)

And is where Austin Powers got the idea for Alotta Fagina

[–] Supervisor194@lemmy.world 46 points 3 days ago
[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 34 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No that's based on Xenia Onatopp

[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] TheTurner@lemm.ee 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] PillowTalk420@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You're on your way to a smack-bottom, and I don't care who knows it!

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 9 points 3 days ago
[–] SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 52 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Bonus fun fact: In the original book Pussy Galore is a lesbian who who gets raped straight by James Bond's magical penis.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 8 points 2 days ago

One of the films (Thunderball maybe) starts with him raping a nurse.

[–] bollybing@lemmynsfw.com 16 points 3 days ago

Thats pretty much how it happens in the film too.

[–] Stamau123@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] archonet@lemy.lol 52 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I like that, even in-universe, in 1964, Bond's first reaction to that name is "I must be dreaming". So it's not like the filmmakers weren't aware of how absurd that name is. They just didn't give a shit.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I never read them, but the filmakers were just adapting books by Ian Fleming into movies after they found out how successful they were doing. 50 shades of grey was based off a Fan Fiction novel wasn't it? And those movies came out what I would consider recently.

I think mainstream media just converted Bond into an Icon that was supposed to be more upstanding than he originally was meant to be.

The lastest plays on Bond were the Kingsman. Where a princess tells the main character he can fuck her in the asshole if he saves the world, and he just basically says brb.

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 19 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, but book Bond and movie Bond are two rather different Bonds. I think Timothy Dalton probably got closest to depicting the literary Bond onscreen, but in so many words: the books are a fair bit darker in tone than some of the movies, and secondly (something Dalton thankfully did not channel), they're exceedingly racist. Yes, even more racist than You Only Live Twice let's-make-Sean-Connery-Japanese racism. One chapter of Live and Let Die set in Harlem NY is titled, I shit you not, "[n-word] Heaven".

Connery was the one they asked if he slapped his wife around and responded something like your damn right I did, and if you ask her, she'll tell you she deserved it. The public was fine with that response, and Fleming wrote the Bond series years before. I looked it up to double check, Fleming was born 12 years before Women got the right to vote. And he died around the time the Jim Crow laws were abolished. Racism and Sexism were likely very prevelant in his life.

[–] Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What's racist about the japanese Connery? I only remember him dressing in a kimono.

[–] TheColonel@reddthat.com 3 points 2 days ago

He literally puts on Japanese face. His eyes are done up and everything.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

James Bond: The name's Bond. James Bond.

Xenia Onatopp: Xenia Sergeyevna Onatopp.

James Bond: Onatopp?

Xenia Onatopp: Onatopp

[–] Disaster@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

I love a lady who enjoys pulling rank.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

Apparently they wouldn't have been allowed to use that character name, except between writing the script and the studio approving it, the name had already been published by the press. So they had their community reaction to it already known, and the public expected it when the film was to be released.

[–] HakunaHafada@lemm.ee 35 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Aside from Pussy Galore, another favorite inappropriate Bond moment I enjoy is from The Man with the Golden Gun. Bond approaches an Asian woman skinny dipping in a pool and asks her for her name.

She responds: "Chew Mee"

Bond: "Really!?...."

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] HakunaHafada@lemm.ee 7 points 3 days ago

Definitely funny!

She needed to get something off her chest.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 36 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There was a movie named Octopussy

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I thought that's the one Pussy Galore is in?

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No, the name of the character is just Octopussy.

Presumably she has like eight of them down there. One for every day of the week, and a bonus for special occasions.

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

She reserves #8 for high holy days

[–] rustydomino@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Pussy Galore was in Goldfinger.

[–] some_dude@lemm.ee 6 points 3 days ago

Strike that. Reverse it.