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[–] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 132 points 12 hours ago (5 children)

Rebecca ass is shockingly tame for old James Bond

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

[–] SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 5 hours ago (1 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 18 points 5 hours ago

Such a romantic

[–] HakunaHafada@lemm.ee 19 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 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 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] HakunaHafada@lemm.ee 8 points 5 hours ago

Definitely funny!

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 28 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

There was a movie named Octopussy

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] rustydomino@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Pussy Galore was in Goldfinger.

[–] some_dude@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

Strike that. Reverse it.

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 31 points 8 hours ago (1 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 9 points 4 hours 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 10 points 3 hours ago (1 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.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 64 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

And is where Austin Powers got the idea for Alotta Fagina

[–] Supervisor194@lemmy.world 33 points 8 hours ago
[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 23 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 2 points 59 minutes ago

No that's based on Xenia Onatopp

[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 11 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] TheTurner@lemm.ee 15 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] PillowTalk420@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 6 points 6 hours ago