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Bond Girl
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Description
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Example
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On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
d. Peter Hunt |
Teresa ("Tracy") di Vicenzo / Bond
(Diana Rigg) |
Teresa was a tragic, daring, suicidal, lovelorn, headstrong Mafia heiress; however, she had skillful driving (although bare-footed), skiing, and fighting abilities, but also a penchant for drinking and gambling foolishly. She was the adventurous, independent-spirited, pretty daughter of Draco (Gabriele Ferzetti), who was assisting Bond (Lazenby) against the villainous SPECTRE head Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Telly Savalas), who was scheming to blackmail the world with the threat of massive destruction. She first met Bond on a deserted Portugal coast beach, when he rescued her from committing suicide by walking into the ocean. She assisted Bond in escaping from Blofeld in Switzerland. In the shocking and tearjerking ending of this film, the British secret service 007 agent senselessly lost his newlywed wife Contessa Teresa di Vicenzo or Tracy Bond - the only Bond girl to every marry Bond - only moments after their Portugal wedding when villainous attempted to kill Bond -- Blofeld's henchwoman Irma Bunt (Ilse Steppat) strafed their honeymoon Aston Martin car from his black Mercedes 600 sedan with MP-40 submachine gun fire in a drive-by shooting and then drove away, as Louis Armstrong's mournful and ironic rendition of "We Have All the Time In the World" played. She was hit in the forehead by a bullet through the windshield and instantly killed, shortly after their wedding. |
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Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
d. Guy Hamilton |
Plenty O'Toole
(Lana Wood) |
In her very short role, this buxom Bond girl introduced herself to Bond (Connery) in a Las Vegas casino, when she heard him wagering $10,000 at the craps table. She gave him her suggestive name as she leaned over presenting her cleavage in her low-cut purple dress: "Hi, I'm Plenty!" to which Bond replied as he looked downward: "But of course you are." She added: "Plenty O'Toole," to which Bond quipped: "Named after your father, perhaps?" She was given $5,000 for her "help." She was soon tossed out of Bond's 10-story hotel bedroom window, surviving certain death by landing in a pool. She was later drowned at the hands of murderous, soft-spoken homosexual assassin Mr. Wint (Bruce Glover) and nearly-bald Mr. Kidd (Putter Smith), in a case of mistaken identity, in Tiffany Case's (Jill St. John) pool. |
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Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
d. Guy Hamilton |
Tiffany Case
(Jill St. John) |
Bond (Connery) was involved in preventing the takeover of the world diamond market by villainous Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Charles Grey) who was stockpiling gems, intent on selling them to the highest bidder to attain nuclear supremacy. Tiffany Case was a devious, sly, redheaded (although she often changed hair color) voluptuous American diamond smuggler (working as a fence for the 'Spangled Mob' - an American cartel smuggling diamonds out of Africa), who first met Bond in Amsterdam and then eventually assisted him. [She was the first American Bond Girl.] When she appeared in a satiny bra and brunette wig at the doorway, Bond asked: "Weren't you a blonde when I came in?" She replied: "Could be." He further added: "I tend to notice little things like that, whether a girl's a blonde or a brunette." She asked provocatively: "And which do you prefer?" She was most memorable wearing a purple bikini (into the back of which Bond had earlier stuffed a cassette tape control mechanism) and running around with a machine gun (that propelled her off the deck) during the final battle on the burning Baja oil rig. |
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Live and Let Die (1973)
d. Guy Hamilton |
Solitaire
(Jane Seymour) |
Solitaire was a naive, sensual, virginal Tarot card-reader, who worked for crime-drug lord and San Monique's evil foreign minister Kananga/Mr. Big (Yaphet Kotto). He was seeking control of the North American heroin market. The heroine had to remain chaste in order to retain her mystical, psychic powers and keep herself from danger. In her first meeting with Bond (Moore) at the Fillet of Soul restaurant, when she performed a Tarot card reading, he picked up The Lovers card and asked her, prophetically: "Us?" She was later tricked by him into losing her virginity with a fixed tarot deck (composed completely of The Lovers cards). After lovemaking, he told her: "The deck was slightly stacked in my favor...Come on, cheer up, darling. There must be a first time for everyone." She eventually assisted Bond in combating Kananga and defeating his evil plans. By film's end, he rescued Solitaire on San Monique and killed Kananga. |
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The Man With the Golden Gun (1974)
d. Guy Hamilton |
Miss Mary Goodnight
(Britt Ekland) |
Bond (Moore) attempted to assassinate "The Man with the Golden Gun" Francisco Scaramanga (Christopher Lee), allied with ditzy and inept blonde British Secret Service assistant Mary Goodnight, in this Bond installment. He sought to acquire the Solex Agitator - a device powerful enough to harness the energy of the sun - during the current energy crisis. Bond first met her when she pulled in front of his taxi during a pursuit scene. In another scene, she was thrown in a hotel closet while Bond had sex with Scaramanga's deceitful mistress Miss Anders (Maud Adams) (who revealed her nakedness under her bathrobe), afterwards promising the sensuous Goodnight: "Your turn will come, I promise." She was also thrown in Scaramanga's Flying Matador car trunk during a chase sequence through Bangkok. In the end, she helped to detonate the villain's private Yellow Sea island after the bad man's death, escaping with Bond in Scaramanga's Chinese junk. |
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The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
d. Lewis Gilbert |
Major Anya Amasova
(Barbara Bach) |
As KGB officer Major Amasova, Russian code-named Agent XXX, the first liberated Bond girl, she was assigned by General Gogol (Water Gotell) to investigate the disappearance of a Russian submarine. At the same time, Bond (Moore) was investigating the disappearance of a British sub - both vessels were apparently abducted by a mysterious giant underwater craft. They both met in the city of Cairo at the Giza Pyramids during a pyramid light show. In the plot, villainous shipping magnate Karl Stromberg (Curt Jurgens) was intent on drowning all life on Earth except for his own Atlantis - his scheme for world domination by aiming the missiles of the stolen submarines at various strategic targets to flood everything. After Bond killed Amasova's lover, a fellow Russian agent during a ski chase, she sought revenge until she fell in love with 007 when he saved her life. When they talked about survival strategies, Bond agreed with her when she suggested: "When necessary, shared bodily warmth." In the final scene in bed with Amasova, he explained what he was doing to his superiors: "Keeping the British end up, Sir." She was the "first girl-power Bond beauty" who posed for Playboy to promote the Bond film. |
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