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Bond Girl
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Description
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Example
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Moonraker (1979)
d. Lewis Gilbert |
Dr. Holly Goodhead
(Lois Chiles) |
With the unlikely name Dr. Holly Goodhead, this smart Bond girl was an undercover CIA agent/astronaut, and a graduate of Vassar College, with a PhD. degree - a NASA-trained astrophysicist. When Bond (Moore) first met her, he asked for "Dr. Goodhead" and was astonished to find an attractive woman - she replied: "Your powers of observation do you credit, Mr. Bond." As an undercover agent, she was planted into villainous megalomaniac Hugo Drax' (Michael Lonsdale) organization in Southern California by the CIA, and worked with Bond to investigate the disappearance and hijacking of a Drax Industries Moonraker space shuttle. She piloted the shuttle that took them to Drax's hidden space station. Originally turned off by Bond's sexism, she soon became attracted to him and ultimately made love after their final escape and destruction of Drax's killer globes - in weightless gravity - to him aboard Drax's orbiting space shuttle above Earth (seen on a video feed) by the film's conclusion (with the accompanying lines by the Minister of Defence and Q: "My God, what's Bond doing?" "I think he's attempting reentry, Sir"). She also requested more before returning home with the suggestive last lines of the film: "Take me 'round the world one more time" to which Bond replied: "Why not?" |
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For Your Eyes Only (1981)
d. John Glen |
Melina Havelock
(Carole Bouquet) |
In this Bond film, a British ship the St. Georges was sunk in foreign waters, with a nuclear submarine control system missing. Melina Havelock was a strong-willed Greek marine biologist whose parents were gunned down by the film's evil henchman Hector Gonzales (Stefan Kalipha) when they were searching for the stolen defense system known as the ATAC. She played an icy, unsmiling, often staring, determined avenging angelic figure, on a mission to seek revenge for her parents' murder with a crossbow (Melina: "Greek women, like Elektra, always avenge their loved ones"). The villain Aristotle Kristatos' (Julian Glover) scheme was to sell the ATAC decoder to the KGB. She first met Bond (Moore) shortly after tracking down Hector at his Spanish villa and murdering him in his pool with her crossbow. She helped Bond escape from Gonzales' men in her Citröen 2CV after his Lotus Espirit exploded. She continually kept crossing paths with Bond, as the film ended at Kristatos' mountain retreat where they retrieved the ATAC and dispatched with the villain. They then disrobed (their robes dropped to their feet) and went for a moonlight swim. |
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Never Say Never Again (1983)
d. Irving Kershner
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Fatima Blush
(Barbara Carrera)
"BAD" Bond Girl |
Although not considered part of the original canon of Bond films, and the first Bond film to not use a Fleming-inspired title, this film was basically a remake of Thunderball (1965). Fatima Blush first appeared as a rough health clinic nurse (with syringes strapped to her thigh), but was revealed to be a sexy terrorist operative (Number 12) for SPECTRE, an organization that threatened to blow up nuclear warheads as part of an extortion plot against all the world governments. She engaged in dialogue foreplay with Bond (Connery), who was sent to the Bahamas to combat SPECTRE - Bond: "You're marvelously well-equipped." Fatima (looking down): "Thank you, James. So are you" before making love to him on their scuba boat. But the domineering Fatima attempted to kill the agent numerous times - by detonating a bomb in his room, by placing a shark-attracting transmitter in his scuba equipment, and by forcing him at gunpoint to write a note about her love-making abilities as the "greatest pleasure" of his life (and threatening to shoot his crotch: "You're quite a man, Mr. James Bond. But I am a superior woman! Guess where you get the first one"). She met her demise when Bond distracted her, and then killed her with a miniature rocket grenade fired from his gadget pen into her chest, leaving only her charred high-heels behind. |
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A View to a Kill (1985)
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May Day
(Grace Jones)
"BAD" Bond Girl (although switched allegiances) |
May Day (Grace Jones) was the deadly, physically-intimidating henchwoman, personal bodyguard and lover of chief psychopathic villain Max Zorin (Christopher Walken), in charge of a group of all-female guards; possessing superhuman strength and menace, she was the first sexually aggressive Bond girl; when she found the agent naked in her bedroom, she quickly disrobed (by letting her bathrobe drop to the floor, revealing her nakedness) and joined him in bed: (James Bond: "May Day, where have you been? I've been waiting for you, to take care of me, personally...I see you're a woman of very few words." May Day: "What's there to say?"); Zorin's scheme, dubbed "Operation Main Strike", was to flood Silicon Valley by triggering a massive earthquake and thereby cornering the world's microchip market - during the action, May Day switched allegiances and joined Bond (Moore) after being betrayed, sacrificing herself to prevent disaster and defeat Zorin; she died after removing a dynamite detonator and placing it on a mineshaft rail cart that she was riding on as it was pushed out of the mine - when the brakes on the car malfunctioned, she died in the explosion. |
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The Living Daylights (1987)
d. John Glen |
Kara Milovy
(Maryam d'Abo) |
Naive Kara Milovy was instructed by her betraying lover, henchman General Georgi Koskov (Jeroen Krabbé) to pose as an enemy KGB sniper, during the 'deception' of his defection, to make it look real. While Koskov was fleeing, Bond (Dalton), who was aiding the defection, was to 'cover' his flight from a Bratislava concert hall during intermission. Through his night vision rifle scope, Bond saw a blonde female, a cute Czech cellist from the orchestra, posed to kill Koskov in his escape route, and sensed instinctually that she wasn't an assassin, so he spared her. Bond eventually rescued her from the KGB and escaped from Bratislava to Vienna, Austria with her - using her cello case as a sled to careen downhill and escape! While briefly turning against Bond because she was led to believe that he was a KGB-agent intent on killing her and Koskov, she became a helpful partner after Bond protected her from suspicious allies. They both ended up in Afghanistan to thwart Koskov, where she joined the Afghan resistance movement battling Soviet troops. The film ended with her victorious world concert tour (made possible by a special visa) - and her discovery of Bond in her dressing room. |
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License to Kill (1989)
d. John Glen |
Pam Bouvier
(Carey Lowell) |
A slick, sexed-up, tough, in-charge, short-haired ex-CIA agent pilot, Pam Bouvier was one of the tallest, foul-mouthed, and hard-as-nails, most resourceful Bond girls, posing as Bond's (Dalton) executive secretary ("Miss Kennedy"). She first met Bond at Felix Leiter's (David Hedison) wedding reception, where she was getting files on ruthless drug lord Franz Sanchez (Robert Davi). She assisted Bond in getting a plane to fly to Isthmus City, and she saved Bond from being fed into a cocaine-grinder/crusher when she shot Sanchez's (Robert Davi) henchman Dario (Benicio del Toro) and helped 007 escape. The film ended with a clothed Bond and Pam in a clinch in a swimming pool. |
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