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Bond Girl
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GoldenEye (1995)
d. Martin Campbell |
Natalya Simonova (Izabella Scorupco) |
Natalya was a smart computer programmer assigned to the Russian Severnaya Space Installation weapons facility in Siberia before its destruction. She witnessed (and was the lone survivor of) the destruction of the facility and the theft of a clandestine Russian satellite weapon system called GoldenEye (capable of firing a massive, crippling Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP)) by General Arkady Ourumov (Gottfried John) and Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen). Their plan was to steal money from British banks, erase their electronic financial schemings, and cause a global economic catastrophe. She first met Bond (Brosnan) inside a French Tiger helicopter about to be self-destructed by its own missiles, while bound together, although Bond was able to eject them. She shared her first love-making moment with Bond in a Cuban beach house. She accompanied Bond and was able to prevent the rogue nuclear warhead satellite from destroying London, by breaking into the computer room and redirecting a nuclear device to burn up over the Atlantic Ocean. She also piloted a helicopter to rescue herself and Bond by film's end. |
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GoldenEye (1995)
d. Martin Campbell |
Xenia Onatopp
(Famke Janssen)
"Villainous" Bond Girl |
A nymphomaniacal assassinatrix, Janus' lethal enforcer, had black eye shadow and red lips. Janus was attempting to steal millions from the Bank of England. She was competitive, sexy and deadly at the same time, known for crushing men to death with her thighs during sex and the first Bond girl to obviously experience an orgasm. She first met Bond (Brosnan) during a car race in the hills above Monte Carlo, later challenged her in a game of baccarat, and mentioned her forged license plates on her Ferrari. The fictional femme fatale character of Xenia Onatopp exhibited sexual sadism in her physically-lethal, sociopathic role in several memorable scenes: she displayed her 'orgasmic' pleasure (she liked to be 'on-top') in murdering others - either with a gun or with her muscle-bound thighs used as a body scissors-vice, with her toes curling in pleasure. During a love-making scene on a yacht with Canadian Naval Admiral Chuck Farrell (Billy J. Mitchell), she achieved orgasm while suffocating him with her long legs. And in a Turkish sauna-bath scene in a Russian (St. Petersburg) hotel while draped in only a robe, she told Bond: "You don't need the gun" to which he responded: "Well, that depends on your definition of safe sex." During their rough sex bout, she ended up crushing and squeezing Bond's ribs between her bare thighs, while enjoying the sexual sensations. She met her demise when she attempted to attack Bond after he had survived a plane crash. While she was crushing him with her thighs, he clipped into her parasail rope and shot it toward a circling helicopter above - when the chopper crashed, Onatopp was propelled backwards into a Y-shaped tree, where she was brutally crushed by the impact. |
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Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
d. Roger Spottiswoode |
Colonel Wai Lin
(Michelle Yeoh) |
The Hong Kong action heroine with martial arts skills (and lots of high-tech gadgets) played opposite Bond (Brosnan) as his wary, aggressive and confident ally - and as a Chinese agent, a member of the Chinese People's External Security Force assigned by Beijing to investigate crazed media baron Elliot Carver (Jonathan Pryce) and his plan to incite international warfare between China and the UK. She posed as a reporter for the New China News Agency, and met Bond at Carver's launch party, then during a raid on Carver's top-floor laboratory in Hamburg, and again during an underwater reconnaissance of HMS Devonshire. Handcuffed to Bond, they escaped on a BMW R1200 motorcycle through the streets of Saigon each steering one handlebar while being hotly pursued by numerous vehicles and a chopper. They also had an outdoors sexy "shower" scene together, although she stomped off after telling Bond: "Thanks for washing my hair. I work alone" and handcuffing him to the shower pipe. By film's end, she was willing to be with Bond and "stay under cover" on the wreckage of Carver's stealth ship after it was destroyed, while ignoring the British Navy's "Are you there?" calls. |
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The World is Not Enough (1999)
d. Michael Apted |
Elektra King
(Sophie Marceau)
"Villainous" Bond Girl |
Elektra King was Bond's (Brosnan) double-crossing temptress, the heiress daughter of murdered oil baron Sir Robert King who believed his billionaire oil business was rightfully hers through inheritance. She was the first major female villain in the Bond series, teamed up with terrorist Renard, the Anarchist (Robert Carlyle) to plot a nuclear detonation. Although she became Bond's lover, she also tortured him with a neck-breaking torture device, while conducting her master plan to monopolize oil transport in Europe. In the end, the double-crosser was shot and killed by Bond, when she refused to call off Renard's nuclear launch. Elektra (taunting and doubting that Bond would kill her): "You wouldn't kill me. You'll miss me." Bond: (after shooting her) "I never miss..." |
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Die Another Day (2002)
d. Lee Tamahori |
Giacinta "Jinx" Johnson
(Halle Berry) |
Halle Berry recreated the famous Ursula Andress rising-from-the-sea scene from Dr. No (1962), as NSA (National Security Agency) agent "Jinx" Johnson in a skimpy bright orange bikini, first seen through Bond's (Brosnan) binoculars from a Cuban restaurant onshore. "Jinx" was revealed to be a super-spy, working at cross-purposes to Bond. She also took a backwards (CGI-assisted) escape dive off a steep Acapulco cliff into the ocean. She was also able to deliver clever lines such as: "So Bond's been explaining his Big Bang theory?" and "Oh yeah, I think I got the thrust of it." By film's end, she had killed villainous Miranda Frost (Rosamund Pike) by stabbing her in the chest, and Bond had killed evil British diamond merchant Gustav Graves (Toby Stephens) by propelling him into a plane's engine. Graves had been bankrolling notorious terrorist Zao (Rick Zune) and also had created a world-domineering plan using a destructive orbiting space mirror in his ice-palace in Iceland. The two were then seen in an intimate bedroom scene surrounded by sparkling diamonds. |
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Casino Royale (2006)
d. Martin Campbell |
Vesper Lynd
(Eva Green) |
Intelligent and complex Vesper Lynd worked for the HM Treasury Financial Action Task Force, who met Bond (Craig) on a train traveling to Casino Royale in Montenegro in SE Europe with the words: "I'm the money". The film's plot placed Bond in a suspenseful, high-stakes poker game against cold and calculating villain Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen) - a banker who financed world's terrorist organizations. The film ended with the tearjerking, drawn-out death of blackmailed Vesper after she had betrayed fellow agent Bond - she had attempted to save his life and the life of her French Algerian boyfriend (although she was unaware that she was duped), by transferring $120 million to the terrorists in exchange for their safety; she was locked in a caged elevator as the building crumbled-sank into a Venetian canal, and drowned; Bond was involved in a fight to the death against attackers and couldn't save her in time to revive her with CPR; Bond bitterly and coldly reflected back during his debriefing with M (Judi Dench) about Vesper's manipulative treason: "The job's done and the bitch is dead" before discovering Vesper had actually tried to save him; and she had left him a clue in a text message on her cell phone - she gave him the identity of the treacherous mastermind (behind the plot to fund terrorism): Mr. White (Jesper Christensen) and his phone number (# 3926222431). [Trivia: Dr. No (1962) Bond girl Ursula Andress played Vesper Lynd in the comedic spoof Casino Royale (1967).]
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