James Bond
I love James Bond, movies and books. I love very nearly everything about the character James Bond, from his flawless taste in clothes, he always has a gorgeous expensive car laden with the best gadgets, and I secretly love that he always manages to bed the best looking piece of ass available to him (Naturally I have different taste in ass...hehe, but I still love that he can do it)....Oh stop looking so shocked. You know you've thought about it too.
James Bond has a very different personality in the books. Most of the time the differences merely come off as silly and anachronistic, but every once in a while Ian Fleming (the author) manages to write something that totally bowls me over.
Case in point: In "Goldfinger," the character "Pussy Galore" is portrayed as a gorgeous purple-eyed Lesbian. Fine by me, she's a powerful character, though a villain, and in lots of control. Bond's secondary piece of ass, Tilly Masterson(there's always two, one usually dies, in Goldfinger there are two girls who die) is also a closet lesbian, desperately in love with Pussy. (snort. the character, dirty minds.) None of this was particularly shocking, but Bond's reaction to her character is borderline ridiculous.
And I quote:
"Bond came to the conclusion that Tilly Masterson was one of those girls whose hormones had got mixed up. He knew the type well and thought they and their male counterparts were a direct consequence of giving votes to women and "sex equality." As a result of fifty years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not completely homosexual, but confused, not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits- barren and full of frustrations, the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied. He was sorry for them, but he had no time for them."
wow. There's not a lot to say after that. I'm happy that it's so ludicrous, it'd be downright dangerous if it weren't. Is this what people thought of gays and lesbians in the 50's? I mean it's not a surprise, in England homosexuality wasn't even legal, (for men, women were pretty easily passed over) but still, how many people thought like this? *grr.*
*spoilers*
The book ends with the formerly powerful mob boss character "Pussy Galore" playing stewardess on a stolen plane. When the plane crashes, both she and Bond survive, and are hospitalized. Either the shock of the crash made her crazy or she merely got hypnotized by his mojo, because she ends up falling desperately in love with Bond and sleeps with him. In the hospital.
Bleh.
James Bond has a very different personality in the books. Most of the time the differences merely come off as silly and anachronistic, but every once in a while Ian Fleming (the author) manages to write something that totally bowls me over.
Case in point: In "Goldfinger," the character "Pussy Galore" is portrayed as a gorgeous purple-eyed Lesbian. Fine by me, she's a powerful character, though a villain, and in lots of control. Bond's secondary piece of ass, Tilly Masterson(there's always two, one usually dies, in Goldfinger there are two girls who die) is also a closet lesbian, desperately in love with Pussy. (snort. the character, dirty minds.) None of this was particularly shocking, but Bond's reaction to her character is borderline ridiculous.
And I quote:
"Bond came to the conclusion that Tilly Masterson was one of those girls whose hormones had got mixed up. He knew the type well and thought they and their male counterparts were a direct consequence of giving votes to women and "sex equality." As a result of fifty years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not completely homosexual, but confused, not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits- barren and full of frustrations, the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied. He was sorry for them, but he had no time for them."
wow. There's not a lot to say after that. I'm happy that it's so ludicrous, it'd be downright dangerous if it weren't. Is this what people thought of gays and lesbians in the 50's? I mean it's not a surprise, in England homosexuality wasn't even legal, (for men, women were pretty easily passed over) but still, how many people thought like this? *grr.*
*spoilers*
The book ends with the formerly powerful mob boss character "Pussy Galore" playing stewardess on a stolen plane. When the plane crashes, both she and Bond survive, and are hospitalized. Either the shock of the crash made her crazy or she merely got hypnotized by his mojo, because she ends up falling desperately in love with Bond and sleeps with him. In the hospital.
Bleh.