Sunday, November 27, 2016

Evolution of Bond Girls

Ursula Andress from "Dr No" in (about) 1963.


These shots weren't in the movie so maybe they were for the Euro version since they lack nipple fear over there.

Andress played the knowledgeable scientist but, apart from that, she was the helpless and impossibly beautiful Bond Girl.  The knife was only for dealing with shells.


Carey Lowell from "License to Kill" from (about) 2000.



Over forty years, the Bond Girl moved into a new world of mess you up and Lowell was highly skilled that way ... plus being a secret agent pilot ... plus being impossibly beautiful.

She's remarkable as most women with short haircuts like that either look like truck drivers or caricatures of characters in video games but Lowell looks stunning ... even more so with a gun, right?


Escalating the Bond Girls from bimbo to dangerous was cool but the masterstroke was bringing Judi Doench into it was M.  She so dominated that role and was the best M ever.


I'll have you killed and you know I can do it.

Unknown what she did for the women's movement as a whole but she boosted the hell out of it for Bond movies and how many millions of people saw her doing it.

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