The books were written in the 50s and 60s. Women went for chauvinistic, alcoholic sex pests back then - at least they did in the movies. Times are different now, but it doesn't change how we were back then.
According to Patrick MacNee (John Steed in The Avengers), Fleming was a piece of work, with sadomasochistic fixations that he toned down in writing the Bond character.
What's this new thing where people get angry about fictional characters? I thought the world was going to end when they announced Superman's son is Bisexual
Ursula Andress played a beachcomber. Britt Ekland played a bumbling assistant. Barbara Bach played a sexy spy, which was basically a stock character even back then. A nuclear physicist is perhaps somewhat harder to pretend you know what you're talking about and have it come out believable.
It's weird that everyone is always decrying the lack of originality in Hollywood as a recent phenomenon, meanwhile Ion has been churning out James Bond movies that are mostly carbon copies with impunity for more than 50 years and nobody minds.
It's called a tried-and-true formula. Bond is iconic for more reasons than I can list and as someone who has grown up with his suave, witty character - I'm not going to expect him to change any time soon. When you consider that each film follows the same person, with the same faults (any Bond fan has come to love and associate him with) and facing the same enemies, it becomes difficult to find ways to become inventive. Albeit, Eon Productions have done a fantastic job of sustaining the franchise. The fact that 2012s Skyfall made 1.109 billion USD at the box office, says that people still love the films (with me, someone who has grown up with the franchise, included). By the way, if you have an issue with Eon Productions perhaps you should also look at Disney. 7 of 10 "renaissance" films are a case of stolen identity (case in point - Ariel, who is mistaken for an ordinary, flipperless human). The Beast in The Beauty and the Beast is really a handsome prince but he's mistaken for a beast
Connery #1 as Bond with Dalton a close #2 because he only starred in two 007 films! (I scored 27/27 in 2:31...No one can answer all questions in 0.07 seconds!)
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Britt Ekland, or Barbara Bach?
Also, inverted shaken and stirred
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