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Starring:
Sean Connery, Honor Blackman, Gert Frobe, Shirley Eaton, Harold Sakata, Cec Linder, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, Desmond Llewelyn, Nadja Regin
Directed By:
Guy Hamilton
Written By:
Paul Dehn, Richard Maibaum
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Goldfinger (1964)
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Misogynist Crap
Though I am a film geek, I am also a feminist and thus I have always been proud to note that I have never seen a James Bond movie. I have thought them to be misogynistic, mindless formula pictures that objectify women for the sake of re-stating outdated social values that only help to produce negative behavior in the men and women who watch them.
However tonight my ex-boyfriend, whose name incidentally is James which I think may influence his opinion, pressured me to try one and so I watched 'Goldfinger'.
Everyone of my fears were proven and then some. Women were smacked in the head, forced into sexual situations, directed to wear horrible clothing for the sake of stimulation and slapped about in many other ways. After all this is the one with pu**y Galore as a character. I could hardly bare to watch this parade of patriarchal injustices and I will never watch another until they slant toward a more modern idea of women wherein all the intelligent women are not necessarily evil.
I understand the appeal of the sleek and smart Bond and why the Broccolli family makes so much money off of perpetuating it (I do hope that Daniel Craig as Bond will adjust some of the treatment of women; he seems like a smart dude), but I choose not to watch. Please leave a comment if you argee or disagree.
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 | Jarrod
Sep 1, 2007 6:19 PM
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This is my favorite Bond movie, or at least one of them, and I have never analyzed them that deeply, and certainly not with a feminist bent, but I think you are perhaps a bit too harsh. I mean, yes, beautiful women show up in every Bond movie, to be seduced by Bond, whether friend or foe, and they are all thrown aside quite carelessly in some cases, and Bond ends up rescuing them usually, since they apparently cannot help themselves.
A lot of horror films are more offensive in their treatment of women, I think, especially those torture porn flicks that seem to enjoy subjecting women to sexual abuse and exploiting their nudity, so in this sense, I think the Bond series is mostly harmless, the women who appear in the more recent Bond films kick a lot of ass and even help James out himself, like in Tomorrow Never Dies, so I think maybe you would like them a little better. Not a whole lot of women like the Bond franchise, it would seem. No women in my family, at least. |
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Sep 2, 2007 6:32 PM