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- 0:00Speaker 1: On the Bedel Cast, the questions asked if movies have
- 0:03Speaker 1: wenen inum, are all their discussions just boyfriends and husbands,
- 0:07Speaker 1: or do they have in individualism the patriarchy zef in
- 0:11Speaker 1: best start changing it with the Bechdel Cast. Hello, and
- 0:16Speaker 1: welcome to the Bechdel Cast. My name is now you
- 0:23Speaker 1: keep talking, I'll be I'll do them. My name is Durante,
- 0:29Speaker 1: Caitlin Durante. I'm Jamie, but James, Jamie Jamie loftus. Also
- 0:45Speaker 1: at the beginning of the movie is fun and then
- 0:47Speaker 1: it's so long. Oh, welcome, This is the Bechdel Cast.
- 0:53Speaker 1: It sure is. And what do we do here? What?
- 0:58Speaker 1: What are we doing? Well? Uh, this is a podcast
- 1:02Speaker 1: about the role that women play in famous movies, whether
- 1:06Speaker 1: they be main sidekicks from fatales or sacrificial lance. Hey. Yes,
- 1:15Speaker 1: So we use the Bechtel test as a jumping off
- 1:17Speaker 1: point to initiate a conversation about the representation of women
- 1:21Speaker 1: in movies and the Bechtel test. If you're not familiar
- 1:26Speaker 1: two female identifying characters, they should have names. Come on
- 1:31Speaker 1: first of all, okay, they should be in the movie together,
- 1:35Speaker 1: they should talk to each other, and they shouldn't talk
- 1:39Speaker 1: about a man, especially if batman is James, I like
- 1:44Speaker 1: to call him Jimmy Bond. I was, I kept rearing
- 1:47Speaker 1: down Jimmy be Jimmy Bobo. And then for our for
- 1:53Speaker 1: our purposes, it's just has to be a two line
- 1:55Speaker 1: exchange between two women. And uh, we'll find out her
- 2:00Speaker 1: on if this movie past we have picked perhaps it's
- 2:04Speaker 1: it's kind of interesting that we it's taken us this
- 2:06Speaker 1: long to get to this franchise, notoriously toxic franchise that
- 2:10Speaker 1: I'm excited to talk about. I know nothing about Jimmy Bobo,
- 2:15Speaker 1: and so I did a lot of reading, did a
- 2:17Speaker 1: lot of learning. Then, boy, is this movie long? It
- 2:22Speaker 1: certainly is. With that much further ado, let's introduce our guests,
- 2:26Speaker 1: shall we. Let's do it. She is a New York comedian.
- 2:30Speaker 1: Ever heard of it? So sorry, um, you might have
- 2:37Speaker 1: seen her on laughs on Fox. She is the host
- 2:40Speaker 1: of the Love About Town podcast, and if you're a matron,
- 2:44Speaker 1: you might remember her from our Back to the Future episode.
- 2:47Speaker 1: It's Canis Mobley. I'm back. Sorry, it's really exciting. I
- 2:58Speaker 1: should have It's a It's Mobli Mobli. I just keep
- 3:05Speaker 1: doing that. I do it so many times, So what's
- 3:12Speaker 1: your relationship with this franchise? Okay, so we're doing Casino
- 3:16Speaker 1: Royale by the way, two thousand six. Okay, So when
- 3:22Speaker 1: I was a kid, I watched all of the Pierce
- 3:23Speaker 1: Brosson ones. I went to the theater with my mom
- 3:26Speaker 1: to watch them. They are cheesy as hell, but I
- 3:28Speaker 1: was like super intovent, Like the tech is dumb. They
- 3:31Speaker 1: try to do some cg I stuff, It's dumb. The
- 3:33Speaker 1: relationship to the entire country of Russia is very silly.
- 3:37Speaker 1: They have Alan Cumming playing a Russian do you remember that? Yes,
- 3:42Speaker 1: Alan Cumming is a Russian jerkrogrammer, hacker. Yes, perfect for him.
- 3:49Speaker 1: Golden Eye, Oh ship. I played the video game Golden Eye.
- 3:52Speaker 1: I don't know if I saw the movie. That's the
- 3:54Speaker 1: only video game I've played more than once. And I
- 3:56Speaker 1: work at a video game company and they try to
- 3:58Speaker 1: make me play video games and we're like absolutely, but
- 4:00Speaker 1: I will funk with some Golden that sure. Sure. Oh
- 4:02Speaker 1: my god, I have to see Alan Cumming Villa like especially,
- 4:07Speaker 1: like everyone's doing the most, like none of the people
- 4:11Speaker 1: they I think Femka Jansen is not Russian, right, I
- 4:14Speaker 1: don't believe so yeah, yeah, they have her being an
- 4:17Speaker 1: evil lady who like chokes people with their thighs. It's
- 4:19Speaker 1: like a whole thing. Yeah, you're a woman, you have
- 4:23Speaker 1: to put your pussy in someone's face. And yeah, when
- 4:27Speaker 1: you guys mentioned that on another episode, I was like,
- 4:29Speaker 1: they must have seen the Chanson fucking people today with
- 4:34Speaker 1: her thoughts like it's the thing Pierce brows and so
- 4:37Speaker 1: inherently silly to like you Just I feel like I
- 4:40Speaker 1: just can't take him seriously. Like maybe it's because I'm
- 4:42Speaker 1: most familiar with his work in the moment be a franchise,
- 4:46Speaker 1: but I was just like, I can't take this guy seriously.
- 4:49Speaker 1: I saw for me he starts off as Bond and
- 4:52Speaker 1: then he goes Thomas Crown Affair, which not a great
- 4:55Speaker 1: like representing women not great. But oh man, I have
- 5:00Speaker 1: a solve software and I have to acknowledge that. But okay,
- 5:02Speaker 1: sure all that is preface to uh the last one
- 5:07Speaker 1: I think with Pierce browsing. It was like two thousand
- 5:09Speaker 1: or no, like ninety eight maybe, and then I heard
- 5:12Speaker 1: that they were coming out with a new one. It
- 5:14Speaker 1: was around my twenty first birthday. I am older than
- 5:17Speaker 1: you guys, but uh so I feel like a year older.
- 5:21Speaker 1: It's like crazy, It's like all all different times references.
- 5:25Speaker 1: I'm just like so old. So uh yeah. So I
- 5:28Speaker 1: heard that they were coming out with it, and I
- 5:30Speaker 1: themed my entire twenty first birthday party around James Bond.
- 5:33Speaker 1: So I brought like, um, like the green felt stuff
- 5:37Speaker 1: that covers like a table that you would play poker on.
- 5:39Speaker 1: I got like three handles of vodka to make vodka
- 5:42Speaker 1: marteenis with. Uh. Not that many people came. I was
- 5:46Speaker 1: not popular, So everyone who came, like outside of me
- 5:49Speaker 1: and the other people who were like playing poker the
- 5:51Speaker 1: whole night, everyone else became ship faced. And I turned
- 5:54Speaker 1: around and like everyone's just on the floor and I'm like, oh, well,
- 5:57Speaker 1: successful party party. Yeah. Guess what the theme of my
- 6:01Speaker 1: birthday party was last year? Paddington Yep, hell yeah. It
- 6:09Speaker 1: was it Paddington, both Paddington's or Paddington Too. It was
- 6:12Speaker 1: basically just like dress as close to Paddington as you can,
- 6:15Speaker 1: so everyone's dressed as Paddington. There's like literally someone wore
- 6:19Speaker 1: a red hat and that was it. We try get
- 6:22Speaker 1: to be fair. It was in the event description in
- 6:26Speaker 1: the event I made, and I didn't show up but
- 6:30Speaker 1: it was hard. It's hard to get a Paddington outfit.
- 6:32Speaker 1: I didn't realize. Yeah, it looks so you can get
- 6:35Speaker 1: a blue coat or jacket or shirt, just a blue thing.
- 6:38Speaker 1: There's a red bucket hat. You think it would be
- 6:41Speaker 1: easier to find a red bucket. I feel like you
- 6:43Speaker 1: got to go to Venice Beach. Yeah, they're selling them there. Yeah,
- 6:47Speaker 1: you're gonna have to take like the weed banner that's
- 6:50Speaker 1: around the base of You're gonna have to take that off.
- 6:51Speaker 1: But once you do that, then I think you're good.
- 6:54Speaker 1: Fun birthday though, it was great. I had such a
- 6:56Speaker 1: good time. So so then you saw the movie when
- 6:59Speaker 1: it came mount, Yes, and have you seen the other
- 7:02Speaker 1: ones in this? And then I have seen every other one? Okay? Cool? Uh?
- 7:06Speaker 1: In order I will give them in quality and if
- 7:08Speaker 1: people disagree with me, they are wrong. Okay. So first one,
- 7:13Speaker 1: sky Fall the best. I think sky Fall's best, followed
- 7:16Speaker 1: by Casino Royal, followed by this maybe controversial Quantum of Solace,
- 7:20Speaker 1: and last I hated Spector. Spector is really bad. I
- 7:24Speaker 1: would agree with you. I think I like Casino Royal
- 7:27Speaker 1: a little better than Skyfall, but I did enjoy Skyfall. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
- 7:30Speaker 1: either way. I feel like people shed on quantum of
- 7:32Speaker 1: solas so hard. But like compared to like Spector was
- 7:36Speaker 1: very very bad. Ye Spector the most recently, Yes, Spectr
- 7:41Speaker 1: is the one where he sleeps with a woman his
- 7:44Speaker 1: age and they're like, whoa, this is wild. Okay, he
- 7:48Speaker 1: sucked Monica Bellucci. This is nuts, even though she is
- 7:51Speaker 1: like a supermodel who was his exact same age, right,
- 7:55Speaker 1: oh my god? Like inclusion is this cool? It was awesome? Jamie,
- 8:01Speaker 1: what's your history with Jimmy be nothing. I have no
- 8:06Speaker 1: history nor attachment to Jimmy Bobo. He seems like he
- 8:11Speaker 1: seems like he kind of hates women. It's weird. I
- 8:15Speaker 1: feel like most people have like some at least someone
- 8:18Speaker 1: in their family, Like who is very in a James Bond?
- 8:20Speaker 1: I just didn't. I don't know what. I don't know
- 8:22Speaker 1: what it was. At Robot Chicken, there was a really
- 8:24Speaker 1: funny skitch that got cut based around Golden Eye, a
- 8:27Speaker 1: movie I haven't seen, but it was about peeing in
- 8:30Speaker 1: someone's eyeball. That was kind of funny. What it would
- 8:33Speaker 1: make your eye gold It's like a golden shower into
- 8:37Speaker 1: your eye, Like, well, if it's got cut and that's
- 8:42Speaker 1: all I know about coo good. Yeah, what about I
- 8:47Speaker 1: some of the had seen at least a few of
- 8:49Speaker 1: the Pierce brows and ones. The one I remember most
- 8:52Speaker 1: was the one that Hallie Berry was in, which I
- 8:54Speaker 1: think was like early two thousand's that I think that
- 8:56Speaker 1: was like one of the last periods, if not the
- 8:58Speaker 1: last one. Yeah. I just remember her like being tied
- 9:02Speaker 1: to a slab and there's like a laser about to
- 9:04Speaker 1: like slice her up, and then of course Jimmy Bee
- 9:07Speaker 1: has to come in and save her. And that was
- 9:09Speaker 1: still Pierce. Yeah. Yeah, I only remember that one because
- 9:13Speaker 1: that movie came out right after She Wanted an Oscar
- 9:15Speaker 1: and people were like, huh, first that was like two one,
- 9:20Speaker 1: and then yeah, this had to be like two thousand two,
- 9:22Speaker 1: Y think, so it was not good? And then did
- 9:25Speaker 1: they all have the same name these movies? It's like
- 9:28Speaker 1: Live another Day, Die Again Tomorrow, Tomorrow, never dies, die
- 9:34Speaker 1: Die another Day? Because I remember that was like a song. Man,
- 9:44Speaker 1: I honestly like most of the James Bond songs. And
- 9:46Speaker 1: I cannot accept this out about myself, but it is true.
- 9:49Speaker 1: The adele One is really good, Sky Falls great, Ye
- 9:53Speaker 1: Trees hates it. Sister, none of you know her. Okay, cool,
- 9:56Speaker 1: but she complains about this song constantly because we constantly
- 9:59Speaker 1: diet in fight about James Bond. She thinks Quantum of
- 10:01Speaker 1: Solace is the best because she's looking crazy, She's like, no,
- 10:05Speaker 1: I studied geopolitics, don't you have the same twin wait,
- 10:10Speaker 1: she she's arguing the cultural importance of Quantum of solid
- 10:14Speaker 1: She's like, water rights are gonna be a thing. Come on, guys,
- 10:17Speaker 1: we gotta get on board. And I'm like, I don't
- 10:19Speaker 1: think that's a reason to like a film. I don't
- 10:23Speaker 1: so anyway, So I've seen a few of those. I
- 10:25Speaker 1: have seen all of the Daniel Craig ones, and then
- 10:28Speaker 1: I hadn't seen any of like the ones from the
- 10:31Speaker 1: Sean connri era or like Roddermore, any of those older ones.
- 10:34Speaker 1: So I was like, maybe for this episode, I should
- 10:36Speaker 1: just go and watch one of them, see how it goes.
- 10:38Speaker 1: So I started gold Member or gold Finger again, they
- 10:43Speaker 1: all have the same members, so not that one. So
- 10:51Speaker 1: gold Finger and I saw the first five minutes of it,
- 10:55Speaker 1: and within the first five minutes you see a naked
- 10:58Speaker 1: woman in a bathtub. She gets out and starts kissing
- 11:02Speaker 1: James Bond, who this one is a Connery one. Hyeah,
- 11:05Speaker 1: it was a notorious advocate for one yes from this icon. Um.
- 11:12Speaker 1: So he starts kissing her while she is still naked
- 11:15Speaker 1: and he is fully clothed, and then a bad guy
- 11:18Speaker 1: comes into attack Bond, and so Bond flings her around
- 11:22Speaker 1: and uses her as a human shield and that results
- 11:26Speaker 1: in the bad guy bludgeoning her on the head. And
- 11:29Speaker 1: then I was like, I've seen enough. I get it.
- 11:32Speaker 1: I understand what the movie was going to be, so uh,
- 11:36Speaker 1: I can't get behind anything before Peters Brosnan I saw
- 11:39Speaker 1: from Russia with Love or two whom you get it.
- 11:43Speaker 1: He hits a lady in it, and they're just like,
- 11:45Speaker 1: of course hits her in the face, So like, why
- 11:49Speaker 1: are we doing There's a number of super cuts out
- 11:51Speaker 1: there of like old school James Bond just straight up
- 11:54Speaker 1: abusing women, like treating them badly, physically abusing him like
- 12:00Speaker 1: being raised. It's like he's just horrible. Um, it's weird.
- 12:06Speaker 1: And then it's like by comparison, like a lot of
- 12:09Speaker 1: stuff I was reading about Casino Royale was like, well,
- 12:11Speaker 1: by comparison, he's actually a militant feminist like, I guess
- 12:18Speaker 1: if he was beating women up and now it's I
- 12:22Speaker 1: don't know, I'll do the recap. I couldn't tell you
- 12:27Speaker 1: what happens in this movie. Really. I know there's a
- 12:30Speaker 1: card game. Yes, yes, well I'm here to tell you what.
- 12:33Speaker 1: Accountants also have to sort of be pretend to be
- 12:37Speaker 1: people's girlfriends some kind part of every accountants job. She
- 12:41Speaker 1: is not a spy, but they're like, let's bring like
- 12:43Speaker 1: she's undergo she's like the assistant comptroller or something. They're
- 12:49Speaker 1: They're like, no, you gotta be hot. They I guess
- 12:52Speaker 1: they did what they did in Miss Congeniality, where they
- 12:54Speaker 1: were just like scanned through the computer and was like
- 12:56Speaker 1: who works here? And then they just threw her into
- 12:59Speaker 1: this much of you is at least, but she was
- 13:01Speaker 1: like already an undercover FBI agent? Was she yeah? Yes, yeah, no,
- 13:07Speaker 1: this is like someone with no fight training, who's never
- 13:10Speaker 1: seen anyone die, who like doesn't know how to be
- 13:13Speaker 1: discreet in any way, Like yeah, and then he's like
- 13:16Speaker 1: where this dress? You're my wife? And that dress. I
- 13:21Speaker 1: was like, I don't think I've seen anything that's more
- 13:23Speaker 1: two thousand six in that dress and that hairstyle together.
- 13:26Speaker 1: I was amazed, but I was furious when she's like,
- 13:28Speaker 1: we'll get to it, but she's like just sitting in
- 13:29Speaker 1: a shower. I was like, bitch, that dress cost like
- 13:31Speaker 1: ten thous dollars. Like I get that you're sad, but
- 13:33Speaker 1: like all you did do was like take the dress
- 13:35Speaker 1: off and then sit in the shower, like the funk
- 13:37Speaker 1: out of here, Like that's ridiculous. Okay, sorry, it's a
- 13:40Speaker 1: it's a really every prom dress from that era looks
- 13:44Speaker 1: exactly like that dressed, like the rhy stones down, the
- 13:47Speaker 1: plunging neckline, in the straightened hair. It's like, okay, okay,
- 13:50Speaker 1: eight grade, semmy, what's up? Okay? So the story of
- 13:54Speaker 1: cause you know Royal Uh, there's an opening scene. It's
- 13:58Speaker 1: in black and white, and it's just establishing there's a
- 14:02Speaker 1: new James Bond in town because he gets because he's
- 14:08Speaker 1: gotten promoted to double oh status, or he will once
- 14:11Speaker 1: he kills this double crossing agent dude. And then we
- 14:17Speaker 1: see all that happen and we're like, wow, James Bond
- 14:20Speaker 1: is cool. It's gritty now. So we cut to Madagascar
- 14:26Speaker 1: where Bond is after a bombmaker, uh, and there's this
- 14:31Speaker 1: huge parkour chase for a construction site that ends with
- 14:36Speaker 1: James Bond killing the guy and blowing up an embassy.
- 14:41Speaker 1: That's very cool. Yep, that was great. And we were
- 14:44Speaker 1: supposed to be like, yeah, this is like they need
- 14:50Speaker 1: the infrastructure, and the whole sequence resulted in like the
- 14:54Speaker 1: destruction of a high rise building and I'm like, wow, okay,
- 14:58Speaker 1: what you're trying to save? Like you could have just
- 15:00Speaker 1: saved money by not doing any of that. Yeah, this
- 15:03Speaker 1: is a sequence that only could have been made during
- 15:05Speaker 1: the Bush administration. Yeah. Just the number of black bodies
- 15:09Speaker 1: that are just like falling from this guy, like well
- 15:11Speaker 1: collateral damage. Yeah, I want to talk about that a
- 15:15Speaker 1: little later on. Meanwhile, there's this bad guy the Sheef
- 15:22Speaker 1: say it again and that's Mad's Michelson's character. And he's
- 15:32Speaker 1: free bleeding out of his eye you know text and
- 15:38Speaker 1: here is his eye vall Diva cup. He is taking
- 15:46Speaker 1: money from bad guys in Uganda to invest in bad things.
- 15:54Speaker 1: I'm not really sure. And then he's he's playing poke.
- 15:57Speaker 1: He loves poker. He's on a he's got a girlfriend
- 16:01Speaker 1: who I don't know if she even has a line
- 16:03Speaker 1: in the entire movie. She's his girlfriend, and yet she
- 16:06Speaker 1: is seventeen the actress that place his girlfriend was in. Oh,
- 16:12Speaker 1: it's got Monica Potter and Freddie Prince Jr. And she
- 16:15Speaker 1: has to blend in with a bunch of models to
- 16:17Speaker 1: like for some reason because they think he killed somebody.
- 16:20Speaker 1: She even that, but she's also in she's one of
- 16:22Speaker 1: the Americans in love actually Oh okay, yeah, with like
- 16:27Speaker 1: January Jones, Yeah, with January Jones and Denise Richards shows. Yeah. Yeah,
- 16:33Speaker 1: she's one of those ladies, like I am a model
- 16:36Speaker 1: and this is I don't know why I gave her
- 16:38Speaker 1: that accept given her face, I think it makes sense.
- 16:41Speaker 1: But okay, her name is Ivana milick iven Y. That
- 16:46Speaker 1: accent made sense. Yeah, yeah, you know this. Russians, Please
- 16:51Speaker 1: do not be mad at me. I'm so sorry. So
- 16:53Speaker 1: we're back in London and Bond is hacking. He's finding
- 16:57Speaker 1: finding stuff out about something called Ellipsus, and then he
- 17:02Speaker 1: breaks into his boss's house that's m played by Dame
- 17:05Speaker 1: Judy Dench, and she's like Bond, like, you shouldn't have
- 17:10Speaker 1: killed that guy. You shouldn't have blown up the embassy. Yes, yes,
- 17:15Speaker 1: but she's like, you need to look at the bigger picture. Like,
- 17:18Speaker 1: who hired that bomb maker? We don't know that because
- 17:21Speaker 1: you killed him. And then she like basically she's like
- 17:23Speaker 1: quit being such an arrogant wenk and never comfortable a
- 17:27Speaker 1: house again. And god, every time they cut to Judy
- 17:30Speaker 1: Den she's in this ornate room and she's super concerned.
- 17:34Speaker 1: And then sometimes she's on like a patio and she's
- 17:37Speaker 1: super concerned. Right, and then Bond goes to the Bahamas.
- 17:43Speaker 1: He's driving a forward. Yeah, oh my god. The product
- 17:47Speaker 1: placement in Casino Rail is so funny. He's always texting
- 17:50Speaker 1: people on his sony ericson phone. And then in the
- 17:53Speaker 1: closing scene after spoiler alert, his lover dies, he's on
- 17:56Speaker 1: a sony via okay, Jude Denver a lot of lot
- 18:07Speaker 1: like that doesn't drive a Ford anyway. So he's driving
- 18:09Speaker 1: around a Ford and then he finds this guy named
- 18:11Speaker 1: Alex Demetrios who is up to no good and he
- 18:15Speaker 1: is a known associate off. This is my new favorite
- 18:23Speaker 1: um and this guy Demetrios, he's got a hot wife,
- 18:26Speaker 1: he's got an Aston Martin. He is playing poker as well.
- 18:29Speaker 1: So Bond joins in this poker game and he wins
- 18:32Speaker 1: Demetrios's car, and money and wife uman the top three possessions,
- 18:41Speaker 1: and he finds out from her that Demetrios is getting
- 18:46Speaker 1: this flight to Miami, so Bond follows him to Miami.
- 18:49Speaker 1: He realizes that there's some terrorists who are targeting this
- 18:52Speaker 1: large plane to blow it up. The shot of the
- 18:56Speaker 1: plane are so it's shot like it's a cock. I mean,
- 19:02Speaker 1: like the they're the shots of the plane are extremely
- 19:05Speaker 1: felt like I went back and wanted them twice of
- 19:07Speaker 1: like what an interesting? Like you didn't need to do that. Well,
- 19:11Speaker 1: it's basically it looks like they're like it's like the
- 19:15Speaker 1: biggest plane ever to fly. This guy, it's basically Titanic.
- 19:18Speaker 1: They're like, I want to marvel the speed it's filmed
- 19:22Speaker 1: like it's a huge dick, Like it's just that the
- 19:25Speaker 1: Titanic of these guys. I wasn't. I was like, okay,
- 19:29Speaker 1: this is that. This was the choice? Yeah, I mean anyway,
- 19:32Speaker 1: So Bond stops this from happening. He stops the explosion,
- 19:36Speaker 1: and then the sheif was counting on the plane exploding
- 19:41Speaker 1: because it would have done something stocks, which I don't
- 19:46Speaker 1: understand how making the stocks lower would have made him money.
- 19:49Speaker 1: I don't understand the stock market get and I only
- 19:53Speaker 1: sort of know this because of the big short, but
- 19:57Speaker 1: you can compet against h a certain eltcome. I think
- 20:01Speaker 1: that sounds that's that's wild. That doesn't that feels like
- 20:06Speaker 1: it should be any And I will say in that
- 20:09Speaker 1: scene where they talk about like, oh, he was supposed
- 20:12Speaker 1: to make all this money from this plane being exploded.
- 20:15Speaker 1: It didn't work, they also say, like someone did he
- 20:18Speaker 1: also did this on nine eleven, and they like very
- 20:20Speaker 1: much so gloss over that. They're like, yeah, he did
- 20:24Speaker 1: all this and he made a fortune on nine twelve,
- 20:26Speaker 1: And I'm like, so wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, in
- 20:28Speaker 1: this movie's logic, Lastifa did nine eleven and it's only
- 20:32Speaker 1: mentioned once and we never talked about it, and he
- 20:35Speaker 1: like made a lot of money off of nine. That's
- 20:37Speaker 1: like a one off. Judy Dench left. She says one
- 20:40Speaker 1: line about it, and I'm like, so we're not We're
- 20:42Speaker 1: not going to go back to that. And j harg
- 20:44Speaker 1: is like those movies suggesting that nine. I mean, well,
- 20:53Speaker 1: that's wild. So let's set Oh my god, let's sheaf
- 20:59Speaker 1: the st reef. He has to recoup all that lost money.
- 21:03Speaker 1: So now he is setting up a very high stakes
- 21:06Speaker 1: poker game at Casino Royal in Montenegro, bad writing, Um,
- 21:13Speaker 1: there's ten players, it's a ten million dollar buying and
- 21:16Speaker 1: he's hoping that he will because he's so good at poker.
- 21:19Speaker 1: He'll sweep everyone out. He'll get everyone's money. But guess
- 21:22Speaker 1: who's gonna be one of the players. It's our friend
- 21:26Speaker 1: Jimmy be Jimmy Bobo a table playing the card because
- 21:31Speaker 1: he's also good at poker, because he's good at everything.
- 21:34Speaker 1: And then Vesper Lynde shows up. That's Ava Green's character,
- 21:39Speaker 1: and she's with the Treasury who is fronting the ten
- 21:42Speaker 1: million dollars for bonds buying, and she's cute, you know,
- 21:46Speaker 1: and they have some cheeky banter. They have some cheeky banter.
- 21:51Speaker 1: This is the first, this is canonically the first smart
- 21:55Speaker 1: woman James Bond has ever spoken to. It's wild. And then,
- 22:01Speaker 1: as you hinted at Jamie, they have to assume these
- 22:04Speaker 1: alter egos because they're going undercover. But immediately Bond is like,
- 22:08Speaker 1: I'm not Mr Beach, I'm James Bond because you know
- 22:12Speaker 1: he's an arrogant winka. Yeah, and then they have to
- 22:15Speaker 1: pretend to be a couple and they have to even
- 22:19Speaker 1: though they don't have this cover story before, they need
- 22:21Speaker 1: to write the logic of why they have to be
- 22:24Speaker 1: a couple as well, and they like the logic of
- 22:26Speaker 1: when you have Like there's that scene where he brings
- 22:29Speaker 1: her the dress and then he was like, when you
- 22:31Speaker 1: go down to kiss my neck, well you want them
- 22:35Speaker 1: to look at your neck. So that I was like,
- 22:38Speaker 1: this is a bad play. This is a perfect It
- 22:42Speaker 1: certainly is also, I mean, wouldn't it be crazy if
- 22:44Speaker 1: like women were playing this poker game. Like there's the
- 22:49Speaker 1: Asian lady who's at the she was also on the
- 22:51Speaker 1: yacht with Lasifa earlier. She hits. She never says anything
- 22:54Speaker 1: throughout the movie. She appears in these two pivotal scenes
- 22:58Speaker 1: but has no name and no one right, maybe she
- 23:01Speaker 1: did not eleven And then there's a story to be told.
- 23:04Speaker 1: Someone at that poker table, they're the dealer is a woman,
- 23:08Speaker 1: I believe, But yeah, there's other than that. Women aren't
- 23:13Speaker 1: allowed to play poker and don't talk. In that scene,
- 23:16Speaker 1: but before that, they link up with this guy Mathis
- 23:19Speaker 1: because he's there like contact for this mission and the
- 23:22Speaker 1: players assemble. They have to enter this password and in
- 23:26Speaker 1: the event that they win so that the money will
- 23:27Speaker 1: be wired to them, and then the game begins. It's
- 23:30Speaker 1: Texas hold him Bond in. The Sheaf are very good
- 23:35Speaker 1: at poker, and Bond discovers the chiefs tell, which is
- 23:39Speaker 1: that his eye twitches when he bluffs, so he has
- 23:42Speaker 1: to cover it up. And then there's a break in
- 23:44Speaker 1: the game during which Bond fights and kills a bunch
- 23:47Speaker 1: of bad guys who are trying to kill a Sheaf
- 23:49Speaker 1: because he lost them the money. And then Bond gets
- 23:52Speaker 1: all cleaned up and he's like, I'm bad baby, here
- 23:55Speaker 1: to play more poker. And then Bond loses all his
- 23:58Speaker 1: money because he thought La Chief was bluffing because he
- 24:01Speaker 1: was doing his tell, but turns out he wasn't bluffing
- 24:04Speaker 1: and he had the winning hand. So he needs five
- 24:07Speaker 1: million dollars to buy back in. Invespers like, no, you're
- 24:10Speaker 1: you're an arrogant one guy. I'm not going to give
- 24:12Speaker 1: you the money, and he's like me. But this CI,
- 24:17Speaker 1: a dude who is also undercover and also playing, is like, hey,
- 24:22Speaker 1: I'll buy you back in as long as the CIA
- 24:24Speaker 1: gets to take lachief and he's like great. He says
- 24:27Speaker 1: my favorite line in the whole movie, which is Jeffrey
- 24:30Speaker 1: Right being like, it look like we need the money.
- 24:33Speaker 1: And I don't know why I love it. It's delivered
- 24:36Speaker 1: to this very throaty way. Yeah, it works for me
- 24:39Speaker 1: every single time. I love it so much. And when
- 24:41Speaker 1: he said it, I was like, I actually don't know
- 24:42Speaker 1: the answer to that question. And maybe they I think
- 24:45Speaker 1: maybe they could use them as the CIA, just like rolling.
- 24:48Speaker 1: That's what I think everyone thinks about our government, just
- 24:51Speaker 1: like we don't give a ship. Here's a billion dollars,
- 24:54Speaker 1: We literally throw this away. I was thrilled to see
- 24:57Speaker 1: Jeffrey right and in this movie, and I was like, God.
- 25:02Speaker 1: So then the game starts up again, but before anything
- 25:05Speaker 1: can happen, La Chief poisons bond Um and he goes
- 25:09Speaker 1: into cardiac arrest, but luckily there's a defibrillator in his car,
- 25:14Speaker 1: and then Vesper has to come in and save him.
- 25:18Speaker 1: She saves him, but then she's kidnapped. Shit, and it's
- 25:22Speaker 1: the final phase of the game. Everyone is all in
- 25:25Speaker 1: and guess who wins. It's our friends something like a
- 25:30Speaker 1: hundred and fifty million dollars, and he somehow figures out
- 25:34Speaker 1: that Mathis is a bad guy. And then he runs
- 25:38Speaker 1: out to go do something about that, and then Vesper
- 25:42Speaker 1: gets kidnapped right then he goes after her. They're both
- 25:45Speaker 1: captured by like lachief goons and he tortures Bond by
- 25:51Speaker 1: hitting him in the balls a lot and hard hard,
- 25:55Speaker 1: And did not see this kink ball play scene coming
- 26:03Speaker 1: because he strips him down totally naked. It makes him
- 26:05Speaker 1: sit on a chair without any like you could have
- 26:08Speaker 1: left his shirt on for the purposes of this type
- 26:10Speaker 1: of torture. But sure we need to see Jimmy Bee's nipples. Yeah,
- 26:15Speaker 1: I mean I was, and I was thrilled. I was thrilled,
- 26:18Speaker 1: But what a what a wild sexually charged scene. Because
- 26:21Speaker 1: he's trying to get the password that Bond had entered
- 26:24Speaker 1: so he can steal all the money back from him,
- 26:26Speaker 1: but Bond refuses, and then someone comes in and kills
- 26:29Speaker 1: the sheet from leaves Bond in Vesper alive, so then
- 26:33Speaker 1: the money gets transferred to Bond. You know Vespers, like,
- 26:36Speaker 1: I have the account number and you have the password,
- 26:38Speaker 1: and he reveals that the password was Vesper because he's
- 26:42Speaker 1: in love with her, and they're in love now. She
- 26:44Speaker 1: took way too long to recognize that it was her name.
- 26:47Speaker 1: It's like a six letter thing and he's like v
- 26:51Speaker 1: E and it isn't until Pe where she's like, oh,
- 26:55Speaker 1: it was like perfectly my fame. What do you want?
- 26:58Speaker 1: You know? And also she starts loving him for no reason.
- 27:02Speaker 1: But suddenly they're in love, or at least I guess
- 27:05Speaker 1: she's pretending. I don't know. But they go on holiday
- 27:08Speaker 1: in Europe and they're riding around on a boat and
- 27:10Speaker 1: he is there's Wifia Penis recovered there. There's a scene
- 27:18Speaker 1: where she literally weeps, like even if it's just a figure.
- 27:22Speaker 1: He's like, oh, yeah, hey, babes, got still. And then
- 27:29Speaker 1: he decides to quit being a spy because he loves
- 27:31Speaker 1: her so much. He like emails M with his resignation
- 27:35Speaker 1: letter from a boat that apparently has WiFi anyway, But
- 27:38Speaker 1: then he's like, wait, something is wrong and the money
- 27:40Speaker 1: is not in the account that it's supposed to be in,
- 27:43Speaker 1: and he realizes that Vesper stole it, so he goes
- 27:46Speaker 1: after her. There's a big fight, a building collapses into
- 27:50Speaker 1: the sea, and then she lets herself drown and die.
- 27:56Speaker 1: What I'm not sure and then M is like, oh,
- 28:00Speaker 1: she was being blackmailed by the Sheef's people who kidnapped
- 28:05Speaker 1: her boyfriend, so that's why she betrayed Bond. This is
- 28:08Speaker 1: all delivered so last minute, and like Judy Dench says
- 28:13Speaker 1: it all in one Brand're like what She's like, hey,
- 28:17Speaker 1: bt debs, we found out this person that we were
- 28:18Speaker 1: working like, that was working for us has been against
- 28:21Speaker 1: us this whole time, is completely compromised, Like this is
- 28:24Speaker 1: her dating, Like the amount they were able to discover
- 28:28Speaker 1: so quickly, it was very obvious. And then yeah, and
- 28:32Speaker 1: then like Judy den just like, yeah, bummer, we didn't
- 28:35Speaker 1: figure that out earlier anyways, That's how I guess, but
- 28:40Speaker 1: we were. She starts off as being so thorough and
- 28:43Speaker 1: then it's like, well, Eva Greenstead should have seen it coming,
- 28:46Speaker 1: didn't he coming? What are you gonna do? Come back
- 28:48Speaker 1: to work maybe? And he's like okay, And somehow this
- 28:52Speaker 1: is the easiest Daniel Craig Bond movie to follow, because
- 28:56Speaker 1: I would like the Quantum of Solace Inspector are unfollowable.
- 29:00Speaker 1: Scotty follow is pretty easy too, but like you're just like, what, Yeah,
- 29:05Speaker 1: we need to take a quick break, but we will
- 29:07Speaker 1: come right back in a second. We're back here we are,
- 29:20Speaker 1: I think that was a good transition bag. All right,
- 29:24Speaker 1: where do we we're to be in We're too? I mean, well,
- 29:27Speaker 1: I want to because you both have far more experience
- 29:31Speaker 1: with this franchise as a whole than me. I wanted
- 29:34Speaker 1: to talk about the concept of a bond girl in general,
- 29:39Speaker 1: because it seems like Eva Green is one of the
- 29:43Speaker 1: bond girls that is treated slightly better than a lot
- 29:48Speaker 1: of other women in the franchise, and I was I
- 29:50Speaker 1: did some reading about this, but I was curious about
- 29:52Speaker 1: your impressions on Vesper. I like that she at least
- 29:57Speaker 1: has an active role. Like in a lot of the
- 29:59Speaker 1: pierres bras and ones, it's a woman who like, Hey,
- 30:02Speaker 1: I was going about my life, living it and somehow
- 30:04Speaker 1: I'm tied up in this international intrigue and oh no,
- 30:09Speaker 1: someone's trying to kill me and I have no preparation
- 30:11Speaker 1: for this, and I just run around and scream a lot. Yeah,
- 30:13Speaker 1: so thankfully this isn't I mean, she does do her
- 30:15Speaker 1: fair amount of screaming, but at least she's like a
- 30:17Speaker 1: reason to be there and some sort of training, and
- 30:20Speaker 1: she gets to make some decisions even though they're immediately overridden.
- 30:23Speaker 1: So right, Yeah, it's weird because she does. She participates
- 30:28Speaker 1: in the narrative more than I expected, just like with
- 30:31Speaker 1: the reputation of the James Bond franchise, but it's still
- 30:34Speaker 1: so like she participates in that fight where James Bond
- 30:39Speaker 1: kills two men in front of her, but she only
- 30:41Speaker 1: only for like a second. She like gets the gun
- 30:43Speaker 1: out of his hand and that's it. Or she prevents
- 30:47Speaker 1: James Bond from being poisoned, but then two seconds later
- 30:51Speaker 1: she's kidnapped and like, yeah, like it's like you're saying
- 30:54Speaker 1: her most of the stuff she contributes is overwritten right away,
- 30:57Speaker 1: and she's mostly just like James Bond, you're not as
- 30:59Speaker 1: cool as you are, and then he does something that
- 31:01Speaker 1: proves that he's that cool, and you're like, okay, really,
- 31:04Speaker 1: so you're just you're just saying she's wrong. That's the
- 31:06Speaker 1: whole Okay. I would argue that her involvement in the
- 31:11Speaker 1: story doesn't make that much sense because the position that
- 31:14Speaker 1: she's put in is like the representative of the treasury
- 31:17Speaker 1: that's fronting the money, like as we already kind of
- 31:19Speaker 1: hinted at, like she has no like spy training. The
- 31:23Speaker 1: fact that she's thrown into this undercovermas as a spy. Yeah,
- 31:27Speaker 1: and you know when they saw this, she's twenty six. Yeah,
- 31:31Speaker 1: there's there's a twelve year age gap with the age gap.
- 31:36Speaker 1: It's sad that I'm like, that was less of an
- 31:39Speaker 1: age gap than I thought. But twelve year age gap
- 31:41Speaker 1: between these actors just for for curious listeners. Yeah, So
- 31:47Speaker 1: she's thrust in the story in this like spy role
- 31:51Speaker 1: that she has no training for. She's an accountant. But
- 31:56Speaker 1: it's clear that the whoever crafted this story was like, well,
- 31:59Speaker 1: we you know, a woman there to keep being there
- 32:02Speaker 1: so that he has someone to kiss. So like, oh,
- 32:03Speaker 1: we'll just take this treasury woman, but like her role
- 32:07Speaker 1: as like a representative of the treasury and then her
- 32:11Speaker 1: ongoing role based on that, Like that doesn't make sense,
- 32:14Speaker 1: but they're just like, well, we need this beautiful woman here,
- 32:15Speaker 1: so let's keep her, you know, keep her around. From
- 32:18Speaker 1: what I know, and I'm sure that James Bond fans
- 32:20Speaker 1: are going to slide into our mentions for this episode.
- 32:22Speaker 1: It's inevitable. I'm still traumatized from Lord of the Rings,
- 32:27Speaker 1: but I believe that Casino Royale. This is adapted from
- 32:31Speaker 1: one of the first, if not the first James Bond
- 32:34Speaker 1: stories ever written, And I don't know how closely. I know,
- 32:38Speaker 1: like all the main players that are in this movie
- 32:41Speaker 1: are included in that story, but I don't know how
- 32:43Speaker 1: far this deviates from the Ian Fleming original. This movie
- 32:48Speaker 1: had also previously been adapted in the sixties too. I
- 32:52Speaker 1: think there's another royale based on based on the novel?
- 32:58Speaker 1: Is that a Connery one? Do we know? I don't.
- 33:00Speaker 1: I'll fact check it really quick. Just nixt seven David
- 33:06Speaker 1: Niven the first James Bond Okay, Yeah, there's there's a
- 33:10Speaker 1: there's a few Bonds that were only in like one
- 33:13Speaker 1: or two movies, and the Sellers is in it. Okay,
- 33:16Speaker 1: So in the original one at Ursula Andrews plays Ves
- 33:20Speaker 1: Berlin and David Niven plays Sir James bond Um in
- 33:25Speaker 1: the seven one, so also, and it is cassing around
- 33:30Speaker 1: the first James Bond novel, first Ian Fleming novel, however, yeah, okay,
- 33:36Speaker 1: but not the first Bond movie, because there had been
- 33:38Speaker 1: a few before that, I believe in the earlier sixties.
- 33:43Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. I had a little bit of did
- 33:47Speaker 1: a little bit of research about the history of Bond girls.
- 33:50Speaker 1: They do tend to fall into three categories main side kick,
- 33:53Speaker 1: from fatale, sacrificial lamb, all three of which are like
- 33:56Speaker 1: not every story has all three casino royal us. According
- 34:01Speaker 1: to this, the main sidekick would be of Usperlind, the
- 34:05Speaker 1: fem fatal would be Volenka uh, and the sacrificial lamb
- 34:09Speaker 1: would be uh. Solange Demetrios, the wife who was the
- 34:15Speaker 1: fem fatale Valenka who poisons him. Yeah, his girlfriend. She
- 34:22Speaker 1: makes a mean face while she someone. So these are
- 34:26Speaker 1: the three main categories of Bond girl. Apparently it's Ian Fleming,
- 34:32Speaker 1: who seems generally pretty, pretty, gross and misogynistum, but he
- 34:39Speaker 1: says that the inspiration for all of the Bond girls
- 34:42Speaker 1: that appear in the franchise ever are based around this
- 34:46Speaker 1: woman named Muriel Wright, who she met when she was
- 34:50Speaker 1: twenty six and he was not twenty six. Um. She
- 34:55Speaker 1: was an independently wealthy model who was devoted to Fleming
- 34:59Speaker 1: to spite his repeated unfaithfulness, and then she died in
- 35:03Speaker 1: an air raid. And so then Ian Fleming was like,
- 35:08Speaker 1: I'll honor her memory by being rude to women until
- 35:12Speaker 1: I die, right, Because if we break down those three
- 35:16Speaker 1: Bond girl roles it's a woman who has to die
- 35:21Speaker 1: to further the plot. It's a woman who doesn't really
- 35:25Speaker 1: get her own story. She's just attached to the male heroes.
- 35:30Speaker 1: Or it is an evil, devious woman because women being
- 35:34Speaker 1: manipulative and like not just that, but like the using
- 35:37Speaker 1: her sexuality for evil. Yeah, and there's there's a few
- 35:41Speaker 1: other like tropes of the Bond girl that, and there's
- 35:44Speaker 1: so many that no one character like there's no complete
- 35:48Speaker 1: through lines. But several Bond girls have obvious sidnes of
- 35:52Speaker 1: inner turmoil, and others have traumatic pasts. Uh, several have
- 35:57Speaker 1: unhappy sexual backgrounds that we know about. So Rolled Dahl
- 36:01Speaker 1: wrote the screenplay to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory you
- 36:07Speaker 1: only liked twice, Okay, all these nine seventies like children's
- 36:11Speaker 1: authors like shelslo Verstein and Rolled all there out there
- 36:13Speaker 1: doing pervy, weird stuff on the side. So he wrote this.
- 36:17Speaker 1: But he said that when he was writing that screenplay,
- 36:19Speaker 1: he was explicitly told he was advised to use three
- 36:23Speaker 1: Bond girls. The first should die preferably in Bond's arms
- 36:26Speaker 1: early in the movie. The second a villain whom Bond
- 36:29Speaker 1: seduces before she dies in an unusual and gory way
- 36:33Speaker 1: midway through the movie, and the third who survives until
- 36:36Speaker 1: the end of the film. So this is like baked
- 36:39Speaker 1: into the formula to the point where they would just
- 36:42Speaker 1: tell a writer like, these three things should happen. I mean,
- 36:46Speaker 1: we're just looking around the room of the three of us, like,
- 36:48Speaker 1: obviously one of us is a film fatale, obviously, one
- 36:51Speaker 1: of us is a sacrificial lamb, and one of us
- 36:53Speaker 1: is uh, the sidekick the three categories of women. Like
- 36:56Speaker 1: so it actually lines very well, actually very accurate. It
- 37:00Speaker 1: for women. Yeah, I mean that's where we've all been
- 37:04Speaker 1: at one point. We've all been all of these Wow,
- 37:06Speaker 1: because women contain multitude. Oh my god, can we talk
- 37:10Speaker 1: about the sacrificial lamb first? I guess okay, I have
- 37:14Speaker 1: I take a lot of notes. I was in a
- 37:17Speaker 1: Starbucks in Culver City yesterday just going nuts, like wow, wow.
- 37:22Speaker 1: All of my lines begin with okay, well because like
- 37:27Speaker 1: even okay, we first see her. She's riding on a
- 37:30Speaker 1: horse on the beach, and the people on the beach
- 37:32Speaker 1: are happy to see this, and I'm like, that is
- 37:35Speaker 1: fucking disgusting. There's poop everywhere, and they have these three
- 37:38Speaker 1: random black kids who were just like smiling and running
- 37:41Speaker 1: after Yeah, they do like a close up of these
- 37:44Speaker 1: smiling black kids face and I'm like, for what, oh
- 37:48Speaker 1: black people co sign So it's like posensual and meaningful.
- 37:51Speaker 1: It's very I was so so dumb. And then are
- 37:55Speaker 1: supposed to believe that she's like this poorly treated put
- 37:58Speaker 1: upon woman because she goes into the casino. She hugs
- 38:01Speaker 1: Demetrius and he's like, you're two hours late, and then
- 38:03Speaker 1: she looks at James Bond like, see how I'm treated.
- 38:06Speaker 1: But if you were two hours late to a date
- 38:09Speaker 1: with me, I'm sorry. I have the right to be mad.
- 38:11Speaker 1: I'd be like, you're two hours late? And then she
- 38:14Speaker 1: was like, oh, sorry, I was out on a horse. Yeah,
- 38:17Speaker 1: so that's why I'm curious. I was like you why, No,
- 38:21Speaker 1: you're the jerk in this scenario, and Bond says he
- 38:24Speaker 1: negs her outside of the car. He's like because she's like, oh,
- 38:28Speaker 1: I don't go home with strange men, and he's like,
- 38:29Speaker 1: maybe you're just out of practice where it's like I
- 38:32Speaker 1: shouldn't have to prove it. I fuck I'm married right
- 38:35Speaker 1: this So much of the Bushey test can be applied
- 38:38Speaker 1: to this movie. If if Steve says that to a
- 38:42Speaker 1: woman outside of a car, even if he has an
- 38:45Speaker 1: aston Martin, She's still like, yeah, yeah. If Steve Buschevy says,
- 38:51Speaker 1: have you gone home with a strange man? Reason, they
- 38:54Speaker 1: exchanged maybe like six lines of dialogue, and she gets
- 38:57Speaker 1: into this stranger's car, and I was like, I know
- 39:00Speaker 1: what happens start like I've seen this movie before, and
- 39:02Speaker 1: I feel less bad because she's clearly not protect like
- 39:05Speaker 1: she's random strangers anybody. She's also this like you know,
- 39:11Speaker 1: exotic beauty with this yes European x, like an Italian
- 39:17Speaker 1: accent kind of thing. And yeah, it's like Daniel Craig
- 39:21Speaker 1: is ugly hot, Okay, he's like he's a category of men.
- 39:24Speaker 1: He is ugly. I'm into it. It's definitely my type.
- 39:26Speaker 1: But to act like this woman who is clearly with
- 39:29Speaker 1: some sort of millionaire man who lives on a fucking beach,
- 39:32Speaker 1: is going to be like, oh, box or face over here,
- 39:34Speaker 1: that's who I wanted to get with, Like what like
- 39:39Speaker 1: she would have been fucking a bell boy so long ago.
- 39:42Speaker 1: I have so many issues that absolutely not I mean
- 39:46Speaker 1: just like the whole building and I know it's like
- 39:48Speaker 1: so baked into his character. But the idea that James Bond,
- 39:51Speaker 1: regardless of which actors playing him, is just inherently irresistible
- 39:55Speaker 1: to all women because it's like even his smaller interactions
- 39:57Speaker 1: with women, because he, you know, flir with a number
- 40:00Speaker 1: of like secretaries and sieragees and they're all like, yes,
- 40:04Speaker 1: like you wouldn't do that to any random daddy off
- 40:07Speaker 1: the street, which is ultimately he's like an upper scale,
- 40:12Speaker 1: good looking dad. You wouldn't like that. The receptionist at
- 40:16Speaker 1: that the hotel or whatever in the Bahamas is like
- 40:20Speaker 1: fucking him with her eyes, and I'm like, why she
- 40:23Speaker 1: has to change her pants. Yeah, she's like you a man,
- 40:28Speaker 1: a regular ass looking dude. Oh my god. Also, they
- 40:31Speaker 1: this is a pet peep of mine in this movie.
- 40:34Speaker 1: Outside of the concierge lady, none of the people who
- 40:37Speaker 1: work for this hotel are white. And then so the
- 40:40Speaker 1: idea that this like James Bond, is going to be
- 40:42Speaker 1: just tying issue and someone's gonna be like hey you,
- 40:45Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh no, they would have been like
- 40:47Speaker 1: where's the black person that park start like it just
- 40:50Speaker 1: it drove me insane. But I do look forward to
- 40:52Speaker 1: a future when white people are also accused of working
- 40:54Speaker 1: wherever they happened to be. I was like progress, but
- 41:00Speaker 1: what no, oh my god, and this I mean, this
- 41:03Speaker 1: is on topic for what you were just saying. But
- 41:05Speaker 1: like the way that Africans are treated in this movie, yeah,
- 41:10Speaker 1: is because you see scenes in Uganda and in Madagascar,
- 41:14Speaker 1: and it can tell the difference because in Uganda the
- 41:18Speaker 1: black people are very shiny and sweaty, and in Madagascar
- 41:21Speaker 1: they are dusty, and that means we are in a
- 41:25Speaker 1: different place. Yes, it's raining in one place and not
- 41:28Speaker 1: in the other. I feel like this is very common
- 41:31Speaker 1: of a lot of movies, especially of this genre. But
- 41:33Speaker 1: if you see Africans, they are all like militant militia,
- 41:37Speaker 1: like money power grubbing, like just violent people and largely
- 41:43Speaker 1: used as scenery. Yeah, like when they like they follow
- 41:47Speaker 1: a little black kids running around and it's like, hey,
- 41:49Speaker 1: you know, exotic, It's like And then the in the
- 41:52Speaker 1: scene where James Bond kills those two guys in the stairwell,
- 41:56Speaker 1: one of them is fighting with a machete, and I
- 41:59Speaker 1: find that, like, I wish they would stop making Africans
- 42:02Speaker 1: fight with machetes, like act like these people have weapons yeah,
- 42:06Speaker 1: but they're like, no, no, no, never mind, what is
- 42:08Speaker 1: the culturally appropriate thing that I should have because he's
- 42:11Speaker 1: wearing like a three piece where he only brought so
- 42:17Speaker 1: infuriated because he well, he had the machete because he
- 42:20Speaker 1: was going to chop off a woman's arm because you know,
- 42:25Speaker 1: it was impractical, No one would ever bring a machete
- 42:29Speaker 1: to I mean, but I mean it's the suggestion that, like,
- 42:31Speaker 1: these people are so primitive that they are gonna they're
- 42:34Speaker 1: gonna chop off limbs. And it's like, well, and also
- 42:37Speaker 1: like right before that fight, when they capture the f
- 42:41Speaker 1: fatal girlfriend, it's like that is such an old image
- 42:43Speaker 1: of like black men taking these virginal white girls, and like,
- 42:47Speaker 1: oh no, James Bond has to rescue this virginal white
- 42:50Speaker 1: girl who later tries to kill him. Uh, and then
- 42:54Speaker 1: he murders two black men and it's fine because he
- 42:57Speaker 1: sucks their blood off of Eva Green's fingers. Hated that
- 43:02Speaker 1: when they're ruining very expensive clothes and he's like he
- 43:06Speaker 1: sits down next to he puts his arm around her.
- 43:08Speaker 1: Did she ask her that? Whatever? Okay? But then he's like, oh,
- 43:11Speaker 1: like I'll make it better and he sucks on her
- 43:13Speaker 1: figures and then he says better and she's like, yeah,
- 43:18Speaker 1: she's like rocking back and forth, like having a like
- 43:21Speaker 1: a fit. And then he was just like, let me
- 43:24Speaker 1: just look, she was having a full on. I mean,
- 43:26Speaker 1: but to be fair, that was one of the only
- 43:28Speaker 1: reactions in the movie that made sense. I'm like, she
- 43:30Speaker 1: is an accountant. She did not sign up to watch
- 43:33Speaker 1: two men die by someone she doesn't know. That well,
- 43:37Speaker 1: like it's oh god, we're all over the back, back
- 43:41Speaker 1: to solanch Um. I just yeah, that character, she's not
- 43:44Speaker 1: around for very long um, and then how does she die?
- 43:47Speaker 1: So here's what happens. Basically, Bond uses her to get
- 43:51Speaker 1: information from her on her husband, which she knows. She mentions,
- 43:59Speaker 1: and then they're dry humping on the floor in another
- 44:03Speaker 1: very two thousand six stress. Yeah, that's like that weird
- 44:06Speaker 1: sort of sat team not sat in exactly, but like
- 44:08Speaker 1: this shiny thing that hang on you. I guess if
- 44:11Speaker 1: it gets wet, it's ruined forever. So he invites her
- 44:17Speaker 1: to his room. She, for reasons that don't make any sense,
- 44:20Speaker 1: agrees to it. I guess because it's implied. Yeah, she's
- 44:23Speaker 1: like this horny housewife whose husband doesn't love her enough
- 44:26Speaker 1: for something, and then he uses her and then like
- 44:30Speaker 1: orders some champagne and caviare for her, and then she
- 44:35Speaker 1: didn't just like while she goes to the bathroom, he's like, yeah, chip, okay, cool,
- 44:42Speaker 1: Wait what no for one? Just for one? And yeah.
- 44:46Speaker 1: She's also I don't know like what background it's implied
- 44:49Speaker 1: that she's from, but I felt like she was like
- 44:51Speaker 1: pretty exoticized. Yeah, like the way her character was treated,
- 44:55Speaker 1: like she just can't help herself, she has to have
- 44:58Speaker 1: sex with and there's that whole this exchange to m
- 45:02Speaker 1: P laugh where it's just so like James Bond cheesy
- 45:05Speaker 1: or she's like, I had so many chances to be happy,
- 45:08Speaker 1: so many nice guys. We can't nice guys be more
- 45:11Speaker 1: like you, and then he says because then they'd be bad.
- 45:17Speaker 1: I was like he went there. And then so the
- 45:22Speaker 1: next scene we see her in she is a dead body.
- 45:25Speaker 1: She's dead in a hammock, like tangled up in a
- 45:28Speaker 1: hammock because Lachief's people had her killed for talking to
- 45:31Speaker 1: Bond and giving him any information. I think it was
- 45:35Speaker 1: Lash's people. It's hard to tell. There seems to be
- 45:37Speaker 1: a lot of bad guys in this movie. It's so cool.
- 45:39Speaker 1: And it's like the fact that in two thousand and
- 45:41Speaker 1: six they're like, no, that's still has to be a
- 45:43Speaker 1: core element of these stories. There's so many ways he
- 45:45Speaker 1: could have gotten that information. Uh, woman didn't need to
- 45:48Speaker 1: die for it, right, he is a spy, like he
- 45:51Speaker 1: can't just follow the guy around. The fact that he
- 45:55Speaker 1: used aren't horny. He Yeah, he uses a woman to
- 46:01Speaker 1: get information that he easily could have gotten somewhere else,
- 46:04Speaker 1: and based on his personal history, he should be more
- 46:06Speaker 1: concerned for her safety. Right, If a woman you've slept
- 46:10Speaker 1: with dies, you should figure that out. Well, I mean
- 46:14Speaker 1: you he sees women as being disposable. So, um, we
- 46:19Speaker 1: got to take another quick break, but we'll come back
- 46:21Speaker 1: and talk about more of the ladies. Do do darn No,
- 46:38Speaker 1: that's still right. Yeah, I keep being really nervous. I'm
- 46:40Speaker 1: going to slip into Mission impossible accident that I was
- 46:43Speaker 1: so afraid when we started. I was like, oh no,
- 46:45Speaker 1: it's the wrong one. I mean it's confusing. Also, they
- 46:49Speaker 1: work for m I six not to be confused with
- 46:52Speaker 1: Mission Impossible six. Oh yeah, God, there's such a different
- 46:58Speaker 1: movie where what if they had really just jumped the
- 47:01Speaker 1: Shark with a Daniel Craig franchise, and they're like, no,
- 47:04Speaker 1: his dick gets cut off, and now we've got Eunich
- 47:08Speaker 1: Jimmy Bobo out here navigating the world without a penis
- 47:12Speaker 1: probably being a way better. He can hack into EM's
- 47:18Speaker 1: house and computer. He clearly has access to all of
- 47:22Speaker 1: these things. He does not need to funk these women
- 47:24Speaker 1: to get this. His dick is really what's holding him
- 47:27Speaker 1: back for being an exceptional spot And honestly, I think
- 47:30Speaker 1: that's true of a lot of people. If we could
- 47:34Speaker 1: just get like, not all the dicks. I'm not crazy like,
- 47:36Speaker 1: but sure some of the dicks would help people achieve
- 47:40Speaker 1: their full ste more clarity, I mean horny nous in general.
- 47:43Speaker 1: If people were less horny, imagine what we could More
- 47:48Speaker 1: people need to be neutered. This is platform like for
- 47:53Speaker 1: a less horny future. Please elect me. I think I
- 47:57Speaker 1: think the biggest flaw of this movie is the it
- 48:00Speaker 1: Q is not present, and Q, of course is his
- 48:04Speaker 1: friend who comes in later who makes like gadgets and
- 48:07Speaker 1: stuff for him, who is played by Ben Wish Show
- 48:11Speaker 1: a k a. Paddington. So he's got like flopsy hair.
- 48:16Speaker 1: He's looking cute. He's like every guy I dated in
- 48:20Speaker 1: grad school. It's perfect, thinner than me. But I have
- 48:26Speaker 1: to live with that in my brain. It's so moving
- 48:30Speaker 1: on to them. Fatale. We don't know that much about her,
- 48:34Speaker 1: including her name. I don't do we even ever learn
- 48:37Speaker 1: her name on the screen. I don't think so. And
- 48:40Speaker 1: she's credited as being named Volenka, but I'm assuming that's
- 48:43Speaker 1: because she has a name in the book, Okay, because
- 48:46Speaker 1: I don't think we ever hear it on screen. She
- 48:48Speaker 1: is the first time you see a woman on screen
- 48:50Speaker 1: in the whole movie. I believe it's around nineteen minutes
- 48:53Speaker 1: into the Yeah, she's like there's like a male gaze
- 48:57Speaker 1: shot where she's like she's popped out of the water.
- 49:00Speaker 1: She's wearing a she's drenched, and then she climbs onto
- 49:04Speaker 1: this yacht and then she like walks through a poker
- 49:07Speaker 1: game and then a number of times people walk through
- 49:10Speaker 1: poker games like that's cool. Is insane to me? Like
- 49:13Speaker 1: it's so soaking wet there, this is a mega yat. Okay,
- 49:16Speaker 1: you could go to another floor. You don't have to
- 49:18Speaker 1: do this in front of everyone, like so, and her
- 49:21Speaker 1: crossing that room just starts out a scene of that
- 49:25Speaker 1: poker We could just cut straight to the poker game.
- 49:28Speaker 1: We don't need to see a woman getting out of
- 49:30Speaker 1: the water and then like toweling off as like. But
- 49:33Speaker 1: it's just like we haven't had a James Bond movie
- 49:35Speaker 1: in four years. People forget what the kinis are, they
- 49:39Speaker 1: forget what objectification feels like, and we have to remind them. Yeah,
- 49:44Speaker 1: I don't know. And then she's later there's that moment
- 49:47Speaker 1: with the two men that James Bond eventually kills, who
- 49:50Speaker 1: I don't think her named either. Are they the two
- 49:53Speaker 1: African Machean not Machell. She's like captured by them, and
- 50:00Speaker 1: we're supposed to be like, we have to say this
- 50:02Speaker 1: virginal white girl. But then it turns out the twist
- 50:05Speaker 1: is women are bad and she tries to poison them
- 50:10Speaker 1: and then she dies as well, doesn't she? Um, where
- 50:14Speaker 1: does her story leave off? She's around? I think when
- 50:18Speaker 1: they're like cutting a hole in the chair to put
- 50:20Speaker 1: James Bond in, I think, doesn't she leave lead vesper
- 50:23Speaker 1: off into another room? Think? So, if she does die,
- 50:26Speaker 1: it happens off screen, and it's implied that we don't
- 50:28Speaker 1: really know for sure. But if she is with them
- 50:32Speaker 1: as Vespers being tortured. It's implied that all the people
- 50:36Speaker 1: except for Vesper get killed. So if she dies, it
- 50:39Speaker 1: happens off screen, but you know, but she can assume
- 50:42Speaker 1: that she might die. She's she's not even a particularly
- 50:45Speaker 1: like interesting or good from Fatale, but she's there because
- 50:48Speaker 1: she's only on screen for maybe a combined total of
- 50:52Speaker 1: two minutes. Like she's hardly in them. She doesn't have
- 50:55Speaker 1: any lot, Like she doesn't even get like a cool
- 50:56Speaker 1: catchphrase like no you got like vim k Jensen would
- 50:59Speaker 1: like say like some nonsense after like pussy killing someone,
- 51:03Speaker 1: Like she would say something cool and you're like, oh wow,
- 51:05Speaker 1: that's what she's nut, Like there was something there, but
- 51:09Speaker 1: this was just like she silently poisons people, right. I
- 51:14Speaker 1: think she says one line like I'm sorry. She's she's
- 51:17Speaker 1: classy classic. You get one line and it is you apologizing.
- 51:22Speaker 1: She's apologizing to the she because I guess she knew
- 51:26Speaker 1: the bad guys were there in the room, and because
- 51:29Speaker 1: like right after that they attack him. So I guess
- 51:33Speaker 1: it's implied that she knew that they were about to
- 51:35Speaker 1: attack him, or that she sold him out or something.
- 51:39Speaker 1: I don't quite know, but yeah, we see so little
- 51:42Speaker 1: of her that it it's like I can't make heads
- 51:44Speaker 1: tail because they always show her back. But she's there
- 51:48Speaker 1: to be. I don't know, Like I mean, clearly this
- 51:51Speaker 1: franchise has never regard for women whatsoever. But like not,
- 51:56Speaker 1: I mean, I guess Vesper kind of ends up to
- 51:57Speaker 1: be a similar thing of like she's not what you thought.
- 52:01Speaker 1: She's duplicitous and like she's you know, she's fooling you,
- 52:04Speaker 1: she's lying to you. All the women are deceitful above
- 52:07Speaker 1: all because they want your money and they want your
- 52:10Speaker 1: penis and I want to you know, like all this ship.
- 52:13Speaker 1: Um so that's val So, just to recap, we see
- 52:17Speaker 1: her sexualized, We see her being brutalized. She poisons our hero,
- 52:23Speaker 1: and then it's implied that she dies. Yeah, which is
- 52:27Speaker 1: very exact same thing Solange minus the poisoning. She is sexualised,
- 52:31Speaker 1: she is brutal as she is murdered. Let's talk Vesper.
- 52:35Speaker 1: She's not like the other girls that Vesper. She's kind
- 52:38Speaker 1: of working for four years like she I'm sorry, it
- 52:43Speaker 1: made me so mad when I found out that she
- 52:45Speaker 1: was only twenty six, and I'm like the way he
- 52:48Speaker 1: negs her at the beginning where he's like, you wear
- 52:50Speaker 1: managed clothes and you tried to act tough and that's
- 52:53Speaker 1: why you're not promoted. I like, like in the four
- 52:56Speaker 1: years since college, like she's already being put in charge
- 53:01Speaker 1: of ten million dollars. I think she's doing. Let's unpack
- 53:05Speaker 1: that scene where they made each other because there's so
- 53:07Speaker 1: much of I wasn't expecting a scene like that. I
- 53:11Speaker 1: hated it. But um, from the reviews that I read
- 53:14Speaker 1: at the time, this is supposed to be like it's
- 53:17Speaker 1: one of the only two times James Bond quote unquote
- 53:20Speaker 1: falls in love in any of the movies. Ever. I
- 53:22Speaker 1: guess it happens in one other movie in the late sixties,
- 53:25Speaker 1: but she is killed after they get married. Um, and
- 53:28Speaker 1: then he goes back to being an asshole. But this
- 53:31Speaker 1: is Vesper is the only other woman he like, actually
- 53:34Speaker 1: falls in love with, and possibly it considers quitting the
- 53:38Speaker 1: swinging dick lifestyle. So this is supposed to be like James,
- 53:42Speaker 1: but Jimmy Boba finally meets his match and there's just
- 53:46Speaker 1: like it's such corny dialogue where he's like, your beauty
- 53:49Speaker 1: is a problem. You worry you won't be taken seriously,
- 53:52Speaker 1: and then she says which one could say if any
- 53:54Speaker 1: woman would have a brain, and we're like, yes, queen.
- 53:58Speaker 1: And then and then he's like true, he says like
- 54:01Speaker 1: you're saying, and he's overly masculine clothing, more aggressive than
- 54:05Speaker 1: her female colleagues, which gives her a sort of prickly
- 54:07Speaker 1: demeanor and ironically enough, makes it less likely she'll be
- 54:10Speaker 1: respected and promoted by her male superiors, who mistake her
- 54:14Speaker 1: baits for arrogance, right, and then she looks at him
- 54:18Speaker 1: like you've got me right, Oh, you're right. The fact
- 54:21Speaker 1: that I have any confidence is a game. Yeah. But
- 54:26Speaker 1: then she like turns it back on him because he's
- 54:28Speaker 1: this whole scene serves to be like, look how good
- 54:30Speaker 1: I am at poker. I'm so good at reading people.
- 54:33Speaker 1: So he's like reading her, and then she turns it
- 54:35Speaker 1: right back on him. She's like, well, you're an orphan
- 54:37Speaker 1: who wears suits that look like shit, yeah, which was
- 54:41Speaker 1: cool as saying you wear it. And then he looks
- 54:46Speaker 1: at her like, oh, perhaps Jimmy Bobo has met Tom.
- 54:49Speaker 1: And then she's just like I'm not gonna suck you
- 54:51Speaker 1: nice ass though, and he's like thank you, just before that,
- 54:55Speaker 1: she says, she's like, am I sex looks for maladjusted
- 54:58Speaker 1: young man who give little to sacrificing others in order
- 55:01Speaker 1: to protect queen and country. And then a little bit
- 55:03Speaker 1: later she says, you think of women as disposable pleasures
- 55:06Speaker 1: rather than meaningful pursuits. I don't think women should be
- 55:08Speaker 1: looked at his meaningful pursuits either. But but it's like
- 55:13Speaker 1: that was her line where I was like a heart
- 55:14Speaker 1: in the right place, right, But again, it feels this
- 55:18Speaker 1: is one of many examples as we see of like
- 55:21Speaker 1: the woman character who we're supposed to like saying something
- 55:24Speaker 1: that is vaguely feminist, but it feels so empty because
- 55:28Speaker 1: of everything else that happens in the movie. So it's like,
- 55:32Speaker 1: because she's calling attention to him like his habitual mistreatment
- 55:36Speaker 1: of women, but then with kind of like a nod
- 55:39Speaker 1: in a wink to this entire misogynist franchise. Remember how
- 55:43Speaker 1: you used to literally punch women in the face, right,
- 55:48Speaker 1: But then the movie still treats women like ships, so
- 55:51Speaker 1: it means something sneaky. And then she's like, yeah, you
- 55:55Speaker 1: have a hot ass though, yeah, and then he's like
- 55:58Speaker 1: thanks for noticing, and in the car ride to the hotel,
- 56:03Speaker 1: they're talking about how they have adjoining rooms, and she's like,
- 56:06Speaker 1: I'm not gonna have to worry about you and that
- 56:08Speaker 1: just like you're not gonna have to worry about him
- 56:10Speaker 1: coming into your room, and is that you have to
- 56:12Speaker 1: ask him to be again. It's like, you're not going
- 56:14Speaker 1: to rape me again. It's like she's an accountant, that
- 56:19Speaker 1: this is such a crazy concern for an accountant to have.
- 56:23Speaker 1: She's like, no, you're not my type, not that I'm
- 56:25Speaker 1: mora really opposed to going into your room. Your your
- 56:28Speaker 1: sting also gross. She goes smart and he goes single.
- 56:32Speaker 1: I was like, oh, so you're a bad person. I'm
- 56:37Speaker 1: a bad person. I'm not a rapist, so um great, right,
- 56:41Speaker 1: And then because of this weird who who knows who
- 56:45Speaker 1: made the choice that she has to go from being
- 56:47Speaker 1: an accountant to a spy who's undercover and in love
- 56:51Speaker 1: with him too, Like it has to be his hand
- 56:53Speaker 1: because I was like, who would be the one to
- 56:57Speaker 1: make this call? Would it be judy? I don't I
- 57:00Speaker 1: guess whose jurisdiction? But that happens, and it's and we've
- 57:05Speaker 1: already discussed that that's ludicrous. But then he uses that
- 57:08Speaker 1: excuse to take a lot of liberties with her body, surprise,
- 57:12Speaker 1: kissing her, groping at her. She is like resisting a
- 57:17Speaker 1: lot of the time at first, and he's still just like,
- 57:20Speaker 1: we have to maintain this cover that you're in love
- 57:22Speaker 1: with me immediately broke upon entering this hotel. What are
- 57:25Speaker 1: you talking about? Which is so not necessary? I mean
- 57:29Speaker 1: it's like just so not necessary to his success in
- 57:32Speaker 1: this poker game. Uh to, I'll be like forcing himself
- 57:36Speaker 1: on this woman he just met. I guess the idea
- 57:39Speaker 1: is like, well, you're a woman who is attractive conventionally,
- 57:43Speaker 1: so I'm gonna use you to distract the other players
- 57:47Speaker 1: so that I can win. And then it's like again
- 57:49Speaker 1: kind of like you're saying, Caitlin, there's like these empty
- 57:52Speaker 1: like well she has she's she's got his number two
- 57:55Speaker 1: where he brings in that dress. He's like, you're going
- 57:56Speaker 1: to wear this dressey're gonna kiss my neck? And then
- 57:59Speaker 1: she's like, well, I got you a jacket dinner jacket, right,
- 58:05Speaker 1: And then that's like the empty like, oh no, she's
- 58:08Speaker 1: not powerless in this situation. She bought him a jacket, right.
- 58:14Speaker 1: But that's the thing with her character is that like
- 58:16Speaker 1: she yeah, she always has like a rebuttal or, she's like,
- 58:19Speaker 1: your jacket sucks. I sized you up the moment I
- 58:22Speaker 1: tell you. And the idea that the movie is putting
- 58:25Speaker 1: forward is that like, oh, he's met his match. All
- 58:29Speaker 1: other women are lame and stupid, but she's not like
- 58:33Speaker 1: the other girls, and she can like match his wits
- 58:35Speaker 1: and his whole thing. I mean, they're all lame and stupid.
- 58:37Speaker 1: But you have to throw your dicket there. You have to,
- 58:41Speaker 1: you have to throw your body and launch it there.
- 58:46Speaker 1: And ultimately, with with her, it's it sucks because it's
- 58:49Speaker 1: just like with with these characters, even when you're given
- 58:51Speaker 1: this empty feminist like it reminded me of that thing
- 58:55Speaker 1: we talked about all the time, where like women in
- 58:57Speaker 1: action movies get to do one thing and everyone's like, wow,
- 59:00Speaker 1: look at her, go go girl power. But it's like
- 59:03Speaker 1: empty and means nothing, and it's just to like throw
- 59:07Speaker 1: the s j w's off. But we're not thrown off there.
- 59:12Speaker 1: But she like ultimately she has no motivation outside of
- 59:18Speaker 1: establishing a domestic life with James Bond because after all
- 59:21Speaker 1: this stuff happens, she I mean, and it's like we
- 59:25Speaker 1: find out she's a double agent, but we're led to
- 59:28Speaker 1: believe like we don't know what her ambition in life is.
- 59:30Speaker 1: It seems like she's got a pretty powerful job that
- 59:33Speaker 1: she can apparently just leave. She to go on a
- 59:37Speaker 1: boat in Venice, a high ranking money manager for England.
- 59:42Speaker 1: But she's just like, no, you're gonna like be my
- 59:45Speaker 1: basically be my husband, and you know, pulls him away
- 59:49Speaker 1: and and takes on this nurturing role for him where
- 59:52Speaker 1: there's a weird line where she was like, if you
- 59:53Speaker 1: were just a smile and a little finger, I'd still
- 59:57Speaker 1: fuck you. And it's like that it is looked up
- 1:00:00Speaker 1: stuff like are you going to finger her with your
- 1:00:03Speaker 1: pinky or like rub her? What do you? What do you?
- 1:00:08Speaker 1: What do you do with a pinky face? Costically and
- 1:00:15Speaker 1: they just um, But yeah, it's just she's ultimately like
- 1:00:21Speaker 1: we don't know anything about her. The logistics of her
- 1:00:23Speaker 1: character are paid. There's no attention. We don't know what
- 1:00:26Speaker 1: she wants in life rather than to be hanging out
- 1:00:28Speaker 1: with James Bond. Well, I would argue that she is
- 1:00:31Speaker 1: all three things. She is also a fem fatale and
- 1:00:34Speaker 1: also a sacrificial lamb, because I kill her because she
- 1:00:36Speaker 1: sacrifices herself and by drowning herself in the elevator when
- 1:00:41Speaker 1: that right, And she's a feen fatale because she like
- 1:00:45Speaker 1: double crossed Bond and like sucks him over, So she's
- 1:00:49Speaker 1: kind of like all three of those roles by the end.
- 1:00:52Speaker 1: So it's because she's like that fem fatale type. We
- 1:00:55Speaker 1: don't know like did she love him or was that
- 1:00:58Speaker 1: just all part of like the news Yeah, and then
- 1:01:01Speaker 1: it's like ultimately it's like a double punch in the
- 1:01:04Speaker 1: stomach of it's then revealed that no, her real motivation
- 1:01:07Speaker 1: was to save a different guy who you've never met
- 1:01:11Speaker 1: and never will and we just needed to kill her
- 1:01:13Speaker 1: or get rid of her because women never come back
- 1:01:16Speaker 1: for a second movie, so she has to. And it's
- 1:01:19Speaker 1: it looks like that's not like the Bond girl doesn't
- 1:01:22Speaker 1: always die, but it's not out of the question because
- 1:01:25Speaker 1: it's just canonically women don't come back, and Daniel Craig
- 1:01:29Speaker 1: gets a million page We talked about that on the
- 1:01:32Speaker 1: Mission Impossible episode too, so if you want more discussion
- 1:01:35Speaker 1: on you know, disposable women, but the man keeps the
- 1:01:40Speaker 1: corps of men get to keep coming back, but the ladies.
- 1:01:43Speaker 1: You never see him again. Yeah, there's a scene where
- 1:01:49Speaker 1: she's like coming on to him aggressively in like whatever hospital,
- 1:01:53Speaker 1: like very fancy hospital's recovering in, Yeah, and he has
- 1:01:57Speaker 1: a sexy hospital and he's like, oh, you used to
- 1:02:01Speaker 1: hate me, And she's like, I'm afraid I'm a complicated woman.
- 1:02:04Speaker 1: And he's like, oh, that is something to be afraid of. Okay,
- 1:02:10Speaker 1: I'm tired. Um it's unfortant. I mean I feel like, yeah,
- 1:02:14Speaker 1: for two thousand and six, I think that unfortunately, this
- 1:02:18Speaker 1: was an attempt at a more empowered Bond girl. But
- 1:02:22Speaker 1: I mean it's like but, but compared to the others,
- 1:02:25Speaker 1: it's like they're like, look, he doesn't hit her, and
- 1:02:29Speaker 1: he doesn't like treat her like she's the stupidest person
- 1:02:32Speaker 1: in the world. So it's like unfortunately, and Bond heads
- 1:02:37Speaker 1: leap into our swan dive into our mentions. It seems
- 1:02:40Speaker 1: like for this particular like very toxic franchise, this would
- 1:02:45Speaker 1: be progress, but they abandoned that because in the specter
- 1:02:51Speaker 1: he's dating someone who's like twenty two years younger than like,
- 1:02:55Speaker 1: because the whole movie I was like, oh, good, maybe
- 1:02:58Speaker 1: either she'll find out that like that's her dad, or
- 1:03:01Speaker 1: she's the daughter of someone who is very close to him.
- 1:03:03Speaker 1: But yeah, and I'm like, there's no way they're gonna
- 1:03:05Speaker 1: oh they Oh so they're gonna this? No, absolutely not.
- 1:03:08Speaker 1: This is this is why Specter is the bottom one.
- 1:03:11Speaker 1: It's not good. Oh gosh. Also, the mathist character is
- 1:03:16Speaker 1: like constantly explaining to Vesper what's happening in the poker game.
- 1:03:19Speaker 1: And that is obviously there because the audience, if you're
- 1:03:24Speaker 1: not familiar with poker, like there needs to be like
- 1:03:27Speaker 1: expository dialogue to be like, oh, here's what the bed
- 1:03:30Speaker 1: is or here's how this is going to play out.
- 1:03:32Speaker 1: But like, why not make Vesper the one who knows poker,
- 1:03:36Speaker 1: who's the one who's like give her a thing? It
- 1:03:39Speaker 1: makes sense. She's an accountant, she's a numbers person, Like
- 1:03:43Speaker 1: it would make sense that she would know she might
- 1:03:45Speaker 1: know poker, and that's why she would be able to
- 1:03:47Speaker 1: say with authority, no, I'm not going to give you
- 1:03:49Speaker 1: this additional five million dollars because I know how this
- 1:03:52Speaker 1: should be played and I understand it, and you don't
- 1:03:54Speaker 1: have the ability to carry this off, and I know
- 1:03:57Speaker 1: that that would make her better, But no, she doesn't
- 1:04:01Speaker 1: know anything, because women can't know anything. It's always the
- 1:04:03Speaker 1: man who know the stuff. And the reason she denies
- 1:04:06Speaker 1: him the money is connected to that same through line
- 1:04:09Speaker 1: of just her being flippant towards James Bond, and that's
- 1:04:12Speaker 1: how she's the match for him, because she won't give
- 1:04:15Speaker 1: him whatever he wants right away. She will make him
- 1:04:17Speaker 1: wait as many as two minutes to give him exactly
- 1:04:20Speaker 1: what he wants. There's that scene where he's arguing with
- 1:04:23Speaker 1: her and she's like, I'm not gonna you're a bloody
- 1:04:26Speaker 1: arrogant way, and then he's like, you're a bloody idiot,
- 1:04:30Speaker 1: screams at her for being an idiot because she won't
- 1:04:32Speaker 1: give him money that he's constantly so it's very cool. Also,
- 1:04:39Speaker 1: the men in this story are commenting on her looks constantly.
- 1:04:42Speaker 1: I hate math this or whatever, like hey, he's like
- 1:04:46Speaker 1: talking to James Bond like she isn't there for when
- 1:04:48Speaker 1: they're having this introductory making and then he's like, oh,
- 1:04:52Speaker 1: sometimes the mellane and he like touches her shoulder in
- 1:04:54Speaker 1: this weird way and like clearly he's like, I'm straight
- 1:04:56Speaker 1: up looking at your boobs right now. I'm not hiding
- 1:04:58Speaker 1: it and I'm seeing your for tin man, I'm looking
- 1:05:01Speaker 1: in his eyes letting him know that I'm looking at
- 1:05:03Speaker 1: your It's like, right, crazy, Yeah, I would tell you
- 1:05:07Speaker 1: you're beautiful. But everybody's still staring at you. And she's like, hey,
- 1:05:12Speaker 1: you're there. This is their job. They're at work, and
- 1:05:16Speaker 1: they're still just like You're like, that is not appropriate workplace.
- 1:05:22Speaker 1: The last, the last thing I wanted to talk about
- 1:05:24Speaker 1: was Judy Dench's character. This seems to be one of
- 1:05:28Speaker 1: the only things this movie does that is like, I think,
- 1:05:31Speaker 1: unequivocally right, because this was a character who's always played
- 1:05:34Speaker 1: by a man who it's like, but now it's Judy Dench.
- 1:05:38Speaker 1: I liked that a lot. Um I guess that m
- 1:05:41Speaker 1: Jimmy Bobo's boss. Judie Bobo's Bobo was previously played by
- 1:05:48Speaker 1: John Houston, David Niven, Edward Fox, Bernard Lee, Robert Brown,
- 1:05:52Speaker 1: and Ralph Finds. Yeah, oh yeah, because a guy fall
- 1:06:00Speaker 1: because you know, oh shit, I forgot Yeah, so's he's
- 1:06:03Speaker 1: playing it now, but he's not in the mix at
- 1:06:06Speaker 1: this time this time. But Judy Dinch was also m
- 1:06:09Speaker 1: in some of the Pures Brosnan ones, so she's carried through. Yeah, okay,
- 1:06:14Speaker 1: that part for me was cool. It's like she is,
- 1:06:17Speaker 1: even though there's not a lot of things of substance
- 1:06:19Speaker 1: that happens in the scene, she does know who caused
- 1:06:21Speaker 1: nine eleven. She doesn't seem worried about it. It is
- 1:06:25Speaker 1: not that important. But they never tell the American spy like, oh, hey,
- 1:06:29Speaker 1: bet that thing that happened in your gut that's a
- 1:06:33Speaker 1: long ago. I feel like you should know. They're still
- 1:06:38Speaker 1: holding on to a grudge from years ago. They're like, yeah,
- 1:06:42Speaker 1: we know who caused nine eleven, but we're not going
- 1:06:43Speaker 1: to tell them. Here's my thing with m is that.
- 1:06:47Speaker 1: So she assumes this kind of like trophy boss role
- 1:06:51Speaker 1: where she's like this stiff by the book's boss who
- 1:06:55Speaker 1: doesn't like our heroes methods because they're a little unorthodox.
- 1:07:00Speaker 1: But then because he gets results, she's meant to look
- 1:07:03Speaker 1: kind of like wrong and foolish for not believing in him.
- 1:07:07Speaker 1: So she's like, oh, we have to do things by
- 1:07:10Speaker 1: the rules, and he's like, no, I'm too cool for that.
- 1:07:12Speaker 1: I'm going to do things my way, and then she's like,
- 1:07:14Speaker 1: you were right. So like, I feel like she's kind
- 1:07:17Speaker 1: of made out to like look a little like, hey,
- 1:07:19Speaker 1: you should be more lenient with your stuff. You're too
- 1:07:22Speaker 1: stuffy over there, Judy. So that was my main thing
- 1:07:27Speaker 1: with them well, and she's also constantly advising I do
- 1:07:30Speaker 1: think the character is written to be more of a
- 1:07:33Speaker 1: female character just the way she communicates with him, And
- 1:07:35Speaker 1: she's also constantly advising him to repress his emotions, where
- 1:07:40Speaker 1: she I don't know, I'm just like I did. Did
- 1:07:42Speaker 1: the did the male versions of this character talk this
- 1:07:44Speaker 1: much about emotional compartmentalization? Doesn't seem like it's something that
- 1:07:49Speaker 1: James bonds male boss of me, but she brings it
- 1:07:51Speaker 1: up like two or three times of like yeah, like yeah,
- 1:07:55Speaker 1: you need to you know, you need to be sure
- 1:07:57Speaker 1: that you know you're keeping your emotions. And I don't
- 1:08:00Speaker 1: think you'll have a problem with that though, and he's like,
- 1:08:02Speaker 1: no way, never looked at her dead, it doesn't matter.
- 1:08:05Speaker 1: I don't care about any of this and what he
- 1:08:07Speaker 1: was saying at that moment, and then she's like, okay,
- 1:08:09Speaker 1: nine eleven, see you later. You're like no dark. She
- 1:08:14Speaker 1: is also if you can hear like banging happening on
- 1:08:16Speaker 1: this recording, we don't know what it's from, but sorry
- 1:08:20Speaker 1: about it. Were best. It's the metronome of life. Yeah, yeah,
- 1:08:24Speaker 1: the heartbeat of the earth. I guess my final thoughts
- 1:08:29Speaker 1: for this movie, or this whole franchise, this whole thing,
- 1:08:32Speaker 1: is that these movies go to great lengths to be like, look,
- 1:08:36Speaker 1: how freaking cool James Bond is. He dressed as well.
- 1:08:41Speaker 1: He's charming, he's classy, he's very good at betting women.
- 1:08:44Speaker 1: He drives cool cars, he wears cool watches, he says
- 1:08:48Speaker 1: quippy lines and kills guns. Yeah, and he's good. He's good.
- 1:08:54Speaker 1: So the male audience who these movies are targeted toward
- 1:09:00Speaker 1: are seeing this and they're gobbling it up. They're like, Oh,
- 1:09:02Speaker 1: this is how you'd be cool by mistreating women and
- 1:09:06Speaker 1: dressing good. All right. I mean this is like one
- 1:09:09Speaker 1: of the seminal examples of like how young men, because
- 1:09:12Speaker 1: it's like the movies like this are are targeted at
- 1:09:15Speaker 1: horny uncles, but also boys. Yeah, where it's just like
- 1:09:19Speaker 1: this is like a blueprint, and it's like the further
- 1:09:21Speaker 1: you go back in this franchise, the worse and worse against.
- 1:09:23Speaker 1: But even if you're a young boy that sees something
- 1:09:26Speaker 1: like this, it's just like said, it just hardwares your
- 1:09:29Speaker 1: brain all sorts of fucked up ways, and I would
- 1:09:34Speaker 1: I mean, it's like, if you were to guess, like,
- 1:09:36Speaker 1: what are the top five film franchises that whire boys
- 1:09:40Speaker 1: brains the wrong way on how to treat women, I
- 1:09:43Speaker 1: would say this, this would be there to one of them. Yeah,
- 1:09:46Speaker 1: and it's going strong, baby, it is going strong. And
- 1:09:49Speaker 1: there is also one they're making a new I think
- 1:09:52Speaker 1: this is Daniel Craig's last one, this Swan song. There
- 1:09:55Speaker 1: was worth saying. Last year, Uh, there was a James
- 1:09:58Speaker 1: Bond producer where I think there was some like they
- 1:10:00Speaker 1: were like, who's going to take over for Daniel Craig.
- 1:10:02Speaker 1: Maybe we'll get a black James Bond. Maybe we'll get
- 1:10:04Speaker 1: a female James Bond. And the producers were like, you
- 1:10:07Speaker 1: will not get a female Bund James Bond. Ever, like
- 1:10:10Speaker 1: it was they were very close. We need Jamie Bond.
- 1:10:17Speaker 1: We need to me to Jamie Bond. First of all,
- 1:10:19Speaker 1: I'm very strong, um, and I fucked constantly and it
- 1:10:24Speaker 1: does ruin. It makes me worse at my job. So
- 1:10:29Speaker 1: I think that there's a lot there. I also I'm
- 1:10:30Speaker 1: just like I'm sort of over all female reboots of
- 1:10:34Speaker 1: fundamentally flawed franchises, but the fact that they were just
- 1:10:38Speaker 1: like nope, fuck you, no way. You're like, well, now
- 1:10:41Speaker 1: I kind of want it. Any other final thoughts, Um, yes, okay,
- 1:10:48Speaker 1: so I have been in love with mad Nicholson for
- 1:10:52Speaker 1: a long time. It is part of the reason why
- 1:10:54Speaker 1: I was like, we have to all see this. I'm
- 1:10:56Speaker 1: making all of my friends come to this movie. That
- 1:10:59Speaker 1: is You're right, Jamie. I did not realize how fucking
- 1:11:01Speaker 1: long it was. They're already in Montenegro and I'm like, oh,
- 1:11:04Speaker 1: there's gotta be like, what like twenty five minutes. There's
- 1:11:06Speaker 1: another hour in eight minutes to the film. I was
- 1:11:09Speaker 1: shocked that it was as long as it was, and
- 1:11:11Speaker 1: half longer. It's over the top. They could have cut
- 1:11:14Speaker 1: most of the scenes where where he's doing something. Um,
- 1:11:18Speaker 1: I am asthmatic, and I hate that they villainize asthma
- 1:11:23Speaker 1: in this movie because he's like, he's like sinister, like
- 1:11:27Speaker 1: in his shaking of his inhaler and using it. I'm like, Okay,
- 1:11:30Speaker 1: some of us just can't breathe that well, and I
- 1:11:32Speaker 1: don't think that that has to be a sign that
- 1:11:34Speaker 1: we're bad people. I was very upset by the representation
- 1:11:37Speaker 1: of unacceptable. Actually, I had one question for the room.
- 1:11:42Speaker 1: Do you both think that a feminist version of the
- 1:11:48Speaker 1: James Bond character is possible? I mean, it would have
- 1:11:53Speaker 1: to be. It wouldn't have to like disrupt basically everything
- 1:11:57Speaker 1: we know about James Bond, because the one of the
- 1:12:00Speaker 1: any things so it's known about him is that he
- 1:12:01Speaker 1: is a womanizer. So like you gotta strip that whole
- 1:12:04Speaker 1: identity from him. Well, I think that there's a way.
- 1:12:07Speaker 1: I think that there's a way that he can still
- 1:12:10Speaker 1: like you can have a lot of sex and be
- 1:12:13Speaker 1: not feminist. Like it's like I think that there's a
- 1:12:15Speaker 1: way that he could hook up with a bunch of
- 1:12:18Speaker 1: women and treat them with respective She wouldn't do it
- 1:12:21Speaker 1: all the time, not enough, but it's been done. I
- 1:12:23Speaker 1: feel like it could. It would have to be almost
- 1:12:25Speaker 1: in the way that like I feel like there's a
- 1:12:27Speaker 1: number of horror films now where a character something that
- 1:12:30Speaker 1: happened when they were a child or something comes back
- 1:12:33Speaker 1: and they're like, well, we were kids, and oh I didn't,
- 1:12:35Speaker 1: but I didn't. You would have to have something that
- 1:12:37Speaker 1: makes him confront like oh, and like just I would
- 1:12:39Speaker 1: love it if it was like pictures of all the
- 1:12:41Speaker 1: women that he slept with who were dead, and it's
- 1:12:42Speaker 1: like you're toxic, and he's like being like he's like
- 1:12:45Speaker 1: being tortured, but like also being forced to see, like, hey,
- 1:12:48Speaker 1: you like all these things that you've done. Maybe this
- 1:12:51Speaker 1: isn't the mission. Doesn't love for James for there to
- 1:12:54Speaker 1: be a major component of a James but maybe, like
- 1:12:57Speaker 1: the movie after Daniel Craig, he takes a good, long,
- 1:13:00Speaker 1: hard look at himself. Yes, I want it. I don't
- 1:13:04Speaker 1: think that. I mean, they're never going to do that,
- 1:13:06Speaker 1: but I would love to see it. It would be
- 1:13:07Speaker 1: so good. Like they're again. I have very little knowledge
- 1:13:10Speaker 1: of this franchise, but just based on like the fact
- 1:13:13Speaker 1: that the character has changed over time and he still
- 1:13:16Speaker 1: doesn't treat women well, but treat them differently, Like it
- 1:13:19Speaker 1: seems like this is a malleable character. The actor changes.
- 1:13:22Speaker 1: It's like it seems like they're there's at least if
- 1:13:25Speaker 1: we're never going to get a female James Bond whatever,
- 1:13:28Speaker 1: I don't even want that. I want a woman to
- 1:13:30Speaker 1: have her own franchise, But there seems like there's a
- 1:13:33Speaker 1: version of this character that could still drink, fight and
- 1:13:38Speaker 1: fuck and not be horrible. To women. Sure yea, So
- 1:13:44Speaker 1: Mr Hollywood, if you're listening, I mean sorry, just real quick.
- 1:13:48Speaker 1: In Skyfall, there is a character who has to pay
- 1:13:52Speaker 1: for the consequences of how am I six operates in
- 1:13:55Speaker 1: how not whatever group there in yet who does to
- 1:14:00Speaker 1: answer for that? And it's not James Bond. It's Judy
- 1:14:02Speaker 1: Dench Like so she has to deal with the consequences
- 1:14:06Speaker 1: of like this lifestyle what it means because someone's like, hey,
- 1:14:08Speaker 1: here's a mirror to like what you guys actually do.
- 1:14:11Speaker 1: But yeah, it doesn't affect James Bond at all. He
- 1:14:13Speaker 1: doesn't change, He still works around, he still takes actions there,
- 1:14:17Speaker 1: he destroys city blocks and kill millions of brown people,
- 1:14:21Speaker 1: but like cares you know? Oh man, Well, I'm holding
- 1:14:26Speaker 1: out hope for James Bond. Ally holding out hope. I
- 1:14:32Speaker 1: mean if we get Idris elba As is often discussed
- 1:14:36Speaker 1: he's too busy doing his HBO DJ show what he is?
- 1:14:42Speaker 1: Oh it dropped. I haven't seen it yet. My boyfriend
- 1:14:45Speaker 1: watched it, but there's an Idris elba DJ show on HBO. Anyways,
- 1:14:50Speaker 1: this might be his Ballers. Just famous actor gets shitty
- 1:14:54Speaker 1: HBO show for no reason. I love it. Anyways Elba
- 1:14:58Speaker 1: I would Yeah, he would be incredible. Indeed, um, does
- 1:15:01Speaker 1: this movie pass the Betel test? Now? It doesn't even
- 1:15:04Speaker 1: come close. Women do not even interact or I think,
- 1:15:06Speaker 1: or even in the same scene. There's one scene where
- 1:15:10Speaker 1: he's like, it's not Mr Beach or whatever, it's Mr
- 1:15:13Speaker 1: Bond and he's talking to a hotel receptionist. She is
- 1:15:16Speaker 1: not talking to the hotel receptionist. She doesn't resume talking
- 1:15:19Speaker 1: until they walk away from that other woman. Right, yeah,
- 1:15:22Speaker 1: they can't actually see each other. Yeah, it's not Mr
- 1:15:26Speaker 1: but it's Mr Bond. That's my favorite line in the movie. Um, yeah, No,
- 1:15:31Speaker 1: women don't even know each other in this movie. Nope. Well,
- 1:15:35Speaker 1: how many nipples will we get this? I'm gonna go
- 1:15:39Speaker 1: with a zero. Yep, yep, zero. I'm gonna go with
- 1:15:45Speaker 1: a zero as well. All right, yeah, I will go
- 1:15:47Speaker 1: with half the nipple, all of which goes to Judy
- 1:15:51Speaker 1: Dench because she, like, when I was a kid, I
- 1:15:53Speaker 1: was like, she's the cool She's the one charge she
- 1:15:55Speaker 1: tells everybody would do They all do it. That's true. Okay,
- 1:15:59Speaker 1: I will also give a half nipple, all right, I'm zero.
- 1:16:04Speaker 1: I will for Judy and and for the baldest woman
- 1:16:08Speaker 1: being in charge, that rule being abided by. I will
- 1:16:12Speaker 1: give you half an nipple everything else with bullshit. Indeed, Canice.
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