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Who's your fav Bond girl ?

posted 9 years ago by thylacine80
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Mine is Stacey Sutton : I know most people hate her, but I like her for the following reasons :

Everytime a new actress takes on the role of a Bond Girl, she always states that her character is "a different kind of girl", "very equal to Bond" or that "she can use a gun".

Fine...but these are not "special" or "different" at all. In fact, almost every Bond girl has been a "strong", "fighting" leading lady.

Stacey Sutton, portrayed by Tanya Roberts, was actually a REAL different kind of girl : she wasn't a secret agent, an exotic beauty living on an island, the mistress of some villain or a dangerous femme fatale.

For a change, she was just a normal person, an "everyday people" and this is nice, for reality and credibility sake.
She was a San Francisco citizen, workin in geology field and living in her family estate. She became involved in an adventure she didn't ask for.

So of course she wasn't as brave or competent as a CIA or MI-6 agent, but she did the best she could to help Bond, and faced events with braveness.

Plus, she's beautiful and was, at the time, one of the sexier actress around.

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[–] AnubisRaydeen (7897) 6 years ago

Totally agree, thylacine80. Roberts is the top for me. Mostly for the same reasons you note. I felt that that Bond film was better than the common consensus as well.

Runner ups in order for me:
Pam Bouvier, Carey Lowell from Licence to Kill
Elektra King, Sophie Marceau from The World is Not Enough
Log Cabin Girl, Sue Vanner from The Spy Who Loved Me

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[–] vitocorleone08 (37) 3 years ago

Vesper
Tracy
Kara
Honey
Elektra
Pam Bouvier
Molina
Nathalya
Anya Amasova
Tatjan Romanova

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[–] Ace_Spade (9544) 3 years ago

I know this is an old thread, and thylacine80 doesn't seem to be here anymore, but I feel like throwing in some names.

Vesper Lynd: she's the best written Bond girl, in my opinion, and had a great dynamic with 007.
Tatiana Romanova: one of the best-looking Bond girls (an impressive feat), and I always find her charming.
Tracy di Vicenzo: she left an impact on Bond only rivalled by Vesper.
Anya Amasova: another great dynamic with Bond.
Elektra King: the darker side of Bond girls was never better, in my opinion, than right here.

I'll also give an "honourable mention" to Agent Fields from Quantum of Solace. She was one of the only truly "Bond" moments in that movie, so I doff my cap.

I feel like I'm supposed to include Honey Ryder and Pussy Galore on the list, but they aren't favourites of mine. Honey is a fox, and deserves credit as being the first Bond Girl, but she's not present enough in the film or interesting enough of a character to make the "best" ranking.

Pussy Galore, like Goldfinger, kinda cemented the archetypal Bond Girl, but I'm not a huge fan. She's great, but not making my list.

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[–] vitocorleone08 (37) 3 years ago

Agent Fields, i kinda forgot that she was in the movie, then again, i forgot most of the QOS..Olga Kyrilinek is beaiutful, though

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[–] Ace_Spade (9544) 3 years ago

QoS is pretty forgettable. Basically, for me, Fields shows up, Bond has that love/hate flirt with her, they go to the opera, villains are using this lavish setting as a congregating arena, and for a small window, the film feels like Bond again. My biggest complaint with QoS is that it spends most of its run time trying like heck to be a generic action-thriller without any of Bond's trademark trappings whatsoever. That middle bit is like an oasis before we go back to Jason Bourne knockoff junk and some plot about water rights (?) that feels like it wants to be an Important documentary.

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[–] AnubisRaydeen (7897) 3 years ago

I love Agent Fields. Good pick.

If you skip that first 10 minute slide-show of a car chase in QoS, it is a decent Bond movie ... until about half way through. Then it really earns its place in the bottom tier of rankings everywhere.

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[–] Ace_Spade (9544) 3 years ago

Yeah, the car chase opener didn't help. Don't hire a camera operator who thinks shooting film is like playing with a magic eight-ball. Don't hire an editor who hates shots that last for longer than .00016 seconds. That bad action put a sour taste in my mouth from the beginning of the film and the rest was ersatz Jason Bourne and "real world drama" that was anything but Bond.

Agent Fields basically comes and goes, bringing the only "Bond" feel for the entire film, and unfortunately taking it with her.

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[–] AnubisRaydeen (7897) 3 years ago

Well said.

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[–] Otter (24464) 3 years ago

Judi Dench.

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[–] Ace_Spade (9544) 3 years ago

Outside the box, but yeah, Dench's M is fantastic.

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[–] Kowalski (75528) 3 years ago

ROGER MOORE

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[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

Pussy

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[–] Ace_Spade (9544) 3 years ago

Yes, I know, but what's the name?

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[–] BillySlater (4241) 3 years ago

Fiona Volpe from Thunderball.

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