Watch-Along VOD: Jimmy Bond in Goldfinger (1964)
Added 2024-08-05 21:58:09 +0000 UTCwell that was certainly a movie!
did a little light reading once we finished, including these Guardian articles I'll link below where Ian Fleming talks about how Pussy Galore was meant to be a lesbian and that she “only needed the right man to come along and perform the laying on of hands in order to cure her psycho-pathological malady”.
I can't remember who said it felt like an assault on a queer character but that's actually exactly what they were going for apparently!
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/sep/23/james-bond-no-time-to-die-cary-fukunaga-thunderball
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/nov/04/ian-fleming-bond-cured-pussy-galore-psycho-pathological-malady-lesbian
Comments
Thanks for introducing me to the razor frisbee video! It was worth seeing your reaction to this pretty dated and underwhelming movie just to discover that movie clip.
RedX2099
2024-08-06 06:38:38 +0000 UTCCheck out Kill James Bond! if you want a science-based takedown of Bond films. The phrase they used to describe it in their recap was “corrective rape”. In general, though, the podcast is just hilarious fun.
Michael Alan Dorman
2024-08-05 22:02:46 +0000 UTC
