I don't really think the last Craig films suffer from a lack of gender equality. Swann, Severine, Camille, and Vesper weren't those Goodnight or Plenty O'Toole type of girls. It's fine as it is right now I think.
EDIT: Changed Goodhead to Goodnight.
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I don't really think the last Craig films suffer from a lack of gender equality. Swann, Severine, Camille, and Vesper weren't those Goodhead or Plenty O'Toole type of girls. It's fine as it is right now I think.
silly name aside, Dr Goodhead wasn't the Plenty O'Toole type either.
She is probably the first of the BondGirls-as-equals, and is mostly non-objectified too. In the film, she is the first woman Bond encounters who is not displaying a lot of flesh, and she gives him a "look" when he waggles his eyebrows and blurts out "a woman?!". Then goes on to do most of the brainwork in the later scenes of the movie, while Bond is reduced to pulling plugs out of the wall in a manly fashion.
I think the joke is on Bond, in all these scenes, as Moore in particular has been playing the character as a bit of a cad since he got the gig, and all the female characters in his films up til this point have been primarily sex-objects, including Anya. But not Goodhead.
I think the portrayal of women starts to change with Dr Goodhead, and MooreBond would become more of a romantic rather than a cad in his remaining films, showing more concern and respect for the female character's point of view.
I agree the Craig films have dropped the whole objectified BondGirl trope from the very beginning. No girl in the liferaft. Not too many bikinis or lowcut tops that I can remember. The name "Stephanie Broadchest" is given in the first film, as an in-joke to demonstrate specifically what these new films won't be doing, much like Q's line two films later where he mocks the gadgets of the classic films.
There's been some very beautiful women, and CraigBond has got lucky with a couple of them. But none of them have been living-joke bikini-fillers like we saw in those early 70s films.
we may never get a Bondfilm where two female characters have a conversation that isn't about a man (that's supposed to be the big test, a minute percentage of films of any genre pass it). But the very concept of the Bond-film is a limiting factor, as the series is about a male character who is in almost every scene. Maybe this next film if it does have a female villain and a female protégé can manage this trick?
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EDIT: Changed Goodhead to Goodnight.
Haven't actually watched one in years
She is probably the first of the BondGirls-as-equals, and is mostly non-objectified too. In the film, she is the first woman Bond encounters who is not displaying a lot of flesh, and she gives him a "look" when he waggles his eyebrows and blurts out "a woman?!". Then goes on to do most of the brainwork in the later scenes of the movie, while Bond is reduced to pulling plugs out of the wall in a manly fashion.
I think the joke is on Bond, in all these scenes, as Moore in particular has been playing the character as a bit of a cad since he got the gig, and all the female characters in his films up til this point have been primarily sex-objects, including Anya. But not Goodhead.
I think the portrayal of women starts to change with Dr Goodhead, and MooreBond would become more of a romantic rather than a cad in his remaining films, showing more concern and respect for the female character's point of view.
I agree the Craig films have dropped the whole objectified BondGirl trope from the very beginning. No girl in the liferaft. Not too many bikinis or lowcut tops that I can remember. The name "Stephanie Broadchest" is given in the first film, as an in-joke to demonstrate specifically what these new films won't be doing, much like Q's line two films later where he mocks the gadgets of the classic films.
There's been some very beautiful women, and CraigBond has got lucky with a couple of them. But none of them have been living-joke bikini-fillers like we saw in those early 70s films.
we may never get a Bondfilm where two female characters have a conversation that isn't about a man (that's supposed to be the big test, a minute percentage of films of any genre pass it). But the very concept of the Bond-film is a limiting factor, as the series is about a male character who is in almost every scene. Maybe this next film if it does have a female villain and a female protégé can manage this trick?