Spring Break
Bond girls: beautiful, but deadly
Natalie Abreu
Issue date: 11/13/08 Section: Focus
Solitaire ("Live and Let Die"): The sweet and innocent tarot card reader of the villain Kananga, she keeps her virginity in order to sustain her mystical powers. However, she is easily swayed by Bond's charms, and trick deck of cards. She's a constant damsel in distress and is a fun performance by Jane Seymour to watch.
Octopussy ("Octopussy"): Maud Adams stars in the title role in 1983's "Octopussy." Also appearing in "The Man with the Golden Gun," she was also the star of the first Bond film to be named after a woman character. A jewelry smuggler, she is conniving and smart as she uses a circus as her cover for her illicit business and shows Bond that love is also better the second time around.
Xenia Onatopp ("GoldenEye"): Though clearly a sex object, Onatopp, as played by Famke Janssen, uses sex as her weapon. With her flexible legs, she uses sex to entangle men in her web of death.. She receives sexual satisfaction through her killings too. Ironically, her death comes to her through her satisfaction of strangling as her chest is crushed.
Jinx ("Die Another Day"): Unlike other Bond women before her, Giacinta "Jinx" Johnson, (Halle Berry), was not only one of the few black Bond girls to be predominantly featured in a Bond film, but is also the one who called the shots with Bond. Tough and hardnosed, she's the one that leaves in the morning after a fun night with Bond, automatically getting to her spy business. She coolly kills a plastic surgeon at one point and back dives off a cliff at another. She says to Bond "I don't like to be tied down." Shouldn't that be the motto of every Bond girl?
Vesper Lynd ("Casino Royale"): Though used as a homage to the great Bond women of the past in the revamp of the Bond franchise, Eva Green's version of this Bond girl stands on her own as a full-fledged character filled with complexities, motives and emotion. She has brains as well as beauty and is a foreign liaison agent assigned to make sure that Bond adequately manages the funds provided by MI6 for his betting. She is the epitome of elegance as she stands proud and tall next to the new Bond Daniel Craig in the casino. She sets the tone for the next generation of Bond girl to come in "Quantum of Solace" and beyond.
Octopussy ("Octopussy"): Maud Adams stars in the title role in 1983's "Octopussy." Also appearing in "The Man with the Golden Gun," she was also the star of the first Bond film to be named after a woman character. A jewelry smuggler, she is conniving and smart as she uses a circus as her cover for her illicit business and shows Bond that love is also better the second time around.
Xenia Onatopp ("GoldenEye"): Though clearly a sex object, Onatopp, as played by Famke Janssen, uses sex as her weapon. With her flexible legs, she uses sex to entangle men in her web of death.. She receives sexual satisfaction through her killings too. Ironically, her death comes to her through her satisfaction of strangling as her chest is crushed.
Jinx ("Die Another Day"): Unlike other Bond women before her, Giacinta "Jinx" Johnson, (Halle Berry), was not only one of the few black Bond girls to be predominantly featured in a Bond film, but is also the one who called the shots with Bond. Tough and hardnosed, she's the one that leaves in the morning after a fun night with Bond, automatically getting to her spy business. She coolly kills a plastic surgeon at one point and back dives off a cliff at another. She says to Bond "I don't like to be tied down." Shouldn't that be the motto of every Bond girl?
Vesper Lynd ("Casino Royale"): Though used as a homage to the great Bond women of the past in the revamp of the Bond franchise, Eva Green's version of this Bond girl stands on her own as a full-fledged character filled with complexities, motives and emotion. She has brains as well as beauty and is a foreign liaison agent assigned to make sure that Bond adequately manages the funds provided by MI6 for his betting. She is the epitome of elegance as she stands proud and tall next to the new Bond Daniel Craig in the casino. She sets the tone for the next generation of Bond girl to come in "Quantum of Solace" and beyond.
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