![]() ![]() Sure, she killed men while she had sex with them, but she was, at the very least, more than a withering flower. That's a long way from 1995's GoldenEye, where Bond's main squeeze, Natalya Simonova, was a computer programmer with sass and survival skills, and one of the villains was a woman soldier. There's a big difference between, say, Sean Connery's Bond in the 1960s and Pierce Brosnan's Bond in the 1990s.Ĭonnery's bond would slap women around, and the films presented them as playthings for the main character. With the slow march of progress for women throughout the 20th century, and the fact that each new actor playing Bond brought with him a sort of soft reboot for the series, things did get a bit less egregious. Sexism and misogyny have long been problems in the series, which grew out of Ian Fleming's fantasy spy novels. Sexism and misogyny have long been problems in the series Monica Bellucci and Léa Seydoux star as Lucia Sciarra and Madeleine Swann, respectively, the new "Bond girls."Īs I took in the details, I couldn't help but wonder if the new film is going to course-correct the one element that really let the otherwise excellent most recent Bond flick, Skyfall, down: the sexism. We got our very first taste today of the upcoming Bond film, Spectre, with a brief presser announcing the movie's name and production and cast info.ĭaniel Craig will return as Bond, as will Naomie Harris as Miss Moneypenny, Ralph Fiennes as M and Ben Whishaw as Q.
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