sharp@yale.ARPA (Oliver J. Sharp) (11/19/84)
As anyone who follows Bond knows, there are many examples of these scattered throughout the books and even more in the movies. Some of these aren't particularly subtle, either - the main female protagonist in Gold- finger is named Pussy Galore. This is pretty explicit. When the movie was shown here recently, every time Bond called her by name a wave of laughter broke out in the audience. This was in the original book, by the way. I could keep going for a while, but I'll only give one more: at the end of The Spy Who Loved Me, when Bond and Barbara are .. um .. relaxing after their vigorous activities with the bad guys and preparing for a different kind, M and Bach's supervisors see them. M asks Bond what he's doing and he answers, "just keeping up the British end, sir." Fleming had fun with this sort of thing, and the movies built on that. I guess a lot of people these days don't see it as harmless wordplay, but it hasn't seemed to hurt box office sales much .... Oliver Sharp ...!yale!sharp
disc@houxz.UUCP (S.BERRY) (11/26/84)
What about MY personal favorite? It occurs at the end of Moonraker, as bond travels back to Earth in the shuttle: "We're attempting re-entry, sir." That one had me rolling in the aisles, for sure... SJBerry