She retired from acting to raise her sons. That image put Eaton, now 78, on the cover of Life magazine. Jill is lying dead, painted in gold on the bed beside him. But he wakes to find that Goldfinger has taken his revenge. Naturally, she switches her allegiance to Bond. Her Bond: Sean Connery Having appeared in three Carry On films, Shirley Eaton became an iconic Bond girl, not for the way her character lived, but how she died.īond meets Jill Masterson when she is helping her boss, Auric Goldfinger, cheat at cards. Her character: Jill Masterson in Goldfinger (1964) So what became of the actresses who played the Barely-There Bond Girls? No, these girls make fleeting appearances, yet have often been some of the most memorable characters in the franchise. These aren't the ones he drags around amid explosions, bullets and car chases, only to drive, float or orbit off into the sunset as the credits roll. At last, middle-aged women were being seen as sexy, too.īut when the film was released last week, cinema-goers were surprised to find that Bellucci's part lasts only a few minutes, before she is discarded for 30-year-old Lea Seydoux.īellucci, it seems, belongs to a very specific group in the 007 canon: the Barely There Bond Girl. It will just win them the fight against sexism.The casting of 51-year-old Monica Bellucci as the oldest ever Bond girl, in Spectre, caused a media sensation. The women of film industry need to stop crying and start taking initiative just as men would be encouraged to. It just uncovers its owners' inner quality. We can safely tell third-age men aren't suitable for running it. Remember, Hollywood is absolutely sexist and stuck to the past. Maybe this is why they thought they 'd get away with a cop-out ending, which they may have even done, regardless of them not deserving so. There is nothing I can use here to prove myself. I agree that the ending was a cop-out, but one could argue that the opposite wouldn't fit my narrative on genders - I know I am right, but we are not having this talk face to face. That silence may just have been like the fanatics' silence when their team is losing. You aren't necessarily wrong, but you aren't necessarily right either. How do you know what everyone knew? Silence can be interpreted in many ways per case. You can tell she's not holding back when she's scissoring Connery, she's really enjoying it, and Connery is really panicking in real life.
Just watch their athletic bodies, especially Lola's. Lola Larson was a gymnast (and we all know how incredibly strong female gymnasts are) and Trina Parks was a dancer and a karate black belt.
Even either athlete on her own would have destroyed slow aging Sean Connery. There's no way James Bond wouldn't have been drowned to death. The scene is only unrealistic in the final copout. I've long accepted that little girls are stronger than little boys and teenage girls are stronger than teenage boys, but a grown man being abused by women, the paragon of virility James Bond no less, still makes me feel funny.Īnd it's not just a script. Even now it's uncomfortable for me to watch. It was arousing and incredibly emasculating at the same time. I remember my pants felt funny when I watched this as a child for the first time.
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