Are modern audiences too offended by Pussy Galore?
My friends and people I know, do not like Goldfinger (1964), because they say Bond rapes Pussy Galore:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUyk...ature=youtu.be But I feel that a lot of people may be overreacting to it. I didn't interpret it as a rape at all. It is a forced kiss, where Bond kisses her and then she changes her mind and kisses him back, even putting her arms around him and kissing him back more. But a forced kiss is not near as bad as a rape, so I feel that audiences are really overreacting when they say that, and are perhaps being too sensitive about it and taking offense too easily? Unless maybe I am wrong and it is a serious issue that should take offense and treated sensitively? |
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Friends and people I know - to - a lot of people - to - audiences - to - modern audiences.
Are modern audiences offended? Or are just a few friends of yours offended? Are they actually offended, or do they just not like a movie for reasons? |
Originally Posted by ironpony (Post 2049575)
My friends and people I know, do not like Goldfinger (1964), because they say Bond rapes Pussy Galore:
But I feel that a lot of people may be overreacting to it. I didn't interpret it as a rape at all. It is a forced kiss, where Bond kisses her and then she changes her mind and kisses him back, even putting her arms around him and kissing him back more. Who can figure kids today? |
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Well I don't think it's just friends cause when you look it up online, there are articles where people talk about it as well and feel the same way.
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One of my favorite homage jokes from Austin Powers was the character Alotta Fagina!
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Originally Posted by ironpony (Post 2049575)
My friends and people I know, do not like Goldfinger (1964), because they say Bond rapes Pussy Galore:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUyk...ature=youtu.be But I feel that a lot of people may be overreacting to it. I didn't interpret it as a rape at all. It is a forced kiss, where Bond kisses her and then she changes her mind and kisses him back, even putting her arms around him and kissing him back more. But a forced kiss is not near as bad as a rape, so I feel that audiences are really overreacting when they say that, and are perhaps being too sensitive about it and taking offense too easily? Unless maybe I am wrong and it is a serious issue that should take offense and treated sensitively? People get offended so easily these days... :confused: Just enjoy the movie Iron, let they cry. |
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Bond is a sexual predator who treats women like sexual objects and nothing more.
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Yeah, the problem is that Bond's always been a bad dude. People just didn't realize it until decades later when a lot of them had done a couple 180 on sexual ethics.
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That's without mentioning the implication that she's a lesbian when she says she's "immune" to Bond's charms (which is carried over from the book), so it also comes across like he's "correcting" her sexuality through his actions.
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Are they too offended? I guess that depends on what they're offended by? Does it matter if they are offended? I think that's a better question.
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Maybe the next Bond girl will be named "Delicate Snowflake"
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Wait, people are actually offended by that? What a bunch of pussies! What? Lots of people are offended by that? Now that's the real PUSSY GALORE!
Also, we've had a user with that nick! @Pussy Galore |
Originally Posted by ironpony (Post 2049575)
But a forced kiss is not near as bad as a rape
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I think the keyword here is the movie. Whatever Bond and Galore are doing is fiction, and I don't think anyone should get offended by fictional events.
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So you’re saying that anything & everything is acceptable on the screen because it’s fiction? In other words, no censorship?
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Originally Posted by Stirchley (Post 2049693)
So you’re saying that anything & everything is acceptable on the screen because it’s fiction? In other words, no censorship?
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Originally Posted by Stirchley (Post 2049693)
So you’re saying that anything & everything is acceptable on the screen because it’s fiction? In other words, no censorship?
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Re: Are modern audiences too offended by Pussy Galore?
What most people who call Sean Connery's Bond misogynistic, don't understand is: that in the early 1960s the Bond films were celebrating the new found freedom of women to be sexual. A decade earlier and no way would Hollywood have allowed women to be shown so overtly sexy and interested in sex for the pure pleasure of sex. Some of you need to study history a bit more... as women in mini skirts wasn't about men forcing women to be sexy...it was about women's liberation which included women being allowed to show a sexual side in dress an mannerisms.
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What liberated women was the availability of the birth control pill in 1960.
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Originally Posted by Stirchley (Post 2049710)
What liberated women was the availability of the birth control pill in 1960.
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