Saturday, December 20, 2008

A quantum of Bond

Today I found a short article that went like "ex Bond girl murdered". In the end it turned out that it was a woman that played in a Bond movie, yes. But to say that she acted "alongside Roger Moore" is an exaggeration. She is credited as "girls" together with about 20 other actresses who were only "girls" and not even really got any character names in the movie. It's not even so likely that the Bond character had eye contact with her in the movie.

So that's what you call a Bond girl. And it's the same thing as something else I read years ago. It was something about a Bond girl having been a man once in her life. A myth that turned out to be true, but it's not like anyone would think, a Bond girl having been a man having had sex with Bond. No, it's just one of the many girls that pose with Bond, are seen briefly, and that's it. No big deal about it.

The only strange thing is that these stories only happen to Bond movies that Roger Moore played in. What a poor guy.

There's also something about youtube I want to mention... it got worse again. Now they did what I had hoped they would never do. They fucked up their search function. It used to be good the way it was: You enter key words, you get precise results. If you entered very specific key words, you only got results with the key words you used. If you wanted a rather open search, you could still enter less key words, and even flip names around (Bond James for example) and still get satisfying results. There was nothing wrong with it. But now the search function has the same problem that search engines have. They search for everything now. When searching for James Bond (JUST an example) you also get all the James Smiths, James Lasts, John Bond etc. Why? Why can't they leave it the way it was.
Now in order to do search the old way, I first have to select an option. But why do I need to do that? I think that people nowadays are skilled enough with computers, they can do intuitive searching and find what they are looking for. Just give them the right options.

So sad....

PS: There was once a scene in a Bond movie where a mourning widow attacked Bond, and the widow turned out to be a guy in the end. Does that count as a Bond girl too?

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