tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post4520582566081786049..comments2024-03-12T22:31:46.500-04:00Comments on What Would Phoebe Do?: How dare movies acknowledge the female gaze!Phoebe Maltz Bovyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17996039330841139883noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-64916954415252224072012-12-03T16:31:49.733-05:002012-12-03T16:31:49.733-05:00I think the novel "From Russia With Love"...I think the novel "From Russia With Love" indicates what Fleming had in mind for a Bond body, and it definitely included <a href="http://misc.007unleashed.com/jamesbondworkout.html" rel="nofollow">working out</a>. In the same novel, villain assassin Krassno Granitski is depicted as having the <i>excessively</i> muscled body: a woman massaging him thinks of it as "the finest body she had ever seen," "fantastic muscles," yet "somehow bestial." So yes, Bond is supposed to represent a certain degree of cleverness, wit, intelligence, not just to be dumb muscle like Granitski. Nonetheless, Fleming was not so ignorant of biology as to think that Bond could perform the feats of physical strength and endurance that he did without spending some of his spare time working out instead of reading a book as Cohen demands.PGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09381347581328622706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-43247347491110074712012-11-28T13:26:04.763-05:002012-11-28T13:26:04.763-05:00Fair enough? But if that was Cohen's beef, he ...Fair enough? But if that was Cohen's beef, he should have said so.Phoebe Maltz Bovyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17996039330841139883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-4143777005099367682012-11-28T13:25:11.417-05:002012-11-28T13:25:11.417-05:00I dislike a "ripped" Bond purely because...I dislike a "ripped" Bond purely because Bond, in the Fleming novels, <i>is not a body-builder type</i>.<br /><br />Nothing to do with sexual politics or gendered-gaze - merely fidelity to the source material.<br />Sigivaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16152366541957466049noreply@blogger.com