Ingredients for a Perfect Bond Girl - what is your recipe?

Your perfect Bond girl?

What is she? Is she an innocent bystander? Or an action girl? Red head? Brunette? Etc.

I'm personally a big fan of 'action' girls which is probably because I love the idea of the Bond girl being able to fight just like 'the boys' and stand on her own two feet. However there are alot of issues with this kind of Bond girl as she can easliey become an overpowered female-Bond void of her own identity and just there to be like IHAVEAWESOMENINJASKILLZ! Basica;ly if another action girl was to haopen in a Bond film they'd need to not overshadow Bond and have her own decent backstroy that allows her to be her own character.

Probably a mixture of Tracy, Melina & Camille - kinda classy, beautiful, somewhat mature, a good match for Bond, but with an interesting slightly vulnerable/damaged quality too to give the character some depth, can take care of herself to some extent but doesn't wallop the viewer over the head with it in a forced "PC" kinda way.

For starters, the girl needs to good looking, but also sustaining class. Which is why the likes of Megan Fox doesn't fit the bill. They also need to have a sense of maturity and intelligence and use wit. Bystanders and innocent civilians generally work well, such as Natalya and Kara, though agents, such as Fields can work also. I'd like them to add a degree of genuine drama to the script, like Paris beause it makes the story and characters richer. In terms of the actress, they need to act well, which is why I think Keira Knightley is the perfect candidate

Keira would be an interesting choice as a Bond girl - I like her as an actor.However I'd hate it if they turned her into a re-hash of like Elizabeth Swann from Pirates...

Fae wrote:

Keira would be an interesting choice as a Bond girl - I like her as an actor.However I'd hate it if they turned her into a re-hash of like Elizabeth Swann from Pirates...

No, they wouldn't replicate her character from POTC. That would be ludricrous. Though, I can see her portraying a Bond girl like Elektra or Natalya, Domino or Melina. She'd be great. Imagine the chemistry between her and Craig. Incredible! She's classy, sexy, talented and intelligent. She's young, but she looks and acts very mature. She's only 25.

I mentioned it a bit in my detailed Bond movie rankings, but my favorite Bond girls are the ones that are in over their heads and a bit innocent, yet far from being bimbos, are classy and adapt well to their stressful, intense situation.

i.e. Kara, Tania, Natalya

I also seem a little partial to blondes. I've always found them beautiful for some reason (despite being a red-head, myself.)

RED. HEAD.

And with that, I give you:



C'mon, it's me? It wouldn't be me if there wasn't some Hendricks love goin on.

I hate the whole, "I'm a Bond Girl with a difference, because I'm Bond's equal" that some Bond Girls seem to feel the need to declaim every time. No, dear - you're there to get your kit off and provide eye candy for the lads, and perhaps move the plot on a little.

Which is why I prefer more 'honest' Bond Girls.

Keep your Jinx (please - someone - just edit her out of the damn film - it's painful). I like Bond Girls to be relatively plausible - whether it's in out of their depths, a certain naivete, charm, innocence, or whatever.

But really, the ultimate Bond Girl would have to be Pussy Galore. She never seemed to be competing with Bond to out-Bond him. She was just herself. That'll do for me.

The thing about "Bond Equals" is that there were tough, respectable Bond girls from the beginning, it's only later that we started to get the Goodnights of the Bondverse.
What I want in a Bond girl? Fiona is the perfect one. Stunning, sexual, and dangerous. From the "good ones", Tatiana and Domino are also good, ambiguous portrayals.

The ideal Bond Girl is a maid in the living room, a cook in the kitchen and a whore in the bedroom.

Also her dad owns a pub.

ambler wrote:

The ideal Bond Girl is a maid in the living room, a cook in the kitchen and a whore in the bedroom.

Also her dad owns a pub.

So you want more cleaning and cooking in Bond movies?

It's been slim pickings with modern Bond girls. The most believable one in the past 20 years was likely Natalya Simonova.
She wasn't close to being Bond's equal but she possessed enough smarts and skill to help Bond out on a few occasions.
The rest of the late 20th/early 21st century Bond girls have all been victims of some form of excess. Jinx, Christmas Jones, Wai Lin, ...

More cleaning and cooking, yes. And more action in the bedroom.

Might get this thing back to the novels yet. .

I liked the days when Bond girls wore skimpy bikinis and often had their tits hanging out. Oh yeah, and they also had sex.

Doesn't seem that they're into that anymore. They'd much rather try to castrate Bond, instead.

I'm a fan of the girl but you gotta fix that giant photo....