Miss Moneypenny - James Bond Characters Alive Summary While Miss Moneypenny isn't strictly a Bond girl , she is one of the most iconic characters within the James Bond series. Moneypenny works at MI6 as M's secretary, and throughout most of the films demonstrates an infatuation with James Bond. The Many Faces of Miss Moneypenny Moneypenny's first appearance in the James Bond universe is in the original book, Casino Royale. She has appeared throughout Ian Fleming's novels, although in a smaller role than in the movies, but the theme remains the same: Moneypenny is infatuated with Bond but never does anything to act upon her infatuation. Many people have been credited for being Ian Fleming's inspiration for the Moneypenny character. In Fleming's first draft Moneypenny was originally named Miss "Petty" Pettaval, who was a secretary to real-world MI6 Director, Stewart Menzies. The name was later changed to be less obvious. The character has also been rumored to be based upon Vera Atkins who was a secretary to "legendary spy master" Maurice Buckman who was Fleming's inspiration for M, among others.

Throughout the films, upon Bond's arrival at M's office, he flirts with Miss Moneypenny. In the earlier movies these flirtatious moments included Bond kissing and caressing Moneypenny sensually, but in more recent films the flirtation is more lighthearted and marked by an exchange of witty banter and sexual innuendos. What doesn't change across most of the films is Moneypenny's devotion to Bond despite their relationship never being anything more than professional. Because of their professional, but flirty relationship, Moneypenny is often considered an anchor that adds a bit of additional realism to the Bond films. To date, Moneypenny has been portrayed by six actresses across twenty one Bond films. Fourteen times by Lois Maxwell, twice by Caroline Bliss, four times by Samantha Bond and once each by Barbara Bouchet, Pamela Salem and Naomie Harris. Lois Maxwell Lois Maxwell portrayed Miss Moneypenny more times than any actor portrayed Bond, appearing alongside Sean Connery, George Lazenby, and then Roger Moore. Maxwell appeared in fourteen Bond films between 1962 and 1985. Terence Young, who directed the first Bond film (Dr.

No) originally turned her down for the role based on his opinion that she "looked like she smelled of soap." Maxwell fought to be cast for the role, as her husband was recovering from a heart attack at the time and she needed the money. Her role in the first film only paid £200 and Maxwell was required to provide her own clothes. Maxwell was nearly recast in 1967 after appearing in a spy spoof film alongside Sean Connery's brother Neil (aptly titled Operation Kid Brother) and then again in 1971 after demanding a pay raise. She managed to hold on to the role for several years afterwards, though. She remained in the role of Miss Moneypenny until Roger Moore's final appearance as Bond in 1985's A View to Kill. She continued using the name of her character for years after leaving the film series. Right up until 1994, Maxwell wrote a column about her on set experiences for a Canadian newspaper under the character's name.

Caroline Bliss Appearing in two Bond films, The Living Daylights and License to Kill, Bliss portrayed the role of Miss Moneypenny alongside Timothy Dalton between 1987 and 1989. Over 30 years younger than Lois Maxwell, Bliss was only 26 when cast for the role. The role was recast to bring in a younger actress, allowing the films to maintain the realism of the flirty relationship with a younger Bond. In an attempt to distance herself from the iconic-at-the-time portrayal of Moneypenny by Lois Maxwell, Bliss opted to have her version of Moneypenny wear glasses. Shamefully enough, due to script limitations the flirty relationship was actually quite limited in these two films, with Bond typically ignoring Moneypenny's flirtations. Samantha Bond Following the trend of "One Moneypenny per Bond" that began in the Dalton era, Samantha Bond played the role alongside Pierce Brosnan throughout his four film run from 1995 to 2002. Samantha Bond was actually childhood friends with previous Moneypenny, Caroline Bliss.

When asked in an interview about being replaced by a friend of hers, Bliss responded, "I am just glad it has gone to someone I love and who needs the money!" Often credited with being the first Moneypenny to have kissed James Bond, it is usually implied that it is the first time the two characters had shared a kiss, which is incorrect. It is actually just the first time where the character initiated a kiss with James. But that itself isn't even entirely true either, as the kiss was within a virtual reality device created by Q, and was basically just a "dream sequence." It is likely, though, that she is the first Moneypenny to jokingly accuse James Bond of sexual harassment. In an interview, Samantha Bond has stated "Even if you rolled all four films into one, it's still the smallest part I've ever played. It's the character that's iconic rather than anything I did with it." when asked what she thinks of being called Miss Moneypenny years after her last appearance in the role. Barbara Bouchet Barbara Bouchet is the only Moneypenny to not really be Moneypenny.

More specifically, in the first iteration of the film Casino Royale (1967) Bouchet plays Miss Moneypenny's daughter. The first Casino Royale is the first of two Bond films to be made by a different production company, and doesn't necessarily follow the same format of the core series. In fact, the earlier version of Casino Royale was made to be a satirical spin-off of the Bond series due to the producers belief that they couldn't compete with the core production team. The explanation provided within the film of Bouchet playing Miss Moneypenny's daughter is a little bit unnecessary - throughout the rest of the film she is referred to only as Moneypenny. Pamela Salem The second of two actresses to play the role in the unofficial Bond films, Salem portrayed Moneypenny in 1983's Never Say Never Again. She is the only actress to play the role alongside Sean Connery, other than the original Moneypenny, Lois Maxwell. Naomie Harris The newest Moneypenny and an entirely brand new take on the character. Following the reboot of the series in 2006, the Moneypenny character had yet to appear in a Bond film alongside Daniel Craig.

With 2012's Skyfall, Moneypenny is back with a more complete backstory and even a first name. As a field agent who considers herself Bond's equal, Moneypenny makes some mistakes. Throughout the course of the movie she becomes M's secretary, putting her in the place of the Moneypenny we know and love. There is also debate among critics as to whether or not Harris portrays the first Moneypenny to have slept with James Bond, but it is never suggested directly in the films that she has. Throughout Skyfall's development, it was kept secret that Naomie Harris was portrayed the Moneypenny role. Throughout the movie she goes by her first name only and it is later revealed that her last name is Moneypenny. While it's too early to tell how this most recent iteration of the Moneypenny character will compare to the previous versions, it's reassuring to see the new films returning to the roots of the series and bringing back such iconic characters. Miss Moneypenny (Lois Maxwell) | James Bond Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Miss Moneypenny (Lois Maxwell) Share Ad blocker interference detected!

Wikia is a free-to-use site that makes money from advertising. We have a modified experience for viewers using ad blockers Wikia is not accessible if you’ve made further modifications. Remove the custom ad blocker rule(s) and the page will load as expected. Moneypenny [Secret Intelligence Service|British Secret Service]] Status From Russia with Love (video game) Miss Moneypenny, is a fictional character in the James Bond novels and films. She is secretary to M , who is Bond's boss and head of the British Secret Service . She was portrayed by Lois Maxwell in 14 films between 1962 and 1985. Contents Film biography Shared background Although she has a small part in the films, it is always highlighted by the underscored romantic tension between her and Bond (something that is virtually nonexistent in Ian Fleming's novels, though somewhat more apparent in the Bond novels of John Gardner and Raymond Benson ). On that note, she is not always considered to be a Bond girl, having never had anything more than a professional relationship with Bond, to her dismay. According to the movie You Only Live Twice , she holds the rank of Second Officer in the Women's Royal Naval Service.

Behind the scenes The first actress to portray M's secretary on the big screen was Lois Maxwell . She lobbied for the role in the first official James Bond film Dr. No (1962), as her husband had had a heart attack and they needed the money. Director Terence Young, who once had turned her down on the grounds that she looked like she "smelled of soap," offered her either Moneypenny or the recurring role of Bond's girlfriend, Sylvia Trench , but she was uncomfortable with a revealing scene in the screenplay and opted for the character of Miss Moneypenny. The role as M's secretary guaranteed just two days' work at £100 a day; Maxwell supplied her own clothes. In 1971, Maxwell was nearly replaced for Diamonds Are Forever after demanding a pay raise; her policewoman's cap disguises hair she had already dyed for another role. However she continued in the role, as her former classmate and friend Roger Moore took over the part of 007 in Live and Let Die .

For the filming of A View to a Kill (1985), her final appearance, Bond producer Cubby Broccoli told her that the two of them were the only ones from Dr. No still working on the series. Maxwell asked that her character be killed off, but Broccoli recast the role instead. Her final Bond film was also Moore's last outing. A tearful Moneypenny at Bond and Tracy's wedding As a rule, Moneypenny generally never directly participates in Bond's missions, although there have been a few exceptions in both film and literature (most notably Diamonds Are Forever , in which she disguises herself as a customs agent to help send Bond on his mission). In Octopussy (1983), Moneypenny has an assistant named Penelope Smallbone , who appears to be equally smitten with Bond, despite a "thorough briefing" on the subject by Moneypenny. Apparently intended as either a foil or a replacement for Moneypenny, Smallbone appeared only once.

Featured in: Skyfall | James Bond Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia [ show ] Plot MI6 agents James Bond (007) and Eve assist on a mission in Turkey in which an MI6 operative has been killed and a Solid State drive stolen. The drive contained details of all NATO agents operating undercover in terrorist organisations. Bond and Eve chase the assailant, the French mercenary Patrice , and attempt to recover the disk. During the chase, Bond is shot in the shoulder, but continues his pursuit, until he is shot from a train by Eve, who misjudged her shot as it was meant to hit Patrice. He is posted as "missing, presumed killed". MI6 comes under attack. Five of the agents' names are released onto the Internet, with the promise of more the next week and the head of MI6, M , comes under political pressure to retire during a meeting with the Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee , Gareth Mallory . On her return from the meeting, MI6 is hacked and an explosion occurs in the offices, killing a number of MI6 employees. On hearing the news of the attack, Bond returns to London.

The shrapnel taken from his shoulder wound points to Patrice and Bond is sent to Shanghai, where it is known the mercenary will shortly arrive. Bond finds and follows the Frenchman and witnesses him undertake an assassination, at which Bond also sees Sévérine . The two men fight and Patrice falls to his death before Bond can find out who his employer was. Searching the assassin's equipment Bond finds a gambling chip, which leads him to a casino, where he is paid €4 million for the kill. Sévérine warns Bond that he is about to be killed, but promises to help him if he will kill her employer. Bond beats his attackers—with help from Eve —and joins Sévérine on her boat. They travel to an island, but are taken prisoner by the crew and delivered to Sévérine's employer, Raoul Silva . Silva had previously worked with M and blamed her for his capture, torture and imprisonment by the Chinese. Silva kills Sévérine, but Bond overpowers his guards and captures Silva for return to the UK. Silva attempts to kill M.

Back in the MI6 headquarters, Q attempts to decrypt Silva's laptop, but instead of accessing the computer successfully, the computer has been programmed to access the MI6 computer system and release Silva, enabling him to escape into the London Underground tunnel system. Pursued by Bond, Silva adopts the disguise of a policeman and attacks M during a public inquiry into her handling of the stolen hard drive. Bond arrives to join Mallory and Eve in fighting off Silva's attack, and M is hurried from the building by her aide, Bill Tanner . Bond drives M away from the scene in her car and, after exchanging it for his own Aston Martin DB5 , drives her to his empty and remote childhood home in Scotland, Skyfall Lodge . He instructs Q to leave an electronic trail for Silva to follow, a decision supported by Mallory. At Skyfall, Bond and M are met by Kincade , the gamekeeper to the Bond family estate. Bond tells them that Silva will attack the place with his henchmen. The trio are only lightly armed, but improvise a series of booby traps. When Silva arrives, Bond, M and Kincade fight off the first assault, although M is wounded in the process.

Silva arrives by helicopter with a second wave and Bond sends M and Kincade off through a tunnel at the back of a priest hole to a chapel on the grounds. The second assault consists of firepower from the helicopter, with Silva throwing incendiary grenades into the building. Bond detonates a stick of dynamite with two gas canisters and retreats down the same tunnel as M and Kincade. The resulting blast causes the helicopter to crash, killing a number of Silva's men. Silva sees Kincade's torch beam and follow it. As they arrive at a frozen lake, Bond attacks Silva's sole remaining follower and the two fall through the ice, where Bond kills him. In the meantime Silva makes his way to the chapel and forces his gun into M's hand where he begs her to kill them both. Bond arrives and kills Silva, but M succumbs to her earlier wounds. Her position as head of MI6 is taken by Mallory, while Eve decides not to become a field agent, and reveals she will become M's secretary while revealing to Bond that her surname is Moneypenny. Plot Notes Skyfall is not related to any previously published Ian Fleming James Bond short-story or novel.

Skyfall does not carry on from where the previous film left off, as Quantum of Solace did with Casino Royale . Producer Barbara Broccoli stated that the series "will go on to other different stories from now on." She also talked about the common villain organization across the three movies, saying that Bond "will go after the Quantum organization. So in that sense, it may become a trilogy, but we haven't really structured it that way." Ultimately, Quantum did not feature in Skyfall. However, it was later revealed in the following film SPECTRE that Silva was an agent of SPECTRE , of which Quantum was a subsidiary, essentially linking all four films. Production James Bond (Film) - TV Tropes James Bond You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account Share Cue the guitar riff "The name's Bond.

James Bond." From left to right and top to bottom: Sean Connery , George Lazenby , Roger Moore , Timothy Dalton , Pierce Brosnan , and Daniel Craig note Not pictured: Barry Nelson and David Niven Official EON Productions Films: Quantum of Solace (Daniel Craig, 2008) Skyfall (Daniel Craig, 2012) Bond 25 (TBD) Unofficial Films (not produced by EON): Climax!: Casino Royale (Barry Nelson, 1954) note The first screen adaptation of a Bond novel. An episode of a TV anthology series which recast Bond as an American, named "Jimmy". Never Say Never Again (Sean Connery, 1983) The series has spawned legions of imitators and in many ways defined all of modern Spy Fiction , with Bond himself having become the quintessential Action Hero . In fact, many tropes featured in action films to this day can be traced back to the franchise, from the Tuxedo to the Bond One-Liner to the Cool Car .

The following tropes are best served shaken, not stirred: Action Prologue : The Trope Codifier , as the series has featured dozens of openings going all the way back to the 1960s where Bond fights through a giant action set piece before the main plot is even introduced. Action Girl : May Day, Pam Bouvier and Wai Lin principally. The others, despite not lacking of good moments, go more for the Faux Action Girl side, sadly. Adaptation Distillation : Quite a bit, as Ian Fleming was inordinately obsessed with Bond's food and drink. Bond himself is a cardboard cut-out compared to the complicated, sympathetic character in the books, at least until Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan came along. Daniel Craig seems to be finishing up the job nicely. Adaptational Heroism : Tracy Di Vicenzo and Ali Kerim Bey are both portrayed as being far less ambiguous in the films, due to both being fairly close allies of Bond. Also, Kara Milovy, whose equivalent was the antagonist of the original short story.

Adapted Out : In many novels by Fleming, the villain is on the payroll of SMERSH, a Soviet anti-espionage organisation that seeks to undermine western powers at every opportunity. It wasn't until the ninth book that he introduced SPECTRE, a criminal organisation with no political ties (because he worried Soviet villains would become dated ). The films either make the villains independent entrepreneurs (see Goldfinger or Live and Let Die ), or outright change their SMERSH allegiance to SPECTRE instead ( From Russia with Love , Dr. No ). Agents Dating : Happens many, many, many times in the series, if you're willing to be sufficiently loose with the term "date." More details on some of the movies' pages and in the trope page. The Alleged Car : The initially Cool Cars Bond is given invariably turn into this by the time that Bond is done with them, to Q's great dismay. Aloof Dark-Haired Girl : The brunette Bond Girls are the ones who have a high tendency in become the Femme Fatale or/and the Defrosting Ice Queen towards Bond. And Starring : The actor playing M always has the "And [name] as M" billing.

He or She is usually preceded by a "With" that varies in films. Anti-Hero : Bond was all over the scale since his beginnings. His probably most harmless (that is, most heroic impersonation) was probably during the Moore era, and that is saying a lot. Bond has never been above killing people while they were unarmed, down, at his mercy, or with their backs turned to him (Brosnan-era Bond often even did so with a playful smirk), and had more than once been playing dirty while doing so. The films also show Bond taking pleasure in killing his opponents when it was personal for him , as seen in From Russia with Love and For Your Eyes Only . Daniel Craig's Bond is probably the most stone-cold, although that seems to reflect the overall turn in direction of the films.

In his first appearance ever, he casually admits to his target that his first kill was "difficult,"note Although Bond was probably referring to the target putting up a fight rather than any qualms about killing in cold blood to which the target replies "The second one will be..." (presumably "easier" ) before Bond shoots him, and responds with no emotion whatsoever other than perhaps bemusement, "Yes, considerably." While playing word-association with a psychiatrist in Skyfall, the psychiatrist says "murder" to which Bond replies "employment." To this Bond, killing is just a job , like filing reports. The Atoner : This is a thread throughout the Brosnan era. Trevelyan straight up asks Bond, "...if you find forgiveness in the arms of all those willing women for all the dead ones you failed to protect." Bond's attitude throughout Tomorrow Never Dies , The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day (specifically his desperate attempt to resuscitate Jinx ) indicates that this statement has left him pretty rattled. Averted in Licence to Kill . In GoldenEye , Xenia dies when the chopper she's rappelling from is shot down.

The result yanks her safety harness into the crotch of a tree, which ought to have torn her in half. Instead, she writhes about and dies beautifully. Although, to be fair, the Daniel Craig films are VERY hard PG-13s. Cold-Blooded Torture is utilised more than once, and the lack of explicit blood doesn't stop them from being BRUTAL in their violence. Blue Blood : Bond's family is strongly hinted as coming from Scottish nobility. In On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Bond's history is explored, and it's noted that he has a family crest and motto, evidence of noble standing. Skyfall drives this point home, with the title itself referring to Bond's ancestral home. Bond Gun Barrel : Trope Maker , of course. Used to open all the movies prior to Daniel Craig's era (in the first, it precedes the credits; in the other two, it closes the movie instead). It finally returned to the opening for Spectre. Body-Count Competition : Bond probably has the highest on-screen body count of any film character ever, counting all 24 official movies.

Unsurprisingly for an action hero/government assassin, he kills at least one person in every film, and more commonly a lot of people. He has canonically killed 362 people . Roger Moore has the highest body count of the Bonds, with 121 kills. Pierce Brosnan gets the close second with 103, which is quite remarkable because he appeared 3 fewer movies than Moore and it was noted that Brosnan's Bond tended to get his hands on automatic weapons a lot. Broad Strokes : Essentially the only times there was strict continuity was from 1962-1967, and again the Craig era, which was a reboot.note Disregarding 50th anniversary Mythology Gags like the Aston in Skyfall, that is. Since then, it's just been getting messier. New actors, explicitly different settings and "soft" reboots are only some of the continuity problems. All fans have their own theories or lack thereof. " The Name Is Bond, James Bond " "Vodka martini.

Shaken, not stirred." Just before Q explains Bond's gadgets, he'll start with, "Now, pay attention, 007..." He usually finishes the explanation with am admonition to Bond to bring his equipment back "in pristine order" (which Bond never does). And of course there's the ever-popular "Grow up, 007." The end credits for all the films from Dr. No to Octopussy have concluded with the phrase "James Bond will return in..." followed by the title of the next film. This tradition stopped with A View to a Kill , in which the end credits simply say "James Bond will return." Due to the limbo-like nature of the franchise since the 80s, all subsequent films have ended with "James Bond will return." Chekhov's Armoury : The sections with Q, where the film's gadgets, weapons, and/or car are revealed and have their uses explained . Some may qualify as Chekhov's Boomerang if he uses it more than once. Chickification : Strong, independent female characters from the books often appear as bimbos in the first four films (with the exception of Pussy Galore).

For example, Bond's Jamaican ally Quarrel is much more of a subordinate in Dr. No , mirroring Honey Ryder's dependence on Bond for protection, and being transformed into her simply walking out of the sea, then shortly afterwards, needing sex. Chronically Crashed Car : Bond destroys nearly every Cool Car Q provides him. Chuck Cunningham Syndrome : For every movie you see, you can bet that you will never see the Bond girl again. From that point on they will almost never even be mentioned. The few aversions are: The first-ever movie Bond Girl Sylvia Trench. After Dr. No , she's there again early in From Russia with Love . After that, though, she's never heard from again. Tracy Di Vicenzo gets a Call Back from time to time, being Bond's legal wife and apparent greatest love in the original continuiry. Vesper Lynd, featured in Casino Royale (2006) , remains plot-relevant in Quantum of Solace .

Maud Adams, the actress who plays the secondary Bond Girl in The Man with the Golden Gun , went on to play the primary Bond Girl in Octopussy , but they are distinctly different characters, and no reference to the actress' first appearance is made in the second. "Eve" (Naomie Harris) plays the role of "Bond Girl" for the majority of Skyfall, and only at the end is it revealed that she is Moneypenny. Non-Bond Girl examples: Jack Wade is seen in the first two Brosnan films and isn't mentioned afterwards. He was most likely a replacement for: Felix Leiter, who is last seen (not counting his reboot appearances in the recent films) in Licence to Kill . Though it can be assumed he was forced into retirement after being dismembered by a shark. His newlywed wife wasn't so lucky. The books averted this. Each previous adventure was referenced in the next book and previous Bond girls were also referenced as well. Chummy Commies : In one of the series' ultimate ironies, Bond, one of the prototypical Cold War Warriors, teams up with the USSR in an Enemy Mine situation more often than working directly against them.

In fact, For Your Eyes Only and the pre-titles of GoldenEye are the only times in the entire series where the USSR is outright antagonistic, and not a fellow Unwitting Pawn that 007 must make a hasty alliance with in order to save the world. Clothes Make the Legend : James will wear a tuxedo at some point in each movie. (The gun barrel doesn't count.) The only times where it is averted are in You Only Live Twice and in Live and Let Die , the latter where Roger Moore isn't seen in a tuxedo at all (except for the gun barrel sequence, that is) to fill on the gritty look the producers wanted on Moore's debut. Cool Car : Varies from film to film, but you can usually count on at least one per film. The Aston Martin DB5 is crtainly the most memorable. Introduced in Goldfinger and brought back for a cameo in Thunderball, the car was later featured in both the Brosnan and Craig films, with it playing a major role in Skyfall. Corrupt Hick : The first two Roger Moore films feature the same racist sheriff from Louisianaï¿½even though the second film takes place in Thailand.

Couch Gag : Between the 1960s and the early 1980s, it was standard for the film to end with some variation of the on-screen message "James Bond will return in..." and the next film title announced. On several occasions, however (following Thunderball and later following The Spy Who Loved Me) the wrong title was announced as EON decided to adapt a different book or story when the time came to actually make the next film. Octopussy also got it wrong, but only by one word. James Bond was said to return in From A View To A Kill, which was the title of a Fleming short story. However, when the movie was actually released, the From was dropped from the title. Darker and Edgier : After the end of the Moore era the films have been progressively getting darker and grittier. Death by Adaptation : Several: Rene Mathis in Quantum of Solace is perhaps the most notable example.

Also, Dikko in You Only Live Twice , Kronsteen in From Russia with Love , Lisl in For Your Eyes Only , Saunders, the equivalent of Sender in the short story in The Living Daylights , as well as the agent that is transformed into the villainous General Koskov for the film, who is probably executed after the events of the movie, Gettler in Casino Royale (2006) . More recently, the death of M in Skyfall , as no M has ever been killed off in the books. Death by Sex : Quite a lot of the women Bond sleeps with meet unfortunate ends. And any Bond film that contains a set design credit for one Ken Adam. Disposable Love Interest : Bond Girls. Some entries even have more than one of them. Disposable Woman : Bond's enemies kill Tracy , Paris Carver and all women with whom Daniel Craig sleeps before Spectre—Vesper, Fields, and Severine; in the latter's case, it's a deconstruction. Distressed Dude : For a badass secret agent, Bond sure ends up in sticky situations a lot. Dirt Forcefield : Both Bond and his ladies usually keep tidy despite everything they face. Exceptions for 007 are Dr.

No (after he's imprisoned and beat up), Licence to Kill (he ends up covered in blood, sweat and sand), Die Another Day (after the Action Prologue , he spends 14 months being tortured and looks like Cast Away ) and the first two Daniel Craig movies, since those are essentially a two-parter Darker and Edgier Continuity Reboot . The Don : On Her Majesty's Secret Service has Marc-Ange Draco, head of the Union Corse. Graying Morality : Dr. No and From Russia with Love are actually pretty grey movies; it becomes lighter with Goldfinger , but has light and dark moments throughout. The series is more cyclical as far as this trope goes—it starts off grey, but then becomes progressively more outlandish and lighthearted, before going becoming Darker and Edgier again. The Craig reboot seems to have started out grey. SPECTRE in the first handful of films. Quantum has been this during two of Craig's films. The Soviet Union may also count in some of movies there ( For Your Eyes Only and A View to a Kill for instance).

Much more so in the original novels (for example in the Casino Royale novel, Le Chiffre is backed by the USSR). Non-Indicative First Episode : Dr. No lacks many of the trademarks that the franchise is known for. A Cold Open , the Cool Car , gadgets and many others are all absent. Dr. No also contains the infamous scene where Bond murders Professor Dent; even Fleming never had Bond act so cold-bloodedly in the books, and for all intents and purposes Bond wouldn't act this way again until 2006's Casino Royale (2006) , which was, like Dr. No , the start of a new continuity. In retrospect, Live and Let Die and The Man with the Golden Gun could be this with the Moore era. The comedic elements that peppered Moore's run are there, but the writers at the time seemed indecisive about whether or not to make the series more humorous or playing them like the earlier films. Non-Violent Initial Confrontation : Common throughout the franchise. Given that espionage involves obfuscation of identity so often, this only stands to reason.

One-Man Army : All of the Bonds are this to a certain extent, but Brosnan's takes the cake because he has the highest body count on average per movie. Paid Harem : One of the perks of being a Bond Villain. Pretty in Mink Product Placement : A lot. It has been joked that Bond has a License To Shill. Became an issue with Licence to Kill, to the extent that the makers were forced to include the American Surgeon General's warning against smoking into the closing credits due to its use of a recognizable cigarette brand in one scene, yet the visible presence of a Players Tobacco poster in Die Another Day —intended to be a Shout-Out to something from the original Thunderball novel—garnered no such concern. Some critics referred to Die Another Day as 'Buy Another Day', which is why product placement was toned down for Casino Royale. Despite the above-mentioned toning down for Casino Royale, much mileage was given to a scene in the film where Bond goes looking for security camera footage that plays out as an ad for Sony DVDs. (Funnily enough, this was made while the "LaserDisc vs.

DVD" war was still waging.) There was outrage when Heineken got product placement in Skyfall, because everyone knows Bond only drinks vodka martinis. The cosmic irony is that, while rooted in a few such drinks making appearances in the novels, the association of Bond with vodka largely comes from the product placement of a vodka company in the 1960s. Even Bond's Weapon of Choice isn't immune to this. Walther is a big endorser of the films and, on two occasions, Bond's PPK is swapped out for the latest pistol Walther is trying to advertise. Protagonist Title : None of the film thus far have used "James Bond" as part of their titles, but the franchise as a whole is refered to as the James Bond franchise. In some countries, the titles of the films are preceded by Bond's code number, 007.

Recurring Extra : In the Roger Moore films The Spy Who Loved Me , Moonraker and For Your Eyes Only , the man who keeps seeing Bond do crazy stuff in Italy, probably without ever realising it is the same man (emerging from the sea in his car-sub; driving around the streets of Venice in his land-gondola; and escaping from armed assassins on skis in the Italian alps, respectively). In each case he is drinking and in the first two, finds what he's seeing so bizarre that he seems to wonder if he's been drinking too much (though not enough to stop, evidently). Played by Victor Tourjansky, who was the assistant director for these Italy-set scenes in all three films. Producer Michael G. Wilson, Albert Broccoli's adopted son, has several cameos as various different characters, mostly extras or single-scene appearances; in Tomorrow Never Dies , for instance, he's the one Carver tells to blackmail the President. Wilson's first cameo was way back in Goldfinger, and he has since become the Alfred Hitchcock of the series, with his walk-ons considered part of the tradition.

Sociopathic Hero : Aside from Bond's endless coldly wasting Mooks with the only emotion registering usually being amusement, he doesn't treat women much better: he all but rapes Solitaire in Live and Let Die , prior to that he practically raped his poor nurse Patricia Fearing in Thunderball as well as Pussy Galore in Goldfinger and Diamonds Are Forever begins with him strangling a woman with her own bikini top. Fortunately for the audience and narrative, pretty much all of Bond's enemies are blood thirsty murderers, psychopaths and sadists. Most of them make Bond look like a boyscout by comparison. Subverted during the Brosnan era. Although his Bond seems callously aloof when he takes a life, Trevelyan asks him in GoldenEye "...if all those vodka martinis ever silence the screams of all the men you've killed," which suggests that Bond is haunted by the murders that he has committed. Bond himself mentions in The World Is Not Enough , "I usually hate killing an unarmed man." He is unnerved by the sight of Miranda Frost's corpse, whom he had tried to murder earlier on in Die Another Day because she was The Mole at MI6 .

Bond isn't the one who is responsible for her death, yet his facial expression leaves no doubt that he finds it unsettling even though he wanted Miranda dead for betraying him. Spared by the Adaptation : Irma Bunt is a rare villain that dies in the books but not in the films. Spy Cam : Is big on this. In On Her Majesty's Secret Service , Bond uses a small camera to take snap shots of a map that shows where the "Angels of Death" are to release a biological agent. One of Bond's gadgets in A View to a Kill is a ring containing a miniature camera. Bond uses the device at a Zorin's party to covertly take photographs of each of his guests. Supervillain Lair : Most films feature one, the best of which, like the volcano rocket base in You Only Live Twice , were designed by legendary production designer Ken Adam. On The Spy Who Loved Me DVD commentary around the time Bond and XXX are brought before Stromberg aboard his supertanker, there's a funny exchange between screenwriter Christopher Wood and director Lewis Gilbert. Wood wonders how anybody could build these great villains lairs without anyone noticing. Gilbert asks what about the huge staff and army the bad guy always seems to have.

Does anybody write the next of kin whenever one of them gets killed? (The latter is lampshaded in the first Austin Powers movie.) It was also lampshaded in a Saturday Night Live sketch where an interviewer talked with Blofeld, Goldfinger and Largo. For example, they mention how contractors tended to jack up the price of gadgets (like electric chairs) when they find out a Bond villain is the customer. Averted in Skyfall where the villain just straight up stole an island, which was left in major disrepair after being abandoned decades ago when the population evacuated in a mistaken chemical accident scare. Ironically, The Spy Who Loved Me actually does feature a moment where Stromberg, having whacked two henchmen he doesn't need anymore , orders a letter to be written to their next of kin explaining that they've been killed. Being a bit of a dick , he uses the opportunity to throw in a Post-Mortem One-Liner at their expense: Stromberg: [After blowing them up in a helicopter above the ocean] Tell their next of kin that they were killed in an unfortunate accident. The burial was at sea. Wait, So Who Is Moneypenny?

- MTV mtv [caption id="attachment_153452" align="alignleft" width="300"] MGM[/caption] SPOILER ALERT: If you go beyond this point, you'll be reading about a major reveal in "Skyfall." Proceed with caution. The last time we saw Miss Moneypenny in a James Bond film was 2002's "Die Another Day," during Pierce Brosnan's reign as 007. As one of the most legendary secretaries in movie history, she seemed to be the only female on the planet who could withstand Mr. Bond's advances. But what if we told you that, before the interoffice sexual tension, Moneypenny shot James Bond? That's how we are introduced to the latest incarnation of Miss Moneypenny, played by Naomie Harris ("28 Days Later"), at the action-packed opening of "Skyfall." Well, as we're sure you could tell from the movie's trailers, she missed. Thankfully, Bond doesn't hold a grudge. In fact, she makes it up to him by giving him a very seductive shave at their next assignment.

And, with that, we witness the rebirth of an iconic character in the franchise (and, from the looks of it, this Moneypenny doesn't seem like the pencil pushing type). The Moneypenny character in the Bond lineage goes as far back as the first draft of 007 creator Ian Fleming's book "Casino Royale." Inspired by the personal assistant of the real MI6 director in the 1940s and a woman Fleming dated during World War II, she is the private secretary of M, the head of MI6 in the Bond series. Actress Lois Maxwell was the original Moneypenny, playing her from the first film, "Dr. No" (1962), to "A View To A Kill" (1985). That's 14 films! And, for all of them, there was certain to be a scene of Bond strolling into M's office and sharing a few double entendres with Miss Moneypenny.

There have been four other Moneypennys between Maxwell and Harris, but none of them had the memorable sexually-charged one-liners that Maxwell delivered to then Bonds Sean Connery and later Roger Moore (oh yes, and forgotten Bond George Lazenby, too). In "Skyfall" the character goes by her first name, Eve, until the big reveal of her surname at the end. Harris plays the character with feisty intensity (who knew Moneypenny could handle a gun?) and a strong sex appeal. In other words, we can't wait to see more of her in the 24th Bond film. Harris is no stranger to a blockbuster franchise. After gaining attention in "28 Days Later," the Brit was unrecognizable as the black magic witch in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" sequels. Now, as Miss Moneypenny, her stock is certain to skyrocket. Though Harris has had to be mum about playing the iconic character in her interviews for the movie, we're hoping she'll be a bit more chatty about it after Friday.

Question: In the James Bond series of films, what is the name of ‘M’s’ personal secretary?
Answer: Miss Moneypenny