You're serious and not being sarcastic or having a go at us here? If so, it's an interesting take and one I don't think I've heard expressed before as most have no tolerance for Pepper in either film. In my view Pepper was a very clever creation by the film makers, in some ways a necessary character, and it shows the amount of thought that went into LALD. Pepper also works as a character in LALD because all the other police officers are presented as being (more or less) competent, likeable and normal. Pepper was certainly part of Mankiewicz’s way of trying to reverse the racist African American caricatures Fleming depicted in the LALD novel by introducing a caricature of Southern authority, and in that context he works as a buffoon.īy TMWTGG he just felt utterly out of place tagging along with Bond, and his racist remarks over Asians just felt gross. And I don't think anyone involved in the making of Bond movies is intentionally racist.no matter how the views may have changed in the meantime. If that were different, it wouldn't be satire anymore. It sometimes hurts until you realise the intention behind it. Satire is always at the next level: It never makes fun of the targets of racist, sexist, whatever-ist remarks, but always of the attackers, even if that is by showing their unfiltered "opinions". There is no way that anyone should take that seriously. Same goes for Pepper's remarks about the little Thai pointy-heads in their pajamas. Nobody who understood the mechanics here will take them at face value. Yes, but that very fact serves to show that they are ridiculous racist stereotypes. I think Clifton played him so OTT that you just chuckle at them but they do play into the racist stereotypes of southern police. I am surprised no one has mentioned Sheriff JW Pepper as he had some politically incorrect lines. So I would agree with the refilling line. Magda and Bond in bed to me is a bit off. I'm not at all sure if that's intended to be taken seriously but it seems to me that the scriptwriters' intent was obviously a reference to Sean Connery's Bond from the new Lazenby Bond, however veiled it might have been. Just like in the story, Lazenby Bond does end up holding Tracy's shoes as she speeds away in the car. Some commentators have said that that line was actually just a reference to Prince Charming holding the glass slipper belonging to Cinderella. I can understand why they did it at the time, but watching it now, I don't think breaking the fourth wall was a good idea. I don't know the general perspective about this one inhere, but I always HATED the “This never happened to the other fella” line. Now that one is pretty near the knuckle! I have to say that that one went totally over my head though when I saw the film in the cinema as a thirteen year old in January 1998! It was my first Bond film in the cinema. Moneypenny: "You always were a cunning linguist, James." She’s got the crabs dear and I don’t mean Dungeness.Bond: "I always enjoyed learning a new tongue." Amazed she hasn’t chipped her teeth… I hope you bring cocktail sauce. She uses it and the lights dim, it’s like a prison movie. She could break sidewalk with that thing. She’s got a power tool in the bedroom, dear. Well, I hope you’re up for a little competition. “Oh dear, I’m sorry, am I being a little graphic? Sorry. A bit of the old Humpty Dumpty, Little Jack Horny, the Horizontal Mambo, hmm? The Bone Dancer, Rumpleforeskin, Baloney Bop, a bit of the old Cunning Linguistics?” Here are some of those references that totally make more sense now that we’re older. It might ruin the way you see your favorite childhood movies, but it’s funny to look back on. #CUNNING LINGUIST MEANING MOVIE#Have you ever watched a movie that you loved as a kid but found yourself doing a double-take? Some of those films snuck in references that went over our heads at the time, but now as adults, we see them for what they are: sex jokes and innuendos. Sex jokes in movies that went over your head as a kid
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