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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Source: comedy writer Zach Dunn. Giving credit is cool.

[–] [email protected] 168 points 17 hours ago (5 children)

Rebecca ass is shockingly tame for old James Bond

Pussy Galore is unironically a character name in Goldfinger (1964)

[–] [email protected] 44 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Bonus fun fact: In the original book Pussy Galore is a lesbian who who gets raped straight by James Bond's magical penis.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 hours ago

Thats pretty much how it happens in the film too.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago

One of the films (Thunderball maybe) starts with him raping a nurse.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

Aside from Pussy Galore, another favorite inappropriate Bond moment I enjoy is from The Man with the Golden Gun. Bond approaches an Asian woman skinny dipping in a pool and asks her for her name.

She responds: "Chew Mee"

Bond: "Really!?...."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

She needed to get something off her chest.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

This one is kinda funny tho

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago

Definitely funny!

[–] [email protected] 34 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

There was a movie named Octopussy

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I thought that's the one Pussy Galore is in?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

No, the name of the character is just Octopussy.

Presumably she has like eight of them down there. One for every day of the week, and a bonus for special occasions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 minutes ago

She reserves #8 for high holy days

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Pussy Galore was in Goldfinger.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago

Strike that. Reverse it.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

I like that, even in-universe, in 1964, Bond's first reaction to that name is "I must be dreaming". So it's not like the filmmakers weren't aware of how absurd that name is. They just didn't give a shit.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

James Bond: The name's Bond. James Bond.

Xenia Onatopp: Xenia Sergeyevna Onatopp.

James Bond: Onatopp?

Xenia Onatopp: Onatopp

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

I love a lady who enjoys pulling rank.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I never read them, but the filmakers were just adapting books by Ian Fleming into movies after they found out how successful they were doing. 50 shades of grey was based off a Fan Fiction novel wasn't it? And those movies came out what I would consider recently.

I think mainstream media just converted Bond into an Icon that was supposed to be more upstanding than he originally was meant to be.

The lastest plays on Bond were the Kingsman. Where a princess tells the main character he can fuck her in the asshole if he saves the world, and he just basically says brb.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah, but book Bond and movie Bond are two rather different Bonds. I think Timothy Dalton probably got closest to depicting the literary Bond onscreen, but in so many words: the books are a fair bit darker in tone than some of the movies, and secondly (something Dalton thankfully did not channel), they're exceedingly racist. Yes, even more racist than You Only Live Twice let's-make-Sean-Connery-Japanese racism. One chapter of Live and Let Die set in Harlem NY is titled, I shit you not, "[n-word] Heaven".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

What's racist about the japanese Connery? I only remember him dressing in a kimono.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

He literally puts on Japanese face. His eyes are done up and everything.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 hours ago

Connery was the one they asked if he slapped his wife around and responded something like your damn right I did, and if you ask her, she'll tell you she deserved it. The public was fine with that response, and Fleming wrote the Bond series years before. I looked it up to double check, Fleming was born 12 years before Women got the right to vote. And he died around the time the Jim Crow laws were abolished. Racism and Sexism were likely very prevelant in his life.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

And is where Austin Powers got the idea for Alotta Fagina

[–] [email protected] 39 points 14 hours ago

Dixie Normous

[–] [email protected] 29 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

No that's based on Xenia Onatopp

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

You're on your way to a smack-bottom, and I don't care who knows it!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 hours ago

Twins, Basil.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 18 hours ago (9 children)

And this is why I'm not bothered by Amazon taking it over.

James Bond has always been bizarre with tone. Each Bond is different. As long as they're not as Bourne-y as Craig's then I'll be fine. But them stealing bonds quips and gadgets and women... The fuck? You made British Jason Bourne with more trauma and less of an ability to cope with it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Craig has actually said that the serious tone was a reaction to Austin Powers existing. It was too on the nose.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Which is just cowardice

[–] [email protected] 36 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (6 children)

As long as they're not as Bourne-y as Craig's…

Yeah. The Venn diagram of good Bond has a bit of Austin Powers and Inspector Gadget overlap, not Bourne.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

The opening of casino royal is about as borne as it should get.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Sometimes I wonder if all the James Bonds are the same person, or if "James Bond" is like "The Dread Pirate Roberts".

Poor fella lost his wife on his wedding day. He has loads of trama of his own.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

On Her Majesty's Secret Service the second actor to play the role gets beaten up, after which he says "this never happened to the other guy!"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Do with that what you will..

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