More like double-NO-seven, amirite, ladies?
Daniel Craig and Léa Seydoux in Spectre.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Columbia Pictures
James Bond: ultra-smooth with ladies, yes, but also, pretty likely to hurt or kill ladies!
BuzzFeed News looked at 24 Bond films spanning more than 50 years and found that the spy, who's portrayed as a powerfully seductive skirt-chaser, has another side to his sexual exploits: Namely, a violent side.
We found 108 female characters he had a significant interaction with — and this is how he treated them:
He attacks and threatens women.
He brandishes a gun at at least seven women and shoots at two, which does not count the woman he actually shoots to death — Elektra (Sophie Marceau) in The World Is Not Enough (1999). Bond also commits other acts of violence not listed in this chart, including holding a knife to a woman's throat. Some of the female characters he threatens and attacks are enemies or people he mistakenly believes are enemies, but nine of them are unambiguously the pawns of dangerous, more powerful men who are his actual targets — these women are collateral damage. In a disturbing scene in Goldfinger (1964), Bond rapes Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman) after she repeatedly says she is not interested and physically tries to fight him off.
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