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Although his choice of drink is distinctly declasse.
A martini, shaken, not stirred? I had no idea it was declasse. What would have been an appropriate snob-class drink of his time? (I was raised in a mostly tea-totalling household, so I'm not up on some of the finer drink associations.)
I think it's the fact that it's a vodka martini, not a "real" (gin) martini. Was it always vodka, or was that just product placement, I wonder.
Ooh! Can Helen Mirren be Bond?
I'm totally down with this, too. ita's an unqualified GENIUS!
don't think they let 60 year old agents go traipsing about these days.
t refers Nutty to half of Roger Moore's Bond work
(I'm not saying they were good, I'm just saying being old has never stopped someone from playing Bond)
(Although his choice of drink is distinctly declasse.)
There's a great bit in West Wing where President Bartlett explains that the reason you stir a martini is so as not to chip the ice, and thus Bond is ordering a watered down martini, and doing it in a snooty way.
Is it possible to order a martini made to your specifications and not be doing it in a snooty way? I mean, it's a snooty drink.
When my sister bartends, there are always customers who will ask for their martinis "mild" (or, alternately, "extra-strong"). She has given up trying to explain to these people why they are idiots.
Is it possible to order a martini made to your specifications and not be doing it in a snooty way?
Cosmo. It's so done.
I am obviously a martini-idiot. Guess that explains why I have had maybe one in my lifetime.
It's really too bad that nobody made a film with her as Lady Macbeth.
That reminds me to add the 1960s TV production of Macbeth with Ian McKellen and Judi Dench as Lady Macbeth to my Netflix queue.
Macbeth with Ian McKellen and Judi Dench
Yes. Yes! Yes!
Ahem. Which is to say, I thought it was a rather well done version of the play.
Is it possible to order a martini made to your specifications and not be doing it in a snooty way?
Hee!
The original Bond was a representative of patrician snob Britain, which may be why he has always been white and driven Austen Martins and whatall. (Although his choice of drink is distinctly declasse.)
His choice of drink was dictated, in the movies, by a deal with Smirnoff, I believe it was. In the books, he'd drink whatever was appropriate to the situation.