Using “She’s pretty”
leverage from some Toho films, we came back to the world’s greatest spy
franchise…and got an uneven response.
At the end, my daughter
stated she only liked the rhyming couplet of the girls, because they were
pretty, and the Kitty. With some
prodding on my part, she did remember other things she liked.
Basically, she enjoyed most
of the beginning and middle of the film, I think she was tired and the end
battle was more straight action, and less gag based than the series direction
would take it later.
She panicked at the
underwater scene early on, due to her Thunderball experience, but decided it
was acceptable because there was, “not too much scuba.”
Somehow the history,
tradition and ritual of Sumo did not appeal to her. Instead she kept repeating, “They need more
clothes, ewwwwwww.”
Bond’s disguise in name only
to visit the bad guy was greeted with a, “Are they really buying this?”
She then showed she’s
starting to understand the rules of these pictures. When Tiger mentions getting rid of a tailing
automobile in, “the usual way.” She
said, “I’m scared.”
When I asked why her
answer was a short and direct, “Cause it’s a James Bond movie.”
The helicopter magnet
trick was regarded as, “NEAT!” however.
Dropping the meat bone
on the end of a rope into the piranha confused her, because at first she
thought it was a leash for the killer fish.
Then when Helga was dumped into the tank for her failure, she got a
little upset because, “She’s pretty, why did he kill her like that?”
My answer of, “Because
it was cool,” netted agreement.
“Yeah, it was pretty
cool.”
That’s my girl.
In that vein, she also
pointed out, “Everybody likes ninjas.”
She thought “Nellie” was
going to be another pretty girl. Her disappointment was short lived, however,
due to the awesomeness of the little Autogyro.
The infamous “Disguise
Sean ‘One Accent’ Connery as Japanese” idea was viewed by her in pretty much
the same way as everyone who ever saw this movie.
“Suuuure he is. Why
didn't they (M.I.6.) get a Japanese spy?”
“I guess he looks kinda
Japanese…
from a distance…
If you squint…
And can’t focus.”
Through most of the
climax, she’d occasionally inquire, “Is he still supposed to be Japanese?”
This was usually
followed by many other sarcastic comments like, “Oh, I wasn’t sure.”
That’s my girl.
As for the titanic
reveal of Ernst Stavro Blofeld on screen after four previous films of teasing?
Her reaction was a mere
two words:
“He’s short.”
I thought the island
explosion impressed her, but it was my smart aleck genes rearing up again for
the obvious blue screen of the volcano, “OOOH!
They’re watching a movie.”
All the ninjas,
explosions, and craziness which set the pace for subsequent Bond outings didn’t
impress her as much as Blofeld’s cat. The
white feline was far and away her favorite part of the film.
She went so far as to
compose, “The Kitty with No Name” song (those are the only lyrics), which she’d
hum to herself whenever she got bored.
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