Just got back from seeing Casino Royale, the new James Bond movie, with some friends. I was thinking that maybe men secretly yearn to be Bond, that dashing and handsome agent who always gets the bad guys, fights but never gets really hurt, and always easily woos the most beautiful women. Imagine a life where you guys succeed at your job and the women you desire never say no?
There was every guy-movie cliche, from a death by bullet and another by drowning in a bathroom sink before the credits,the chase high up in scaffolding, the chase through the jungle, and the first view of the first exotically beautiful woman at the beach in a skimpy swim suit climbing off a white horse. Still it was a fun movie to watch and that new James Bond? Ah, the chest, the abs, the pecs, and the deep blue eyes! No, I'm not drooling, thank you, but he was something to look at, for sure. Yet, he was the epitome of the "bad boy" whose charms we have learned to avoid, the cold unattainable hunk that woos us even though we know better. Another of the stunningly beautiful women, coincidentally the one he worked with to catch the terrorists, said that he thought of women as "disposable pleasures instead of meaningful pursuits." We need to remember that phrase when the next "bad boy" shows up in our lives, ladies.
So my dear single women friends, here's to a year of good health, great movies, lots of time with each other, and the wisdom to know the difference between the "bad boys" and the really good men.
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It's less envy and more a shared male fantasy, one that's specifically geared toward adolescents (of all ages) who both sense their power but have yet to discover their limits.
Being a fantasy, and being adolescent, the Bond image is mostly superficial, and lacks the depth that usually comes with age and that august academy, the School of Hard Knocks.
But Bond is light fun, for men of all ages. I visited the LA Auto Show recently, and enjoyed the way the early 20s sales girls were draped over exotic Lamborghini sports cars - it was pure Bond and all the men there knew it, and enjoyed it for the eye candy it was.
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