I got stood up last night (again!) for this date that never was. If you're one of the unlucky few who has actually experienced this then you know how terribly forlorn an experience it can be. The funny thing was I actually won a movie pass that night (for being the best Table Topics speaker in the Toastmasters meeting I attended = a pre-date event). The movie pass stated: "Privilege Card: Admit One Only" = yup, as if saying one should be priviliged to go to the movie alone. And it did say admit one only, so I took that as fate's sign for me to go on quality self-time. Quantum of Solace. The movie's title says it all: I am so trapped, in this total vacuum of aloneness !!! Or, as translated to Filipino: "malaking kawalan". But its his loss really & not mine!
So watch the movie I did. And I absolutely loved it! It reminded me again of how much I love Daniel Craig as James Bond. And I realized three things from all these James Bond movies:
(1) I don't want to be the James Bond girl who dies. Strange as it may seem, but I always seem to identify with this character. There's always one in every flick, from Solange in Casino Royale, Teri Hatcher's character in Tomorrow Never Dies, to this last one of Agent Strawberry Fields. Sultry, sexy & they steal the scene. But they do have that sapping, victim & hopeless take to it all. Still, they do get laid by James Bond. That should count for something. But I need to shift to the other character, the other James Bond girl. I want to be the girl who gets to stand up for herself & kicks ass.
(2) James Bond is the ultimate bad boy girls must be wary of. Oozing with macho sex appeal; a chest to die for; physically & mentally agile (my weaknesses in a guy). You know he's working on the right side of the law, but there's still that untamed, maverick side of him. No matter if you know how many women he must have bedded in his entire career, he still gets to you. I think its because he can make any girl feel like such a woman. I love the last 2 James Bond movies though because Bond has this humane side to him: he's fallen in love! What drives him is his love for Vesper, & the betrayal he feels at her having duped him. No wonder then that he becomes this international playboy.
(3) Have sex and die! Never have sex with James Bond (& all bad boys) no matter how they entice you (I love Daniel Craig's pick-up line in this movie: to Agent Fields = " I can't find the hotel stationery" = so unusual that it actually works!). Still, never, never give in! (Yeah right! Note to self) He can be so all-consuming & no matter how thrilling an experience it can be --- woe to the girl who does so. As the villian says in Quantum of Solace: "Everything he touches withers and dies". Could any death be worth the little death one enjoys when they have sex with him? Hmm...
So I did get to have that date after all. Oh James....
(1) I don't want to be the James Bond girl who dies. Strange as it may seem, but I always seem to identify with this character. There's always one in every flick, from Solange in Casino Royale, Teri Hatcher's character in Tomorrow Never Dies, to this last one of Agent Strawberry Fields. Sultry, sexy & they steal the scene. But they do have that sapping, victim & hopeless take to it all. Still, they do get laid by James Bond. That should count for something. But I need to shift to the other character, the other James Bond girl. I want to be the girl who gets to stand up for herself & kicks ass.
(2) James Bond is the ultimate bad boy girls must be wary of. Oozing with macho sex appeal; a chest to die for; physically & mentally agile (my weaknesses in a guy). You know he's working on the right side of the law, but there's still that untamed, maverick side of him. No matter if you know how many women he must have bedded in his entire career, he still gets to you. I think its because he can make any girl feel like such a woman. I love the last 2 James Bond movies though because Bond has this humane side to him: he's fallen in love! What drives him is his love for Vesper, & the betrayal he feels at her having duped him. No wonder then that he becomes this international playboy.
(3) Have sex and die! Never have sex with James Bond (& all bad boys) no matter how they entice you (I love Daniel Craig's pick-up line in this movie: to Agent Fields = " I can't find the hotel stationery" = so unusual that it actually works!). Still, never, never give in! (Yeah right! Note to self) He can be so all-consuming & no matter how thrilling an experience it can be --- woe to the girl who does so. As the villian says in Quantum of Solace: "Everything he touches withers and dies". Could any death be worth the little death one enjoys when they have sex with him? Hmm...
So I did get to have that date after all. Oh James....
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