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For Your Eyes Only (1981)
d. John Glen
Melina Havelock (Carole Bouquet)
In the pre-title credits sequence, a British spy ship disguised as a trawler, the St. Georges, sank near Albania, with a nuclear submarine control system (ATAC) onboard.
Melina Havelock was a strong-willed Greek marine biologist who watched as her parents were gunned down on her father's yacht Triania at Corfu (Greece) by one of the film's evil henchman Hector Gonzales (Stefan Kalipha), when her father marine archaeologist Sir Timothy Havelock (Jack Hedley) was investigating and filing a report on the location of the wreck for the British. She played an icy, unsmiling, often staring, determined avenging angelic figure, on a mission to seek revenge for her parents' murder with a crossbow.
She first met Bond (Moore) shortly after tracking down Gonzales, poolside at his Spanish villa, and murdering him with an arrow from her crossbow as he dove into the pool. She helped Bond escape from Gonzales' guards in her Citröen 2CV after his Lotus Espirit exploded, and they successfully disabled two larger vehicles during a pursuit sequence. She claimed she still had "unfinished" business - the murder of the man who paid Gonzales. Bond advised her to give up her vengeful quest: "The Chinese have a saying: 'Before setting out on revenge, you first dig two graves.'" She replied: "I don't expect you to understand. You're English, but I'm half-Greek. And Greek women, like Elektra, always avenge their loved ones."
In the small town of Cortina in Northern Italy, Bond again crossed paths with Melina and rescued her from two black-garbed motorcyclists on Yamaha snow motorbikes. She persistently resisted being sent away by Bond, for her own safety. She argued: "It was my parents they killed, not yours." He urged her to let him handle things, trust him, and return to the Triaina in Corfu and wait. She reluctantly agreed: "I'll go back and wait, but not for long."
Later in the film, he returned to her in Greece, informing her of his findings that led to double-crossing villain Aristotle Kristatos (Julian Glover): "Kristatos killed your father, because he didn't want him to find the St. Georges before he did." The bad guy's scheme was to sell the ATAC decoder to the Russian KGB in exchange for a huge sum of money.
The two investigated the underwater wreckage site in a two-man submarine (the Neptune) where they found the ATAC undamaged, but Kristatos had caught up with them. He stole back the disarmed and retrieved ATAC and took them captive. He tied them together - Melina told Bond: "I didn't think it would end like this." Bond was more self-assured: "We're not dead yet." They were dragged behind Kristatos' boat over razor-sharp coral through shark-infested waters. Bond was able to effect their escape by severing his rope-bound hands, lashing their pull-rope around a huge coral rock - causing the rope to snap, and then they shared air from a dive-tank that Melina had left earlier at historical ruins on the ocean floor.
As the film ended, she joined Bond (with her deadly crossbow) in an assault on Kristatos' mountain monastery retreat St. Cyril's to prevent the exchange of the ATAC with Russian General Gogol (Walter Gotell), and to kill Kristatos and his henchmen, with the aid of Greek smuggler Columbo (Chaim Topol) and his men. As she was winched up in a basket, Melina used her crossbow to defensively wound one of the alerted armed guards.
Later, Bond dissuaded Melina from killing Kristatos with her weapon ("No Melina, that's not the answer"), but she resisted: "Out of my way, James." He assented but reminded her of a Chinese saying: "All right, but be prepared to dig those two graves." Unnoticed by both of them, Kristatos reached for a switchblade, when Columbo saved them both and threw a knife into Kristatos' back. Bond destroyed the ATAC before it could reach the hands of the Russian General.
Upon Bond's return to the Triaina yacht with Melina that evening, they passionately kissed each other. She asked: "You know what I'd like?...A moonlight swim." They both disrobed - her light blue robe and his white robe dropped to their feet, revealing their nakedness. She uttered: "For your eyes only, darling..." Bond left his Seiko watch/radio transmitter on the parrot's perch (just prior to a patched-in conversation with the British Prime Minister) before taking a skinny-dip moonlight swim with Melina.
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Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
d. Roger Spottiswoode
Miss Moneypenny (Samantha Bond)
In a very minor role and with just a few brief appearances, secretary Moneypenny (Samantha Bond) - in her most memorable scene - called James Bond (Brosnan) and summoned him from his erotic foreign-language lessons at Oxford University (with a lovely blonde Danish Professor, Inga Bergstrom) - see below.
She ended the call with a sexy double-entendre one-liner: "You always were a cunning linguist, James."
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Professor Inga Bergstrom (Cecilie Thomsen)
At Oxford University in England, agent 007 (Brosnan) was "studying a new tongue" with his gorgeous blonde Danish professor, Inga Bergstrom (Cecilie Thomsen), who complimented him on his "natural ability."
Bond and Bergstrom were making love ("practice makes perfect") when they were interrupted by a phone call from Miss Moneypenny (Samantha Bond).
He explained he was at Oxford "brushing up on a little Danish." She said he would have to "kiss off" his lesson due to an international emergency - the British fleet was being deployed to China.
Moneypenny ended the call: "You always were a cunning linguist, James."
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Colonel Wai Lin (Michelle Yeoh)
Wai Lin (Hong Kong action heroine Michelle Yeoh with martial arts skills) was first introduced when she gate-crashed a celebratory launch party held at the Hamburg, Germany headquarters of CMGN (Carver Media Group Network), led by crazed worldwide media baron Elliot Carver (Jonathan Pryce). She claimed she was a reporter for the New China News Agency, meeting both Carver and Bond (Brosnan) who was impersonating a banker. The media mogul suggested that the forthright and self-assured woman should work in his Beijing bureau.
Bond met her a second time during a raid of Carver's top-floor secret laboratory in his massive complex in Hamburg, Germany, when she set off an alarm, and separately escaped with a harpoon wall-climbing device.
Their next encounter was when she startled him during an underwater reconnaissance of the sunken HMS Devonshire near the coast of Vietnam, with a large drill-hole in its hull, and a missing nuclear cruise missile. After barely escaping with their lives as the unstable ship slid into a deep abyss, they surfaced, where they found her Chinese support boat had been over-taken by Carver's main henchman Stamper (Gotz Otto) and his men. The two were taken prisoner, handcuffed together and helicoptered to Carver's Saigon (Vietnam) CMGN headquarters.
Inside the facility in the hallway, Wai Lin covered up her alarm when she recognized corrupt Chinese military leader General Chang (Philip Kwok) accompanied by Chinese soldiers in civilian clothing. In front of Carver, they learned each other's true identities: he was an agent of the British Secret Service, while she was associated with the Chinese People's External Security Force.
They escaped after Carver left them in the hands of his sadistic henchman Stamper and his "toys" (chakra torture devices). After abseiling down from the building's rooftop on a huge banner, still handcuffed together, and crashing into a lower-story office, they escaped on a BMW R1200 motorcycle through the streets of Saigon - each steering one handlebar while being hotly pursued by Range Rover vehicles and a chopper, both carrying armed killers.
In the spectacular chase sequence through the streets of Saigon, they fled through alleyways, across bridges, into houses, open-air markets, and along rooftops and collapsing terraces. They threw obstacles in the way of the pursuit vehicles, including barrels and a truck filled with exploding firecrackers. At one point, they performed a stunning and daring high-speed roof-top motorcycle jump with the bulky 1600cc BMW bike across the hovering helicopter. When they were trapped by the copter's rotating blades in a dead end, they skidded under the chopper, and then Bond threw a clothes-washing cable-line into the rotors, causing the machine to lose control and crash.
Afterwards, they took a sexy, outdoors clothed "shower" together, although she was reluctant to get close to him when he suggested that they team up to go after Chang: "Don't get any ideas, Mr. Bond." After she picked her own single handcuff and attached it to the shower pipe, she stomped off after telling Bond: "Thanks for washing my hair. I work alone."
Although she was wary, they were forced to work together after he saved her life from thugs sent by General Chang to kill her. As a member of a renegade force, she became his confident ally when they discovered Carver's plan to incite international warfare between China and the UK, by firing a missile from his Stealth Ship (positioned near the British fleet) at China, making it look like the UK's doing. (Carver had collaborated with Chang in the first place to build his Stealth Ship to attack the Devonshire and steal its missile.)
They traveled together to Ha Long Bay in a Zodiac where the Stealth boat was located, as he complimented her for working with him, using her own words, "You found the right decadent, corrupt Western agent as a partner." Together, they eventually were able to defeat and kill Carver and Stamper, and she provided crucial back-up support, although she was captured twice, and Bond had to save her from a chained, watery grave. He shared air with Wai Lin underwater by kissing her as the booby-trapped missile was detonated onboard the Stealth above them, exploded and obliterated the ship.
After their mission was accomplished, the independent and fearless female finally succumbed to Bond's charms. As the British Navy's HMS Bedford searched for Commander Bond and Wai Lin, floating on pieces of wreckage from the Stealth ship, they ignored its "Are you there?" requests.
Bond proposed that for the meantime: "Let's stay under cover" - and they kissed.
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