Why the name Trench? Who cares! My Victoria Bond has come alive and is taking on Jabba the Hutt who is sliming the European Union and the G7.
Russia was the bitter enemy of Ian Fleming and his character, James Bond. Will the producers of the latest Bond movie condemn the blatant Putin Lover, Donald Trump?
I hereby declare the President of the United States the enemy of Victoria Bond!
Jon Presco
Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, producers of the Bond series, said in a statement: “We are so sad to learn that Eunice Gayson, our very first ‘Bond girl’, who played Sylvia Trench in Dr No and From Russia With Love, has passed away.
“Our sincere thoughts are with her family.”
In her role as Sylvia Trench, Gayson, who died on 8 June, helped to create one of cinema’s most enduring catchphrases.
Meeting 007 over cards at the Le Cercle Club casino, she suggests raising the stakes. Bond replies: “I admire your courage, Miss, er… ?”
“Trench, Sylvia Trench. I admire your luck, Mr… ?”
“Bond, James Bond.”
Gayson said in 2012 that filming the scene had not been easy as Sean Connery struggled with the line.
She said: “He had to say Bond, James Bond, but he came out with other permutations like Sean Bond, James Connery. ‘Cut! Cut! Cut!’”
At the instigation of the director, Terence Young, Gayson took Mr Connery for a drink, and he returned to deliver it perfectly.
Sylvia Trench was due to be a recurring character, but the idea was dropped by the director of Goldfinger, Guy Hamilton.
But while Gayson is the only woman to appear as the same Bond girl in two movies – Sylvia Trench also appears in a clinch with 007 in From Russia with Love – her voice is not heard in either of them.
As with many of the Bond girls in the 1960s and 1970s, her lines were rerecorded by voiceover artist Nikki van der Zyl.
Gayson was born in Surrey in 1928. She played a series of screen roles, including in Hammer Horror’s 1958 movie The Revenge of Frankenstein, before becoming the first Bond girl.
After the Bond films, she appeared in several classic TV series such as The Saint and The Avengers.
Matt Damon, known among many things for playing the Bond-evolved character Jason Bourne, has called James Bond “repulsive,” saying, “he’s a misogynist, an imperialist, he’s all the things that Bourne isn’t. He kills people then drinks a Martini.” Even Daniel Craig, the actor currently playing James Bond, has called him a “very lonely, sexist misogynist.”
Plenty of the women in Bond’s life could be dubbed helpless trophies. That’s easily true for those in Dr. No, as they are characters that either throw their desires at bond (Sylvia Trench) or are “saved” by his sex (Rider). The cunning lady-villain of the piece, Miss Taro, isn’t in it solely for the romance — but she’s carted off by the authorities. That trend continues in Bond lore when it comes to the romantic enemies (like Xenia Onatopp), and the women in Bond’s universe have limited options: You either throw yourself at Bond immediately or become enamored with his charm. If you’re in it for villainous reasons, things aren’t going to work out in your favor. Even if you do truly love Bond, you’re still expendable and are almost guaranteed to be forgotten about by the next picture.
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