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I started to think differently about the character of Dr. Holly Goodhead when I saw that scene
again at the end of Moonraker when she and Bond are both fighting Drax's henchmen, and
there you can see that Holly Goodhead is really swinging punches together with Bond, and I
thought, huh, that's not something you see very often, really in any movie, so that got
me thinking about the character and wondering how well she was portrayed as an astronaut,
so then I did some historical research on who the first women astronauts were and all
that kind of stuff, and I put that in a blog post which anyone can read regarding Bond.com,
but it was writing that that made me realize that there's this very slow reveal of all
the capabilities that Holly Goodhead has.
When we first see her, she's just holding a clipboard, and she could be like a tour guide
for the place that Bond is visiting, but then you find out she tells him she is an astronaut,
and she's fully trained when he presumes that maybe she's still in training, and then the
next thing we find out is that she also is an agent like him, but for the CIA, and then
later we see her piloting the space shuttle, and then she's fighting with Bond during
the showdown, and I feel that's really interesting because it's not something I thought up before,
and there are different kinds of Bond girls, you know, the type who at the end of the movie
either they end up having to be rescued by Bond, and then there are those who either
fight in some way or even save Bond's life, you know, like Tatiana already does in From
Rush with Love, and then Domino when she harpoons Lago, so they actually save James Bond, although
they don't do a lot of other stuff, at least not, sort of they're not working on the mission
except as becoming allies, whereas Hollywood head is different because she's on the case
just like Bond, so she has maybe more in common with with Anya from Spy Who Loved Me because
Anya is also put on the case by her boss, and then they work together, and this is similar,
but anyway she's a really interesting character, and if nothing else it got me to look into
the history of female astronauts and realize that the Bond movies were really progressive
for their time, because first of all you think, oh, you know, Bond's not taking her seriously,
because he doesn't think she's an astronaut, but then you find out that there'd only been
one female astronaut in history, and it was 17 years before. The Bond movies, they're
actually doing a lot more than you expect. What it looks on the surface is different
to what you find out when you stop to think about it, well, or at least when you know
the history and when you know what the time was like, then everything changes.