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Kill James Bond!

S3E14: Modesty Blaise

Kill James Bond!

November, Abigail, and Devon

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Tv & Film:film Reviews

4.7615 Ratings

🗓️ 29 February 2024

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

It's time for another Eurospy spoof.This movie, based on the 'Modesty Blaise' comics by Peter O'Donnell, was written and directed by Joseph Losey to be 'A pop-art inspired spoof, with over-the-top set design, """Avante-garde editing""", and deliberate continuity problems'. It was nominated for a Palme d'Or at Cannes. He made a bad movie on purpose, as a joke. We have differing opinions on if he managed.   ------ FREE PALESTINE palestineaction.org/donatehttps://www.map.org.uk/donate/donate ----- Consider supporting us on our reasonably-priced patreon!https://www.patreon.com/killjamesbond ------ *WEB DESIGN ALERT*  Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here:  https://www.tomallen.media/   Kill James Bond is hosted by November Kelly, Abigail Thorn, and Devon. You can find us at https://killjamesbond.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

To light the fuse, to push the button, to squeeze the trigger.

0:08.0

To squeeze the trigger. Hello and welcome to another episode of Kill James Bond.

0:28.1

I am November Kelly.

0:29.3

I am joined, as always, by my friends Abigail Thorne and Devon.

0:32.4

Hey.

0:33.3

How you doing?

0:34.1

And we watched 1966's Modesty Blaze in the course of finishing out our season of solidarity,

0:42.3

our Eurospy season.

0:44.5

And let me just say, this is gonna be, this is my Zardos.

0:48.9

Like Zardos was already my Zardos, but this is, this is the Nova Zardos, because like, this is,

0:54.0

I saw this movie and for the first half hour, I was like, what the fuck is this, this is, this is the Nova's artist because like, this is, I saw this movie and for the first half hour, I was like, what the fuck is this? This is bullshit. I hate my job. I only do it to pay for my skincare routine. And then for the back hour and a half of it, I was like, this movie is going to be part of my personality forever now. Whereas I had the complete inverted experience, because of the first like 45 minutes

1:12.1

of this, I was just like, oh, this is cool, this rules actually.

1:14.6

And then I was just like, okay, you kinda lost me.

1:18.6

The dialectic that makes the show exciting.

1:21.6

And I'm here.

1:22.6

I had a great time the whole way through.

1:24.6

In a sort of like Hagellian dialectic, the most important thing is that sometimes there's a third person just around.

1:31.3

Yeah, I'm pretty sure he said that, you know?

1:34.3

Yeah, absolutely.

1:35.3

So Modesty Blaze.

1:37.3

What is it?

1:38.3

Thesis, Antithesis, Devin.

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