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A Bond girl is a character (or the actress portraying a character) who is a love interest and/or female sidekick of James Bond in a novel, film, or video game. Bond girls occasionally have names that are double entendres or puns, such as Pussy Galore, Plenty O'Toole, Xenia Onatopp, or Holly Goodhead, and are considered "ubiquitous symbol() of glamour and sophistication."〔Caplen, Robert A., ''Shaken & Stirred: The Feminism of James Bond'' (Xlibris, 2010), pref.〕 There is no set rule on what kind of person a Bond girl will be or what role she will play. She may be an ally or an enemy of Bond, pivotal to the mission or simply eye candy. There are female characters such as Judi Dench's M and Camille Montes, who are not romantic interests of Bond, and hence not strictly Bond girls. However, it has been argued that M's pivotal role in the plot of ''Skyfall'' qualifies her as a Bond girl or Bond woman. ==In novels== Nearly all of Ian Fleming's Bond novels and short stories include one or more female characters who can be said to qualify as Bond girls, most of whom have been adapted for the screen. While Fleming's Bond girls have some individual traits (at least in their literary forms), they also have a great many characteristics in common.〔For a general discussion of the characteristics of the Fleming Bond girl, see the relevant chapters of O. F. Snelling, ''007 James Bond: A Report'' (Signet, 1965).〕 One of these is age: The typical Bond girl is in her early to mid-twenties, roughly ten years younger than Bond, who seems to be perennially in his mid-thirties.〔James Bond (literary character)#Background〕 Examples include Solitaire (25),〔Fleming, Ian, ''Live and Let Die'' (MacMillan, 1954), ch. 10.〕 Tatiana Romanova (24),〔Fleming, Ian, ''From Russia, With Love'' (MacMillan, 1957), ch. 9.〕 Vivienne "Viv" Michel (23),〔Fleming, Ian, ''The Spy Who Loved Me'' (Glidrose, 1962), ch. 2.〕 and Kissy Suzuki (23).〔Fleming, Ian, ''You Only Live Twice'' (Glidrose, 1964), ch. 12.〕 The youngest Bond girl (though she and Bond do not sleep together) may be Gala Brand; she is named for the cruiser in which her father is serving at the time of her birth.〔Fleming, Ian, ''Moonraker'' (MacMillan, 1955), ch. 16.〕 Bond's youngest sexual partner in the books is Mariko Ichiban, an 18-year-old masseuse in ''You Only Live Twice''. The eldest Bond girls are Pussy Galore, whom Bond speculates is in her early 30s, and 29-year-old Domino Vitali. Bond girls conform to a fairly well-defined standard of beauty. They possess splendid figures and tend to dress in a slightly masculine, assertive fashion, wear little jewellery—and that in a masculine cut—wide leather belts, and square-toed leather shoes. (There is some variation in dress, though: Bond girls have made their initial appearances in evening wear, in bra and panties and, on occasion, naked.) Nearly all of them are white; they often sport light though noticeable suntans (although a few, such as Solitaire, Tatiana Romanova, and Pussy Galore, are not only tanless but remarkably pale〔〔''From Russia, With Love'', ch. 8〕〔Fleming, Ian, Goldfinger (Glidrose, 1959), ch. 17.〕), and they generally use little or no makeup and no nail polish, also wearing their nails short.〔Snelling, ''007 James Bond: A Report''.〕 Their hair may be any colour,〔Fleming, Ian, ''The Man with the Golden Gun'' (Glidrose, 1965), ch. 4〕〔〔Fleming, Ian, ''Live and Let Die'' (MacMillan, 1954), ch. 7.〕〔Fleming, Ian, ''Casino Royale'' (Glidrose, 1953), ch. 5.〕 though they typically wear it in a natural or casual cut that falls heavily to their shoulders. Their features, especially their eyes and mouths, are often widely spaced (e.g. Vesper Lynd, Gala Brand, Tiffany Case, Tatiana Romanova, Honey Ryder, Viv Michel, Mary Goodnight).〔Fleming, Ian, ''Casino Royale'' (Glidrose, 1953), ch. 5; ibid., ''Moonraker'' (MacMillan, 1955), ch. 11; ibid., ''Diamonds are Forever'' (MacMillan, 1956), ch. 5; ibid., ''From Russia, With Love'' (MacMillan, 1957), ch. 8; ibid., ''Doctor No'' (Glidrose, 1958), ch. 8; ibid., ''The Spy Who Loved Me'' (Glidrose, 1962), ch. 2; ibid., ''The Man with the Golden Gun'' (Glidrose, 1965), ch. 4.〕 Their eyes are usually blue (e.g. Vesper Lynd, Gala Brand, Tatiana Romanova, Honey Ryder, Tracy Bond, Mary Goodnight),〔Fleming, Ian, ''Casino Royale'' (Glidrose, 1953), ch. 5; ibid., ''Live and Let Die'' (MacMillan, 1954), ch. 7; ibid., ''Moonraker'' (MacMillan, 1955), ch. 11; ibid., ''From Russia, With Love'' (MacMillan, 1957), ch. 8; ibid., ''Doctor No'' (Glidrose, 1958), ch. 8; ibid., ''The Spy Who Loved Me'' (Glidrose, 1962), ch. 2; ibid., ''On Her Majesty's Secret Service'' (Glidrose, 1963), ch. 3; ibid., ''The Man with the Golden Gun'' (Glidrose, 1965), ch. 4.〕 and sometimes this is true to an unusual and striking degree: Tiffany Case's eyes are chatoyant, varying with the light from grey to grey-blue,〔Fleming, Ian, ''Diamonds are Forever'' (MacMillan, 1956), ch. 5.〕 while Pussy Galore has deep violet eyes, the only truly violet eyes that Bond had ever seen.〔 The first description of a Bond girl, ''Casino Royale's'' Vesper Lynd, is almost a template for the typical dress as well as the general appearance of later Bond girls; she sports nearly all of the features discussed above.〔 In contrast, Dominetta "Domino" Vitali arguably departs to the greatest degree from the template, dressing in white leather doeskin sandals, appearing more tanned, sporting a soft Brigitte Bardot haircut, and giving no indication of widely spaced features.〔Fleming, Ian, ''Thunderball'' (Glidrose, 1961), ch. 11〕 (The departure may be due to the unusual circumstances behind the writing of the novel ''Thunderball'', in which Domino appears.) Even Domino, however, wears rather masculine jewellery. The best-known characteristic of Bond girls apart from their uniform beauty is their pattern of sexually suggestive names (the most risqué and famous being Pussy Galore). Names with less obvious meanings are sometimes explained in the novels. While Solitaire's real name is Simone Latrelle, she is known as Solitaire because she excludes men from her life;〔 Gala Brand, as noted above, is named for her father's cruiser, HMS ''Galatea''; and Tiffany Case received her name from her father, who was so angry that she was not a boy that he gave her mother a thousand dollars and a compact from Tiffany's and then walked out on her.〔Fleming, Ian, ''Diamonds are Forever'' (MacMillan, 1956), ch. 22.〕 Fleming's penchant for double-entendre names began with the first Bond novel ''Casino Royale''. Conjecture is widespread that the name of the Bond girl in that novel, "Vesper Lynd," was intended to be a pun on "West Berlin," signifying Vesper's divided loyalties as a double agent under Soviet control. Several Bond girls, however, have normal names (e.g. Tatiana Romanova, Mary Ann Russell, Judy Havelock, Viv Michel, Tracy Bond (Teresa Draco, aka Contessa Teresa di Vicenzo )). Most Bond girls are apparently (and sometimes expressly) sexually experienced by the time they meet Bond. Quite often those previous experiences have not been positive, and many Bond girls have had sexual violence inflicted on them in the past which has caused them to feel alienated from all men—until Bond comes along. Tiffany Case was gang-raped as a teenager;〔Fleming, Ian, ''Diamonds are Forever'' (MacMillan, 1956), ch. 8.〕 Honey Ryder, too, was beaten and raped as a teenager by a drunken acquaintance.〔Fleming, Ian, ''Doctor No'' (Glidrose, 1958), ch. 11.〕 Pussy Galore was sexually abused at age 12 by her uncle.〔Fleming, Ian, ''Goldfinger'' (Glidrose, 1959), ch. 23.〕 While there is no such clear-cut trauma in Solitaire's early life, there are suggestions that she, too, avoids men because of their unwanted sexual advances in her past. Kissy Suzuki reports to Bond that during her brief career in Hollywood, when she was 17, "They thought that because I am Japanese I am some sort of an animal and that my body is for everyone."〔Fleming, Ian, ''You Only Live Twice'' (Glidrose, 1964), ch. 14.〕 The implication is often that these violent episodes have turned the Bond girls in question against men, though upon encountering Bond they overcome their earlier antipathy and sleep with him not only willingly but eagerly. The cliché reaches its most extreme (perhaps absurd) level in ''Goldfinger''. In this novel Pussy Galore is portrayed as a practising lesbian when she first meets Bond, but at the end of the novel she sleeps with him. When, in bed, he says to her, "They told me you only liked women," she replies, "I never met a man before."〔 In Fleming's novels, many Bond girls have some sort of independent job or even career, often one that was considered inappropriate for women in the 1950s. Vesper Lynd, Gala Brand, Tatiana Romanova, Mary Ann Russell, and Mary Goodnight are in intelligence or law-enforcement work. Those who are criminals, such as Tiffany Case and Pussy Galore, tend to be similarly independent-minded in how they approach their work—the latter even running her own syndicate. Even those Bond girls who have more conventional or glamorous jobs show themselves to be invested in having an independent outlook on life. While the Bond girls are clearly intended as sex objects, they are nevertheless portrayed in the novels as having a degree of independence that the Bond films, in contrast, tended to dispense with until nearly 1980. Most of the novels focus on one particular romance, as some of them do not begin until well into the novel (''Casino Royale'' is a good example). However, several exceptions have been made: In ''Goldfinger'', the Masterton sisters are considered Bond girls (although Tilly is supposedly a lesbian), and after their deaths, Pussy Galore (also supposedly a lesbian) becomes the primary Bond girl. In ''Thunderball'', Bond romances first Patricia Fearing, then later Domino Vitali. In ''On Her Majesty's Secret Service'', Bond enters into a relationship and an eventual marriage with Teresa 'Tracy' di Vicenzo, and sleeps with Ruby Windsor, a patient he meets in Blofeld's hideout while posing as a genealogist. In ''You Only Live Twice'', Bond mainly has a relationship with Kissy Suzuki, but also romances Mariko Ichiban, as well as another a girl who is too insignificant for Fleming to give her a name. Several Bond girls have obvious signs of inner turmoil (Vesper Lynd or Vivienne Michel), and others have traumatic pasts. Most Bond girls whose characters are allowed to develop in the course of the story are flawed, and several have unhappy sexual backgrounds (Honey Ryder, Pussy Galore, Tiffany Case, Vivienne Michel, and Kissy Suzuki, among others). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bond girl」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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