Ep# 34 - Deadpan International Bond Satires in the 60s
Modesty Blaise (1966)
Sick and tired of Jenna torturing him with hours of terrible James Bond rip-offs, Bart takes the reins and chooses a mix of international bootleg Bonds that all have one very important thing in common: they make Bart laugh. How that is, or why that is, is the real question here; they border on enigmatic enough that even Bart isn’t too sure how to describe his sense of humor. Whatever it is, Modesty Blaise is certainly a big part of it.
In this episode, Bart and Jenna take a dive into Bart’s Choice of international, deadpan, satirical, meta, James Bond spoofs. They wrestle with the question of why it is James Bond has been so spoofed, remade and perpetuated throughout the entire world. They also do their best at trying to truly pin-point Bart’s sense of humor. You might ‘get it,’ you might not, but if nothing else you will definitely be introduced to some of the most memorable theme songs this side of “Goldfinger.”
The following films are discussed:
• Strike First Freddy (1965)
Slå først Frede!
Directed by Erik Balling
Starring Morten Grunwald, Ove Sprogøe, Essy Persson
• Modesty Blaise (1966)
Directed by Joseph Losey
Starring Monica Vitti, Terence Stamp, Dirk Bogarde
• Branded to Kill (1967)
殺しの烙印 (Koroshi no rakuin)
Directed by Seijun Suzuki
Starring Jô Shishido, Mariko Ogawa, Annu Mari
• The End of Agent W4C (1967)
Konec agenta W4C prostrednictvím psa pana Foustky
Directed by Václav Vorlícek
Starring Jan Kacer, Kveta Fialová, Jirí Sovák
• Who's Got the Black Box? (1967)
La route de Corinthe
Directed by Claude Chabrol
Starring Jean Seberg, Maurice Ronet, Michel Bouquet
• Danger: Diabolik (1968)
Diabolik
Directed by Mario Bava
Starring John Phillip Law, Marisa Mell, Michel Piccoli
