Zeke Newbold
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Calling all Bond fans!
I'm afraid this is one of those so called `Mandela Effect` thingies. Yeah,I know - we had a thread on that before, and I was all rather dismissive of it (for the usual reasons: memories can be unreliable, there are many comon misconceptions - etc). I take none of that back, but...this particular one has got me beat.
So in the film Moonraker (1979) there is a scene in which the baddie Jaws falls for an attractive woman called Dolly (the lovely Blanche Ravalec). Many - including hardcore Bond fans- remember the scene as thus: Jaws smiles at her, and Dolly smiles back - to reveal that she is wearing braces - and so they have something in common and it's love at first sight. It's a sort of visual joke, right?
Except that it's not there anymore - you try finding a picture of dolly with Braces, and watch the film again if you have it - the braces have gone...! (And in the process the whole meaning and comedy of the sequence is lost).
I'm no fan of that era of Bond - way too camp for me - and i'm not even sure if I've seen the film all the way through so i'm not the best judge. However, a great many people remember the scene described above - and they're not all `Mandela Effect` nuts either. see how confused bond fans themselves are about it:
www.M16Community.com
Even the BBC seem to be under the impression that she had braces: www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-29160096
The only mundane explanation for this that I can think of is that the film has been, in recent times, tanpered with digitally.Perhaps the fact that she wore braces made her look underage, and in our paedophilia obsessed culture, some wallah deamed this unnacceptable. If this is so, then I think the producers responsible owe the fans, who really care about this kind of stuff, an apology for not having owned up to it and explained why they did it.
And this post would belong in the Political Correctness Gone Mad thread.
Somebody must know...!
I'm afraid this is one of those so called `Mandela Effect` thingies. Yeah,I know - we had a thread on that before, and I was all rather dismissive of it (for the usual reasons: memories can be unreliable, there are many comon misconceptions - etc). I take none of that back, but...this particular one has got me beat.
So in the film Moonraker (1979) there is a scene in which the baddie Jaws falls for an attractive woman called Dolly (the lovely Blanche Ravalec). Many - including hardcore Bond fans- remember the scene as thus: Jaws smiles at her, and Dolly smiles back - to reveal that she is wearing braces - and so they have something in common and it's love at first sight. It's a sort of visual joke, right?
Except that it's not there anymore - you try finding a picture of dolly with Braces, and watch the film again if you have it - the braces have gone...! (And in the process the whole meaning and comedy of the sequence is lost).
I'm no fan of that era of Bond - way too camp for me - and i'm not even sure if I've seen the film all the way through so i'm not the best judge. However, a great many people remember the scene described above - and they're not all `Mandela Effect` nuts either. see how confused bond fans themselves are about it:
www.M16Community.com
Even the BBC seem to be under the impression that she had braces: www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-29160096
The only mundane explanation for this that I can think of is that the film has been, in recent times, tanpered with digitally.Perhaps the fact that she wore braces made her look underage, and in our paedophilia obsessed culture, some wallah deamed this unnacceptable. If this is so, then I think the producers responsible owe the fans, who really care about this kind of stuff, an apology for not having owned up to it and explained why they did it.
And this post would belong in the Political Correctness Gone Mad thread.
Somebody must know...!