GOLDENEYE (1995)
Xena Zaragevna Onatopp!
"I’ve grown quite weary of the spunky heroines, brave rape victims, soul-searching fashionistas that stock so many books. I particularly mourn the lack of female villains - good, potent female villains. Not ill-tempered women who scheme about landing good men and better shoes (as if we had nothing more interesting to war over), not chilly WASP mothers (emotionally distant isn’t necessarily evil), not soapy vixens (merely bitchy doesn’t qualify either). I’m talking violent, wicked women. Scary women. Don’t tell me you don’t know some. The point is, women have spent so many years girl-powering ourselves - to the point of almost parodic encouragement - we’ve left no room to acknowledge our dark side. Dark sides are important. They should be nurtured like nasty black orchids."
Almost six feet tall (5'11"), stunningly beautiful, dangerously aggressive and obviously brilliant. Famke Janssen, a Dutch A-List fashion model was perfect casting for the character of Xena who wanted to squeeze Bond like an old tube of toothpaste with her extra strong thighs! I was mesmerized by her performance as she 'inhabited' the character of Xena, every man`s nightmare. 
On the other hand, if you were walking down the street and passed by a young woman on her way back to her apartment, just back from the corner grocery with a frozen dinner and a bottle of wine you might not even give a second look. Just insert Hollywood with just the right makeup, just the right lighting from just the right angle and the girl had talent, you wind up with Xena Onatopp (Click Here).
Every grown man has had an experience or two, somewhere back there, with a wildly hot and absolutely crazy femme fatale. Composers have written songs about such encounters (Dixie Chicken), movies have been made about such experiences (Fatal Attraction ~ 1987) and (My Super Ex-Girlfriend ~ 2006) and for a young man recently unleashed on the world, those women are indeed a very fatal attraction.
Click one:
1) Dixie Chicken (song)
2) Fatal Attraction (movie)
3) Super Ex-Girlfriend (movie)
4) Beth Dutton, OMG!
For me personally it was "Carol" (Not her real name). A wildly exotic, strong, ferocious, gorgeous, adventurous, free spirited young woman. Bold and brilliant, an Alpha Female of the first order but the trouble all started when it came time to move on. I almost had to join the witness protection plan to exit the relationship. She became very scary and perhaps this personal experience is why Xena Onatopp struck a chord with me. This was of course decades ago but every once in a while I still glance over my shoulder in fear/excitment.
"Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary cliche. But the femme fatale expresses woman’s ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all of men’s relationships with women."
Now that I'm very old, thoughts of "Carol" do sometimes fondly come to mind! She was Crazy and Hot!
Oh! Carol! You're Crazy!
As part of the "Educational" portion of this blog I offer the young men of today a chance to minimize the effects of their encounter with their own Xena Onatopp by including the next video which offers some guidence in classifying the Crazy/Hot syndrome into manageable portions. Warning to the "woke" among us, skip this next video!
So look out guys, an 8 hot and above a 7 crazy is the danger zone!
I got a chance to watch Goldeneye last night (Thank you PRIME) and very much enjoyed it. If I remember correctly this was the first appearance of Dame Judi Dench as Bond's boss M. She can play anything smart, tough, wry, funny whatever is called for. After briefly sizing up Bond she called him a "sexist, misogynist dinosaur" with a straight face and you could see where the movies were headed. In the "real" world at the time MI6 in London had indeed brought on it's first female chief (Dame Stella Rimington), so to keep up with the times Dame Judi Dench brought her considerable skills to the silver screen. Thank you Judi!
Goldeneye re-energized the Bond franchise and if measured by dollars, was a successful endeavour. The movie sold three times as many tickets in the U.S. as had Licence To Kill released ten years earlier and earned twice as much money worldwide. Twenty four and a half million dollars. Pierce Brosnan continued to play the Bond role in the next 1997 release of Tomorrow Never Dies with the very talented and versatile Miss Michelle Yeoh!
Give a listen to the Goldeneye podcasts
Just some closing notes here: If you are considering including Xena in a blog you are writing here are some excellent GIF files that may help you. Click Here
Xena Zaragevna Onatopp bites the dust!
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