James Bond Quantum of Solace, no sex at the end

As told 10

“This is the first James Bond movie where at the end the love is not consummated. They just desperate... they just split apart.”
0:59 The Comedy of Life2016-11-02 · 1:11:35

“It's the first James Bond film where at the end there is no sex between Bond and Bond girl.”
52:48 A New Kind of Communism2011-11-02 · 56:49

“this is the first james bond film where at the end the couple just bond and the bond girl, they embrace themselves there to traumatize, nothing happens.”
39:55 Great Minds2011-07-01 · 1:30:44

What it carries

one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)

contents · one story, 3 jobsuses

Western Buddhism ×2 X without X ×2 deconstructionist belief ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by

Dan Brown7 Greta Garbo2 Terry Gilliam3 Ernst Lubitsch6 Karl Popper3 Virginia Woolf2 Mangosuthu Buthelezi2 Paul Taylor1

alongside works

Quantum of Solace10 Angels and Demons9 The Da Vinci Code10 To Be or Not to Be4 The Lost Symbol3 Brazil3 The Double Life of Véronique2 Black Swan2

Told together with

35% Da Vinci Code / Da Vinci, sex displaced onto Jesus 6 shared talks 20% Dating agencies: 'find love without the fall' 4 shared talks 18% Rumsfeld / Iraq, no weapons of mass destruction 2 shared talks 17% Sherlock Holmes and the dog 2 shared talks 15% China banning time-travel and alternate-history narratives 3 shared talks 14% Machines having sex / stamina training unit 2 shared talks 14% Ciudad Juárez femicide as ritual 2 shared talks 14% Holocaust as comedy, not tragedy 2 shared talks 14% Starbucks ethical consumerism 5 shared talks 13% Polish socialist store, no butter, no toilet paper 2 shared talks 13% Brazil restaurant scene 2 shared talks 12% Brassed Off coffee invitation 3 shared talks

Every retelling 10

0:59 The Comedy of Life2016-11-02 · 1:11:35

Žižek notes that Quantum of Solace is the first Bond film where the love affair is not consummated, the protagonists simply split apart, as evidence that even Hollywood has abandoned the ideology of passionate love., illustrating deconstructionist hedonism,contemporary sexual ideology

52:48 A New Kind of Communism2011-11-02 · 56:49

Quantum of Solace is politically progressive (Bond saves Morales's Bolivia) yet is the first Bond film to end without sex between Bond and the Bond girl, part of a broader cultural trend of experience without its substance., illustrating love without the fall,thing without its substance,narcissistic subjectivity

39:55 Great Minds2011-07-01 · 1:30:44

In Quantum of Solace, Bond and the Bond girl merely embrace, the first Bond film with no sex. For Žižek this reflects subjective self-commodification: passionate erotic attachment has become too risky., illustrating self-commodification,ideology in popular cinema

1:11:04 What is to be done for politics?2012-06-27 · 1:24:25

Žižek notes that Quantum of Solace is the first Bond film with no sex at the end, reflecting a broader cultural prohibition on excessive erotic openness and passionate attachment., illustrating masturbation with a real partner,pure contractual sex,sexuality-gender

52:47 At Nuit Blache2012-09-29 · 2:06:58

The first James Bond film where Bond and the Bond girl don't have sex at the end, just embrace; Žižek reads this as a symptom of the broader decline of genuine intersubjective sexuality., illustrating decline of intersubjective sexuality,Western Buddhism,end of the world as we know it

1:02:56 The Freedom of a Forced Choice2014-11-22 · 1:24:08

In Quantum of Solace, James Bond has no sex scene at the end, the first Bond film without it. Žižek reads this alongside Dan Brown's sexless Da Vinci Code as symptoms of the ideological desexualization of sex: sex is allowed but only if reduced of its dangerous substance., illustrating desexualization of sex,ideology