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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pukunui" data-source="post: 9736402" data-attributes="member: 54629">No, it's in the "many years later" epilogue of the last book / movie, when Harry, Ginny, Ron, and Hermione are putting their children on the Hogwarts Express.Not here to argue about his antisemitism. However, I am rewatching all the old Bond movies with my teen daughters, and we watched You Only Live Twice last night. Dahl did the script for that movie, and he actually did a pretty good job turning Bond into the "other" (literally in one case). His portrayal of Japanese culture (the late 60s version of it at least) seems fairly respectful, and the two Japanese Bond girls are actual baddies compared to their European counterparts. Even Bond behaves somewhat more respectfully to his love interests here than in the previous films. No sexual assault in barns or day spas here! And Aki repeatedly rescues Bond instead of the other way around. The scene where Tanaka tells Bond that in Japanese culture, women are subservient to men, so he must allow his women to bathe him, seems more representative of Japanese sexism than the general societal sexism of the 60s (considering Tanaka comments that English women would never do that, although Bond says he can think of a few who might). Exactly. Struggling with PTSD is a major theme in the books / movies. Katniss and Peta deal with their PTSD from surviving one Hunger Games throughout the second book / movie and their PTSD from surviving two games throughout the third book / third and fourth movies. Drowning his PTSD in alcohol is also basically Haymitch's entire deal.</blockquote>

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