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Modesty Blaise
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Modesty Blaise is a 1966 comedy action/Spy Fiction film directed by Joseph Losey. It is loosely based on the Modesty Blaise comic strip created and written by Peter O'Donnell, and stars Monica Vitti as Modesty Blaise, Terence Stamp as Willie Garvin, and Dirk Bogarde as the villain, Gabriel.O'Donnell wrote the scenario for the movie, but the screenplay went through multiple rewrites and the end result differs significantly from the original. Changes range from the relatively trivial, such as hair colour, to ones that horrified the comic strip's fanbase: the coldly competent Modesty is depicted as a bubbly (though still strangely competent) airhead, and Platonic Life-Partners Modesty and Willie fall in love and decide to get married.The storyline is as follows: Modesty, a secret agent whose hair color, hairstyle, and mod clothing change at a snap of her fingers, is being used by the British government as a decoy in an effort to thwart a diamond heist. She is being set up by the feds, but is wise to the plot, and calls in sidekick Willie and a few other friends to outsmart them. Meanwhile, at his island hideaway, Gabriel, the diamond thief, has his own plans for Blaise and Garvin.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })O'Donnell wrote a novel based on his version of the screenplay, which (unlike the film) was successful and led to many sequels.Quentin Tarantino is a fan of this movie; the look of Modesty influenced the look of the DIVAS in Kill Bill.Since the film's release, there have been two additional films produced adapting the comic strip: a 1982 Pilot for a never-produced Americanized series that aired as a TV movie featuring Ann Turkel in the lead role, and in 2004, My Name is Modesty was a low-budgeted production starring Alexandra Staden as a young Modesty prior to her meeting Willie Garvin. | |
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When Modesty is strip-searched by the bad guys, she takes off her dress and is then implied to be naked (but not shown to be, due to SceneryCensors). Mrs. Fothergill takes a look at her nether regions and says | |
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Relationship Upgrade | |
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Relationship Upgrade: Modesty and Willie decide to get married once the adventure is over. And the action comes to a halt while they do a song and dance number about it - once in the middle of the movie, and once again towards the end. | |
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Psycho for Hire | |
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Psycho for Hire: Mrs. Fothergill, who has sadistic tendencies and seems to enjoy killing. She likes to submit her (Gabriel's actually) minions to physical exercise of a potentially deadly kind. She visibly enjoys strangling the mime who has betrayed their plans and throwing him off a cliff. She seems a bit too eager to remind Gabriel that he has promised her to kill Modesty and/or Willie. | |
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Bad Boss | |
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Bad Boss: Mrs. Fothergill, who submits her minions to dangerous tests of their physical abilities (when one of them doesn't return alive from a diving test, she seems mostly happy to be rid of an inept underling) and takes obvious sadistic glee in forcing them to do strenuous physical exercise. | |
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Volleying Insults | |
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Volleying Insults: During the period of "truce" between Modesty and Gabriel: | |
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Scenery Porn | |
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Scenery Porn: For fans of architecture, the opening credits that play out over images of classic '60s building lines is as good as Playboy. | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall: This exchange: At one point images of the real-life Modesty Blaise comic strip are shown. | |
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A Glass of Chianti | |
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A Glass of Chianti: Gabriel lounges with a huge glass of blue wine while dispensing his evil orders. To underscore his decadence, a live goldfish is swimming in the glass. | |
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Knife Fight | |
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Knife Fight: In Amsterdam, both Modesty and Willie end up fighting an opponent with knives at the same time. | |
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Changing Clothes Is a Free Action | |
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Changing Clothes Is a Free Action: Played straight and exaggerated for comedy. Modesty doesn't just change her entire outfit, as well as her hairstyle and hair colour, from scene to scene (whether she'd realistically have the possibility or not) but quite often the change takes place between cuts within a scene. In at least one case there isn't even a cut; her hair just instantly blinks from blonde to dark while we're watching. | |
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Adaptation Dye-Job | |
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Adaptation Dye-Job: Modesty is blonde and Willie isn't, the reverse of their hair colours in the comic strip. She does change it to her original colour in a couple of scenes, perhaps as a form of lampshading, and Willie likewise is seen in his normal blonde style early in the film as well before going dark-haired for the rest. | |
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The Cavalry | |
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The Cavalry: The charge at the end done by Abu Tahir and his troops. | |
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Action Girl | |
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Action Girl: Even though Modesty has been chickified quite a lot compared to the comic strips, she doesn't shy away from fights or demanding physical activity. | |
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Ambiguously Gay | |
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Ambiguously Gay: Gabriel has effeminate mannerisms and likes to surround himself with young, bare-chested men. He doesn't show any overt sexual interest in anyone, though, and could possibly be Camp Straight or even asexual. His obvious admiration for Modesty seems to be more of the professional than sexual kind. | |
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Camp | |
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Camp: The high type. | |
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Absolute Cleavage: Modesty impersonates a prostitute in Amsterdam's red-light district by pulling down the zipper of her catsuit to her navel. She is not wearing anything underneath. | |
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Sissy Villain | |
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Sissy Villain: Gabriel has rather effeminate mannerisms and tastes. He can also be rather squeamish about the people he "has to" kill. | |
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Adaptational Nationality | |
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Adaptational Nationality: Modesty's adopted father in the comics was a Jewish Hungarian scholar named Lob. In the film, he's Abu Tahir, an Arab oil sheikh. | |
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A Glass of Chianti / int_83cb09f | |
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Changing Clothes Is a Free Action / int_83cb09f | |
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Navel-Deep Neckline / int_83cb09f | |
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Relationship Upgrade / int_83cb09f |
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