邦德鍾情黑髮女郎 講美音帶武器更佳

Gentlemen may prefer blondes but Britain's most sophisticated secret service agent tends to go for brunettes, according to an extensive investigation into James Bond's love life.

Academics who set out to discover what makes the ideal Bond girl found that apart from having long dark hair, she is likely to have an American accent – and to carry a weapon.

The unexpected findings were reached by a team who assessed the physical traits of all 195 female characters in the first 20 Bond movies, then contrasted the characteristics of the 98 who had "sexual contact" with Bond with those of the 97 who did not.

Unsurprisingly, Bond's sexual partners also tend to be younger, slimmer and more attractive than the women he does not bed – and they are less likely to wear glasses.

Those who fit the ideal type include Lois Chiles as Dr Holly Goodhead in Moonraker (1979) and Lana Wood as Plenty O'Toole in Diamonds Are Forever (1971).

The researchers studied all women who had speaking roles or who appeared in two or more scenes in each film from Dr No in 1962, starring Sean Connery, to Die Another Day in 2002, starring Pierce Brosnan. The average age of the women was estimated at 26.

Only 27 per cent of the women were blondes, compared with 40 per cent with black hair, 19 per cent brown and nine per cent red. Those with dark hair were proportionately more likely to get intimate with Bond.

The 18 per cent of women who had long hair were more likely to end up in a sexual situation with 007 than the 22 per cent who had short hair.

More than 90 per cent of the women were judged to be of above-average attractiveness – and the prettier they were, the more likely they were end up in bed with Bond.

Only a quarter of the women in the films had an American accent, but those that did were more likely to end up in a sexual liaison with Bond than the 43 per cent who had a European accent of some kind.

"A majority of female characters engaged in some sexual activity, particularly those in major roles. And the great majority of sexual behaviours involved Bond himself," says the research team, led by Kimberly Neuendorf, professor of communication at Cleveland State University, Ohio.

Three-quarters of the women in the films were white, eight per cent Asian and seven per cent black, with a handful of Arab and American Indian women. One in five female characters were dead by the end of the movie, including many who had had sexual contact with Bond.

Bond was more likely to have sexual contact with a woman if she used a weapon than if she did not.

一項針對詹姆斯•邦德愛情生活的大規模調查發現，男士們也許偏愛金髮尤物，但這位英國最厲害的特工卻鍾情於黑髮女郎。

研究人員想要探究完美邦女郎的特質，結果發現，除了擁有一頭烏黑的長髮之外，她最好還要講美音，並且攜帶武器。

研究小組分析了前20部邦德系列影片中共195位女郎的體貌特徵，繼而將（電影中）與邦德有過親密關係的98位邦女郎與另外97位進行了對比，得出了這一意外發現。

研究結果顯示，與邦德有過親密關係的女郎更年輕、苗條，與和他沒有親密關係的女郎相比更有吸引力，戴眼鏡的也更少，這也在人們意料之中。

符合完美邦女郎形象的包括在1979年上映的《登月計劃》中飾演“妙算博士”的路易斯•智利，以及在1971年上映的《金剛鑽》中飾演普蘭蒂·奧圖爾的拉娜•伍德。

研究人員分析了邦德系列影片中的所有有臺詞或上鏡兩次以上的女性，從1962年肖恩•康納利出演的《諾博士》至2002年皮爾斯•布魯斯南出演的《誰與爭鋒》。據估計，這些女性的平均年齡爲26歲。

僅有27%的邦女郎是金髮美女，而黑髮女郎則佔到了40%，棕發美女佔19%，另有9%是紅髮美女。從比例上看，黑髮女郎更容易與邦德有親密關係。

與佔總數22%的短髮邦女郎相比，佔總數18%的長髮邦女郎更可能與邦德有性關係。

據稱，90%以上的邦女郎擁有過人魅力，而且越漂亮的邦女郎越可能與邦德上牀。

影片中，僅有1/4的邦女郎講一口美音，持某種歐洲口音的佔43%，而講美音的邦女郎更可能與邦德發生性關係。

研究小組負責人、克利夫蘭州立大學傳播學教授金伯萊•紐恩道夫說：“大多數女性角色，特別是女主角都在影片中與男性有某些性行爲，而絕大多數是和邦德。”

3/4的邦女郎是白人，8%是亞洲人，7%是黑人，還有一些阿拉伯人和美國印地安人。影片中，1/%的邦女郎最終殞命，其中很多人與邦德有過性關係。

而邦德更可能與攜有武器的女性有性關係。

vocabulary:

secret service agent：祕密特工