Motifs in the James Bond film series the degree to which Bond girls are pivotal to propelling the plot forward varies from one film to the next. Five of the Bond girls are "bad" girls (or at least working for the villain) who turn "good" (or switch sides) usually due to Bond's influence. Bond has fallen in love with only Tracy di Vicenzo in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" and Vesper Lynd in "Casino Royale", but both of them die at or near the end of the respective films. Roald Dahl, a screenwriter of "You Only Live Twice", said he was given a formula to work to
Bond girl Bond Phenomenon: A Critical Reader". In 2009, researchers at Cleveland State University and Kent State University published an article, "Shaken and Stirred: A Content Analysis of Women's Portrayals in James Bond Films", which provided a quantitative content analysis of 195 female characters appearing in twenty James Bond films. Bond girl A Bond girl is a character (or the actress portraying a character) who is an attractive love interest or female sidekick of James Bond in a novel, film, or video game. Bond girls occasionally have names that are double entendres or puns, such as Pussy Galore, Plenty O'Toole, Xenia Onatopp,