11 Things You Learn Rewatching Octopussy
7. The Casual Racism Is Painful To Watch
It's not exactly a revelatory statement that the decades-old Bond movies are littered with casual racism, but Octopussy's brazenness in this regard is pretty shocking when viewed today.
Bond's (Roger Moore) sojourn to India sees the filmmakers milking practically every known Indian stereotype to the point of exhaustion, with sword swallowing, fire pits, "grotesque" exotic food, snakes and Bond infamously handing his Indian cohorts some cash before quipping, "Keep you in curry for a few weeks, won't it?"
The shameless stereotyping serves as an unfortunate primer for the even more egregious Indo-centric racism that would follow the very next year in Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
That's not to forget the cringe-worthy West Germany lampooning, either, because of course, Bond ends up trapped in a car with beer-swilling, sausage-gobbling Germans. Eye-rolls for days.