With the release of the newest Bond film,
Skyfall, I thought it would be appropriate to do a Bond-related post. My family
have the box-set of Bond films and I’m ashamed to say we’ve made our way
through all of them... The first of which, Dr. No, was released in 1962. The
films have stood the test of time - despite every one of them pretty much following
the same formula. The films are also rather sexiest. In every film, all the
female characters fall in love in Bond and seem incredibly unable to defend
themselves.
I think what still attracts viewers to
James Bond after all these years is how England is presented. The secret
services are shown as slick, glamorous and unstoppable. Bond is an idealised
version of the sophisticated English gentleman. Everyone likes to pretend that this
is what English is like, rather than the reality of fish and chip takeaways and
council estates… I think that with the
exception of Americans (who probably do believe that this version of England is accurate) viewers enjoy watching a
film where this idea of England
is a reality.
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