Do the Bond films show a history of films in pop culture?
MilleniumForce
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I was thinking about this, and have decided to explain my point.
1962 - 64 Bond was becoming popular, and these are the 'serious' spy film's popular at the time.
1965 - 71 The film's were becoming less serious (with the exception of OHMSS) and were one of, if not the most popular franchise at the time.
1973 LALD uses what was popular at the time, blacksplotation film's, and incorporates it into Bond.
1974 TMWTGG uses karate, popular at the time, as more martial arts films were becoming more mainstream.
1979 MR uses the success of Star Wars and Close Encouters to create a Sci fi space adventure.
1989 LTK is similar to popular action films of the time, Lethal Weapon and Die Hard, and is a great example of tears, gritty action films of the late eighties.
1997 TND uses technology new at the time, and were to become popular in later years.
2002 Bond is clearly trying to be more 'cool' (and trying to hard) to bring in audiences of the time and to compete with films such as xXx.
2006 - 08 The film's are darker, to a similar tone of Batman Begins and Bourne.
2012Bond is not as serious as it used to be, and going back to similar tones of Connery's early films.
1962 - 64 Bond was becoming popular, and these are the 'serious' spy film's popular at the time.
1965 - 71 The film's were becoming less serious (with the exception of OHMSS) and were one of, if not the most popular franchise at the time.
1973 LALD uses what was popular at the time, blacksplotation film's, and incorporates it into Bond.
1974 TMWTGG uses karate, popular at the time, as more martial arts films were becoming more mainstream.
1979 MR uses the success of Star Wars and Close Encouters to create a Sci fi space adventure.
1989 LTK is similar to popular action films of the time, Lethal Weapon and Die Hard, and is a great example of tears, gritty action films of the late eighties.
1997 TND uses technology new at the time, and were to become popular in later years.
2002 Bond is clearly trying to be more 'cool' (and trying to hard) to bring in audiences of the time and to compete with films such as xXx.
2006 - 08 The film's are darker, to a similar tone of Batman Begins and Bourne.
2012Bond is not as serious as it used to be, and going back to similar tones of Connery's early films.
1.LTK 2.AVTAK 3.OP 4.FYEO 5.TND 6.LALD 7.GE 8.GF 9.TSWLM 10.SPECTRE 11.SF 12.MR 13.YOLT 14.TLD 15.CR (06) 16.TMWTGG 17.TB 18.FRWL 19.TWINE 20.OHMSS 21.DAF 22.DAD 23.QoS 24.NSNA 25.DN 26.CR (67)
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The Bond films -- like the Fleming novels -- have always followed previous efforts, whether they are in film or in literature, so they've never been remarkably original. They have influenced some trends, such as the spy craze of the 1960s, but they weren't often originators. Certainly spy films of the 1940s and Hitchcock's films of the 1950s and 1960s, especially North by Northwest, created the cinematic blueprint that the Bond films would capitalize on. Bond himself is not wholly original, whether one follows Fleming's claim to being influenced by the Bulldog Drummond stories to the OSS-117 spy novels and films, which predate Fleming's and are remarkable similar, to such sadistic antiheroes as Sam Spade or Mike Hammer or even comic book characters like Bruce Wayne/Batman, whose reliance on gadgetry the Bond novels and films would essentially incorporate later.
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