The main themes of the Bond are always praised for the way they set up the viewer for the content of the film. It is…
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Category: The Book
Posts in this category are chapters of the book. Sooner or later, the whole book will be published here in this way.
What is good about bad Bond movies?
For example, what’s good about Spectrum? This is the moment when Bond drops the parachute after the chase in Rome. Such details make Bond Bond…
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Little revelations from Fleming: «A specialist is like a dental abscess: the completeness of it is one-sided».
«A specialist is like a dental abscess: the completeness of it is one-sided» (aphorism of Kozma Prutkov, fictional Russian classic). «You only live twice», Bond…
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Little revelations from Fleming: fair play and Englishmen.
«It was the BAOR championships that finally told him to go over. By chance, they took place on a night of the full moon. Grant,…
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Analogues, forerunners, and followers of James Bond.
The significance of Bond is inevitably bringing to life constant comparisons, searches for analogues, forerunners, and followers of Bond (attempts to parody or copy Bond…
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To Russia only under the threat of death.
It is noteworthy that I do not know a single movie and not a single book about Russian spies, where a Russian dragged a girl,…
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The Bond theme from the USSR
If in the very first years after the Cold War an unknown genius managed to organize the shooting of the next Bond film in collaboration…
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A luxury for Bond. Naturally, but not guaranteed.
Why does Bond use the best cars, wear the best suits, eat, drink and smoke all the best? Because this is also a game by…
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The prototypes that were not prototypes.
Bond is a myth, not a historical figure. And it is valuable to viewers and readers just as the hero of the myth. Prototypes of…
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There are a lot of «Bonds» in the world – just not all of them work as spies.
Not many people are interested in real spy games. But many are interested in feature films and books about it. In books and films, people…
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