A Comparison of Two James Bond Posters
‘Dr No’ in 1962 was the first James Bond film released and ‘The World
Is Not Enough’ is one of the most recent Bond films to have been
released in 1999. The two film posters are distinctively different,
which would be expected as the films were released decades apart from
eachother.
The first poster for ‘Dr No’ shows that James Bond is a new, never
seen before film as the logo ‘007’ is printed on the poster more than
once in bold lettering, and the name ‘James Bond’ is also printed,
whereas in the poster for ‘the World Is Not Enough’ the ‘007’ logo is
only used once in small lettering and ‘James Bond’ is not used at all,
because by this time the audience automatically recognises that this
poster is for a ‘James Bond’ film because formula and style used is so
familiar.
The social, economic and political situations have changed
dramatically in the time between each film was released; this affects
both the content of the film and the connotations which the film
poster gives to the audience.
The poster for ‘Dr No’ strongly reflects many aspects of how society
was in the 1960’s. The women in the poster are represented as being
‘sex objects’. This is probably because of the new sexual freedoms of
the 1960’s. They are all wearing short and tight, revealing, but
perhaps ‘glamourous’ clothing. In ‘The World Is Not Enough’, the
woman on the left of James Bond is dressed in glamourous and feminine
clothing, but the woman on his left is wearing rather boyish looking,
‘action figure’ style clothes, similar to those of ‘Tomb Raider’. In
the 1960s the women in the Bond films were not portr...
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prominent in the society of the 1960’s and this is reflected in the
poster, it also proves that a sexual revolution was taking place
around this time, and ‘Dr No’ was infact considered to be ‘too
sexual’. The film also goes out of its way to be politically
incorrect.
The first James Bond film was low budget, but as the films have
progressed over the years, they are now high budget films and almost
always certain to be box office hits. The producers were also very
selective and careful in choosing the suitable actor to play James
Bond. This is also a very important factor that contributes to how
well the film will do, and who it will appeal to. It is evident that
the famous actor that does plat James Bond has to look, speak, act and
think in a certain way for the film to be successful.
will make it a remembered film for many years to come, or just a good
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