Analysis Of The Film Spectre

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Over Sixty Years of Bond and the Game is Still On It was only two weeks ago that the world was treated to the twenty-fourth official James Bond film titled Spectre, with Daniel Craig starring as the somewhat ‘darker’ and mysterious Bond for the fourth time; “Craig’s Bond is both the inheritor of the 007 tradition and its forefather” (Gehlawat 132). The expectations for the new film were incredibly high, with a star-cast including Christopher Waltz (Inglorious Bastards) and Monica Bellucci (The Matrix), and audiences around the world have not been disappointed. The new James Bond film is breaking all the records, furthermore, the film has undoubtedly added to the staggering number of James Bond cinema-goers; “it has variously been estimated …show more content…

The British Secret Service agent James Bond always plays a leading role and wins from even his worst enemies. However, Iain Murray claims that the reality is different; “The casinos are vast, glum palaces where yard after yard of rich, painted and ageing widows push coins into slots until their frazzled brains turn to pulp, [….], at the tables there are no tuxedos, no adoring blondes, just fat Americans in shirtsleeves cursing their luck” (62). There is certainly an argument to be made for Murray’s opinion, however reality is the Bond audience prefers Fleming’s description of casino culture; where the sharply-dressed Bond always wins and exposes the swindlers. Arguably, the novel that best represents Umberto Eco’s theory of seeing “the novel, [….], as a sequence of ‘moves’ inspired by the code and constituted according to a perfectly prearranged scheme” is Fleming’s seventh novel named Goldfinger. By the time Fleming published this novel, “all the now familiar ingredients were squarely in place” (Chapman 49). When Bond is on an assignment for his country, he enjoys the finer things in life; impeccable clothing, beautiful sport cars, heavy drinking, seductive women. Furthermore, the British spy does all these things overabundant, undermining his health and body; “Bond’s recreation serves to stimulate his sense of masochistic delight” (Birner 14). In Fleming’s novel Goldfinger all of the mentioned elements are candidly in place. However, in the Goldfinger novel the game element, as well as clue-solving, takes up prominent space in Fleming’s narrative; “Goldfinger presents a [….] scheme, [….], where it is possible to notice repeated moves: two encounters and three games played with the Villain” (Eco

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