James Bond Casino Royale

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‘The name’s Bond, James Bond’. Five words and we’ve got ourselves a hero, an icon, a symbol of Britain’s top notch security agency. Every hero needs motivation, cue the heroine, a Bond girl- sexy, seductive and glamourous. Bond Girls have a known archetype of being the former things but also have the tendency of symbolising danger and duplicity and Vesper Lynd seemed to fill this bill in the latest ‘Casino Royale’, but there was much more to the treasury accountant than we expected.

Bond has always had his own way with women in the franchise: the Bond girls. Whether those be this love pursuits or professional partners such as Miss Monneypenny, Bond’s tried his luck with them all. And in most cases they have fallen for his quintessentially …show more content…

This can be seen through her language. A recent study into the linguistics of ‘Casino Royale’, the film in which she features, found that Bond attempted to threaten Vesper’s self-esteem and confidence through challenging her through confrontational comments. This is known as a Face Threatening Act, a theory proposed by Brown and Levinson (1987), politeness theorists. Instead of allowing Bond’s comments to get the better of her and prove that she was just another one of those Bond girls who would soon be forgotten about, she challenged Bond in a similar way, making her particularly stand out in the history of Bond Girls. In the opening scene between them, Bond tries to read her and she successfully reads him, deducing that Bond had a similar childhood to her own through her sharp witty dialogue. However the similarities didn’t end there, Vesper’s speech mirrors that of Bond’s, for example through the use of sexist comment when Bond tells Vesper that whilst in the Casino, she is to be ‘Miss Stephanie Broadchest’, Vesper makes a sexist comment about Bond having a ‘perfectly formed ass’. This is what linguistic Howard Giles referred to as ‘Convergence’ in his accommodation theory (accommodating your speech to suit the person you are talking to). Bond had finally met his match, a woman as equally witty and clever as him, and she would leave an indelible mark on the 007 agent’s heart forever, and also on the history of Bond

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