James Bond Research Paper

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My research paper is on James Bond. I want to share with you how Ian Fleming was inspired to create and develop the character James Bond. His original James Bond was Sean Connery, A Royal British Naval Office, also, there has been six other actors that have played as the role James Bond; David Niven, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, and Daniel Craig. My paper will focus mainly on Sean Connery and his role as James Bond, Agent 007. The James Bond series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections. Fleming created the fictional character of James Bond as the central figure for his works. Bond is an Intelligence …show more content…

Sean Connery, born Thomas Sean Connery was a Scots-born actor and is often defined by his iconic role as Agent 007, Connery was feature in seven of the James Bond films. Connery was a great pick to portray Bond because he had spent time in the Military, he was in the Royal Navy from 1946-49 but later received a medical discharge. Connery was the eldest of two sons of Joseph, a lorry driver, and Euphamia, a cleaning lady. Connery is characteristically understandable about his career stating that “There’s nothing special about being an actor… It’s a job, like being a carpenter or a brick layer, and I’ve never stopped being amazed at the mystique people attached to my business.
Back in Edinburgh, Connery, a tall young man began working on his physique. He did weight training and also became heavily involved with amateur soccer, thinking there might be a career for him as a professional soccer player. Connery further details his early career in acting, from several years in theater until his first screen role, in the 1955 No Road Back, followed by several other movies for Connery; during the filming of one, Action of the Tiger, he met Terence Young, who would later be the director of the Bond …show more content…

Left-leaning observers accuse Bond novels and films of misogyny and sexism. Geographers have considered the role of exotic locations in movies in the dynamics of the Cold War, with power struggles among blocs playing out in the peripheral areas. Other critics claim that the 21st Century Bond movies reflect imperial nostalgia. American conservative critics, particularly in the 1960s and 70s, saw Bond as a nihilistic, hedonistic, and amoral character that challenged family

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