Top tags: fiction, james bond, british, espionage, ian fleming (all tags)
“Ian Fleming's James Bond is not the Hollywood Bond. At no point while reading a novel like From Russia With Love do I imagine Sean Connery, much less Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, etc. No, Fleming's Bond is hard and cynical, with no interest in tossing out witticisms every time he kills an enemy or beds a lover. Fleming's Bond seems to have made himself almost untouchable, possibly because of what he's seen both in WWII and as a spy through the first decade or two of the...”
“There goes Ian Fleming's idea of masculanity and the terror of Communism.But in a way much more brilliant than the numerous capers recently pulled off by Bond/s on the silver sceen. ”