Tuesday, 26 March 2013

Why DO I love these Reactionary Bond Films?

I'm tempted to go to the new Bond film "Skyfall". I like (guiltily) Bond films because they present an essentially English version of manhood (contrast Eton educated Bond with the more proletarian Rambo or Die Hard's John McClane.) Which, remember, is quite a difficult confession for me to make, considierng the fact my Irish Nationalism is like my Catholicism, something I have strove hard to rationalise away but seems as indelible as skin pigmentation. Although I'm sure the aesthetic/value system is americanised as this stage (which destroys there charm for me.) However despicable movies about a ponce spy saving the world from the commies they had charm and elegance. Funny, I like modern ideals (I'm with the individual over the herd, noble savage over aristocratic custom and reserve, poor over the rich) but I always liked these silly, reactionary Bond films.

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