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Licence to Thrill. Reading James Bond as a Cultural Phenomenon


The Bond Films

Bond 14

A View to a Kill (1985)

Bond Actor: Roger Moore
Directed by John Glen
Music by John Barry

Detailed Cast & Crew: IMDb Entry

Roger Moore leaves his role with a bang, and a good Bond film. Zorin is a typical Fleming-type adversary of mixed Nazi/KGB origin, yet operating on his own - thus making it possible for Bond to in the end be awarded the Lenin Award by General Gogol - that's true deescalation.

With Grace Jones' character May Day, the Bond girl status gets majorly elevated into the more partaking kind, a trend already set in the beginning (for Bond's girls always at least got some action; yet in the later films, this tendency would get even stronger).

Clearly visible is also the definite aim of the Bond series to always be contemporary, to always be modern, to capture the current trends and to canalize these currents and stylize them and

see also: Song Lyrics