Bond was escapist (male) fantasy, glamorous and gloriously impossible.
Now, in its time, they were terrific entertainment, but I always thought that there was a knowing, cynical, irreverent, tongue-in-cheek and somewhat amoral tone to the movies, and increasingly wildly improbable plots.
Yes, - to my mind - they were campy, (and because increasingly so during the 70s) but they were also an antidote to the serious (and moralising) tone of the war era movies, and the bleak neorealism of some of the best movies of cinema in the 50s.
Now, in its time, they were terrific entertainment, but I always thought that there was a knowing, cynical, irreverent, tongue-in-cheek and somewhat amoral tone to the movies, and increasingly wildly improbable plots.
Yes, - to my mind - they were campy, (and because increasingly so during the 70s) but they were also an antidote to the serious (and moralising) tone of the war era movies, and the bleak neorealism of some of the best movies of cinema in the 50s.