James Bond Argumentative Essay

Over the past half a century, the iconic British fictional character James Bond has been one of the most famous and popular spies of all times. Since the 1950s, James Bond, originally created by Ian Fleming in his spy novels, has been featured in television shows, radio broadcast and comics. However, what made James Bond the most world widely known iconic spy even today was the 007 film series which is currently the second highest-grossing film series behind Star Wars (“Movie”). From the very first Bond movie “Dr. No” in 1962 to the most recent movie “Spectre” in 2015, all 24 Bond movies have attracted every generation over 50 years by six different actors portraying various personalities and aspects of Bond while the filmmakers keeping

There were also radio broadcasts of the novels, television documentaries and comics that adapted both novels and films that were released mainly in the Britain, in the United States and even in South Africa. In 1962, Albert R. ‘Cubby’ Broccoli and Harry Saltzman produced the first James Bond film and since then, Broccoli continued to work on the film series until his death in 1996 (Dyer 2017). Since then, 007 series have been attracting a wide range of audience throughout multiple generations all over the

According to Costello, Fleming depicted Bond as someone who objectifies women by saying “Women were for recreation” and preferred having affairs with married women in order to avoid “emotional entanglement” (2012). Furthermore, Fleming and the filmmakers have oversexualized women in James Bond, especially the Bond girls. Not only naming the characters vulgarly, but also making Bond surrounded by multiple pretty girls emphasizes Bond’s male sexuality masculinity. In a sense, by making Bond a sex symbol, filmmakers are trying to attract female audience while male audience are already attracted to Bond’s masculinity and wishing to become like a manly international spy like Bond