007 From Russia With Love (1963) MOVIE REACTION! FIRST TIME WATCHING!
Added 2021-07-30 14:40:55 +0000 UTCHello everyone and welcome to Cinema Rules! The second official 007 James Bond Movie ever made starring Sean Connery is From Russia With Love. This franchise didnt get off to a great start with Shaun who hasnt seen most of the films, but does this one improve upon his criticisms? Find Out!
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My opinion is that these films were cultural events as much as pieces of entertainment, so they were built to appeal to the masses and as such I think they truly reflected the views of the masses they were made for. Society lapped up these films as escapism, they lapped up the idea of James Bond, with the saying that many women wanted him and many men wanted to be him. He was a fantasy hero for many. These were not really films made for intellectuals or films to provoke much self-reflection lol. They were just rip-roaring spy thrillers-cum-action movies. Some of the content may be completely alien or opposite to the way most people live, think, or behave in 2021, more than half a century later, but I think we can only just acknowledge that things have moved on, acknowledge them for what they were and the fact that as films they absolutely introduced some of the foundational elements, techniques and tropes of their cinematic genre and craft that still continue to this day. I personally think it's kind of futile to have a problem with a film that is just a record of how society was 55 years ago just because we may not like how society was then. I'd get it if the film was out of kilter with the prevailing views of that time, but I don't think these films were. If we go forward 55 years from now and future generations watch equivalent mass-market entertainment of 2021, they would be no doubt similarly shocked by what we happily consumed in 2021, or how we lived, thought or behaved in our society. I'm just glad that we have made progress in some ways at least! :)
Ian
2021-08-01 16:33:33 +0000 UTCYou can't defend the misogyny but I think the "dad jokes" deserve a break. One of the ways that James Bond movies are important is that through experimentation, they essentially created a number of tropes still in use today - and the post-kill one-liner is a big one. Also, at least in the early movies, I believe they were still affected by Hays Code era, so you had to be fairly tame so as to not exacerbate the violent nature of the scene.
Thomas Yanez
2021-08-01 07:21:31 +0000 UTC
