Tuesday, 12 October 2010

James Bond Ideology

Gender - The Ideology based around gender is that women are the more passive ones and men are the active ones, this is proven because of the female lead role, she doesn't act very self sufficient when it comes to escaping from the villains or even trying to fight them off.
The films representation of women in general are that they're the followers and men are the leaders, with lots of female henchmen surrounding the main villain, who happens to be a man, being given instructions to kill Bond and his accomplice.
One last thing to pick up on is the fact that his accomplice, a young blonde and attractive woman, doesn't actually do much in the film aside from screaming for James' help when she nearly dies (every five minutes) and generally being in the way.

Race - The Ideology based around Race is that basically, everyone who isn't white, without an impairment of any kind, English speaking and middle to upper classed is a crook or is going to die within the film.
For example, all of Bonds' allies were either from within Britain or the US, no where else, making it out to seem like other countries are evil or are out to get the British and the Americans.

Age - Age didn't really play a major part in this Bond film, however, it would seem that all the women were in their twenties and mostly all of the men were in their thirties and above.

Sexuality - Sexuality played a major part in the Bond films, regarding that James Bond is strictly Heterosexual and very masculine, he's the one who gets all the women and never fails to make the ladies swoon.
There also doesn't seem to be any homosexuals within any of the Bond films from what i've seen, that its almost forbidden to be gay within one of these films.

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