Thriller recipe (James Bond)

James Bond

Recipe for James Bond Thrillers:

A James Bond film consists of the following; a dashing, sexy, brave and heroic secret agent. A eccentric villain of equal strength hell bent on taking over the world or blowing things up and causing destruction. A number of gorgeous women and exotic locations not forgetting the martinis, shaken not stirred. And finally a number of eye popping stunts and action scenes which can sometimes be completely absurd.

James Bond also known as 007 is a british secret agent, created by writer Ian Fleming in 1953. James Bond started by featured in twelve novels and two short story collections. But the fictional British secret agent who's been adapted for television, radio, comic strip and video games as well as being used in the film franchise which started in 1962 with Dr. No which starred Sean Connery as James Bond. There has been 23 Bond films where the most recent being Skyfall starring the most recent Bond, Daniel Craig. He is the sixth actor to play Bond the others are:

Sean Connery

George Lazenby

Roger Moore

Timothy Dalton

Pierce Brosnan

Daniel Craig

There are other things which make James Bond who he is these include the Bond car. The Bond car is a high performance sports car stuffed with gadgets. The most famous of these is the Aston Martin DB5 where Bond could eject the seat with a red button under the gear stick. The DB5 first appeared in Goldfinger in 1964 driven by Roger Moore. The most recent Bond film Skyfall made a reference to this classic car and the well known ejection button.

 

The way James Bond is sold to the public also helps to make the films such hits for example the posters advertising the new films are usually filled with guns, suits, women and action.  

Examples:

These posters show what the film entails and hints at the story line. It entices the audience both men and women by showing both sexy women and men in the posters. It always has his pistol in the poster to show he is dangerous.

The action scenes are always fast pacing and is usually either James Bond being chased or him chasing someone himself, with a scattering of explosions, gun firing, fighting and general destruction.