Critical Investigation Task #1 - Textual Analysis

Skyfall - Glass Marksman Shot

In this scene you get to see James Bond having to save the life of Sévérine (Berenice Marlohe) one of the many Bond girls you will see in this franchise which includes Sévérine who has only known James Bond for only 24 hours and now she is already prepared to sacrifice her life already in that short period of time and also the main problem that I have with this scene is the reaction that James Bond has when Raoul Silva has kissed and killed Sévérine in cold blood and James Bond reaction is "That's a waste of a perfectly good scotch" That is ridiculous that James Bond has gotten away with straight up comparing a human life to a shot of scotch. If any other character in any other film said that line there would be national outcry with that character being exiled for being misogynistic and not up to date with modern society but because we live in a world where the elite tells us what to say and what to do (Marxist) as a result this leads to no one calling out this blatant evidence of sexism. A key part of James Bond success is that people look up to this character, This links to Uses and Gratification and with the idea of personal identity because with the general public allowing such a misogynisitc character have such success on the big screen and in the famous book series

Skyfall - Bond and Severine Shower Scene

In this scene you get to see James Bond once again doing whatever he wants and having control over every women on the planet even if you think about it James Bond broke into her yacht went into her bathroom and processes to get naked and walks up to Sévérine like he owns the place if that happened in real life James Bond would be arrested for Rape and Breaking and entering but that's beside the point here the problem with this scene is that James Bond's personal relationships with women all lead to him having sex with them why can't it ever be the case that James Bond just has a friends who happens to be female but no it's the case that James Bond gets to sleep with Bond Girl 37 because she may as well be called that because of the fact that see only had a few scenes before that one and only shared a couple of lines of dialogue before having sex with Bond. Sévérine is properly the worst case scenario for what feminist believe is wrong with the James Bond franchise when it comes to women because Sévérine did nothing accept being a Macguffin.