Critical Investigation Task #3 - Historical text analysis and research

Dr No Trailer 1962

Dr No is the first James Bond film that was made by the famous Eon Production team that is still producing the James Bond franchise to this day. And it was the first official James Bond film ever made in 1962 with Sean Connery playing the iconic James Bond character. This film is highly regarded as the best James Bond film of all time with a masterful performance from Sean Connery and Jospeh Wiseman and won the Golden Globe as well.

This film is perfect for my critical investigation because of the fact that the older it becomes more and more people realise how sexist and in parts racist the film gets throughout the film with changes from the book to the big screen with Honey Ryder name changed from Honeychile and how all she did was be a damsel in distress throughout the entire film even if people see Honey Ryder as one of the most iconic film characters of all time due to her introduction ever if James Bond also had sex with Miss Tao during the film.

In the film as well was a character called Quarrel who in the book as a iconic character who was a very good friend to Bond throughout the film and played a much bigger role in the Dr No novel and a lot of people felt generally sad when he died in the novel a black character in the 60's got genuine remorse but in the film he was reduced to a stereotypical black male to just follows orders just like any other person in the James Bond franchise who is a white male. Also the actor who played Quarrel wasn't a random no name actor it was John Kitzmiller and he was the first black actor to win a best actor award at the Cannes Film Festival.

Skyfall - Glass Marksman Shot

In comparison to Spectre they have made very little progression with the representation of women in the James Bond franchise over the past 50 years. With one of the worst Bond Girls of all time with Sévérine with her only appearing in a few scenes before James Bond pointlessly sleeps with her and then a few scenes later she was shot dead that's it their was no connection between the characters and not even James Bond acted liked he even cared about her playing her off comparing to a drink "Waste of a Good Scotch". Also after he says that he kills every single guard in the area which makes no sense because if he could have done that why didn't he do it before Severine was shot and Sliva killer her just to make a point to James Bond that not even James Bond cares about ever so her death is worthless and her only purpose was to be a Macguffin for the plot and because James Bond films have to have a Bond girl she filled the status quo.