This article contends that in Skyfall (Mendes, 2012) the series reverts to its tradition of undermining and erasing powerful women by killing off the female usurper and restoring MI6 to a male-dominated space.Casino Royale, written by Ian Fleming and published in 1953, was the first James Bond novel. Nevertheless, M’s power over Bond is ultimately too threatening to his mythic masculine identity.

Playing a much more significant role than she did in the Pierce Brosnan films, M criticises Bond’s weaknesses and mistakes, but she also contributes in important ways to shaping his identity-in-process in her complex role as boss/mentor/mother. Taking us back to the beginning of his career, Casino Royale reconfigures Bond as fallible, vulnerable, and psychologically unstable, a man struggling to secure his identity as 007. This article argues that Casino Royale (Campbell, 2006) and Quantum of Solace (Forster, 2008) – the fifth and sixth films starring Dench as M and the first two starring Daniel Craig as Bond – effect the most significant revision of gender roles in the franchise to date. The casting of Judi Dench in Goldeneye (Campbell, 1995), however, signalled the series’ potential to interrogate its own sexism. The James Bond film franchise has attracted much criticism for its depiction of women. As each of the Girl provides a certain extent of intelligence leading to the antagonists, the deficient Bondian seduction therefore hinders both his capacity in national security maintenance as well as his possibility of relishing splendid sexual life. These four sources substantiate that the legendary womaniser Bond is instead very much incapable of seducing most of his Bond Girls. My dissertation analyses four generations of James Bond movies: Thunderball (1965), Moonraker (1979), GoldenEye (1995) and Casino Royale (2006). Meanwhile his sexual encounters stress his freedom from commitment as well as his embodied British national power, his interactions with most of the Bond Girls since the first Bond movie Dr No (1962) however lack mutual comfort and connection. His life is also enriched by consumerism and more essentially, effortless seduction to limitless sex. Bond completes the assignments while simultaneously enjoying the bachelor lifestyle and this has always intrigued many readers and spectators. After working as a personal assistant during the Second World War to John Godfrey, the Director of Naval Intelligence of the Royal Navy, Ian Fleming designed James Bond as a prominent fictional British agent from the novel Casino Royale (1953) onward.

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