There was a time in which spies, secret agents and secret agencies become the center of attention to non fictional living. After all the military and war developments that the history of the twentieth century has seen, characters such as those named before seemed to rule daily lives of every regular citizen of America and Europe. In this context is where James Bond, a fictional secret agent is born.
This amazing and utterly famous character is still popular among audiences of every type: children, teenagers, young people and adults and while stories and secondary characters may have changed, one thing still remains: the elegance, intelligence, and seduction of a man that has served the British government for quite a long time.
James Bond is the real name of the secret agent encoded under the number 007. This character has been created to fight what American and European societies have traditionally recognized as menaces and threats: Russian, Japanese, German, Muslim and Latin-American mafias and assassins. Depending on the moment in which the stories and movies were set, these enemies would change, but the good ones always remained and proved to be the only ones that could actually defeat those mafias. In this sense, the stories represented in the James Bond’s movies are all directly related to political events and ideological basements are set up in a clear way.
With a peculiar and quite recognizable music and some specific trademarks of the main character, James Bond has occupied ever since its beginnings the role of the elegant, smart, seductive and well mannered Englishman that knows exactly when and how to act in the name of justice and civilization without loosing those features that make him different and distinctive among mobsters and thefts. With a deep attraction towards beautiful women and some other pleasures of life (portrayed in his trademark phrase “Vodka martini” Shaken, not stirred) that is part of a high society standard of living, James Bond still has the ability to stand out from that somewhat hypocritical reality and fight against crime and injustice.
Technology gadgets and implements are also part of that comfortable society in which cars, computers and weapons are well developed, being this a notion that comes from a non fictional and historical moment in which the race towards economic and technological growth was one of the main disputes among world powers.
James Bond has definitely gained its placed due to the success that this type of movies had in one specific moment, but its TV shows, videogames and comic books have also acquired a very important place among detective stories, taking the story to the present and making it famous and popular among audiences of different generations and social status.