Ian Fleming's James Bond has been entertaining, shocking and marvelling us through the moving image for almost forty years, and the perception of his character has changed dramatically over that time.
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Ian Fleming's James Bond has been entertaining, shocking and marvelling us through the moving image for almost forty years, and the perception of his character has changed dramatically over that time. In the early years his character was a typical stereotyped Englishman with all the qualities of a civilised gentleman. However, more recently Bond has been increasingly relaxed and sarcastic. James Bond started out as Sean Connery in the Terence Young directed 1962 film 'Dr.No'. By 1973, Connery had been replaced by a fresh Roger Moore in 'Live and Let Die', directed by Guy Hamilton. Still pulling in the audiences another thirty years later, Pierce Brosnan plays James Bond in the Martin Campbell directed smash hit 'Goldeneye' in 1995. As the films have progressed the camera angles have advanced greatly and have set the standards for films to come. In 'Dr.No', the camera angles appear simplistic and have not...

