On Her Majesty's Secret Service and The End of James Bond

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Concluding an unofficial quadrilogy of James Bond videos made around No Time to Die's often delayed release, I look to On Her Majesty's Secret Service, the once black sheep of the franchise that has slowly become arguably the most acclaimed of any 007 movie. This video essay looks at On Her Majesty's Secret Service as the culmination of 60s Bond, expanding the aesthetics and action filmmaking of the series, while simultaneously bringing the character to a point in which he'd never fully return. At once an analysis of Bond's history and a love letter to a great movie.

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Works Cited:

License to Thrill: A Cultural History of the James Bond Films. James Chapman. 2007.
FILM: On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Review). Molly Haskell, The Village Voice. 1969.
Inside On Her Majesty's Secret Service. John Cork. 2000.
Bond and Beyond: The Political Career of a Popular Hero. Tony Bennett and Janet Woollacott. 1987.
Bond Films. Jim Smith. 2002.
50 Years Later, this Bond Film Should Finally Get Its Due. Thomas Vinciguerra, New York Times. 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/27/mo...

Music Featured:

Both Flanks by Small Colin
Fragmented Pianos by Mikael Lind
Love Him by Loyalty Freak Music
Setup With an E by Small Colin
Symphony No. 3: Failure by Steve Combs
Symphony No. 2: Truth by Steve Combs
Warmed-Up Mono Box by Small Colin
Carnival by smallertide
Facing It by Komiku
Sednoseteres by Hinterheim
And Never Come Back by Soft & Furious
Original Mutations by Small Colin

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