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Established from 1953 in Casino Royale, James Bond favourably captures the attention from the wor... more Established from 1953 in Casino Royale, James Bond favourably captures the attention from the worldwide audience by embracing the relative phenomenon in the Western society. Balancing his life-threatening adventurous missions with consumerism, alluring glamour as well as the countless sexual encounters, Bond is conventionally created as a perfect womanizer. The selection of the 6th Bond, Daniel Craig, is extraordinarily attractive owing to the masculine body configuration. Portraying as an invincible seducer, it is yet expected that Bond encounters massive embarrassment in the authentic scenarios. The major theories and descriptions suggested by Michael D. Botwin concerning mating, particularly focuses on the long-term courtship, are examined. Supplementing the theories with the contemporary interpretations in sensual persuasion by heterogeneous PUAs (Pick-up artists) such as Erik von Markovik, Neil Strauss and Kezia Noble, it is suspicious that Bond can succeed in sexual enticement. The temporal limitation in constructing sufficient mutual understanding and connection diminishes the opportunity of rewarding sexual attempts. Owing to the fact that the minor Bond girls, Sévérine in Skyfall and Lucia in Spectre as investigated, provide crucial information leading to the villains. Bond, in reality, is considered as a counterproductive MI6 associate due to his deficiency in seduction and thus, the incapability of obtaining information from the Bond girls.
“Hong Kong girls” or “Kong girls” is initially a label indicating the originality of female born ... more “Hong Kong girls” or “Kong girls” is initially a label indicating the originality of female born in Hong Kong in order to accommodate the limited spaces in the news headlines. The tag, since 2005, is transformed into a negative tag revealing certain generalized inappropriate behaviors and attitudes demonstrated by the females from aged 18 to 30 such as the failure to be punctual on all occasions, yelling foul languages in public domains and more importantly, materialistic.
How evilness is portrayed in Number the Stars
“Me and you terminamos en la cama”: The gender representations in Propuesta Indecente
This paper focuses on the imminent fictional character 007 James Bond. The portrait of his mascul... more This paper focuses on the imminent fictional character 007 James Bond. The portrait of his masculinity is revealed in various aspects.
Thesis Chapters by Alvin Ng
After working as a personal assistant during the Second World War to John Godfrey, the Director o... more 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. Bond completes the assignments while simultaneously enjoying the bachelor lifestyle and this has always intrigued many readers and spectators. His life is also enriched by consumerism and more essentially, effortless seduction to limitless sex. 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. My dissertation analyses four generations of James Bond movies: Thunderball (1965), Moonraker (1979), GoldenEye (1995) and Casino Royale (2006). These four sources substantiate that the legendary womaniser Bond is instead very much incapable of seducing most of his Bond Girls. 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.
Established from 1953 in Casino Royale, James Bond favourably captures the attention from the wor... more Established from 1953 in Casino Royale, James Bond favourably captures the attention from the worldwide audience by embracing the relative phenomenon in the Western society. Balancing his life-threatening adventurous missions with consumerism, alluring glamour as well as the countless sexual encounters, Bond is conventionally created as a perfect womanizer. The selection of the 6th Bond, Daniel Craig, is extraordinarily attractive owing to the masculine body configuration. Portraying as an invincible seducer, it is yet expected that Bond encounters massive embarrassment in the authentic scenarios. The major theories and descriptions suggested by Michael D. Botwin concerning mating, particularly focuses on the long-term courtship, are examined. Supplementing the theories with the contemporary interpretations in sensual persuasion by heterogeneous PUAs (Pick-up artists) such as Erik von Markovik, Neil Strauss and Kezia Noble, it is suspicious that Bond can succeed in sexual enticement. The temporal limitation in constructing sufficient mutual understanding and connection diminishes the opportunity of rewarding sexual attempts. Owing to the fact that the minor Bond girls, Sévérine in Skyfall and Lucia in Spectre as investigated, provide crucial information leading to the villains. Bond, in reality, is considered as a counterproductive MI6 associate due to his deficiency in seduction and thus, the incapability of obtaining information from the Bond girls.
“Hong Kong girls” or “Kong girls” is initially a label indicating the originality of female born ... more “Hong Kong girls” or “Kong girls” is initially a label indicating the originality of female born in Hong Kong in order to accommodate the limited spaces in the news headlines. The tag, since 2005, is transformed into a negative tag revealing certain generalized inappropriate behaviors and attitudes demonstrated by the females from aged 18 to 30 such as the failure to be punctual on all occasions, yelling foul languages in public domains and more importantly, materialistic.
How evilness is portrayed in Number the Stars
“Me and you terminamos en la cama”: The gender representations in Propuesta Indecente
This paper focuses on the imminent fictional character 007 James Bond. The portrait of his mascul... more This paper focuses on the imminent fictional character 007 James Bond. The portrait of his masculinity is revealed in various aspects.
After working as a personal assistant during the Second World War to John Godfrey, the Director o... more 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. Bond completes the assignments while simultaneously enjoying the bachelor lifestyle and this has always intrigued many readers and spectators. His life is also enriched by consumerism and more essentially, effortless seduction to limitless sex. 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. My dissertation analyses four generations of James Bond movies: Thunderball (1965), Moonraker (1979), GoldenEye (1995) and Casino Royale (2006). These four sources substantiate that the legendary womaniser Bond is instead very much incapable of seducing most of his Bond Girls. 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.