Beschreibung:
Paul Simpson has written official guides to the TV series Farscape and Smallville and the movies The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, as well as unofficial books on subjects as diverse as James Bond, Nicole Kidman, and the TV series The O.C. He wrote an unofficial guide to CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. A regular visitor to film and TV sets, he has reported for many newspapers and magazines, including TV Guide. For five years, he was the editor of the official licensed Star Trek Magazine. He wrote That's What They Want You to Think for Zenith Press and co-authored Middle-earth Envisioned for Race Point Publishing.
Revised and updated edition which analyses the new 2020 film, along with every other incarnation of the debonair spy, delving into the code names, guns, gadgets and much-loved Bond tropes.
In this revised and updated paperback edition of Bond vs. Bond: Revised and Updated, you'll find side-by-side comparisons and contrasts of all the Bonds from Connery to Craig, now including the 2020 movie No Time to Die.
Introduction vii
1. The Life of Ian Fleming
2. The Literary Bond: Ian Fleming's 007
Sidebar: The Cars
3. Bond in Other Media
Sidebar: The Gadgets
4. The Other Literary Bonds: From Robert Markham to Anthony Horowitz
Sidebar: The Guns
5. Sean Connery: The Scottish Bond
6. George Lazenby: The Australian Bond
Sidebar: The Bond Girls
7. Roger Moore: The Urbane Bond
Sidebar: Rebooting Bond
8. Timothy Dalton: The Bleeding Bond
Sidebar: The Music of James Bond
9. Pierce Brosnan: The Irish Bond
Sidebar: The Villains
10. Daniel Craig: The Blond Bond
Sidebar: The Femmes Fatales
11. The Other Bonds: The Alternative Casino Royales
Afterword: The Essential Bond
James Bond Bibliography
James Bond Filmography
Photography Credits
Index
Acknowledgments
About the Author