The Story of the James Bond

Early films had characteristics of this james bond. He smoked, drank a lot and inevitably encountered a lot of women on his adventures. As this type of behavior started to become unacceptable, james bond changed. In 19 95, he stopped smoking, although he does smoke a cigar in die another day. And there seems to be a very real conversation about whether james bond, or rather the protagonist in the james bon films always needs to be the white man of en fleming's books in the 19 fifties.

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