The Betrayed
In the annals of popular literature of the spy genre there are none quite so popular as the James Bond series. A type of popular thriller that has spawned countless films that people flock to view for entertainment. Surfeit with clever electronic gadgetry, casual heroism, unflappable reaction, and plenty of steamy sex, along with comedic patter, the James Bond films are beloved of many.
There have been a long series of actors portraying the main character. And an accompanying series of luscious, clever and shapely, talented women who portray the inevitable love interest. Scratch that; nothing is truly taken seriously in these portrayals of the underworld of spies and spy-catchers, their hangers-on and their handlers. It is 'sex' interest, nothing tenderly emotional here, merely animal instinct.
Quite in keeping with the insidious threats countered by the unstoppable hero. Threats come from many sources - the de jour 'enemies' of the free world - and the female leads merely represent another; one handily faced off with and then, through mutual agreement, defanged. The latest female co-star for the latest issue of a James Bond adventure is a beautiful woman from the Ukraine.
And, guess what? The Communist Party of St.Petersburg is appalled that she would betray her culture, her history, her background, by aiding and abetting the enemy. Yes, the enemy, a vile person indeed, "a man who worked for decades under the orders of Thatcher and Reagan to destroy the U.S.S.R."
You read that right. And here we always assumed that James Bond, whether portrayed by Sean Connery or Daniel Craig, was a fictional character, born of some hysterically demented imagination given to delicious irony morphing into comedy, violence and humanly-impossible physical feats of action.
"The Soviet Union educated you, cared for you and brought you up for free but no one suspected that you would commit this act of intellectual and moral betrayal", the Communist party moaned, entreating Olga Kurylenko to forswear her wayward trajectory and once more embrace her past, rejecting her part in that unspeakable film.
They're ready to aid and assist in her rehabilitation. Toward which she must persuade her co-star in Quantum of Solace, Daniel Craig, to reveal all: "Let him tell what other plans are being written in the Pentagon and Hollywood to discredit Russia and drive a wedge between the Russian and Ukrainian peoples."
There they go again, creating fiction from fact.
There have been a long series of actors portraying the main character. And an accompanying series of luscious, clever and shapely, talented women who portray the inevitable love interest. Scratch that; nothing is truly taken seriously in these portrayals of the underworld of spies and spy-catchers, their hangers-on and their handlers. It is 'sex' interest, nothing tenderly emotional here, merely animal instinct.
Quite in keeping with the insidious threats countered by the unstoppable hero. Threats come from many sources - the de jour 'enemies' of the free world - and the female leads merely represent another; one handily faced off with and then, through mutual agreement, defanged. The latest female co-star for the latest issue of a James Bond adventure is a beautiful woman from the Ukraine.
And, guess what? The Communist Party of St.Petersburg is appalled that she would betray her culture, her history, her background, by aiding and abetting the enemy. Yes, the enemy, a vile person indeed, "a man who worked for decades under the orders of Thatcher and Reagan to destroy the U.S.S.R."
You read that right. And here we always assumed that James Bond, whether portrayed by Sean Connery or Daniel Craig, was a fictional character, born of some hysterically demented imagination given to delicious irony morphing into comedy, violence and humanly-impossible physical feats of action.
"The Soviet Union educated you, cared for you and brought you up for free but no one suspected that you would commit this act of intellectual and moral betrayal", the Communist party moaned, entreating Olga Kurylenko to forswear her wayward trajectory and once more embrace her past, rejecting her part in that unspeakable film.
They're ready to aid and assist in her rehabilitation. Toward which she must persuade her co-star in Quantum of Solace, Daniel Craig, to reveal all: "Let him tell what other plans are being written in the Pentagon and Hollywood to discredit Russia and drive a wedge between the Russian and Ukrainian peoples."
There they go again, creating fiction from fact.
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