william kent
Well-known member
Who was the best?
Heinz or Crosse and Blackwell baked beans? You decide.
I was about to say I feel ashamed to be English
Just think of Corbyn/Hitchens/Oasis/dogging/baked beans and you'll be right as rain in no time.I was about to say I feel ashamed to be English
I knew we could count on you for some decent input on this thread.The Bond films are all about the pathetic delusion that the British conjured up in the 1950s, once it was clear that they had been superseded as a global power: that they were the Athens to the American Rome. Tied up with this was a sense of implicit superiority, no matter what the realities of power and culture actually said. That's why the early Bond films (in particular) are anti-American but also crippled with insecurity about America. It's always interesting the note how CIA agents are depicted in these films: friendly rivals, efficient and well-resourced but lacking style, humour and inventive gadgets. The Bond films fulfilled a need to deflect the crushing disappointment and shame of very steep decline in British prestige and power. You could say the films are haunted by Suez and try to bury it in this fantasy of British style, ingenuity and sly omniscience. We are still running the world but nobody else knows it.