Institute of English and American Studies, TU Dresden, Germany.
J Aging Stud. 2022 Jun;61:101006. doi: 10.1016/j.jaging.2022.101006. Epub 2022 Feb 11.
Aging is not a phenomenon commonly associated with the James Bond franchise, which relies on the successful template of a more agile and youthful hero. While Bond's adversaries used to be older than him (at least in the classic Bond movies of the 1960s and 1970s), with their deficient 'Otherness' underlining the idea that they are 'bad' and impotent patriarchs, more recent Bond films have turned to different age constellations. Even though the films rarely comment on the hero's age or adjust the material to it, there are various ways in which Bond's age is highlighted in these films, depending, for instance, on whether he has to fight 'bad fathers', 'treacherous brothers', or 'disobedient sons'. This article runs the parameter of Bond's age against other parameters like the age of his adversaries and the number of his sexual conquests. It looks into two non-canonical Bond films, Casino Royale (1967) and Never Say Never Again (1983), to demonstrate that the topic of aging has seen more diverse and candid treatments outside of the jurisdiction of the official Eon series. This includes aspects like the hero's virility in the face of old age (at the intersection of senex and eros) and the meta-textual qualities of these films, which resonate with their subtexts on aging. The final section turns to Daniel Craig's swansong as Bond, No Time to Die (2021), which addresses the theme of mortality more directly than any other previous Bond outing.
衰老并不是詹姆斯·邦德系列电影所常见的现象，该系列电影依赖于一个更敏捷、更年轻的英雄的成功模板。虽然邦德的对手过去比他年长（至少在 20 世纪 60 年代和 70 年代的经典邦德电影中是这样），他们缺乏“他者性”，强调了他们是“坏”和无能的家长的想法，但最近的邦德电影已经转向了不同的年龄组合。尽管这些电影很少评论英雄的年龄或根据年龄来调整素材，但在这些电影中，邦德的年龄有多种方式被突出，例如，取决于他是否必须与“坏父亲”、“奸诈的兄弟”或“不孝的儿子”战斗。本文将邦德的年龄与他的对手的年龄和他的性征服数量等其他参数进行对比。它研究了两部非官方的邦德电影，《皇家赌场》（1967 年）和《永不言弃》（1983 年），以证明在官方伊恩系列的管辖范围之外，衰老这个话题已经得到了更加多样化和坦诚的处理。这包括英雄面对老年时的男子气概（在 senex 和 eros 的交叉点）以及这些电影的元文本特质，它们与电影中关于衰老的潜台词产生共鸣。最后一部分转向丹尼尔·克雷格的最后一部邦德电影《无暇赴死》（2021 年），该片比以往任何一部邦德电影都更直接地探讨了死亡的主题。
