{"id":1693,"date":"2012-07-01T07:23:55","date_gmt":"2012-07-01T07:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.renando.com\/blog\/?p=1693"},"modified":"2015-02-15T18:59:38","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T18:59:38","slug":"what-makes-a-james-bond-the-missing-elements-of-dr-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidewaysthoughts.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/what-makes-a-james-bond-the-missing-elements-of-dr-no\/","title":{"rendered":"What makes a James Bond? The missing elements of Dr. No"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1694\" title=\"James Bond Dr. No\" alt=\"James Bond Dr. No\" src=\"https:\/\/sidewaysthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/James_Bond_Dr_No1.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Image courtesy of\u00a0<a title=\"The Museum of Movie Posters and Stuff\" href=\"http:\/\/meansheets.com\/tag\/dr-no\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/meansheets.com\/tag\/dr-no\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are exposing my 17-year old daughter to the legend that is James Bond, starting from the beginning with Sean\u00a0Connery in\u00a0Dr. No.<\/p>\n<p>I will admit that the experience did not match the expectations of nostalgia. With Dr. No, we were introduced to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the martini, shaken not stirred<\/li>\n<li>the opening theme song and psychedelic dancing people<\/li>\n<li>the introduction of &#8220;Bond, James Bond&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The minder M and the secretary Money Penny<\/li>\n<li>The wooing of the women, including both the evil informant\u00a0and the love interest<\/li>\n<li>The evil bad guy who shares his\u00a0dastardly\u00a0plans before dying a really bad death<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Two things missing were the opening chase scene before the credits and Q with the gadgets which later became trademarks of the series. \u00a0I found that these in themselves were enough to make this not quite a Bond show, and a slight let down as a first introduction to what later became a cinema classic.<\/p>\n<p>This has me asking: what are the\u00a0definitive\u00a0aspects that make us who we are? \u00a0What are the elements that if you took them away, would make you no longer you?<\/p>\n<p>Something to think about as we approach each week as a new episode in the move series that is our life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image courtesy of\u00a0http:\/\/meansheets.com\/tag\/dr-no\/ We are exposing my 17-year old daughter to the legend that is James Bond, starting from the beginning with Sean\u00a0Connery in\u00a0Dr. No&#8230;. <a href=\"https:\/\/sidewaysthoughts.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/what-makes-a-james-bond-the-missing-elements-of-dr-no\/\" class=\"bwp-excerpt-more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[78],"ecosystem_role":[],"class_list":["post-1693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-about-society","tag-james-bond-life-lessons","bwp-masonry-item","bwp-col-3"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidewaysthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidewaysthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidewaysthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidewaysthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidewaysthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1693"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sidewaysthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5361,"href":"https:\/\/sidewaysthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions\/5361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidewaysthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidewaysthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidewaysthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidewaysthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"ecosystem_role","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidewaysthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ecosystem_role?post=1693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}