The James Bond novels were written about exotic places and things that the average reader knew little or nothing about, few could afford, for example, to visit the Bahamas or Japan. Now with the internet, there is no more discovery, nothing exotic to discover, everything being homogenized by corporate culture.
Stunts and explosions don't make up for the feeling of genuine adventure and discovery that a movie like Dr. No had.
And god forbid that men should be men and women should be women!
During the early success of Bond movies, television got on the band wagon with shows such as The Avengers, the Man From UNCLE and Secret Agent.
Secret Agent, aka as Danger Man was so successful that the star was offered anything he wanted to keep making it.
McGoohan declined, but countered that he would make a new spy series if he could run it.
He had been at a cocktail party and met a man who claimed to be a retired UK govt spy. He wondered, what really does happen
to old spies on both sides of the Cold War? And the highly unusual series The Prisoner was born.
Stunts and explosions don't make up for the feeling of genuine adventure and discovery that a movie like Dr. No had.
And god forbid that men should be men and women should be women!
During the early success of Bond movies, television got on the band wagon with shows such as The Avengers, the Man From UNCLE and Secret Agent.
Secret Agent, aka as Danger Man was so successful that the star was offered anything he wanted to keep making it.
McGoohan declined, but countered that he would make a new spy series if he could run it.
He had been at a cocktail party and met a man who claimed to be a retired UK govt spy. He wondered, what really does happen
to old spies on both sides of the Cold War? And the highly unusual series The Prisoner was born.