Ghost Town--Review by Jessica

Ghost Town is a 1981 song by the British ska band The Specials. The song spent three weeks at number one and ten weeks in the top 40of the UK Singgles Chart. Addressing thems of urban decay, deindustrialsation,unemployment and violencein inner cities, the song is remembered for being a hit at the same time as riots were occuring in British cities. As such, it is remenmbered as a major piece of popular social commentary.

The melody of Ghost Town indeed is like the OST of ghost film. When I only listen to the melody itself of this music, I don’t know what the band wanted to express. Why they used music to build a strange and mystsrious atmosphere? This makes me think of Tim Burton’s gothic films. But after I listened to the lyrics of the music, I got that the band express their complain of a town. The town is inanimate and no entertainment, no hope and happiness. They miss the life in previous time in the town. The important point to understand this music is that it express government had a bad attitude to youth. This is a clear and strong attitude of the band to the country. This is very different from current popular music with love topics. In China some rock bands express their attitude to the society, however, these kind of music is often not popular. I’m curious about the impact of this music in the UK. And it is amazing that the song spent three weeks at number one and 10 weeks in the top 40 of theUK Singles Chart.I think it must give listeners of UK a strong sense of identity. Indeed, it records of the event of 1981 riots!

The club setting the for the B-side song, “Friday Night, Saturday Morning” is now Coventry Central Library.

The song’s sparse lyrics address urban decay, unemployment and violence in inner cities. On 2nd April, 1980, less than a year into Margaret Thatcher's tenure as Prime Minister, public anger about police racism and rising unemployment led to a riot in the St Paul's district of Bristol that resulted in 130 arrests and 25 people ending up in hospital. Then, in the Autumn of that same year, while Coventry-based ska band the Specials were in the middle of a UK tour, keyboardist Jerry Dammers was so appalled to see old women trying to make ends meet by selling household possessions on the streets of Glasgow that, with the Bristol riot and rising neo-Nazism serving as the backdrop, he began penning lyrics about a sense of impending disaster that surrounded such scenes of civil unrest and urban decay.

Once the song reached number 1, Chrysalis Records produced a video to accompany the song. The video consisted of the band driving a Vauxhall Cresta around empty streets in London, particularly the financial district in the City of London, and Southwark.

Lyrics of Ghost Town:

This town, is coming like a ghost town
All the clubs have been closed down
This place, is coming like a ghost town
Bands won't play no more
too much fighting on the dance floor

Do you remember the good old days
Before the ghost town?
We danced and sang,
And the music played inna de boomtown

This town, is coming like a ghost town
Why must the youth fight against themselves?
Government leaving the youth on the shelf
This place, is coming like a ghost town
No job to be found in this country
Can't go on no more
The people getting angry

This town, is coming like a ghost town
This town, is coming like a ghost town
This town, is coming like a ghost town
This town, is coming like a ghost town 

The Italian Job (1969) ― review by Saaya

The Italian Job 
directed by Peter Collinson

Story: After Charlie Croker was released from prison, he was asked to steal $4 million gold bullion in Italy by Beckerman who was killed by Italian mafia. So he plans and tries it with his companions by means of causing the traffic jam. However, because of Italian police and mafia, it is not easy to make a success of his plan,...




I would like to talk about the composition of 'British v.s. Italy'. In this film, there are some components of it.

1. Car

Famous and popular cars are found in this film.

British Car: Mini, Jaguar, Aston Martin
Italian Car: FIAT 500, Lamborghini, Alfa Romeo



Famous scene is the car chase of Mini and Alfa Romeo. Mini is said British symbol of the 1960s. The team of main characters ride Mini whose colours are red, white, and blue, and it expresses the Union Jack. On the other hand, Alfa Romeo is said Italian icon because it was success for both aspects of sports and commerce in 1960s. It is used as the police car. 






2. British Gang and Italian Mafia


At the beginning of this film, the man, who was a original planer of the robbery of the gold bullion, was killed by Italian Mafia. Then, Italian Mafia tries to inhibit Charlie and his team from stealing.


Charlie's line

"You'll be making a grave error if you kill us. There are a quarter of a million Italians in Britain, and they'll be made to suffer. Every restaurant, cafe, ice-cream parlour, gambling den and nightclub in London, Liverpool and Glasgow.....will be smashed. Mr. Bridger will drive them into the sea"


Boss of Italian Mafia, Altabani's line

"Well Gentleman... it's a long walk back to England... and it's that way"

These two lines show the confrontation between British and Italy clearly.

3. FIAT

Charlie and his team planed to steal from FIAT which is one of the representative car company of Italy. 

Next, I want to focus on the character.

The most impressive character for me is Mr. Bridger. He is a boss of English Gang, and he is in prison. However, he has an absolute authority and people obey him, even if the prison officer. Moreover, he is a patriot, and really loves and respects Her Majesty Queen, so there are lots of pictures of Queen on the wall in his room. Its interesting point is that Noël Peirce Coward played a role in Mr. Bridger, because Noël Peirce Coward avoided to love his country seriously. 

Furthermore, Mr. Bridger's attitude is like the nobility, particularly at the scene that he was applauded by people in prison. (In this scene, the way to applaud is also impressive, because it is similar to cheering the football team.)  


Noël Peirce Coward (1899-1973)
・British actor, composer, lyric writer, director, and playwright



I really enjoyed watching this film. The scene of car chase is worth seeing, I think, and also its songs are good. I hummed the main song unintentionally after i finished watching, and still remember it! This film was remade in 2003 in America, so I want to watch and compare between British and American version.







The Italian Job official web site: http://www.theitalianjob.com/index.htm

Italian Job theme with lyrics: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbeXL6AXmi0

War Pigs

If you watch Iron Man, you should heard of the world famous English heavy metal band Black Sabbath.

Black Sabbat

War Pigs, another song they made in 1970, is a famous anti-war song.
This song also have strong rhythm, full of passion and energy. As if it can explode at anytime.
Bassist Geezer Butler has said that the song was "totally against the Vietnam War, about how these rich politicians and rich people start all the wars for their benefit and get all the poor people to die for them". But the lead singer of Black Sabbath denied, stating that the group "knew nothing about Vietnam. It's just an anti-war song."

I have been playing it for a whole evening. The strong rhythm and lyrics denounced the war.
The general meaning of the song is to anti-war, which support the demonstration in America against the Vietnam War. So I think this song is based on real event.

If you are interested in this song, click play and enjoy it below~

Lyrics

Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at black masses
Evil minds that plot destruction
Sorcerers of death's construction
In the fields the bodies burning
As the war machine keeps turning
Death and hatred to mankind
Poisoning their brainwashed minds, oh lord yeah!

Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that role to the poor,yeah!

Time will tell on their power minds
Making war just for fun
Treating people just like pawns in chess
Wait 'till their judgement day comes, yeah!

Now in darkness, world stops turning
Ashes were the bodies burning
No more war pigs of the power
Hand of god has sturck the hour
Day of judgement, god is calling
On their knees, the war pigs crawling
Begging mercy for their sins
Satan, laughing, spreads his wings
Oh lord yeah!

【Sherry】“London calling, yeah, I was there, too” ——opinions of "London Calling"

London Calling is a famouse song that included in the third studio album by English punk rock band The Clash. It was released in UK on 14 December 1979 through CBS Records. The album represented a change in The Clash's musical style, featuring elements ofska, funk, pop, soul, jazz, rockabilly, and reggae more prominently than in their previous two albums.The album's subject matter included social displacement, unemployment, racial conflict, drug use, and the responsibilities of adulthood. The album received unanimously positive reviews and was ranked at number eight on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2003. London Calling was a top ten album in the UK, and its lead single "London Calling" was a top 20 single song. It has sold over five million copies worldwide, and was also certified platinum in the United States. 

Listen to it now, click → (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfK-WX2pa8c ）

There is the lyrics of this song, click → （http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/London-Calling-lyrics-The-Clash/94EEBE0A78C8DC9E482568AB00303277）

To talk about the story of lyrics, I found some background informations about Lodon and UK in 1970s : (this is a picture of Lodon in 1979 )

The 1970s was a traumatic decade for London. Changes in global trade disrupted all sectors of the economy. As docks and factories closed, so inner city London developed a landscape of dereliction and decay. The IRA bombing campaign brought fear to the capital's streets. The population was shrinking and unemployment rising. Some people predicted that London was dying. 

Londoners grew more assertive about their rights. The Equal Pay Act and a tougher Race Relations Act, had brought better conditions, in theory, for women and ethnic minority Londoners. But industrial relations worsened, along with other social tensions. A prolonged and bitter strike at the Grunwick film processing plant in Willesdon in 1976 was one of many London events that played out the decade's conflicts in front of the world's media.

By the mid 1970s more than half of the inner-city docks had closed and the docks workforce had fallen to under 10,000, a third of what it had been 20 years earlier. Jobs in manufacturing industry also disappeared at an unprecedented and alarming rate. Unemployment in London rose from 196,000 people (3.6% of the workforce) in 1971 to nearly 400,000 (7.2% of the workforce) in 1976. 

By the end of the decade manufacturing's share of London's economy had fallen from 32% to 19%. Overall, service jobs now outnumbered manufacturing jobs by a considerable margin. 24% of London's jobs were in public services and 16% in finance, industry and banking.

So , the lyrics of London Calling is like a “cry out” of the dying London in 20th century. I believe that punk rock music is the most direct way to express people’s inner world feelings and it is also a reflection of social issues. The song focoused attention on the social issues, although it hopeless, still crying it out. “London calling, yeah, I was there, too”. 

White Riot --- Review By Elise

White Riot

----- The future is unwritten

Portfolio

Name: The Clash

Origin: London

Years: 1976 -1986

Labels: CBS

Genres: British Punk, Punk Rock, New wave (tried Reggae, Dub, Rap etc.)

Member: Principal

    Joe Strummer (lead vocals, rhythm guitar) -> 1976 - 1986

                   Mick Jones (lead guitar, vocals) -> 1976 - 1983

                   Paul Simonon (bass guitar, vocals) -> 1976 - 1986

                   Nicky Topper Headon (drums, Percussion) -> 1977 - 1982

 Others:

                   Terry Chimes - > 1976, 1977, 1982 - 1983

                   Keith Levene -> 1976

                   Rob Harper -> 1976 – 1977

                   Pete Howard -> 1983 – 1986

                   Nick Sheppard -> 1983 – 1986

                   Vince White -> 1983 – 1986

Website: http://www.theclash.com/

Albums:

                   1977 The Clash [UK]

                   1978 Give ‘em Enough Rope

                   1979 The Clash [US]

                   1979 London Calling

                   1980 Sandinista!

                   1982 Combat Rock

                   1985 Cut the Crap

Career:

In 1976, Joe Strummer left his band called ‘the 101’ ers’, and then joined the London SS. This can be seen as the starting point of The Clash. Members of this band were Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon and Terry Chines. Later they change their name to The Clash. They set band Sex Pistols as their role model and covered their songs. They signed the contract with CBS in 1977. In the same year, they released their self-titled album ‘The Clash’.

The horrible news

In 1977, the Punk Rock tried to make a music riot: they want to destroy the power of the queen; they want to destroy unfair social system and they want to destroy the original Rock music.

At 1970s, an increasing unemployment rate finally caused some serious strikes around London. In 1976, at Notting Hill broke out the most awful ethnic conflicts between Negro teenagers and policemen. Members of The Clash had seen the tough situation, the blood from the Negro teenagers. They created this song ‘White Riot ‘in order to show their position of supporting those Negros to revolt the inequality.

Lyrics:

White riot, I wanna riot                                                                   

White riot, a riot of my own

White riot, I wanna riot

White riot, a riot of my own

Black man gotta lot a problems   à Black man were suffering the unfair treatment

But they don’t mind throwing a brick

White people go to school     à   while those white people talked slickly but 

Where they teach you how to be thick       performed bad

An’ everybody’s doing                   à people kept on the rails and was 

Just what they’re told to                   controlled by the authority

An’ nobody wants

To go to jail

White riot, I wanna riot

White riot, a riot of my own

White riot, I wanna riot

White riot, a riot of my own

All the power’s in the hands    à all the powers were played by the rich and 

Of people rich enough to buy it           commoners were too afraid to say no, 

While we talk the street                  even just tried?

Too chicken to even try it

Everybody’s doing              à    people kept on the rails and was 

Just what they’re told to             controlled by the authority

Nobody wants

To go to jail

White riot, I wanna riot

White riot, a riot of my own

White riot, I wanna riot

White riot, a riot of my own

Are you takin’ over                  à people were taken over by the government

Or are you takin’ orders?

Are you goin’ backwards         à no matter going backwards or going forwards, 

Or are you goin’ forwards?                we just need to break!

White riot, I wanna riot

White riot, a riot of my own

White riot, I wanna riot

White riot, a riot of my own

I want White Riot

As far as I’m concerned, it is not a very nice song. Especially before I saw the lyrics, I only heard some sounds like ‘WA WA RA! WA WA RA!’ However, after I read the background information, then I started to understand the meaning and their spirits. It is a kind of last – ditch struggle. They want break out a riot, starting from the music industry. They want to get rid of the constraint and they want to change. This song makes some of the British blood boil.

ICE COLD IN ALEX

When the first time I saw the name of this film, I thought it might be an adventurous film. Yesterday, I borrowed it from library,and watched it in evening. I have to say, it is worthy to see again. 

The background is World War II. The story was in north Africa, Libyan war zone in the hot Western Desert.

The British ambulance officer (well played by John Mills)escaped the siege in Tobruk and try to save his passengers to safety in Alexandria, where he could get an 'ice cold' glass of beer. His passengers include a nurse, a sergeant-major and a stray South African officer trying to return to his unit.They faced with German forces and the desert.While they coming over the problems, the South African officer tends to be strange. Anson, the sergeant and the nurse found him a German spy. They realized that every time they were in trouble with German patrol,the strange passenger can make it right.(Unbelievable)But they didn't alarm the spy. Instead, officer Anson devised a plan, in which the spy lost his transmitter, and almost died in the swamp. But Anson and the other two saved the spy. Then they had a talk about what to do next. The British officer didn't want to kill the spy due to some reasons.

Next day they were blocked by a sand hill. All of them work together to push the ambulance on to the top by asterning it. But when they almost get on the hill, the woman touched the axis, then the vehicle sliced down to the bottom...(when woman made a big mistake,let's see what men should do?) They push it again. Finally, they reach the Alex. They got the beer. But the spy realized some military police come to him to check his identification. He was in shock,and tried to find way to escape. But the three British saved him, and willing to keep the truth a secret.

It's really a British way of doing.

The spy saved them, and they saved the spy.

I would say this film talks more about Humanness rather than the war than other war films. As a doctor, as a human, he don't kill. That is the point.

The meaning was similar to Monk's thought i.e. to clear away the evil in him, and 

save his good nature.

BY THE WAY

Look What Has Time Done

Rupert Murdoch vs BBC

What are Rupert Murdoch's views on the BBC? Who is he and how important is he?

Who is Rupert Murdoch?

Keith Rupert Murdoch, AC, KSG (born 11 March 1931) is an Australian American media mogul. Murdoch became managing director of Australia's News Limited, inherited from his father, in 1952. He is the founder, Chairman and CEO of global media holding company News Corporation, the world's second-largest media conglomerate, and its successors News Corp and 21st Century Fox after the conglomerate split on 28 June 2013.


In the 1950s and '60s, he acquired various newspapers in Australia and New Zealand, before expanding into the United Kingdom in 1969, taking over the News of the World followed closely by The Sun. He moved to New York in 1974 to expand into the US market, but retained interests in Australia and Britain. In 1981, he bought The Times, his first British broadsheet, and became a naturalized US citizen in 1985.


In 1986, keen to adopt newer electronic publishing technologies, he consolidated his UK printing operations in Wapping, causing bitter industrial disputes. His News Corporation acquired Twentieth Century Fox (1985), HarperCollins (1989) and The Wall Street Journal (2007). He formed BSkyB in 1990 and during the 1990s expanded into Asian networks and South American television. By 2000 Murdoch's News Corporation owned over 800 companies in more than 50 countries with a net worth of over $5 billion.


In July 2011 Murdoch faced allegations that his companies, including the News of the World, owned by News Corporation, had been regularly hacking the phones of celebrities, royalty and public citizens. He faces police and government investigations into bribery and corruption by the British government and FBI investigations in the US. On 21 July 2012, Murdoch resigned as a director of News International.
What’s so special about Rupert?


Rupert Murdoch is, to state the obvious, a very influential and successful media magnate, although after the revelations at the Leveson Inquiry it is arguable whether this will continue to be so in the future. However, if that was all it would not mark him out as a uniquely powerful press proprietor, as it is here being argued; this ‘uniqueness’ can be attributed to three key factors.


First, media magnates, both past and present, have tended to use their media interests in one of a number of causes – to advance a political cause, their business interests, their family interests or simply, themselves; for Murdoch all four seem to be equally important.


Second, unlike most other magnates, Murdoch has not confined himself to one medium or one country, but has used his newspapers, broadcasting and online outlets to ruthlessly cross-promote his global media interests both to defend them against potential predators and to attack and undermine real and potential competitors.


Third, Murdoch is probably even more ruthless than other magnates. He is ruthless in both jettisoning executives and editors and, more importantly, in jettisoning publicly undertaken commitments when he believes his corporate interests require him to do so.In the words of one of the most distinguished editors that Murdoch ever sacked, Harold Evans,‘Murdoch is the Houdini of agreements’ (Evans, 2011: xxix).


Thus it could appear that these factors explain why those governments that have tried to regulate Murdoch have found it so difficult; but in addition, lurking beneath the surface a more subtle exercise of power is taking place, here termed Murdoch’s three-card trope, which has enabled him and his global interests to survive, prosper and expand – at least, that is, until the phone-hacking scandal broke.

Sherry's Opinions about "The 39 Steps”

This is a very old British film ,which was made in 1935 by Alfred Hitchcock, and adapted from a novel, shared the same name “The 39 steps” .

Let’s talk about the background informations first. Alfred Hitchcock, origin United Kingdom, is a world-famous film director, especially good at shooting horror and thriller, he created and perfected the art of making suspense, to let audience participate in the story of the films, so that he controls not only the episode,but also the audience's attention, as a result of this, he became a popular entertainment expert and has a famous name "Masters of Horror". “The 39 Steps” novel was written by John Buchan in 1915, he got an inspiration when the UK had declared a war against Germany and spies made people in panic, including Alfred Hitchcock’s version ,this novel has been adapted to 4 different versions in 1935、1959、1978、2008 respectively.The director Hitchcock said: "When I read the novel for the first time , I think it must be made into a great film." However, he found that if copy too much sophisticated reasoning from the novel, the film would become boring, so in order to increase the entertainment value of this film, Hitchcock remove some scenes of spy organization, instead of this ,he put the key on a character named "Mr. Memory " ,add humor and romance episode into the film.

Turn back to the film. Fistly, I found that this film is filled with a notable feature of the British humor. For example, Mr.Memory ues a lot of jokes to answer audience’s questions at the begining of the film, when a man asked "How old am I ?" He solemnly replied: "Of course I know! But I would not just tell a lady’s age. ".And when Hanna escaped from the apartment, finding the killers were wandering out of the door, he wanted to exchange clothes with a milkman to run away from danger ,at this time, his excuse is “There is a married woman in my apartment, the two men outside, one is her husband, another is her brother.”and the milkman helped him without hesitation “ Why don’t you tell me earlier? Don’t worry , maybe I have to ask for your help for this kind of things someday.”and so on. In this film, British humor are always appear in the dangerous scenes, which made the audience laugh in a tense atmosphere.

Secondly,the film has an anti-hero named Hanna. He was innocent but was involved in spying activities, on the other word, he is also a victim. “The 39 Steps” is the typical work of Hitchcock using the “wrong man” model in films, which is a innocent person at the wrong time in the wrong place and meet the wrong things, so that the situation has changed into trouble again and again, the “wrong man” was usually charged of murder at the begining of the story and cleared all the charges in the end. The “wrong man”model makes the film different in hero’s personality, via discuss about how do we face to death、chase、unjust with audience.  

To talk about the Britain portrayed and visual style. As Andrew said in lecture, the film is also lack of big scenes even in the chasing and killing situations.There are only 4 women in this film, the spy、the farmer、the master of hostel and a young lady ,although the hero has some ambiguity emotion with the young lady, the film still without romantic stories. Furthermore, the location of this film is also in UK, the story happend in Scotland, and the farmer’s hometown is Glasgow,they mentioned London、Edinburgh and other famous cities as well.

In my opinion, this film also has some short episode to satire politics, for example, when Hanna escaped to a meeting of election, he know nothing about the candidate, but also make a speech and get everyone's support until the policeman took him away. And I found some scenes in Clockwork Orange showed the satire of politics as well in last week. So, I am not sure about whether all the British films have the tend to satire the politics or not,.is this a notable feature of British films? What do you think of that? 

Q4 by Jessica

Qestin4:What are the origins of the internet? Who invented the worldwide web?

Answer:The first recorded description of the social interactions that could be enabled through networking was aseries of memos written by J.C.R. Licklider of MIT in August 1962 discussing his "Galactic Network" concept. In spirit, the concept was very much like the Internet of today.

The first paper on pack swithing theory was published in July 1961 and the first book on the subject in 1964. which was a major step along the path towards computer networking. The other key step was to make the computers talk together.

In September 1969 BBN installed the first IMP at UCLA and the first host computer was connected. By the end of 1969, four host computers were connected together into the initial ARPANET, and the budding Internet was off the ground.

In December 1970 the Network Working Group (NWG) working under S. Crocker finished the initial ARPANET Host-to-Host protocol, called the Network Control Protocol (NCP). As the ARPANET sites completed implementing NCP during the period 1971-1972, the network users finally could begin to develop applications.

In October 1972, there was the first public demonstration of this new network technology to the public. It was also in 1972 that the initial "hot" application, electronic mail, was introduced. This was a harbinger of the kind of activity we see on the World Wide Web today, namely, the enormous growth of all kinds of "people-to-people" traffic.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee

Web Inventor and Founding Director of the World Wide Web Foundation

Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989 while working as a software engineer at CERN, the large particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. With many scientists participating in experiments at ‪CERN and returning to their laboratories around the world, these scientists were eager to exchange data and results but had difficulties doing so. Tim understood this need, and understood the unrealized potential of millions of computers connected together through the Internet.

Tim documented what was to become the World Wide Web with the submission of a proposal specifying a set of technologies that would make the Internet truly accessible and useful to people. Despite initial setbacks and with perseverance, by October of 1990, he had specified the three fundamental technologies that remain the foundation of today’s Web (and which you may have seen appear on parts of your Web browser): HTML, URI, and HTTP.

He also wrote the first Web page editor/browser (“WorldWideWeb”) and the first Web server (“‪httpd“). By the end of 1990, the first Web page was served. By 1991, people outside of ‪CERN joined the new Web community, and in April 1993, CERN announced that the World Wide Web technology would be available for anyone to use on a royalty-free basis.

A graduate of Oxford University, Tim teaches at Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a 3Com Founders Professor of Engineering and in a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at CSAIL. He is a professor in the Electronics and Computer Science Department at the University of Southampton, UK, Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), and author of Weaving the Web and many other publications.

Dr.No Review By Elise

Dr.No

                         - Face to face with James Bond

This is not the first time for me to watch the 007 film franchises. It might be one of the most successful film Franchises ever. Since the Metro-Golden-Mayer face the bankruptcy problem, but the audience still welcome for 007 series 23^rd.However since I hadn’t watched the ‘Dr.No’before, it was still surprised me because it made in 1962.

Firstly, I have to say it is an old movie, especially compared with those recent ones. No vivid figures and special gorgeous effects, this movie is not for a technology competition. What it rely on, is the stars'acting. Although there are still some obvious weaknesses in the plot, it's a nice movie. A case in point is that it is too easy for Mr. Bond got rid of the prison and too east for the boss to die since the boss can flatten the gold.

the golden Buddha was flattened

the iron gird is too weak

Secondly, it established many distinguished features for 007 movies.

ü  The music – when the movie starts, you can hear the famous and familiar sound. And then you would know that Mr. Bond was coming with his bond girls.

ü  Bond, James Bond – the most famous line.

ü  Flirting – Mr. Bond would not let one lady off without flirting with her, even she might be a spy. In addition, in the‘Dr.No', our charming Mr. Bond had slept with three ladies. The last one who acted by Ursula Andress laid the images of bond ladies only being some beautiful women.

http://www.jamesbondmm.co.uk/bond-girls (a website show the bond girls list)

ü  Gentlemen – when talk about British, we always believes that the British people are all ladies and gentlemen with well mannered. Mr. Bond is absolutely a British gentleman. He wiped his hand after he had shoot on person and he clean up his suit after he had beaten a bad guy.

Mr.Bond is cleaning up his suit

Another thing I want to talk about is China. In this movie, the boss has been designed as a Chinese science geek with criminal brain. He controlled an island as his aromatic experiment laboratory. He came from China with a dangerous Dragon which is be trusted by the local people. There are three points I feel curious:

ü  Name – his name is Dr.No. Why call him‘No’and why he came from China? Is it because Chine is the few countries that with the different social system? Is it because after the World War II and Korean War, China was trying to say ‘No’ to the law of power?

ü  Nuclear – the weapon which the boss used to threaten the world is an Aromatic weapon. Why this kind of thing has become terrorism and it has come from china? I did a quick research on the history of Chinese nuclear power. What I have found is that the first Aromatic Bomb has explored in 1964, and it is just two years later than this movie. And China has started the formal work for the nuclear study from 1960. Is that means the Western felt fair and concern about China, especially because the Aromatic power?

ü  Chinese Elements– the Chinese cloth in this movie is full of traditional feature. They were all mandarin Dress (Qipaos) and Chinese tunic suit. And I also did another research to find out whether Chinese wore in that way in 1962. However the result is not. As shown in the picture, what we had worn is just like present, and there were not many differences.

people in china 1960's

   Although wear Qipao can show the Chinese element, the dragon part is also a funny thing. Because the ‘Dragon’ is not like a traditional Chinese dragon and even not like a mythical western dragon. Is that means people from western still think Chinese people are all mysterious with strange magic power?

Last but not least, I want to talk about how British is this movie and 007 series.

ü  Every Bond is British man.

ü  Dr.No is filmed in London and Jamaica

ü  Plots are based on British Novels.

ü  Mr. Bond in ‘Dr.No’ is a graceful gentleman. He rarely uses his gun, he likes to use his intelligence such as use hair to check whether anybody has opened his wardrobe.

However something has changed. Mr. Bond in ‘Casino Royale’ has killed more than 20 people and more and more amazing cutting-edge weapon has been made for Mr. Bond in each series. People feelthat the new Bond being cooler and cooler no matter he is fighting or flirting, but people like that!

So what has changed? What is changing?