Live and Let Die (1973)
Directed by Guy
Hamilton this 8th film in the Bond franchise is based on
the novel of the same name and stars Roger Moore, Yaphet Kotto and
Jane Seymour. Bond travels to the US to investigate the death of
three British agents and a small Caribbean nation.
While the plot of this
film (drug trafficking) is a little more down to earth than some Bond
plots it fills the script with suspect racial stereotypes and the
idea that a woman's power or magic is linked to her virginity is
decidedly problematic. Moore's comedic characterisation of Bond is a
departure from the more serious tone use by Connery which is fine but
not necessarily to the taste of everyone. It is very easy to see the
influence of blaxploitation on this film but it comes across very
much as emulating rather than understanding the genre at times.
2/5
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