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LIVE_TWICE

                                   May     6, 2004
                        Addition:  August 10, 2004

The theme to "You Only Live Twice" has lyrics
that seem oddly inappropriate for the film.

  "You only live twice
  Or so it seems
  Once for your self                      (once in the books,
  And once for your dreams."               and once on the screen)

  "You drift through the years
  And life seems tame
  Till one dream appears
  And Love is it's name..."

One, the Sean Connery Bond
has moments of affection        This is in contrast to
perhaps, but love isn't a       the Ian Fleming James
noticeable factor in his        Bond, who is extremely     WINNING_VESPER
make-up.                        sexist, but also quite
                                the romantic.
Two, his existance doesn't     
seem terribly "tame"...  he                      He's constantly
doesn't spend a lot of time                      thinking about
drifting and dreaming.                           proposing marriage
                                                 to the women
   To the extent that                            he's involved with.
   these lyrics mean          
   anything at all in                                   This is probably the
   the context of the     The odds are good             only example I can
   film they're           they weren't meant            think of where the
   clearly being sung     to mean anything.             media version of a hero
   *to the audience*,                                   is less sentimentalized
   the crowd of                                         than the original.
   middle-class losers
   addicted to these      
   grossly implausible  
   tales of sex and       
   danger.             
          
       But even so, the
       focus on love
       seems peculiar.

         Whatever it is they
         were after...
         was love really
         the name?


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