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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's constantly    
he doesn't spend a lot of                        thinking about     
time drifting and                                proposing marriage    
dreaming.                                        to the women                  
                                                 he's involved with.           
   To the extent that                                                          
   these lyrics mean                                    This is probably the   
   anything at all in     The odds are good             only example I can     
   the context of the     they weren't meant            think of where the     
   film they're           to mean anything.             media version of a hero
   clearly being sung                                   is less sentimentalized
   *to the audience*,                                   than the original.     
   the crowd of                                                             
   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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