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Podcast: Cracking the Code of Spy Movies!
Episode: James Bond influences from History and Literature
Description: Join Dan and Tom as they decode some James Bond influences from History and Literature. Hint: Proust, Dostoevsky, and others may have played a part. Christopher Booker's "Seven Basic Plots" identifies the seven main plots that literature tends to stick to. So, we look at some classic literature and its effect on the James Bond movies. Consequently, there aren't very many different plots to contend with, and Eon Productions has retold the same plot multiple times in their movies. What we will decode in this episode: ·        How do Proust's works parallel a character in the last t...