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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 312487" data-attributes="member: 8">The story so far: a mid-re-evaluation retrospective.Looking at the variety of songs and themes I think it&#039;s safe to say that it&#039;s getting more and more difficult to decide what makes a Bond song a good Bond song or, for that matter, a good movie song.I&#039;m pretty sure that most people consider GOLDFINGER (or at least several elements thereof) as THE template for a successful Bond theme - a combination of Hollywood grandeur, Harold Robbins-style sex and Batman-style camp.But since the first three themes were very different and&nbsp; successful I believe nothing was carved in stone yet.I think it&#039;s the copy that confirms the legitimacy of its predecessor. And that copy was THUNDERBALL.To compare: I don&#039;t think that DALLAS wouldn&#039;t have continued to be successful without DYNASTY, but since the Texan soap was one of a kind for several years it simply couldn&#039;t have been THE standard in prime time soap opera. It&#039;s funny to think that DYNASTY helped DALLAS to become bigger than it already was.There is nothing of that Hollywood/Harold Robbins/Batman in NOBODY DOES IT BETTER and WE HAVE ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD, and the connection is more emotional than on-the-nose.Carly Simon is not in the movie and yet, in her song, she&#039;s closer to Roger Moore than any of the Bond girls in that movie.Perhaps there&#039;s no such thing as a &quot;Bond Song&quot;, and that idea makes me feel less confident about this re-evaluation. On the other hand, I think I&#039;ve managed to rate the songs on a case-by-case basis, although, admittedly, not always 100% consistently.[ATTACH=full]34504[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 312487, member: 8"] The story so far: a mid-re-evaluation retrospective. Looking at the variety of songs and themes I think it's safe to say that it's getting more and more difficult to decide what makes a Bond song a good Bond song or, for that matter, a good movie song. I'm pretty sure that most people consider GOLDFINGER (or at least several elements thereof) as THE template for a successful Bond theme - a combination of Hollywood grandeur, Harold Robbins-style sex and Batman-style camp. But since the first three themes were very different [I]and[/I] successful I believe nothing was carved in stone yet. I think it's the [B]copy[/B] that confirms the legitimacy of its predecessor. And that copy was THUNDERBALL. To compare: I don't think that DALLAS wouldn't have continued to be successful without DYNASTY, but since the Texan soap was one of a kind for several years it simply couldn't have been THE standard in prime time soap opera. It's funny to think that DYNASTY helped DALLAS to become bigger than it already was. There is nothing of that Hollywood/Harold Robbins/Batman in NOBODY DOES IT BETTER and WE HAVE ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD, and the connection is more emotional than on-the-nose. Carly Simon is not in the movie and yet, in her song, she's closer to Roger Moore than any of the Bond girls in that movie. Perhaps there's no such thing as a "Bond Song", and that idea makes me feel less confident about this re-evaluation. On the other hand, I think I've managed to rate the songs on a case-by-case basis, although, admittedly, not always 100% consistently. [ATTACH type="full"]34504[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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