Anatomy of a Bond Movie

It’s January 2021. It’s almost a year into the pandemic in the UK, we’re in lockdown, and we’re finding ways to stay busy and entertained. Over the last few weeks my young man took a fascination with Bond Movies, and we’ve end ended up watching all the PG ones at a rate of almost 1 per night.

This starkly revealed the formula for a Bond Movie, as they very clearly all follow a pattern of similar events and constructs.

I decided to capture it on paper. It fits pretty well with the 15 or so we’ve seen so far.

Anatomy of a Bond Movie: most of the movies seem to follow a generic formula