In celebration for the soon-to-be-released Skyfall, the 23rd Bond movie produced by Eon Productions, I made this little video as a tribute to my first Bond movie that got it all started for me.

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Concluding an unofficial quadrilogy of James Bond videos made around No Time to Die’s often delayed release, I look to On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, the once black sheep of the franchise that has slowly become arguably the most acclaimed of any 007 movie. This video essay looks at On Her Majesty’s Secret Service as the culmination of 60s Bond, expanding the aesthetics and action filmmaking of the series, while simultaneously bringing the character to a point in which he’d never fully return. At once an analysis of Bond’s history and a love letter to a great movie.

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Filmography: https://boxd.it/dfrgy

Works Cited:

License to Thrill: A Cultural History of the James Bond Films. James Chapman. 2007.
FILM: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (Review). Molly Haskell, The Village Voice. 1969.
Inside On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. John Cork. 2000.
Bond and Beyond: The Political Career of a Popular Hero. Tony Bennett and Janet Woollacott. 1987.
Bond Films. Jim Smith. 2002.
50 Years Later, this Bond Film Should Finally Get Its Due. Thomas Vinciguerra, New York Times. 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/27/movies/on-her-majestys-secret-service-james-bond-lazenby.html

Music Featured:

Both Flanks by Small Colin
Fragmented Pianos by Mikael Lind
Love Him by Loyalty Freak Music
Setup With an E by Small Colin
Symphony No. 3: Failure by Steve Combs
Symphony No. 2: Truth by Steve Combs
Warmed-Up Mono Box by Small Colin
Carnival by smallertide
Facing It by Komiku
Sednoseteres by Hinterheim
And Never Come Back by Soft & Furious
Original Mutations by Small Colin

More Eyebrow Cinema:

Being John Malkovich and the Office Movies of 1999 – https://youtu.be/sI3Obe0tiDU
The Plot Holes of Vertigo (and why they don’t matter) – https://youtu.be/xP9EDhntal4
The Decay of Cinema – https://youtu.be/hjDNtwh2i5M
Chris Benoit and Separating the Art from the Artist – https://youtu.be/dGavvwRyomE
Sleepless in Seattle – Crying at Action Movies – https://youtu.be/UZLyIdVeLaM
Star Wars Can’t Move On – https://youtu.be/ESWgz-lcUuE
Contextualizing Insomnia – Nolan’s Secret Gem – https://youtu.be/IUef5zrtRQ4
Movie Theaters and the Value of Inconvenience – https://youtu.be/uZdl9D7NWBI
Action and Pacifism in Castle in the Sky – https://youtu.be/fuIhAH8mnSM
How Terence Young Made James Bond – https://youtu.be/2sTt_nkgGFE
Hierarchies of Violence in The Shining – https://youtu.be/tMw2YWOBeoM
The Curious Case of Forrest and Benjamin – https://youtu.be/gWAg1suGwnM
Never Say Never Again is a Waste – https://youtu.be/GsdMCujvmMA
Harry Potter – 10 Years Later – https://youtu.be/H0VjWs6aivw
Stanley Kubrick’s Favourite Actors – https://youtu.be/Uon8unTCEX4
Long Movies are Good, Actually – https://youtu.be/YGhsxpsXgF0

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As a coda to my series of James Bond videos, and in prep for No Time to Die, here is my ranking of all 24 official Bond movies, from 001st to 00worst.

The Great Bondian Identity Crisis – https://youtu.be/oHTdxKloljo
How Terence Young Made James Bond – https://youtu.be/2sTt_nkgGFE
Never Say Never Again is a Waste – https://youtu.be/GsdMCujvmMA
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service and The End of James Bond – https://youtu.be/Ko492zTs9xs

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Music Featured:

Both Flanks by Small Colin
Love Him by Loyalty Freak Music
Golden Sphere by ROZKOL
Setup With an E by Small Colin
Facing It by Komiku
Sednoseteres by Hinterheim
Original Mutations by Small Colin
Small Spaces by Steve Combs
Serial Killer by John Bartmann
Carnival by smallertide
Symphony No. 1: Hope? by Steve Combs
Ending by Komiku

Being John Malkovich and the Office Movies of 1999 – https://youtu.be/sI3Obe0tiDU
The Plot Holes of Vertigo (and why they don’t matter) – https://youtu.be/xP9EDhntal4
The Decay of Cinema – https://youtu.be/hjDNtwh2i5M
Chris Benoit and Separating the Art from the Artist – https://youtu.be/dGavvwRyomE
Sleepless in Seattle – Crying at Action Movies – https://youtu.be/UZLyIdVeLaM
Star Wars Can’t Move On – https://youtu.be/ESWgz-lcUuE
Contextualizing Insomnia – Nolan’s Secret Gem – https://youtu.be/IUef5zrtRQ4
Movie Theaters and the Value of Inconvenience – https://youtu.be/uZdl9D7NWBI
Action and Pacifism in Castle in the Sky – https://youtu.be/fuIhAH8mnSM
Hierarchies of Violence in The Shining – https://youtu.be/tMw2YWOBeoM
The Curious Case of Forrest and Benjamin – https://youtu.be/gWAg1suGwnM
Harry Potter – 10 Years Later – https://youtu.be/H0VjWs6aivw
Stanley Kubrick’s Favourite Actors – https://youtu.be/Uon8unTCEX4
Long Movies are Good, Actually – https://youtu.be/YGhsxpsXgF0
The Death of the American Gangster Film – https://youtu.be/DGEfSsScdAA

Director: Michael Apted
With. Pierce Brosnan, Denise Richards, Robert Carlyle, Sophie Marceau, Robbie Coltrane, Judi Dench, Colin Salmon, Desmond Llewelyn, John Cleese, Samantha Bond, Serena Scott Thomas, John Saru, Ulrich Thomsen, David Calder
Year: 1999