You Asked For It!

For our Casino Royale Presentation the group will be covering many ideas throughout Bonds Era. From Connery to Craig, from Casino Royale to Dr. No and others. However, I will be presenting information & ideas of the books acceptance in the 50’s. Such as where its success developed and how conservative views and lifestyles accepted a plot with so much sex, violence, sadism, gambling, womanizing, espionage and more women! The book was sophisticated and brutal considering the 1950's the normative family consisted of a breadwinner father, homemaker mother, and several children, all living in homes in the suburbs on the outskirts of a larger city. In the 1950s sexual expression was supposed to be restricted to marriage, and premarital sex was taboo. Where nearly everyone conformed to a pattern of early marriage and several children. Casino Royal’s success may have came from the sense of the Man Who Saved Britain-he had a license to kill, the secret agent who saved civilization from a series of nefarious villains while staying in the world's fanciest hotels and romancing a multitude of beautiful babes. In addition, After the war 1951 women were asked to return to the role of a mother& wife, they wanted to stop feminism and bond helped with that message. The truth is that all the bond girls had great professional careers – some pilots, CIA, business owners, Spies --and they all did extraordinary things. They were progressive.