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LIVE_TWICE

                                   May     6, 2004
                        Addition:  August 10, 2004

The theme to "You Only Live Twice" has lyrics
that seem oddly inappropriate for the film.

  "You only live twice
  Or so it seems
  Once for your self                      (once in the books,
  And once for your dreams                 and once on the screen)

  "You drift through the years
  And life seems tame
  Till one dream appears
  And Love is it's name..."

One, the Sean Connery Bond
has moments of affection        This is in contrast to
perhaps, but love isn't a       the Ian Fleming James
noticeable factor in his        Bond, who is extremely     WINNING_VESPER
make-up.                        sexist, but also quite
                                the romantic.
Two, his existance doesn't
seem terribly "tame"...                          He's constantly
he doesn't spend a lot of                        thinking about
time drifting and                                proposing marriage
dreaming.                                        to the women
                                                 he's involved with.
   To the extent that
   these lyrics mean                                    This is probably the
   anything at all in     The odds are good             only example I can
   the context of the     they weren't meant            think of where the
   film they're           to mean anything.             media version of a hero
   clearly being sung                                   is less sentimentalized
   *to the audience*,                                   than the original.
   the crowd of
   middle-class losers
   addicted to these
   grossly implausible
   tales of sex and
   danger.

       But even so, the
       focus on love
       seems peculiar.

         Whatever it is they
         were after...
         was love really
         the name?


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