James Bond explained

[Nick]

Syntagmatic Analysis

A syntagmatic analysis of a media text usually involves studying it as a narrative sequence, although with a single image such as a poster or photograph it involves the analysis of spatial relationships (Silverman 1983, 106). Narrative theory (or narratology) is a major interdisciplinary field in its own right, and is not necessarily framed within a semiotic perspective. For accounts of narrative theory related to the mass media see: Kozloff 1992; Tilley 1991; Alvarado et al. 1987; Masterman 1985 (Fiske 1987, Chapter 8, 'Narrative', offers an explicitly semiotic perspective). Semiotic narratology is concerned with narrative in any mode - literary or non-literary, verbal or visual - but tends to focus on minimal narrative units and the 'grammar of the plot' (some theorists refer to story grammars). It follows in the tradition of the Russian Formalist Vladimir Propp and the structuralist anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss. In a highly influential book, The Morphology of the Folktale (1928), Propp interpreted a hundred fairy tales in terms of 31 'functions' or basic units of action (see Berger 1982, 24-29; Fiske 1987, 135- .
Umberto Eco interpreted the James Bond novels (one could do much the same with the films) in terms of a basic narrative scheme:

M moves and gives a task to Bond.
The villain moves and appears to Bond.
Bond moves and gives a first check to the villain or the villain gives first check to Bond.
Woman moves and shows herself to Bond.
Bond consumes woman: possesses her or begins her seduction.
The villain captures Bond.
The villain tortures Bond.
Bond conquers the villain.
Bond convalescing enjoys woman, whom he then loses.
(see Woollacott 1982, 96-7).

   

[Pirate]

 

[Nick]

 

[Darwins Selection]

I understood it, but wouldn't have put any mileage on my mouse ball by posting it here. 

3/10  Must try harder.

(It would have only been 1/10 had you included the word 'sausage'.)

[Nick]

I was trying to raise the tone 

[Barman]

I was trying to raise the tone 

[Nick]

 

[Darwins Selection]

I was trying to raise the tone 

0/10

[Barman]

I was trying to raise the tone 

-10/10

 

[apc2010]

Viagra, it won't make you James Bond but it will make you Roger Moore..........

[Barman]

Viagra, it won't make you James Bond but it will make you Roger Moore..........

 

[Grumpmeister]

I was trying to raise the tone 

  The end times are upon us.... 

[Darwins Selection]

Viagra, it won't make you James Bond but it will make you Roger Moore..........

 

[Steve]

Viagra, it won't make you James Bond but it will make you Roger Moore..........

 

[Nick]

My poor thread