Movie(s) Review - James Bond 007

The name is Bond…James Bond!!

Hello people! I have been a bit dormant in posting since past few days(months to be succinct), well nothing vitriolic about blogging, I just have been out of business(and town) and my eyes were most of the times glued to Cricket(India Won.!! Yipee..). But here I am posting another thing that I have been upto these days and that might interest you. And this time it’s about a sleuth. A well known contumacious sleuth created by a World war II veteran ‘Ian fleming’.I have been watching all the 22 Bond movies(thanks to APOGEE 2011,BITS LAN and ‘noWonder’). Bond, as you all know, has also been associated in framing lingo in almost every other college around.. as noun and adjective “abe kya bond admi hai” or ”bondpana” or “bondpanti” or “bondgiri”. For more (official) Information about James Bond, you should pay a visit to his wiki page and for the unofficial review, you may carry on reading this post.

Well the Bond Movies are just a bunch (a little more than a Score I mean,22 when reckoned) of action(and mirth) packed movies featuring hottest actresses of the contemporary times as the bond girls and some quirky contraptions called bond gadgets. And no need to mention the splendid cars, mostly Bentley, Aston Martin and BMW loaded with cutting edge technologies and automated guns, missile launching systems and enhanced GPSes(in the latter editions).Bond works as a professional secret agent for MI6, a british agency who gives him the official license to kill anyone anywhere anytime in the whole world. As depicted in one of the movie, he was married once but his wife was killed and since then he never married again. He only woos and romances with on an average 3(taking only integral values in consideration) girls per movie (The most beautiful one I think would be the bond girl in “From Russia with love”).The other protagonists in the movie series are M(the code name of the head of MI6 and who is rather an officious person), Money Penny(the assistant who is in desperate love with James bond but has to remain satisfied with the light flirting that bond does with her) and some other characters with varying appearances.

With the enemy’s rancor to decimate nations(and sometimes the whole planet itself like in Moonraker) and bond flaunting his sleight to deal with all the trying circumstances with his sangfroid. Some movies also feature various eerie villain’s entourage like some of them have midgets (like in The man with the golden gun), some have giants(like in Moonraker) and some even have pudgy korean figures(like in Goldfinger).Most of the versions focus on the covetous bad guy’s plans to obliterate people sometimes because of personal malice and the other times for some financial or political gain. The genocide being planned by the bad guy majorly employs atomic or chemical weapons.

My favorite movie amongst all these would happen to be “Goldfinger”.The actor starring as bond being my favorite of all, Sean Connery. The eponym is coz of the main villain ‘Auric Goldfinger’ whose plans are not much sinister as is the case in most other bond movies like to annihilate scores of people or dropping an atomic bomb. He is just a Gold magnate(and smuggler) and plans to pollute radioactively the gold reserves of US so that his gold reserves gain value and he could ostensibly be the richest industrialist in US by selling gold at exorbitant prices.

One of the editions, "Octopussy" was shot in india with kabir bedi being the only Indian actor ever to star in a james bond flick. He was starred as a villain’s mate in the movie. It houses the tale of james bond trying to salvage a bomb being deployed by a belligerent terrorist ‘Khan’. Bond romances with a blonde girl(a blonde bond girl :D) named Octopussy who is a princess and lives on a secluded island where no males are allowed .She is also a friend of ‘Khan’. In a scene in this movie, Bond camouflaged himself as a crocodile (I know it’s hard to believe but he actually did) to sneak into that island. The rest of the story followed and eventually had a happy epilogue as always.

The 23^rd edition which maybe the last one, as I expect because all the novels have been adapted into movies is to be released in 2012 stars “Casino Royale” fame Daniel Craig and the movie title is “Bond 23”. I am definitely going to watch it the first day first show(possibly if i am out of this village by that time) as bond movies promise to be glutinous with no revulsion.

Book Review - The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich

Hello friends….I am writing this blog as a personal book review of the book I recently read “The Accidental Billionaires - The Founding of Facebook A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal” by Ben Mezrich. Well the reason I chose this book was just that I had no other option. A friend of mine was supposed to give me another book from the store of Sidney Sheldon (which she hasn't given me till now, TIMESTAMP – 10:41 PM, 26th Jan 2011) and so I groped for this ebook from my LAN and read it.
I had no personal propensity about reading this book as I had already seen the movie “Social Network” which has been adapted from this book and also has been nominated for the annual Oscar Awards 2011.So I started it off with not so much of frenzy as a veritable real life drama deserves. But as the story went by, it educed and gripped in my interest as some of the aspects of the book differed from the movie like in the movie. It wasn’t depicted lucidly in the movie that who was behind the case of sean parker being busted while getting stoned but some of the excerpts of the novel clearly mention that mark wasn’t as bovine in this case as the world thinks him to be. Besides that also there are much other cases of dissidence between the book and the movie.
There is no denying the fact that mark has been an effulgent prodigy in the history of computers and networking, but he has been alleged of plagiarizing technology and ideas(though he has been disbursing all of it). The story also depicts how unkempt a person Mark is in his personal life. Anyways the thing he engendered way back in 2004 is one of the addictive things in today’s world as well as a boon to social networking which has been given a new dimension by adapting the whole of our Social Experience online. The way you get invited to events on facebook is as identical as you get invitations through mail at your door is one such instance of this assertion.
Anyways there were certain things that were peculiar about the novel which were great to discover like I never knew that originally the poke feature in facebook was designed to let someone know that you have checked out their profile and you are interested to see them. Well lots of my friends have been indiscriminately using this poke thing without even knowing that they are actually wooing at the profiles they poke. No one knows what impression they must have made of themselves over the people they have been POKING (how does it matter anyways as most people getting poked never knew its meaning :P)
Though mark zuckerberg has been constantly rebuked and reprimanded by people over the years for what he did to Eduardo and the twins (maybe sean parker too) but still the legend of this geek is worth a read.