'Die Another Day': shaping James Bond for a post-9/11 world

It was 20 years ago today that two hijacked Boeing 747 commercial aeroplanes caused a macabre terrorist attack in the heart of New York City, but watching the images all over again still chills anyone in any part of this world. The terrorist attacks that took place in the morning of September 11, 2001, didn't just change the politics and social mood of the United States of America. It changed the whole world and particularly the Western hemisphere: anyone who grew up in the late 1990s and early 2000s surely remembers how afraid we were of going to McDonald's or walking next to the US Embassy in the days that followed 9/11.

 

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Mis libros (digitales) en MercadoLibre

Consciente del gran esfuerzo que implica comprar mis libros en Argentina debido a su costo en dólares, esta semana se han publicado en MercadoLibre mis cuatro primeros libros en formato digital: El Mundo de GoldenEye, El Bond del Nuevo Milenio: Los Días de Pierce Brosnan como James Bond, Licencia Para Promocionar: Un Vistazo a los Tráilers de 007 y Más Allá Del Hielo: A Favor y en Contra de Otro Dìa Para Morir.

El material se ofrece en formato PDF legible protegido contra copias, en pesos y a un valor que para los argentinos será mucho más conveniente que las tiendas online del exterior. Tras realizar la oferta, el producto se envía en un lapso no menor a 24 horas. Pueden encontrar todos las publicaciones completas en este link.

¡Espero que los disfruten!

'Beyond The Ice' is now out in paperback and digital

Hello world! I'm pleased to announce my fourth book (not counting updates or translation) is now out in the Amazon store, and I'm sure it'll be available later in BookDepository. Beyond The Ice: The Case For And Against Die Another Day, deals with the 40th anniversary James Bond movie, which -unlike my favourite 007 flick GoldenEye- is hated by many.

It's not a secret, it's a surprise...

Hello world, hope 2020 finds you well considering the circumstances. And happy 67th birthday to Pierce Brosnan, my all time favourite James Bond! If it wasn't for him, I'm sure I'd be now writing about something else, or probably not writing at all and maybe painting, playing football or the guitar, who knows, but it's thanks to Pierce that I got attracted to Bond some 22 years ago.

Debunking fake 007 Brosnan myths

Hello everyone. I know I did a similar article sometime before on Universal Exports and the UAMC, but I felt in the need to debunk some facts I regularly see on forums and social media regarding Pierce Brosnan's performance as James Bond. I don't own the truth, neither do them, but here's my take on some exaggeratedly wrong assumptions.

My first ever James Bond article

As you can appreciate, the header image belongs to promotional artwork commissioned by EON Productions to celebrate the 40th anniversary of James Bond in October 2002. And it was, precisely, in October 2002 when the newspaper from the Manuela Pedraza elementary school came out.