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“Keep the fruit”: mixing up Felix Leiter’s masculinity
The line didn’t exist in the earlier drafts of Casino Royale. Is it just a throwaway quip or something more revealing of Felix’s character?
Please drink Risico-ly: stiff drinks and manliness in Fleming’s booziest short story
No sooner has Bond arrived in Venice than he’s hitting the watering holes. Bond works his way up from a favourite haunt of Ernest Hemingway to the finest the floating city has to offer. And then the real drinking begins. But what do the drinks that Bond chooses reveal about him as a man?
James Bond has always been a plaything. For over sixty years, we’ve watched him manipulated by directors, dressed by costume designers, and positioned for our visual pleasure on the silver screen. But the lack of 007 video games in recent times has kept us, the audience, in a more passive role. So what happens when we get James Bond literally in our hands?