Abstract
Abstract For 55 years, the essence of Bond on film has consistently remained the same: British secret-agent with a license to kill, a fondness for fast-women and fast-cars, and a penchant for saving the world in a clinch. However, the 22nd Bond film, Quantum of Solace (Foster, 2008), received mixed reviews upon release with many journalistic critics admonishing the film for breaking with the established James Bond formula. This article argues that Quantum of Solace’s break with key aspects of the James Bond formula stems from the emergence of intertextual references outside of the franchise’s hypotext through the intermingling of three distinct and un-Bond sources: The Jason Bourne franchise, an exploitation genre of female rape-revenge films and Marc Foster’s utilization of art cinema tropes.
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