James Bond and Kingsmen comparison

The genre for James Bond skyfall is Action and thriller. It has key conventions from a action film . such as male protagonist, damsel in distress and guns, cars, helicopters and explosions are used all the way through the film. It is a thriller since it has the conventions of a thriller. For example it has the swarve suits which James Bond wears and the sense of mystery of not knowing who the enemy is. The genre of Kingsmen is Action, Comedy and adventure. It has the same conventions as James Bond in the action genre. The conventions for the comedy are the villain which is taken seriously because he has a lisp, the final scene with the princess and the part where Egsy shots the balloon on top of Roxie's head. The adventure conventions are that he travels all over the worlds and the whole saving the world incident. The James Bond film definitely takes the action side of the genre much more serious then Kingsmen. this is because their target audience would be different. James Bond would be for the older gentlemen aged between 35 to 50. But Kingsmen audience is much appealing to a much younger audience with its different styles of genres. Kingsmen audience would be between 15 and 30.

The narrative is linear in James Bond. It does not have any flashbacks or flash forwards. It is a single stranded narrative line. That is James Bond trying to kill Mr Silver. It has one main villain or antagonist which is Mr silver and has James Bond as a protagonist. Kingsmen is linear narrative story line and is multi stranded. It has three stands within the film. It has Egsy training to become Kingsmen and fill the Lancelot placement, Killing the Antagonist Mr. Valentine and him trying to stop his mums boyfriend from hurting her. They all link in a certain way but they're all different story lines. For example Egsy joins Kingsmen because he wanted to become what his father was. But within his training he comes across the saving the world and killing Mr Valentine story line. So the Two story lines are linked through joining the Kingsmen but are different. The similarities are that The protagonist has to kill the Antagonist.

The representation of middle aged upper class men were similar. Harry in Kingsmen is upper class and middle aged and represented as a very posh, well mannered, sophisticated and subtle. James Bond is represented in the same way. James Bond is well mannered, sophisticated and swarve. the main physical appearance about them both is their suits. At the beginning when James Bond has not got has supposedly died he does not wear a suit. In the raining he scores very low in his physical and mental exams in the film. It's only until he puts his suit on for his first mission he changes dramatically in his physical and mental performance. This is the same in Kingsmen when Harry says you have a suit to be a gentleman. As soon as Egsy puts his suit his performance changes drastically. These two examples emphasize how the suit changes you in to a gentleman and somehow increases your performance.