Cinemas favourite spies

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We’ve all got our own personal super spy- a name who risks it all for their country, consequences be damned. Here’s alook at the spies who help to keep us safe from evil maniacs bent on world domination.

James Bond- How could we do this list without mentioning the original cinema spy himself? Can always be found with a martini in hand, a beautiful women in the other hand and q’s finest gadgets, 007 always got the job done with style. Everyone will argue for hours over who was the best Bond, but never whether 007 deserves his legendary status. Bond is the person we think of when we hear the term ’spy’, and nobody does it better.

Harry Palmer- Micheal Caine played the Anti Bond. Taking a completely different route to the Bond films, Palmers world was much gritter, and the man himself was a mirror image of 007. With glasses and lacking Bonds class, but certainly not his ruthlessness, Palmer proved himself to be a top spy in his own right.

Austin Powers- the 60s hippest spy, who was frozen only to be defrosted in the late 1990s to fight Dr Evil and his schemes. A send up of all the great spy movies and spies, he had Bond gadgets, Palmers glasses, and his own unique charm. Powers would always save the day, but not before giving us all a good laugh along the way. Not only have the movies successfully paid tribute to the spy movies of yesterday, but also given us catchphrases and a world all of its own.

Jason Bourne. Millions of dollars and the training made him the man for the job, but we first met Bourne having bullets pulled out of him, and no memory of who he is. Bond had problems adapting to spying in this new century, but Bourne did, working in the crowds and shadows, but also operating in the open when it was absolutley needed. Tracked by the very people who’d trained him, it was their very training that saved him time and again.

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