Media Pilgrimages in James Bond

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The article has been strengthening on the masculinity, the realism in between James Bond and its fans. Media has picked on representing men power and society status. However, I disagree that men have to acquire the same traits (strong, good looking and hardworking) like James Bond to show their masculinity. As a contradictory, nerds are also men and they do have the aspects of masculinity to be testify of. As comparison, I have chosen the films of James Bond and the Revenge of the Nerds into consideration. In Reijnders (2009:370), James Bond resembles a paragon of manliness and masculinity: physically strong, hard working, in control of women and technology as compared to nerd’s appearance according to Kendall (1999:263) are uncoordinated clothing, lack personal hygiene, too short pants and glasses. Even so, both Bond and nerds have similarities interest in women; obtain heroic identity and technology savvy. Reijnders (2009:373) said that most respondent’s views on Bond are seen as ‘strong’ and ‘brave’ who is surrounded by weapons, beautiful women and fast cars. Truth to be said, the author of James Bond movie, Ian Fleming created Bond to be ‘warm-blooded heterosexuals in railway trains, airplanes or beds (Reijnders, 2009:370). Nerds on the other hand, expose their masculinity in different ways. As stated in Kendall (1999:269), the nerds in the movie took revenge upon the Alpha male (quarterback) by staging a panty raid to show their masculinity gender dominance but their real purposes is to implant a remote controlled cameras through 24 hours, surveillance on the girls. “This shows nerds possessing the same sexual drives and desires as their opponents. They too want to survey and control women as sexual objects, and they use their own special strength – control of technology- to express these desires (Kendall, 1999:269). This has proven once again that although
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