Roger Moore redeemed Moonraker with one of the darker Bond movies

The Roger Moore era of the Bond franchise was a kind of mixed bag. Moore starring some of the best entrances of all time in the franchise 007, as the Spy Who Loved Me, but also starred some of the worst, like Verw to Kill. After Sean Connery's iconic season established the soft characterization of Bond and the formula full of action of the series, Moore changed things in several key ways.

Moore brought a sense of unconventional humor to the table and gave the action a delicious element of antics. Another way in which the producers differentiated Moore's films was experimenting with new gender frames. All Connery's films had been simple thrillers of spies, but Moore's films tested several different genres.

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When the Blaxploitation movement was doing waves at the film of action, Live and Let Die faced Bond against a Harlem drug trafficker with a pimp. When Bruce Lee's films gave way to the madness of Kung Fu's films, the golden gun man faced Bond against a group of martial artists in Hong Kong. And when the great success of Star Wars of George Lucas inspired a fashion of spatial opera, Moonraker sent Bond to the outer space.

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