The Queen and her Knight in the Underworld: Bond meta, as threatened.

Disclaimer: I invoke the death of the author principle for this one. Meaning: no, I don't claim anyone - scriptwriters, producers, directors, actors - involved in the production of the last three Bond movies actually intended any of this. Also, I'm well aware you can read the films very differently (including as a long exercise in misogyny); my own, different interpretation is undoubtedly influenced by what I want to see. But then, this is how we read any myths, those born of current pop culture as much as those created by the ancient Greeks. * This being said: here is the story I, personally, saw Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace and Skyfall creating.

( The Queen and her Knight in the Underworld )

*If Aristophanes' comedies are anything to go buy, Euripides' female characters were seen as a slander on the sex and women bashing - and if your fellow ancient Greeks think you're a misogynist, um... - but today Euripides' female characters stand out as the most interesting, subversive and agenda-having of all Greek tragedy has to offer.