Most of them blur together or else have been forgettable, the exceptions being 'You Only Live Twice' and 'For Your Eyes Only,' songs more memorable that the movies they precede.įor all the many theme songs in Bond history, nearly all of them revolve around a basic motif - living, or dying, or living and dying, or living let dying, or dying let living.

The splashy 60s animation, the dancing girls, the pop hit - Goldfinger had all the elements that have been staples ever since. At the least, that's the one everybody remembers. Perhaps a reader with a better sense of Bond lore can either confirm or correct me, but I believe the first true credit sequence in the franchise began with Goldfinger.

That leaves us with, um, the credits.an entire post, really? Absolutely, when the sequence is as justifiably famous as the Bond series' has always been, and when it conveys information as skillfully as the one in Casino Royale. Originally I'd intended to analyze the opening credits and Act I together, but I'm putting off the latter for next time.