![]() ![]() The biggest influence of Harry Hart’s indisputably English disposition-as well as the ultimate affectation adopted by his protégé Eggsy (Taron Egerton)-is that of John Steed. Still, the swagger of bifocaled British gentry has lived on in more homages than just Vaughn and screenwriter Jane Goldman’s recent work… Manners Maketh the Man, The Avengers or Otherwise And despite sharing Ken Adam as production designer, Peter Hunt as editor, and John Barry as composer (all of whom worked on the earliest Sean Connery adventures), The Ipcress File and its direct sequels Funeral in Berlin (1966) and Billion Dollar Brain (1967) at least postured as “serious” Cold War affairs. ![]() However, for the most part, the Harry Palmer yarns were meant to be an antidote to the more fantastical James Bond pictures, both of which were produced in the 1960s by Harry Saltzman (Cubby Broccoli was not involved in the Harry Palmer series). Read more: Kingsman: The Secret Service Review We decided to find and unpack as many references to the spy genre classics, Bond or otherwise, that influenced Kingsman’s well-aimed approach. Without those classics of the big screen (and sometimes even the small one), a movie like Kingsman: The Secret Service could not exist. Jackson), everyone loves those old “spy movies,” especially the theatrical ones with a great gentleman superhero and a megalomaniacal baddie. Indeed, it found the missing ingredient that James Bond producers have recently lost.īut as the ever dapper Harry Hart ( Colin Firth) admits to Taaron Egerton in Kingsman, alongside his worthy foe Richmond Valentine (Samuel L. With enough charm and gonzo showmanship by director Matthew Vaughn (and comic creator Mark Millar) to be taken seriously, but still featuring the necessary chaos to qualify as a Monty Python gag, Kingsman: The Secret Service was an outrageous dose of bonkers entertainment. A few years ago, Fifty Shades of Grey opened on Valentine’s Day weekend and shattered all sorts of records… but it was the movie that did almost as well that holiday which has had the longer franchise staying power as the years passed: Kingsman: The Secret Service.
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