Motifs in the James Bond film series the degree to which Bond girls are pivotal to propelling the plot forward varies from one film to the next. Five of the Bond girls are "bad" girls (or at least working for the villain) who turn "good" (or switch sides) usually due to Bond's influence. Bond has fallen in love with only Tracy di Vicenzo in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" and Vesper Lynd in "Casino Royale", but both of them die at or near the end of the respective films. Roald Dahl, a screenwriter of "You Only Live Twice", said he was given a formula to work to
Eva Green curse turns Johnny Depp's character into a vampire in Tim Burton's "Dark Shadows". In 2014, she played Artemisia in the "300" sequel, "" for which she received excellent reviews. Rafer Guzman in his "Newsday" review stated, "The one bright spot is Eva Green as Xerxes' machinator, Artemesia, a raccoon-eyed warrior princess... Green plays a snarling, insatiable, self-hating femme fatale and completely steals the show." Stephanie Zacharek writing for "The Village Voice" exclaimed, ""Rise of an Empire" might have been essentially more of the same, but for one distinction that makes it 300 times better than its predecessor: Mere mortals of