'Compare an episode of 'Spooks' with 'Casino Royale'. To what extent do both rely on racial and other stereotypes?'

The TV series 'Spooks' and the film 'Casino Royale' are very similar, even though one is a film and one is a TV drama. They both are about some kind of agents and and a department that are there to protect their country from people such as terrorists. In both the film and the TV drama they display patrism, they are a good example of the elite, they represent a certain social class and they portray gender and different ethnic groups.
To do this job all the characters in both spooks and casino Royale all display patrism, which is love for their country. They care about the country and the people in that country, this is displayed many time in both casino Royale and spooks. Example of this is in Spooks they had to sacrifice one of their own in order to stop a terrorist attack and a lot of people dying. An example in Casion Royale is James Bond doesn't think twice about killing someone and going to extreme lengths in order to save his country or the people. He's not a malicious killer and he doesn't do it for fun or for pleasure, but for the benefit of his country also because he kills a lot of people who are a threat, this means that he is also under threat from emotions such as revenge. The fact that Jame Bond puts himself under that threat of getting killed and the fact that in Spooks one of the agents sacrificed themselves and died rather than many people shows that to do this kind of job and protect the country is an extremely unselfish job.
The portrayal of social class and the elite can easily be linked in together. To do their kind of job takes a lot of skill, training and qualifying. This means many of the character agents in Spooks would have gone to top Universities, paid a lot of money for training for example. James Bond would also have gone under a lot of training and qualifying before doing the job that he does, this kind of training costs money and the people who do the job wouldn't have those types of opportunities if they weren't of a higher class. Another example of this is in Casino Royale, James Bond goes to a lot of expensive bars and properties, he wears expensive and swanky suits, usually more than one outfit a day, he goes to a lot of countries abroad, drives a nice car and stays in the most expensive hotel. This may be because he is payed well, but the lifestyle he leads shows that he is of a certain class.
Gender is an important factor in this kind of job, and is portrayed well in both Casino Royale and Spooks. The biggest difference between the two is in Spooks, a man is in charge and in Casino Royale a woman is in charge. These TV dramas and Films, if there based on British people today are representing Britain. The fact that some have women in charge and some have men show that the equality that we have in Britain today, or the equality Britain wants opposed to other countries. Another big representation of gender is, James Bond is known for having the famous 'Bond Girls' the girls that are the prettiest and the girls that James Bond will almost always seduce. This is an old fashioned view of women in Britain, you have the main character who is James Bond then you have the beautiful women he is interested which are almost put in the film to make Bond look good. This is the total opposite of Spooks which have women doing the same job as men and having the same authority as men. They both represent Britain at different times.
They both rely on racial and other stereotypes as in both Casino Royale and Spooks they both are protecting Britain from people such as terrorists, all of these are from different countries because they are representing Britain and protecting Britain and they can't have actually British people threatening Britain. In Casion Royale they also have the stereotype of James Bond as the protector, the charmer and the hero. He then has his love interests who are beautiful and sometimes are taken under threat, almost like a 'damsel in distress' role in which Bond will then save them. This kind of set up mirrors old black and white films in which the woman would be saved by the hero. Whereas in spooks they represent more modern stereotypes such as a woman that is intellectual, independent and have their own professional careers. The woman in Spooks aren't and don't need to be saved and protected like they do in Casino Royale.