One of the codes of spy genre is location that the hero is in during the opening sequence; it makes the background of the Hero and in MI: 2 it is true.
John Woo uses different Camera shots and angles to show that the foreign land that the hero is in is exotic especially using the extreme long shots and long shots.
These indicating the hero as an exotic man, making a person think he is mysterious and a spy is usually mysterious in many ways.
The Costume of a hero is vital code and convention; this makes the personality of a person particularly heroes.
In the Mi: 2 opening the hero are wearing a no sleeve t-shirt with tracksuit bottoms and trainers that is all black.
The t-shirt represents his activities such as working out and keeping fit, the bottoms and trainers represents his style of life such as fashion, likes and dislikes and life style and the colour is the crucial of all the costume it represents the past and black represents that he had a miserable past.
TWINE is the best example of the codes and conventions for a hero in my eyes. The James Bond films is known for the codes and conventions of heroism, you might say it is a classic and one of the James bond conventions is the chase sequences.
Being chased by a villain is a daily routine for Bond and the director has to put this chase to follow the code, conventions and tradition of James Bond.
Having a chase in TWINE signifies that Bond is an electrifying man that can escape the villains anytime and to have a chase also signifies that the hero is cunning and to be a spy you have to have a knack for escape.
Any spy action film without any type of gadgets the film won’t even be called a spy action film because spy action film heroes need to have the latest gadgets; it is a code and convention that Michael Apled uses to institute James bond as a hero.
The gadgets of the first few minutes of TWINE, James uses a boat that can drive on the surface and the Spectacles that was a remote control that sets of a smoke bomb that was disguised as an ordinary suitcase is only the basics gadgets that the spy action genre needs.
These are just all state of the art gadgets and a spy can’t be called a spy without its utensils, signifying that James bond has gadgets and you can’t disagree with a classical example of a the spy action genre.
Luxury, a word made for Bond, James Bond, and this convention was invented by James Bond. Apled carries the torch of Bond luxury in the opening sequence.
You see this by the Clothes, Jewellery, Cars, Women and accent of Bond, this list makes bond to be posh.
Signifying that bond has a luxurious personality.
Austin Powers is a parody of the spy action genre but still include the code and conventions of the spy action genre such as getting a mission.
Jay Roach establishes Austin Powers as a spy by giving him a mission preferably a mission that he saves the world.
This follows the convention of spy action genre because every spy needs a mission and Austin got a mission.
Women, you can’t have a spy action with them as the spy but you can’t have a spy action film without them and that is what Jay Roach had done.
Roach kept it a spy genre by making Austin Powers be chased by Beautiful women but kept it a comedy by making Powers look unattractive.
Women are included in spy action genre to make the romantic view of the film as James Bond, but this is a parody so he kept it funny and this shows that Powers is a sex magnet like Mr Bond.
Austin powers as you see is British and the nationality changes the way of the film so this is a code for the spy action genre-what nationality you are.
James bond is British and you see his looks and charms of a British person basically Bond is the high-quality of British people and the parody of bond is Austin that represents the low quality of the British.
The nationality can change the whole structure of a film and so it is a code of the spy action genre of a hero to show what nationality the character.
To conclude we can see that the directors of all three films follow the codes and conventions of a hero and spy action genre.
A hero has to have all these things such as stunts, costume, gadgets, women and others.
Without a code the films as we know won’t be called a film worth watching. The directors would be nothing without following the conventions and codes of a hero.
