History WebVideo / InServiceOfNothing

2015 ShortFilm / FanFilm written and directed by Tyler Gibb and produced by Adi Shankar, who also produced ''Film/{{Dredd}}'', ''Film/TheGrey'' and the popular ComicBook/ThePunisher fan-film ''Film/DirtyLaundry''. Like the other fan-videos in Shankar's [[WebVideo/BootlegUniverseOneShots "Bootleg Universe"]] series, it offers a dark, rather [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructive]] take on a popular pop-culture icon...

* FallenHero: James Bond, once the greates secret agent of all, ends up [[spoiler: becoming a hitman in a desperate attempt to recapture part of his GloryDays]].

* RealityEnsues: This version of James Bond never became George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan or Daniel Craig. He just stayed Sean Connery, and consequently got old, shunted into a desk job, and forced into mandatory retirement with a meagre pension. He even has to pay for sex now.

2015 ShortFilm / FanFilm written and directed by Tyler Gibb and produced by Adi Shankar, who also produced ''Film/{{Dredd}}'', ''Film/TheGrey'' and the popular ComicBook/ThePunisher fan-film ''Film/DirtyLaundry''. Like the other fan-videos in Shankar's [[Franchise/BootlegUniverseOneShots "Bootleg Universe"]] series, it offers a dark, rather [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructive]] take on a popular pop-culture icon...

2015 ShortFilm / FanFilm written and directed by Tyler Gibb and produced by Adi Shankar, who also produced ''Film/{{Dredd}}'', ''Film/TheGrey'' and the popular ComicBook/ThePunisher fan-film ''Film/DirtyLaundry''. Like the other fan-videos in Shankar's "Bootleg Universe" series, it offers a dark, rather [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructive]] take on a popular pop-culture icon...

* CaptainErsatz: The main character is never explicitly identified, but is so thinly a veiled version of Sean Connery's Film/JamesBond that the veil might as well be made of Cellophane. For this reason, MGM briefly had the short pulled from YouTube (it has since been re-uploaded).

* AintTooProudToBeg: [[spoiler:The poor guy our main character's hired to whack spends his last few minutes desperately pleading for his life.]]

* BloodKnight: He's got enough money to satisfy most of his cravings for his former life, but it's clearly the action that the main character misses the most. [[spoiler:To the point that he eventually becomes a contract killer performing squalid murders-for-hire just so that he can relive some faint shred of the GloryDays.]]
* BookEnds: The main character, staring out of a train window, musing how "they" would overlook his misdeeds due to his service to his country.

* CurbStompBattle: PlayedForDrama. The climax is the main character, the best secret agent there was, hunting, fighting, and eliminating his target with extreme prejudice... [[spoiler:except it's not some megalomaniacal supervillain this time, just some pathetic schlub who's been sleeping with the wrong guy's wife and got a hit out on him in response.]] It's all to show just how low our main character has finally sunk.

* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The glorious technicolor of the main character's 1960s adventures stands out amid the desaturated monochrome of his present-day life.

* GloryDays: The beginning of the short features a glimpse of a fast-paced adventure from the protagonist's youth, complete with exotic locations, dastardly villains, great peril, cool cars and gadgets, an exciting chase and a beautiful bikini-clad woman beside him. The rest of the short contrasts this with the now-elderly main character struggling to fit in with the rest of the world and reflecting back on this.
* FaceHeelTurn: Although given the Deconstruction going on, it's arguable exactly whether the character in question was a Face to begin with. [[spoiler:But he's definitely gone from saving the world from super-villains to basically just a hit-man.]]

* HighClassCallGirl: The main character can still get beautiful women in to bed... if he pays for it.
* HowWeGotHere: The first shot is the main character staring out of a train window at the darkened scenery passing him by. The rest of the short follows how the main character reached this point.
* RealityEnsues: This version of James Bond never became George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan or Daniel Craig. He just stayed Sean Connery, and consequently got old, shunted into a desk job, and forced into mandatory retirement with a meagre pension. [[spoiler:He even has to pay for sex now.]]

* TakeThat: It's probably not a coincidence that the less-than-flattering observations the main character levels at the world he lives in are also criticisms that can be levelled at James Bond.

* WrongGenreSavvy: As part of the deconstruction. In the second half of the film, the main character starts acting like [[Film/JamesBond he's on one of his old grandiose adventures.]] [[spoiler:When in fact he's just doing a grubby, cheap murder-for-hire.]]

** More specifically, it deconstructs the Sean Connery version of James Bond, showing what would happen if the same man who fought Film/DrNo, Film/{{Goldfinger}} and [[Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice Blofeld]] didn't [[TheNthDoctor get recast into a series of other actors]] and instead just aged like everyone else. Eventually, he would have to face obsolescence and irrelevance.

* AintTooProudToBeg: [[spoiler: The poor guy our main character's hired to whack spends his last few minutes desperately pleading for his life.]]

* BloodKnight: He's got enough money to satisfy most of his cravings for his former life, but it's clearly the action that the main character misses the most. [[spoiler: To the point that he eventually becomes a contract killer performing squalid murders-for-hire just so that he can relive some faint shred of the GloryDays.]]

* CurbStompBattle: PlayedForDrama. The climax is the main character, the best secret agent there was, hunting, fighting, and eliminating his target with extreme prejudice... [[spoiler: except it's not some megalomaniacal supervillain this time, just some pathetic schlub who's been sleeping with the wrong guy's wife and got a hit out on him in response.]] It's all to show just how low our main character has finally sunk.

* FaceHeelTurn: Although given the Deconstruction going on, it's arguable exactly whether the character in question was a Face to begin with. [[spoiler: But he's definitely gone from saving the world from super-villains to basically just a hit-man.]]

* RealityEnsues: This version of James Bond never became George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan or Daniel Craig. He just stayed Sean Connery, and consequently got old, shunted into a desk job, and forced into mandatory retirement with a meagre pension. [[spoiler: He even has to pay for sex now.]]

-->''They forgave me my transgressions, for my service. [[GloryDays That was long ago now.]] Today, the world offers no such forgiveness. It doesn't need to. The conceit. Self-absorption. Each of them, seeking only to satisfy their own every indulgence. [[TitleDrop In service of nothing.]] Not the good of others. Not England. Today, the world will offer me no forgiveness. [[spoiler: And I shall ask none of it.]]

* WrongGenreSavvy: As part of the deconstruction. In the second half of the film, the main character starts acting like [[Film/JamesBond he's on one of his old grandiose adventures.]] [[spoiler: When in fact he's just doing a grubby, cheap murder-for-hire.]]

* GirlOfTheWeek: The unnamed woman in a bikini who spends most of the time shrieking uselessly from the passenger seat of the main character's car while he engages in an action-packed chase is a not-very-subtle parody of the classic Bond Girl.

But then eventually, one day his services were no longer required.

* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The glorious technicolor of the main character's 1960s adventures stands out admit the desaturated monochrome of his present-day life.

** More specifically, it deconstructs the Sean Connery version of James Bond, showing what would happen if the same man who fought Film/DrNo, Film/{{Goldfinger}} and [[Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice Blofeld]] didn't [[TheNthDoctor get recast into a series of other actors]] and instead just aged. Eventually, he would have to face obsolescence and irrelevance like everyone else.

* {{Deconstruction}}: Of James Bond (specifically, the Sean Connery version of James Bond). He's a womanising alcoholic with the freedom to kill his country's enemies with impunity and live his dream lifestyle. But what happens if you take that freedom away from him?

* FaceHeelTurn: Although given the Deconstruction going on, it's arguable exactly whether the character in question was a Face to begin with. [[spoiler: But he's definitely gone from saving the world from super-villains to basically a hit-man.]]

But then one day, his services were no longer required.

Once, our main character was [[Franchise/JamesBond a debonair secret agent with a license to kill]]. Women wanted him and men wanted to be him. He travelled across the globe armed with the finest of weapons and the most high-tech of gadgets to battle megalomaniacal villains who threatened the world. He defended his country and terminated its enemies with ruthless precision. He battled evil, bedded beautiful women and saved the world, all in the name of England and its ideals, for Queen and country. He was the best.

-->'''They forgave me my transgressions, for my service. [[GloryDays That was long ago now.]] Today, the world offers no such forgiveness. It doesn't need to. The conceit. Self-absorption. Each of them, seeking only to satisfy their own every indulgence. [[TitleDrop In service of nothing.]] Not the good of others. Not England. Today, the world will offer me no forgiveness. [[spoiler: And I shall ask none of it.]]

* RealityEnsues: This version of James Bond never became George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton or Pierce Brosnan. He just stayed Sean Connery, and consequently got old, shunted into a desk job, and forced into mandatory retirement with a meagre pension. [[spoiler: He even has to pay for sex now.]]

2015 ShortFilm / FanFilm written and directed by Tyler Gibb and produced by Adi Shankar, who also produced ''Film/{{Dredd}}'', ''Film/TheGrey'' and the popular ComicBook/ThePunisher fan-film ''Film/DirtyLaundry''. Like the other fan-videos in Shankar's "Bootleg Universe" series, it offers a dark, rather {{Deconstructive}} take on a popular pop-culture icon...