The 007 Movie Villains Disconnect with Reality (Politically Correct James Bond Through The Ages)

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[DogByte6RER]

Indeed … this writer is spot on.

It appears that many of the occupations of the villains in the 007 rogues gallery have the title "businessman".

So it appears that capitalists with over sized egos are a greater threat to Her Majesty's Realm than the Taliban, al Qaeda, MS-13, Shining Path terrorists, The Red Brigade, the Khmer Rouge, Mao's Peoples' Republic, USSR, the Warsaw Pact, East German STASI, Fidel Castro & Che Guevara, Carlos the Jackal, the PLO, Hezbollah, Hamas, etc., etc.

This is why I find the Austin Powers spoof movies so much fun. They satirize and mock the clownish villains, their plots and their Rube Goldberg like execution devices contrived from the 007 movies.

[Perdogg]

ping

[Vince Ferrer]

In Quantum of Solace, it is Dominic Green and General Medrano of Bolivia who are the villains.

Actually, I found Dominic Green to be one of the more plausible villans. He is an Al Gore clone working to get control of the Bolivian water supply in order to rake in profits, all under the guise of being a kind hearted environmentalist.

[Moltke]

Why would this be? • The Villains of Fiction

Uh, there's your answer: because it's fiction. How is that difficult to understand?

[Chode]

it has to be a fictional character/organization that will Never, EVER come back to haunt/attack them in real life...

i think that's why there are so many Zombie movies instead of real life enemies getting slaughtered

[Perdogg]

I also think that the writer has never read the novels and understand the term “context”. Especially in the context of Dr No, Goldfinger, and Hugo Drax. People need to read the novels to understand the context.

[Moltke]

So, according to the British filmmakers

Actually, according to the author, Ian Fleming. Did the writer know that the films are based on books?

[Don Corleone]

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

If I ever decide to run a world-wide criminal enterprise, I will have to remember to dress my henchmen in matching jumpsuits bearing the logo of my dreaded organization.

[Perdogg]

Some of the movies are based on the books, but a lot are not.

[Brother Cracker]

[dfwgator]

[morphing libertarian]

Most of the movies are controlled b the Brocolli family. They create their own plots with screen writers.

Various writers have been authorized to produce new novels an there have been many written. Usually one every 18-30 months. As far as I know, none of the new ones have been turned into screenplays. Lot’s of potential for a new series of movies, if it doesn’t violate some license.

[DogByte6RER]

[morphing libertarian]

That’s odd.

[morphing libertarian]

List of James Bond novels and shirt stories:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_James_Bond_novels_and_short_stories

[Huskrrrr]

Coming soon...Odd-Job and Blofeld join forces against Bond. To be known as Blojob.

[dancusa]

I liked the Dean Martin Matt Helm movies series.

I called it James Bombed.

[left that other site]

And in the book “The Sum of All fears” by Tom Clancy, the villain was a muzzie terrorist.

However, when the movie came out, the muzzie had miraculously morphed into a cabal of old, white, European businessmen.

Go figure.

[rabidralph]

Yes, that was a shock, to me, to see Hollywood portray an environmentalist as the villain. And yet, I give props to gun grabber Liam Neeson for portraying his ex-CIA character in the Taken movies, where the villains are muslims and elitist leftists in France.