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Ian Fleming Never Mentioned James Bond’s Ethnicity. But He did Offer a Few Clues…
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Posted on 09/02/2015 3:43:08 PM PDT by Perdogg

Anyone who thinks to diverge even slightly from this now officially accepted view, to be held by everyone everywhere in the world on pain of excommunication, is a racist. We know this because of the recent experiences of children’s author Anthony Horowitz, who briefly committed heresy over the weekend when he dared to suggest that Elba was perhaps too “street” to play a suave, Eton-educated, Senior-Service-trained, half-Swiss, half-Scots secret agent.

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1 posted on 09/02/2015 3:43:08 PM PDT by Perdogg
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To: Perdogg

Up next, a James Bond frequenting bath houses.


2 posted on 09/02/2015 3:45:46 PM PDT by alstewartfan (Even when I cannot see him I can feel it in my bones That he's still there. Trespasser by Al Stewart)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD; GSP.FAN; Young Werther; Guenevere; SJSAMPLE; Larry Lucido; fieldmarshaldj; ...

ping


3 posted on 09/02/2015 3:46:25 PM PDT by Perdogg (I'm on a no Carb diet- NO Christie Ayotte Romney or Bush - stay outta da Bushesh)
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To: Perdogg

Hasn’t been a really good Bong since Connery though Moore and Brosnen were serviceable


4 posted on 09/02/2015 3:46:30 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Perdogg

its worth noting that most of the Bond movie stories were completely unknown to Flemming. I think Flemming’s influence on the franchise disappeared long ago.


5 posted on 09/02/2015 3:46:46 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: Perdogg

I guess they want to kill the James Bond series. I know I wouldn’t spend the time to see a politically correct affirmative action James Bond.


6 posted on 09/02/2015 3:48:26 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: Kartographer

The current guy is actually a pretty good Bond, although the movies themselves aren’t good. They don’t keep my attention and I have not finished any recent ones. He’s got the right level of suaveness and manliness.

Bronsen is a little too feminine...although I like him in general. Moore brought a different aspect to the role.


7 posted on 09/02/2015 3:48:43 PM PDT by ilgipper
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To: vetvetdoug

“I know I wouldn’t spend the time to see a politically correct affirmative action James Bond.”

Already heading that way. M is a woman, and the new Moneypenny is black. I think Q might be a poof.


8 posted on 09/02/2015 3:52:37 PM PDT by bk1000 (A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory)
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To: Perdogg
Ian Fleming Never Mentioned James Bond’s Ethnicity.

And why would he? When Fleming wrote this Britain was almost exclusively white! I guess common sense just doesn't exist anymore.

9 posted on 09/02/2015 3:52:39 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: vetvetdoug

The only way they’d get me to watch
another Bond movie is if it starred
Fearless Fosdick.


10 posted on 09/02/2015 3:55:41 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Voting is acting white.)
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To: Perdogg

The world is not enough goldeneye for tomorrow never dies.


11 posted on 09/02/2015 3:55:52 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: alstewartfan

The new Bond will be a transvestite.


12 posted on 09/02/2015 3:56:50 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: Perdogg

This new Bond in a bar.

Bartender: What will you have?

Bond: Schlitz, on the rocks, not stirred.


13 posted on 09/02/2015 3:58:09 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Perdogg

So are they saying that Mrs. Bond made it with the milkman?


14 posted on 09/02/2015 3:58:42 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: bk1000

Next is a transexual 007: “Bond...Jane Bond.”


15 posted on 09/02/2015 3:59:13 PM PDT by twister881
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To: Altura Ct.

First, I will never watch a black James Bond movie. That being said, in You Only Live Twice, he had to pass as Japanese which would be impossible if he were black. Fleming imagined the character to resemble Hoagy Carmichael and himself. As neither is black then it’s idiotic to say that there are no indications of his ethnicity.


16 posted on 09/02/2015 4:00:21 PM PDT by JMS
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
Bond: Schlitz, on the rocks, not stirred.

Nah, Colt .45, hold the glass.

17 posted on 09/02/2015 4:01:56 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Perdogg
James Bond cannot be black. Political correctness be damned, we have to stay with what is literally correct. He was established by Ian Fleming as a white character, played by white actors. It’s silly. Play 003 or 006 but you cannot be 007. A lot of people say we should be allowed to play everything. Don’t be ridiculous. If I say I want to play JFK I should be laughed out the room. Why should James Bond be black? It’s silly. -- Yaphet Kotto ("Dr. Kananga" / "Mr. Big" in Live and Let Die).

So does this mean they've dropped the "Gay Bond" idea?

18 posted on 09/02/2015 4:03:39 PM PDT by x
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To: Perdogg

Bullhockey.

I read all of the Bond novels as a youngster (before they became movies) and I recall specifically that Fleming described Commanmder Bond SO as a Scot.

Flemings own website linked here says he had a Scottish father and a Swiss mother. In fact, Sean Connery’s ethnicity was one of the factors that got him the role in the first place.

http://www.ianfleming.com/james-bond-2/


19 posted on 09/02/2015 4:05:28 PM PDT by shibumi ("Have you driven a Fnord lately?")
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To: Perdogg
Joshua Sasse would probably make a decent 007. There's even a bit of a young Connery to his look.
20 posted on 09/02/2015 4:08:23 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (Cruz or Lose 2016)
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