Posted on 07/14/2019 11:46:59 AM PDT by TigerClaws
The bad news is they would probably remake Dr No, From Russia With Love, etc. Might be worth it though.
And I will promptly go out and by DVDs of Roger Moore as 007. This is freakin’ stupid.
So, now are we going to have a character called Penis Galore?
It’s getting ridiculous. Reminds me of Sherlock Holmes fighting Nazis.
Bond was born in 1920 or 1921. Bond joined a branch of what was to become the Ministry of Defence in 1941 and becomes a lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, ending the war as a commander. Enough. I prefer the masculine Bond in his times, not what he’s morphing into now.
I love this description of James Bond in the novel FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE. It’s from a dossier compiled by SMERSH. SMERSH is a portmanteau of two Russian words: “SMERt’ SHpionam” meaning “Death to Spies”.
From the dossier:
“Name: Bond, James. Height: 183cm, weight: 76 kilograms; slim build; eyes: blue; hair: black; scar down right cheek and on left shoulder; signs of plastic surgery on back of right hand (see Appendix “A”); all-round athlete; expert pistol shot, boxer, knife-thrower; does not use disguises. Languages: French and German. Smokes heavily (NB: special cigarettes with three gold bands); vices: drink, but not to excess, and women. Not thought to accept bribes.
This man is invariably armed with a .25 Beretta automatic carried in a holster under his left arm. Magazine holds eight rounds. Has been known to carry a knife strapped to his left forearm; has used steel-capped shoes; knows the basic holds of judo. In general, fights with tenacity and has a high tolerance of pain (see Appendix “B”).
Conclusion. This man is a dangerous professional terrorist and spy. He has worked for the British Secret Service since 1938 and now (see Highsmith file of December 1950) holds the secret number “007” in that Service. The double 0 numerals signify an agent who has killed and who is privileged to kill on active service. There are believed to be only two other British agents with this authority. The fact that this spy was decorated with the CMG in 1953, an award usually given only on retirement from the Secret Service, is a measure of his worth. If encountered in the field, the fact and full details to be reported to headquarters (see SMERSH MGB and GRU Standing Orders 1951 onwards).”
The narrative continues:
“General G.’s hand went to the internal office telephone. He spoke to his ADC. ‘Death Warrant,’ he said harshly. ‘Made out in the name of “James Bond”.’ He spelled the names out. ‘Description: Angliski Spion. Crime: Enemy of the State.’ He put the receiver back and leant forward in his chair. ‘And now it will be a question of devising an appropriate konspiratsia. And one that cannot fail!’”
“To be killed WITH IGNOMINY. Grubozaboyschikov.”
Anthony Burgess Burgess suggested that from the very beginning Fleming (Casino Royal, 1953) had a message for the British people: “Tough, brave, and yet no cold-bath ascetic, Bond reminded his readers of qualities they seemed to have lost.”
Bond reminds me of the character Sam Vincent created by Stephen Hunter in his novel BLACK LIGHT: “His was a life of certitude. He was an absolute believer. He hated revisionism, hindsight, detached examination, the whole spirit of equivocation and ironic ambivalence which had become the American style in the nineties.” Just so. Like Vincent, Bond was an antidote to the fecklessness and timidity of the modern beta male.
To me Connery will always be the definitive Bond with Craig a close second. Fleming and Connery agreed the film FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE was the best. To be fair this assessment was early on as Fleming died in 1964. I do not think he would have cared for the later movies, though he would have enjoyed the money immensely.
They might also rename SPECTRE as TRUMP.
After Craig, I won’t see another Bond movie again until they put a proper 007 in the role.
People don’t consider Lazenby to be a real Bond, either. I sure don’t. Welcome to the club.
There are spy movies and there are spy movies. James Bond is its own genre, shaken not stirred... if you please. It is not about British Secret Service or even saving the world. Without the male boulevardier the franchise is nothing.
Why do conservatives still go watch Hollywood movies, any Hollywood movies and keep enriching these same studios that are ripping apart our culture, and destroying any male “hero” of the movies?
Not even a cunning stunt.
“Bond 25 ‘will see actress Lashana Lynch take over from Daniel Craig to become first female 007’”
sorry. not good enough. it should be a transfemale lesbian transvestite illegal alien from Somalia ...
“at least assign her a different number.”
99 was hot ...
side bar the Brocollis insist on numbering the bond movies that make as if they are the only Bond movies. The never count the original Casino Royale or a real Bond movie Never Say Never with Connery.
Ursela Undress Andress did it first in the 1960s Casino Royale.
Woody Allen was also 007 in that film. And so was David Niven.
Confuse the enemy. Make all of your agents James Bond.
Will the next Modesty Blaise be a man?
The Leftist media Big Wigs think that the US and UK fought on the wrong side of the Cold War.
I forgot all about her. From Get Smart.
“I forgot all about her. From Get Smart.”
:-)
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