Pierce Brosnan Endorses Female Bond: "Get Out of the Way, Guys"

Hollywood Reporter ^ | September 7, 2019 | Rhonda Richford

[BillyBoy]

Hollywood always does this crap and hides behind "diversity" when they could have simply added "diversity" by creating an original character and nobody would have complained. For example, nobody would have objected if the 2016 Ghostbusters film featured the original ghostbusters and had them training new female characters to become Ghostbusters. Instead, they just remade the original film and gender swapped the characaters.

Also note they call us racist, sexist, or homophobic if we complain about characters being corrupted, but have nothing to say if the reverse happens and we complain about a white actor playing a character that has traditionally been a minority, like "Khan Noonien Singh" being played by white british actor Benedict Cumberbatch or "Tiger Lily" being played by white American Rooney Mara. People raised hell about that and Hollywood just shrugged. I guarantee you if they cast a black actor to play Peter Pan we objected, they'd start playing the race card and claiming we're uncomfortable seeing black people in leading roles.

[NFHale]

“...by creating an original character and nobody would have complained....”

Boom. Right there, perfect.

“..they call us racist, sexist, or homophobic if we complain...”

I take that as a Badge of Honor. It’s GOOD to be despised by the Despicable.

[Bender2]

One advantage to being my age, 72, is that I was reading Ian Fleming's 007 novels before any of the films were even produced and I do recall just what the arthor had in mind.

Most folks do not know that Ian Fleming had an idea who 007 looked like and that was Hoagy Carmichael:

He was a singer who was also an actor in the 1940s. He is best known for composing the music for "Stardust", "Georgia on My Mind" (lyrics by Stuart Gorrell), "The Nearness of You", and "Heart and Soul" (in collaboration with lyricist Frank Loesser), four of the most-recorded American songs of all time.

This was expressed in the original novel, Casino Royale, when Vesper Lynd first makes this connection: "He is very good-looking. He reminds me rather of Hoagy Carmichael, but there is something cold and ruthless in his …"

And when Bond hears this: "As he tied his thin, double-ended, black satin tie, he paused for a moment and examined himself levelly in the mirror. His grey-blue eyes looked calmly back with a hint of ironical inquiry and the short lock of black hair which would never stay in place slowly subsided to form a thick comma above his right eyebrow. With the thin vertical scar down his right cheek the general effect was faintly piratical. Not much of Hoagy Carmichael there, thought Bond, as he filled a flat, light gunmetal box with fifty of the Morland cigarettes with the triple gold band."

Also in Moonraker, Gala Brand also makes the connection: "Rather like Hoagy Carmichael in a way. That black hair falling down over the right eyebrow. Much the same bones. But there was something a bit cruel in the mouth, and the eyes were cold."

So the idea of an Black female Bond is laughable to anyone from that era but Hollywood goes its own way as they are currently removing just about all White men from existence unless they are pictured as Republican racists who support Donald Trump.

Sources:

my own noggin and

https://flemingsbond.com/hoagy-carmichael/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoagy_Carmichael

[big'ol_freeper]

Hoagy Carmichael was a favorite of my dear ol’ deceased pappy, and, surprisingly, Beatle George Harrison. He covered with his own versions of Baltimore Oriole and Hong Kong Blues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJgqiNvreLQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg-I__nvBB8

[trisham]

That’s very interesting, Bender2. Thank you!

[trisham]

Hollywood (the Left) is desperate.

[Bender2]

Hoagy was in two of my favorite films:

As Cricket in To Have And Have Not

And as Uncle Butch in The Best Years of Our Lives.

He also acted in a 1946 western that I've enjoyed and seen several times called Canyon Passage where he played the shopkeeper Hi Linnet. BTW his song "Ole Buttermilk Sky" from the film was nominated for Academy Award for Best Original Song.

[GOPsterinMA]

Really could have been.

[GOPsterinMA]

“F*** ‘em all.”

I find that I’ve been saying that more and more the last ~10 years...

[GOPsterinMA]

“Contrast Moore, who was given mostly terrible scripts but managed to rise above them as much as was probably possible. He shined in the few serious moments he was given...”

Complete agreement. He gets lampooned, but like I’ve said many times, he had a lot of dog doo to work with and he did the best he could with it.

Connery had the best scripts to work with. That’s one reason he is and will be the best Bond.