Posted on 09/23/2021 4:00:45 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
With "No Time to Die," Fukunaga tried to make the Bond franchise more progressive by changing the world around 007.
Much buzz has been made out of “Fleabag” Emmy winner Phoebe Waller-Bridge joining the James Bond tentpole “No Time to Die” to punch up the script. Skeptics have claimed the film’s producers wanted a “woke” James Bond but “No Time to Die” director told The Hollywood Reporter that’s not the case at all. Even before Waller-Bridge joined, Fukunaga was adamant about “changing the world around” Bond to bring the franchise into a more progressive place.
“Is it ‘Thunderball’ or ‘Goldfinger’ where, like, basically Sean Connery’s character rapes a woman?” Fukunaga said. “She’s like ‘No, no, no,’ and he’s like, ‘Yes, yes, yes.’ That wouldn’t fly today.”
Fukunaga continued, “I think that’s the expectation, a female writing very strong female roles, but that’s something [producer] Barbara [Broccoli] wanted already. From my very first conversations with [Broccoli], that was a very strong drive. You can’t change Bond overnight into a different person. But you can definitely change the world around him and the way he has to function in that world. It’s a story about a white man as a spy in this world, but you have to be willing to lean in and do the work to make the female characters more than just contrivances.”
Lashana Lynch makes her Bond debut in “No Time to Die” as 00 agent Nomi, rumored to now be carrying the 007 moniker. The actress told THR that the film’s mission was to “give the female characters equity” and not just radically change who James Bond is from top to bototm.
Cary had big discussions with Barbara and Daniel [Craig] about how to give the female characters equity, how to keep them in charge of themselves, how to give them solo moments where the audience learns who they are,” Lynch said. “It was really important to empower the female characters as stand-alones. And I think that he kept that in mind throughout the whole shoot.
“I didn’t feel like Nomi, as a young Black woman, was constantly standing behind the white guy, which, for me, is job done,” Lynch added. “And that was a very conscious decision for Cary.”
“No Time to Die” will open in U.S. theaters October 8.
Don’t recall Bond raping anyone. But I do recall Bond using a woman as a human shield while dancing. :-)
But, yeah, this is preemptive. Act woke and go on making the same old movies, more or less.
Old Bond, rapist or not, was ahead of the cultural curve with all his interracial ... well, we can't exactly call them relationships.
The Democrat soils whatever it touches. Pure evil.
Didn’t Bernie write some?
That’s who it reminded me of! ;-)
Cary Fukandnag should sleep with the fishes...
Yes.
Well, most women wouldn’t because it was Sean Connery. LOL
I know a hardcore female Bernie lover who is oblivious to what he is.
One or two times he was in the area for a gathering she was there and thinks she is his personal representative in the area .
I regard her as agent 0.00000007 and just as relevant.
Vesper: All right….by the cut of your suit you went to Oxford or wherever and actually think human beings dress like that. But you wear it with such disdain, that my guess is you didn’t come from money and all your school chums rubbed that in your face every day, which means you were at that school by the grace of someone else’s charity, hence the chip on your shoulder. And since your first thought about me ran to orphan, that what I’d say you are. sees a slight reaction. Oh you are. And it makes sense since MI6 looks for maladjusted young men who’d give little thought to sacrificing others in others to protect queen and country. You know former SAS types with easy smiles and expensive watches. Rolex?
Bond: Amega.
Vesper: Beautiful. Now having just met you I wouldn’t g as far as calling you a cold hearted b-a-s-t-a-r-d.
Bond : Of course not.
Vesper: But it wouldn’t be a stretch to imagine that you think of women as disposable pleasures rather than meaningful pursuits, so as charming as you are, I will be keeping my eye on our government’s money and off your perfectly formed arse.
She only sees and hears what she wants to.
Now do Hunter Biden, who isn’t fiction.
That’s the one.
From the episode The Organization Man.
Good and almost Bond episode.
Involved phony Highlanders.
"Do you mind if my friend sits this one out? She's just dead."
My wife loved that scene.
"How was your steak? 😋 Skewered. One sympathizes."
Bond didn't rape anyone. He was enthusiastically heterosexual. So were the Bond women. Man-hating feminists hate enthusiastic heterosexuality.
Virtue signaling is a full time job.
I have a few DVD players and some legacy PCs with optical drives plus I rip discs every so often.
At least Secret Agent Super Dragon is safe.
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