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.
That is one of the best Bond lines.
62% of women have rape fantasies. Millions of books have been written and bought by women where the handsome pirate had his way with and ravishes the damsel he kidnapped
Look at every study. Conservative women are more wilder, kinkier and have more satisfying sex than liberal women.
Have a lovely evening.
Well...face it...ww2 is done...cold war is done...and smersch and spectre are done also. Dr. No...and auric goldfinger are in rest homes or at their final rest.
Only villains left are drug lords, computer hackers and social media groups, terrorists, rightwing nuts, climate change deniers, network news, leftwing nuts, and wokesters.
The whole genre is DEAD.
Do you really think conservative women are waiting for marriage? Maybe a handful. This is no longer 1950.
bttt
“His Volvo was a beautiful car, no question.”
Volvo P1800
I had a ‘64, it was a roomy car inside, believe it or not. Cool car. Spare parts were expensive. A used brake drum in 1974 cost $65, a VW Beetle brake drum new cost $12. That was a rude awakening!
Cary Fukunaga has a man bun.
Sean Connery would not have used his fists, he would have slapped him silly.
Every new franchise movie is being made by people who hate the franchise and they ruin them all.
The sexuality education they are teaching from age 5 to HS graduation actually has as part of it, “how to turn a no into a yes”, “how to use your fingers to excite a girl”, and “if you are not ready for sex, try a hot bath together”.
Woke is a Joke on all of us. They are going to turn our children into 10 year old sluts and 12 year old hoes. The woke stuff is misdirection. More of the abstinence league? of the book 1984. You pretend to be a prude, but are actually a Libertine. As chaste as Charlie Sheen.
Not so much rape fantasies, as fantasize about being totally dominated by a desirable "Alpha Male" type. Notice that in the trashy "romance novels", she gets taken by a pirate captain, aristocrat, or (in "Fifty Shades") a billionaire.
Women never seen to fantasize about being taken by Joe in Accounting.
Im guessing she never watched any of the old Dean Martin roasts.
No such thing happened in any Bond movie.
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