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To: cuban leaf
If Bond is not a typical white British guy, what’s the point of watching it?

I agree. He is based on a best-selling series of novels about a white guy who is an agent of MI6. Most of Bond's quirks, likes and dislikes were based on Ian Fleming's. Idris Elba (or any other black actor, or a woman actor) should play a different character.

We'd never hear the end of it if a black literary character was changed to a white male. If Barbara Broccoli says "it's time" for a black Bond, that just means Bond has outlived his usefulness.

31 posted on 08/10/2018 6:11:36 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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To: Sans-Culotte

How about Elba playing Bond’s CIA buddy in a spinoff movie?


35 posted on 08/10/2018 6:26:16 AM PDT by mowowie
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To: Sans-Culotte

They could redo Live and Let Die with a white Baron Samedi.


78 posted on 08/10/2018 10:20:22 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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