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Hollywood's Intent for James Bond Is Proof It No Longer Lives In Reality
Red State ^ | 09/23/2022 | Brandon Morse

Posted on 09/23/2022 8:37:54 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

The standard for Hollywood today is to take a previously established franchise that is highly beloved and then proceeds to bastardize it in order to push the left’s narratives and agendas.

You’re currently watching it happen with a lot of your favorite brands from Star Wars to Marvel. Of course, the left has made it very clear for years that they’ve had their eye on the Bond franchise.

The reason being is pretty obvious. James Bond is everything they hate. He’s a charming, confident, competent, and masculine man who attracts women’s carnal desires despite themselves. For Hollywood, as infected with the social justice virus as it is, a character like Bond can’t be allowed to exist. He’s the antithesis of their message and any success he has without their hand in it will be a disaster for their narrative.

The playbook requires that people have no place to go to get away from their message. Everything must carry it or it must be rejected and either thrown out or changed to fit the narrative. If something is gaining success outside the approved messaging it could spell disaster for the agenda. It may start a trend that pulls society away from it, and that can’t be allowed to happen.

But the left doesn’t have to worry because they’ve managed to infect the studio where Bond is being produced now too. As a result, they’re going to change Bond from being Bond to being…something else.

As Bounding Into Comics reported, Bond’s producers are saying that he’s going to “evolve” just like modern men are evolving:

However, it seems this next incarnation of Bond will be far from a complete ‘reinvention’ of the character, as Variety writes that Broccoli confirmed to them that the “humanizing of the once-womanizing spy and the ensuring of more fulfilling, meatier roles for the female stars of the franchise” done during her and her brother’s handling of the franchise will “continue in the next films”.

“It’s an evolution,” asserted Broccoli, who in addition to serving as a James Bond producer is also the current director of the UK chapter of Time’s Up. “Bond is evolving just as men are evolving. I don’t know who’s evolving at a faster pace.”

While Daniel Craig absolutely brought another layer to the Bond character by making his investments in the story far more personal and therefore his emotions were explored more than in previous versions, Craig’s Bond walked a fine line. Moreover, that line was absolutely crossed a couple of times in his latter movies, resulting in some sub-par Bond moments.

That said, these producers are unclear as to what’s happening to men. Men aren’t “evolving,” the wish from the left is that we “evolve” to fit what they think a man should look like and so they try to manifest it into reality with pop culture.

The issue is that “evolve” in the leftist Hollywood sense means less masculinity. They want more emotionally in-touch men who take a back seat to women strictly on the basis of sex. They want “socially aware” men who know of their own “privilege” and work to fight against it. They want men who use their voices more than their fists, yet know when to keep their voices down while anyone nearby higher up in the victim Olympics is speaking.

In short, they want to neuter Bond because they want neutered men.

While neutered men might be a common site in Hollywood’s elite coastal circles, they’re hardly the most common type of man. This is why Bond is headed for disaster. The secret agent appealed to men more than any other audience and taking away what made him appealing to men is just going to make audiences vacate theaters. If they’re hoping that gap will be filled by a new audience that is closer to their ideological home, then I’ve got bad news for them.

Few will actually show up and the proof is in the fact that every time they attempt to cater to these “new audiences” the product falls flat on its face. Marvel properties are losing steam to the point where people aren’t even showing up to watch anymore. Star Wars has seen such an audience bleed that it has anemic viewership. Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is doing so badly that they refuse to release the metrics for it.

Get woke, go broke. It will be the same for this “modern” Bond as it is for every other “modern” remake.



TOPICS: Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: hollyweird; hollywood; jamesbond; neutered; woke
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To: SeekAndFind
While neutered men might be a common site sight in Hollywood’s elite coastal circles [...]

Copy-editor asleep at the switch!

Regards,

21 posted on 09/23/2022 11:32:10 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: minnesota_bound
She claims men are evolving. Really? I’m sorry, but turning into Phil Donahue is not evolving.

More like "mutating."

Regards,

22 posted on 09/23/2022 11:34:56 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Well, they sort of beat the bawls off him so yea... he might’ve been more woke after that


23 posted on 09/24/2022 2:40:19 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: SeekAndFind

I don’t watch comic book movies - that means Marvel.

After Rogue One I stopped watching all the Star Wars movies (that was the last good one).

For the first time ever, I refused to watch the last Bond flick. I won’t be watching any of them going forward either.

I of course, won’t watch a moment of the Amazon bastardization of Lord of the Rings.

I’m far from alone in this. I simply ignore anything the Wokeratti infect and refuse to buy any products they endorse eg Gillette, Coke, major airlines, etc.


24 posted on 09/24/2022 2:49:51 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: SeekAndFind

Imagine Michelle (Big Mike) Obama (or even US Health Secretary Rachel Levine) becoming the next Bond. That’s their goal. Nothing less will suffice.


25 posted on 09/24/2022 3:31:33 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci: You had one job and you failed!)
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To: SeekAndFind

One thing I like about the Bond franchise is that it is not oversaturated like Star Wars and Marvel.


26 posted on 09/24/2022 3:42:17 AM PDT by moviefan8 (The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. - M in No Time To Die (2021)c)
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To: MinorityRepublican
“The fan theory I heard was that 007 and James Bond are code names that get recycled after the previous Bond dies or retires like M or Q.”

I never took it like that. When Craig started playing Bond they did kinda start the storyline over. Perhaps because Casino Royale was Flemming’s first Bond novel anyway and was full of introductory material to introduce the reader to the Bond character. (As an aside I’d read that it’s for that same reason that in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Blofield didn’t recognize Bond’s face even though they’d seen each other face to face in a prior movie. It’s not because in that movie Blofield and Bond were being played by new actors Sevalis and Lazemby. It’s because if you read the Bond novels in sequence, it’s in On Her Majesty’s that Bond and Blofield first meet face to face).

Except On Her Majesty’s and until Craig, all of the other Bond movies seemed to be one continuous character played by many actors. Especially in references to Bond being a widower. Roger Moore’s Bond visits Theresa Bond’s grave, who in an earlier movie married Lazenby’s Bond and was killed. In a Dalton Bond movie Felix tells his new wife that he’ll tell her later why Bond doesn’t marry.

27 posted on 09/24/2022 4:37:18 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Richard Simmons, pick up the white courtesy phone. We have a role for you.


28 posted on 09/24/2022 4:40:24 AM PDT by chuckee
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To: SeekAndFind

I grew up on Sean Connery’s Bond. He defined to adolescent boys what an ideal man was supposed to be: competent, unflappable, not giving up despite all odds.

And, naturally, that if we developed these qualities we might get girls attracted to us.


29 posted on 09/24/2022 4:45:56 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others)
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To: SeekAndFind
Why don't they just go ahead and make the next James Bond female, black, and homosexual

"The name is Lightfoot. Lori Lightfoot."

30 posted on 09/24/2022 4:47:16 AM PDT by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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To: MikeSteelBe

“They killed Bond in the last movie...”

Geez Louise, I’m getting old. I rented that movie on Prime for a couple dollars late one night, napped thru most of it, meant to watch it again the next day, never did, forgot Bond died. I guess that’s how detached I’ve become from the series. I do remember the old DB-7 being completely destroyed in Skyfall.


31 posted on 09/24/2022 5:15:24 AM PDT by moovova
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To: Irish Eyes

Speaking of Fleming...

“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.”

That pretty much describes Deep State.


32 posted on 09/24/2022 5:20:42 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: dfwgator

The last Bond movie was terrible and the black woman replacement was not believable.


33 posted on 09/24/2022 5:26:49 AM PDT by bray (The Vax is fake and deadly)
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To: lowbridge

Good grief she looks like Don Knotts after a 3 week bender!


34 posted on 09/24/2022 5:31:59 AM PDT by mitch5501 ("make your calling and election sure:for if ye do these things ye shall never fall")
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To: SeekAndFind

James Bond is a fictional character, and what the movies made of him was already different from what he was in the novels. The alternatives now are to keep doing what’s been done for 60 years or try something different and neither is ideal. Bond will go out of copyright sooner or later — if Disney doesn’t get its way forever — and then anybody can do what they like with him. Bond and his creator were jerks anyway.


35 posted on 09/24/2022 6:33:30 AM PDT by x
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To: SeekAndFind

Eh, there was the same wailing and gnashing about Craig. Any time there’s a change to Bond all the whiners whine. And then they love the Bond. And then he’s had enough (Bond films suck to make), and the whiners get whining again.

Kind of funny though to have all this whining in “defense” of masculinity. You wanna be masculine? Don’t be a whiner.


36 posted on 09/24/2022 6:49:27 AM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: SeekAndFind
The movie and television industries were going broke and thus went woke in an attempt to get whatever bounce they could out of a dead cat.

The real question to ask is, "why am I watching this? Because it's a medium that used to be better and I haven't broken the habit? Is it because I have nothing better to do?"

Even the kids don't watch it - they're playing video games and watching online videos instead.

37 posted on 09/24/2022 7:27:26 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: dfwgator

Be glad you missed the last Bond movie. It SUCKED. Bond cried a lot. Yuck


38 posted on 09/24/2022 7:35:15 AM PDT by Hardastarboard (Don't wish your enemy ill; plan it. )
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To: SeekAndFind

Just consider the name “James Bond # 007” to be the official name designation of the office held by various spies over the years.
Keeps the enemies guessing about him. After all, if the original production of Casino Royal(1967) can have several spied designated James Bond, why not now!

End of problem.


39 posted on 09/24/2022 9:45:30 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( FR is on GAB! https://gab.com/groups/67851)
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