But he plays a better Englishman than any British actor I can thing of. And his last name is Bang. How cool would that ge?
Posted on 01/16/2020 8:11:43 AM PST by Enlightened1
Yeah, but James Bond beds a variety of women in all his movies. He’s called a stud. If you have a female Jane Bond bedding man after man she’ll be called a slut. On the other hand, if she too beds woman after woman, the movie will be a hit in certain circles.
Make him a transgender man (woman who identifies as a man) that prefers to be called James Bond, problem solved. /sarcasm
Barbara Broccoli’s political donations show her to be a liberal Democrat, but she would be hammered by her extended family if she endangered the astonishingly lucrative Bond franchise through bad script choices or idiotic casting. By gifts and inheritances, “Cubby” Broccoli and his heirs widely parcelled out pieces of the Bond franchise throughout the family. There are toddlers today who, unawares, are set for golden lives so long as James Bond keeps earning big.
Bruce Jenner is available.
“No, Mr. Bond... I expect you to call your father’s lawyer and complain about racism at Sarah Lawrence College...”
Okay, that made me laugh out loud.
Now trying to figure out the woke version of Dr. Goldfinger...
The Kids are not alright
Since she feels that way, she should have it, officially in writing, that James Bond will never, ever, be a woman.
I’d like to see a Zulu warrior in full garb as Bond, James Bond. But being as they kicked the Brits to the curb long ago, it probably wouldn’t be much to ‘Marvel’ at on the big screen.
Retire James Bond, the original Bond is a WWII vet. If he were real he’d be in the SIS Retirement home goosing nurses!
Retire him and you have the freedom to make a new Bond (make them related or something!) anything you want it to be ! One of the new Q division gimmicks would have it switch genders as the mission requires! There’s what 54, that would be a lot of movies to cycle through.
In essence Bond became ageless as the movies rolled on. Always in the 30 to maybe 50 range. The gadgets and cars also freeze Bond at the time each movie was made as well. The books themselves began in the early 1950s and Fleming cranked out about 1 a year until his death in 1964. They also reflect that time.
I think the movie franchise could have gone on in its mythical eternal 30-50 year old Bond forever but with this ridiculous turn it could easily kill it.
IIRC, I read a WSJ article about the handover some years ago. Cubby told his kids something like this: “You have a gold mine here - don’t muck it up.”
There was a 1950s US tv show called “Climax!”.
It did weekly hour-long condensations of popular stories.
Looking it up, “Casino Royale” was the third epi in the series, with Barry Nelson as the American James Bond.
(Peter Lorre played “Le Chiffe”, eventually reprised by Orson Welles and Mads Mikkelsen.)
In the 2018 film, “Mary, Queen of Scots,” Shakespearean actor Adrian Lester, who is black; portrays Elizabeth’s ambassador to the Scottish court, Lord Thomas Randolph.
Since we have many paintings of the guy made during the period in question, we must now ask, was he just trying to cover up the fact that he was actually a black man?
They've been doing the films now for over 50 years. It's not surprising that he's jumped the shark and that he does not fit into today's PC culture.
But he plays a better Englishman than any British actor I can thing of. And his last name is Bang. How cool would that ge?
I am unfamiliar with the actor or his roles, but I agree, from his photo, he ‘looks’ Bond.
Fleming’s Bond was half Scottish and half Swiss.
Ian Fleming said Bond should look like Hoagie Carmichael.
Last I looked, Hoagie Carmichael was pretty damn white.
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