Posted on 02/27/2023 7:53:27 AM PST by SeekAndFind
April 13, 1953 was a red letter the day in popular culture.
It was when Ian Fleming’s debut novel, Casino Royale, was published, and the world was introduced to James Bond.
The success of Casino Royale in the U.K. paved the way for subsequent works by Fleming, featuring Bond.
In 1961, President Kennedy named 'From Russia With Love' as one of his top ten favorite books in Life magazine. This endorsement made the book a bestseller in the U.S.
Some say it was Kennedy's way of linking himself to Bond and projecting himself as a Bond-like heroic leader taking on the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
In politics, perception often triumphs over reality. Alas, for Kennedy, that perception was never tested, he never survived to run for reelection.
The adaptation of Fleming’s novels to the big screen catapulted the character to legendary status and widened the readership of Fleming’s novels.
Fleming wrote twelve novels and two collections of short stories featuring Bond.
Bond remains a cultural icon to this day with twenty-seven hugely successful cinematic adaptations and myriad authors such as Raymond Benson, John Gardner, Kingsley Amis, and Sebastian Faulks taking over the literary Bond mantle.
Back to the Fleming novels.
Later this April, fresh installments of the Bond book series will be reissued to commemorate its 70th anniversary.
But this reissue has a difference.
The Telegraph reported that Ian Fleming Publications Ltd, which owns the literary rights to the novels, commissioned a “sensitivity” review of the Bond novels to find out if any of its contents failed to meet the contemporary standards of political correctness.
Following these reviews, changes have been made to the novels.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Heywood Jablome and his friend Dick Beninya.
The woke mania will eventually rewrite history to say that the American revolution was over Britain’s oppression of lgbtq people. Because of course, the founding fathers were trans, wearing wigs and all.
I guess the 10 old James Bond paperbacks I got from my father years ago are going to be worth some money.
Hopefully the chuds leave The Sackett books alone.
In the revised version, Bond will realize xe identifies as a woman, and does something about it.
Behold. . . . C*CKTOP*SSY !!!
(evil grin)
In one of the movies, not in the novels.
Sorry, black is the pinnacle of the DEI pyramid, so they can never get cancelled (unless they escape the Dem reservation). Nothing they say or do can ever be criticized. In fact, your racist remark about rap “music” makes you a suspect. Better watch your six, buster.
Okay, I must admit that my first thought at reading this headline was: “Will there be any book left to read after these people scrub it for “offensive material”?
Oh, no -- these people probably LIKE Mein Kampf
No, Blacks get to use the N-word as much as they like. They tell you that it is them "owning" the word. It is ridiculous; but, that is the world we live in now.
Yep, that's what the entire Civil Rights Movement was all about. Giving blacks the right to say a word that white people can't.
‘I’ve been correcting you, Mr Bond’: Sensitivity readers remove offensive language from James Bond books including Casino Royale and Octopussy
02/25/2023 7:27:24 PM PST · by Angelino97 · 42 replies
Daily Mail ^ | February 25, 2025 | Sam Merriman
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4133953/posts
Will they start to edit movies like this scene?
James Bond awakes aboard Goldfinger’s Lockheed Jetstar private jet. He had been knocked out with a tranquilizer gun, and his vision is blurry as he focuses on the face of a woman.
When she is in focus, he asks, “Who are you?”
She answers, “My name is Pussy Galore”
James Bond delivers one of our favorite lines:
“I must be dreaming.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5drmm5SAS3U
China’s Cultural Revolution was about the same sort of things.
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