[rktman]

I knew I liked the movie for some reason.

[JonPreston]

As you continue to beat the racial themes in hopes of getting FReepers to comment in kind.

We know who you are, where you are from and what you're doing.

[Secret Agent Man]

You know you are dealing with orwellian history revisionists when you can’t read or watch prior things without cultural warning labels smacking you in the face.

[Stosh]

Let me know when the profs at the University of Portsmouth start demanding trigger warnings on the Koran because of the potentially offensive stuff therein.

I won’t hold my breath.

[Frank Drebin]

So basically a 'Buy Me Now!' sticker...thanks English lit students!

Oh, and I'll have a large fries and a medium Coke with that cheeseburger, thanks again!

[Signalman]

racism, misogyny and xenophobia.

The 3 most popular words in the dictionary of Democrat speech writers and politicians.

[NorthMountain]

problematic means "having many spectacularly good qualities".

That's not what the perpetually offended professional victims think it means ...

[Vesuvian]

And Shang Chi’s father is Fu Manchu, but I’m sure Disney didn’t allow that. No wonder the film tanked.

[Tell It Right]

IMHO, in the movies, the group that’s the most frequent target of bigotry are the Brits. Every movie plays on the stereotypes of two or three groups (i.e. Japanese, and/or Americans, and/or Russians, etc.). But the one group that’s always stereotyped are the Brits as being insufferably arrogant and snotty.

[DFG]

[chaosagent]

I’ve always thought that if you have to point out that something is racist, etc., before anyone notices, then it probably isn’t racist, etc.

[xp38]

I read all the Ian Fleming novels back when I first discovered the Bond films. High literature isn’t how I would describe them. Fun spy thrillers set mostly in the 1950s post war era is what they are. Great for page turning in bed or on a couch with some munchies. In the later novels the books edged into the fantastic and bizarre which I would say Dr. No did. The movies eventually took that as well and went even further. I never thought they would be studied as literature at some point in the future.

[Billthedrill]

Commies using magic words again. Not working anymore.

[fruser1]

They can watch The Eiger Sanction instead.

[Seruzawa]

It is. So what?

[KarlInOhio]

The only trigger warning I want in a Bond movie is when his Beretta is taken away as a nice, light gun suitable of a lady's handbag.

While searching for that I saw that there has been a big controversy recently about Amazon removing the guns from the Bond artwork. His License to Kill has been revoked.

[Getready]

That’s correct, WW2 and it’s after effects was all based on stopping racism and xenophobia. I am so glad the educators at Portsmouth got that right. I am so glad Hitler gave up Lebenschraum land grab initiatives to specialize in xenophobia and racism./Sarc
The current drive to control xenophobia and racism is meant to allow western and eastern civilizations to embrace soft invasion by “so called” refugees. Has anyone ever asked the leaders of the refugee producing nations as to why their peoples are leaving? What are those leaders doing wrong?

[1Old Pro]

James Bond films and novels are popular to this day but contain many problematic issues such as racism, misogyny and xenophobia.

WHAT?? No gun warning?

[Angelino97]

Have you read Goldfinger?

James Bond was a "homophobe." When he spotted two lesbians he recoiled in disgust. Fleming wrote (as best as I remember it):

Bond didn't hate homosexuals. He pitied them. Broken people. Something went wrong in childhood.

[Ditto]

I read the book and saw the movie back in the 60s and never even considered any of it racist. I thought the English actor who played Dr. No was kind of funny looking, but that was just a lousy make up job.