I probably don't even have to explain this.
RIP 007.
Posted on 12/24/2014 5:00:51 AM PST by Libloather
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After mentioning the Sony emails and telling his listeners who Elba is, Limbaugh said, “Here’s the thing, though… James Bond is a fictional character, obviously. James Bond was invented, created by Ian Fleming… and James Bond is… white and Scottish. Period. That is who James Bond is.”
“But now Sony is suggesting that the next James Bond should be Idris Elba, a black Briton rather than a white from Scotland,” continued Limbaugh. “But that’s NOT who James Bond is, and I know it’s racist to probably even point this out… We had 50 years of white Bonds because Bond is white. Bond was never black. Ian Fleming never created a black Brit to play James Bond. The character was always white. He was always Scottish.”
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He should be called the White-Guilt Bond.
Oh what a horrid movie that was.
But the villainess white of course.
LOL
I probably don't even have to explain this.
RIP 007.
To me, the height of hypocrisy and PC was making the villains of “Sum of All Fears” old white racists instead of the rabid Muslim terrorists as in Clancy’s book.
Further, putting that fancy pants putz poofter Afyak (what I think of when I hear Affleck) as Jack Ryan was patently absurd.
They’d have to change him from 007 to 009 and a half :-) ( an old Eddie Murphy joke )
No black man, or anyone who is not British by ancestry ahd birth for that matter, can rightly play the James Bond role.
and the one him will be LGBT
Diversity vogue? Or “Ubermensch”?
Man from UNCLE (Uncle Tom?)
I saw what you did there... ;)
Agree, but what about Tim Dalton or George Lazenby?
To me, this is all more like contrived concoctions of appeasement to diversity. One would think the merits of a black actor could stand on itself. However, this doesn’t seem to be the prevalent case. Instead, those in power have to rely on tried-and-true franchises upon which to foist these offerings on the altar of diversity so they can still make a profit in the endeavor.
Heck, go all the way and make him a female to male transgendered pacifist.
Casting choices like this are usually very deliberate to get people talking about the movie. A character’s race is sometimes essential, but not always so. Elba has good screen presence, he will be fine if this is a done deal.
I guess but the very first incarnation was Barry Nelson who was American. He worked for the Combined Intelligence Agency which I guess was supposed to be the CIA. He was called Card Sense Jimmy Bond. :) It was a very cheap production done on live tv. It had 2 sets and was by limitation somewhat theatrical. From 1954 which was a year after the first novel was published. It is a real curio and you can watch it on youtube.
Maybe they can make him black, female, homosexual, midget in a wheelchair and blind with no guns or cars. That should do it.
Laughing quietly out loud.
......James Washington...007....
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