Posted on 09/28/2021 2:56:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
Liberals ruin everything they touch, and like Joe Biden at a shampoo convention for teenage girls, they will try to touch everything. Sports, comedy, food and more are all in the process of having the joy sucked out of them by leftists insisting politics dominate everything, jokes be replaced with political statements, and we eat bugs. They really are horrible people. One target they’ve had their eyes on for a while is James Bond – problematic because he’s a straight white male who fights for what’s right, all of which are things the left cannot stand.
Whenever the person playing James Bond comes to the end of their tenure there is a push to change what Bond is, either certain parts of his character or all of his existence. From “James Bond should be a man of color” to “James Bond should be a woman,” the left will seek to control everything they can and destroy everything they can’t.
James Bond is a man, he’s a white man, if you really want to get technical. And he’s popular with the ladies, not interested in men. These are just a few of the reasons the left is seeking to destroy him.
Oh, they pretend it’s not about destruction, but it’s about destruction and everyone knows it. So the push to make Bond a woman has been dismissed out of hand, thankfully, by producer Barbara Broccoli, whose family owns the rights to the character.
Broccoli recently said, “James Bond is a male character. I hope that there will be many, many films made with women, for women, by women, about women I don't think we have to take a male character and have a woman portray him. So yes, I see him as male.”
Daniel Craig, the outgoing Bond, added, “Why does James Bond have to be a woman? Someone should write a role just as good as James Bond for a woman.”
That’s one “Woke” hurdle cleared. But no hurdle is ever cleared with the left, they just wait. They’ll be back.
The Bond handoff is just one example of the condescension in Hollywood and the left. Every time we hear big pushes for “diversity” in Hollywood we get warmed over tropes about how this character or that one should be reimagined to be of a different gender, color, both, or some other irrelevant characteristic. “Should the next James Bond be black?” or “Should the next James Bond be gay?” How about “no” to all of it?
What Daniel Craig said is perfect, and right – rather than change what exists, how about creating something new? You’re supposed to be the “creative community,” aren’t you? Taking “The Wonder Years” and pitching “The Wonder Years but black” is creative in the way rewriting song lyrics is creative – it’s “new,” but not really.
If Hollywood, which never stops lecturing the country about how racist and sexist it is, were really interested in practicing what they’re preaching, no one would be looking to rebrand what exists already, they’d be creating something new. Moreover, they’d hire women and minorities to create those shows and movies. They don’t.
It’s easier and cheaper to just take what already exists, change it slightly, call it a “twist,” market it as wildly progressive, and congratulate yourself for being wonderful while hammering fat checks. Until, of course, the audience passes and the whole thing turns out to be a bomb.
The public doesn’t want rehashed garbage made to make the audience feel good about themselves rather than entertain. But if Hollywood wants to keep setting piles of cash on fire this way, I have a few pitches to sell:
The A-Team, but with a multi-ethnic cast. The original had Vietnam vets, this would be a gang of Afghan war vets, all gender non-conforming, with vague ethnicities and a drive for environmental, social, and racial justice.
All In The Family, but a black and Hispanic cast with a white neighbor they hate because he owns a string of BBQ joints and there’s a running debate over whether or not this is cultural appropriation.
The Cosby Show, only without all the rape off screen.
OK, maybe that last one isn’t really a pitch, more of a reminder that all of these people are awful creatures.
No, just be creative. It’s not hard; pretty easy, in fact.
James Bond is a man, a white man. He likely won’t always be, he’ll probably be changed to whatever is fashionable at the time under pressure from the left because that’s what they do. They’ll do it because it’s easier than trying something new, something different, and hiring people who look like people you want to pretend to be comfortable around. Audiences won’t show up because we know when we’re being condescended to and we don’t like it. Maybe RuPaul will acknowledge that fact in this Oscar acceptance speech for playing the dual roles of James and Jane Bond.
Look to the current Dr. Who as a blueprint on how to kill a franchise.
The BBC excels at that.
I always got a kick out of them casting a Black man as James
West in the 1860s era.
How was that going to work in the South? Well, they did it.
LOL
“The Creative Community” is a pathetic bunch of losers. Plenty of people out there doing good stuff, but the only folks who get real money thrown at them are doing re-treads, and woke fests that kill franchises.
I haven’t watched it yet.
Is it insufferable?
Agent Peggy Carter was good.
Just wait until the new Charlie’s Angels movie comes out - Brad Pitt, Will Smith and John Cho are the newest, wokest angels ever! Added bonus: Whoopie Goldburg (spit) as Charlie!
Why not change James Bond to a Pakistani Seven-Eleven manager named Jamil Bondi and have him fight evil white men trying to encroach on the local multi-verse during the latest climate crises.
He can run around screaming, “no soup for you!”
More specifically, he's a white man with a Scottish father and a French Swiss mother. He has "a coma of black hair" hanging over his eye, and a scar on his left cheek.
I prefer that my movie Bonds try and stick as close to that as possible. Sean Connery came closest.
Of course, personality also matters. Craig's persona came closer to Bond than did Brosnan's.
James Bond Is A Man, Get Over It>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
They are now shopping a “Transgender Bond.”
” The name is Jaynes, Jaynes Bond!” ( 007.1)
Money Penny gave him new plumbing?
They are doing a rerun of “Gold Finger” , the story now incorporates a deadly vibrator that has a seek and kill feature powered by nuclear fusion, which has become a genocidal threat to transgenders every where!
James Bond is a fictional character created by Ian Flemming.
James Bond is not a social statement.
Should we make Laura Croft a gay Hispanic male? No, that would be silly.
Likewise, making James Bond a lesbian black female would be equally silly.
I want to see a Rosa Parks biopic in which a white guy gets the lead role.
A good series.
At least Secret Agent Super Dragon and Bart Fargo are safe from being redone.
Other than an occasional movie using Roku, we never watch TV because it’s boring crap, full of preachy leftists themes. I’ve been learning Spanish and watching Argentinian shows. It’s hilarious with no sociopolitical message (at least not the ones on LingoPie).
Next we'll have Elizabeth Bennett recast as Eli Bennett and Mr. Darcy will still be Mr. Darcy. Heck I may be late to this party, they've probably already done it.
How about a white South Afrikaner as the next Black Panther.
That’d go over like a pregnant pole vaulter.
RLTW.
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