Posted on 12/25/2014 8:54:25 AM PST by NKP_Vet
Liberals everywhere were outraged this week after Rush Limbaugh said a black man playing James Bond would be ridiculous. The comments were made on Tuesday in regard to leaked Sony emails that revealed that CEO Amy Paschal wanted the black actor Idris Elba to play James Bond. Rush, however, wasnt having any of it. James Bond is a total concept put together by Ian Fleming. He was white and Scottish. Period. That is who James Bond is, was, the conservative radio show host said. But now [they are] suggesting that the next James Bond should be Idris Elba, a black Briton, rather than a white from Scotland. Thats not who James Bond is and I know its racist to probably point this out, he added. Liberals everywhere are outraged by these racist remarks, but what do you think about it? Sound off in the comments below!
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Well I have heard of Matt Damon but know nothing about him or any of the others.
How do you know what kind of movies this Black guy would be in? How do you know what he would or would not do? Are you his agent?
IMO, he’d make a good 007, but Bond should just be dead, now. Or at least passing the torch. (I had NO problem with Avery Brooks as Sisko in Deep Space 9 — I thought he did a very good job with the character, overall, even if the show itself was somewhat a rip-off of the better Babylon 5. But the writers did not try to make Sisko into Kirk, thank heavens. Sisko I could / would trust around my daughter!!!)
Why are you commenting on a subject where you have no knowledge of the issue at hand? You're like Obama, sounding off about things you're ignorant of.
Love it. Look forward to reading about “Cracker Jim”.
Bullshit. Bond was Scottish.
The Bond universe is much smaller than ST, and would make no sense without him. Bond passed the torch to Bourne, Ethan Hunt, Indiana Jones, and a host of others. However, he's still relevant because of the women, gadgets, cars, and guns. It has nothing to do with his race.
I have been to Scotland and am in fact part Scottish, and you have proven yourself to be an idiot on this issue. James Bond should be White like 99% of all Scots are.
I made a comment because you made an idiotic statement.
You said he was ten times the man, American actors were. He sounds like an Affirmative action recipient. I would just bet he got assistance somewhere to further his acting due to his race.
I will admit I don’t keep up with actors. About the only two I can come up with off hand are Harrison Ford and The guy who played Achilles in “Troy”.
He races cars? That puts him up a bit in my book but what else has he done but act. Has he won any well name races?
“He sounds like an Affirmative action recipient.”
What makes you say that?
I'd say he's manlier than Brad Pitt. Pitt is a good actor but he looked like a 12 year old in Thelma & Louise.
My guess is that James Golden, {a.k.a.,} under the pseudonym "Bo Snerdley," is a lot MORE conservative than Rush, having heard him when he had his own talk radio show. Rush was quite the man for taking him back when he couldn't get enough radio stations to carry his James Golden, {a.k.a., Bo Snerdley} show.
Tip of my hat to both men, like Tony the Tiger say's, THEY'RE GREAT!!!!
“He reminds me of a British Woody Strode”.
So are you inferring that Woody Strode would have made a better or just as good a James Bond as Sean Connery?
I understand. That was only for your reference. We don’t want to put Jim Robinson at risk for lawsuit...we try to self-police if we can.
“Arent the new Bond movies set in the present time.”
Yes. But the original character was a W/M Scot.
“Its not that big a deal that the character and franchise are being modernized.”
So, call your new agent someone else other than Bond.
Silly question. The time and place where Bond was created defined the man and his character.
“As I stated earlier, the Bond film franchise has now transcended the original Fleming novels.”
The Bond character is BOND. That means a specific character type.
Bond no longer needs to be a Scottish white male. Bond can now believably be virtually any demographic Hollywood wants him (or her!) to be, much like, say, the commanding officer in any Star Trek movie or series. No difference.”
You see no difference between Capt Kirk and Pickard and that awful Janeway? Goodness. Besides, they were each different captains with different NAMES and commanding different ships. There were totally different characters. They shared nothing but a ship name.
If you change the character and the man, he is no longer Bond.
To use your example, make a new cpatain [agent] if you want to, make him/her/it any color or sex, or both, have at it. It's not Capt Kirk [James Bond].
You can call a disabled, transgendered ethnic hodgepodge something “James Bond” but that doesn't make that monstrosity James Bond.
If you have an agent that is a disabled, transgendered ethnic hodgepodge something, great, name it Taweka Jawa LaShunda. . .but not Bond.
But at the time he was created, there were no Black Moors or Black Scottish secret agents.
And Idi Admin (sp) was The Last King of Scotland. Or so he said.
I would like to see Will Smith play Bond, James Bond!
Neither Nelson Mandela or Barack Obama are fictional characters. If James Bond was white and Scottish, period, then nobody has played him that way. Even Sean Connery kept his Scottish accent in check.
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