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LOL. I'd take Elba over (shudder) James Brolin. And that was Cubby!
Jesus. Shocking to say you might even have a point there.
Although for the record I think Cubby realised he'd dropped the bollock and that's why he begged Rog back before it was too late.
It would be pretty funny if the gave Elba the job and he did screen tests, got fitted up for the wardrobe etc and then Babs said 'nah this ain't working' and just paid a joke amount to get Dan back.
She'd be tarnished as a racist bitch for life of course but I'd enjoy the whole spectacle of Elba having the rugged pulled from under him.
Why indeed should he be straight or able bodied? He would still be Bond wouldn't he? What am I saying? Why the Hell should he be male?
Why does he have to be human, why not make him/her a monkey?
That's a bit elitist isn't mate? Surely in your dream of a socialist worker utopia it means Bond could come from a chav estate and have no schooling whatsoever to still be the cream of MI6?
Actually what am I talking about. That's a meritocracy whereas you dream of us all living on our grey collective farms planting turnips and the only films we are allowed to see are party propaganda.
Well said. Everyone should be allowed to be who they are, regardless of where they fall on the spectrum of masculinity or femininity. That's fine. But there is a agreeable definition of what is masculine is or what it is not. I don't understand why so many leftist extremists feel this is dangerous. There's this tendency to say everyone is the same but this is nonsense. People are different due to a variety of factors. That is reality.
Going...??? b-(
Do you not think that when you assert that there is an ideal of what a "masculine" man should be like, then you place pressure on men, and particularly young males, to conform to that standard. Surely that's a suppression of individuality, I'm talking about embracing the fact that people are different and doing away with the idea that they should be limited to some archaic standard of what is "normal". I'd argue that placing these labels and expectations on people during their formative years is damaging and prevents them from developing in a way that makes them happy. Every person is an eclectic combination of likes, dislikes, tastes, hobbies, sexuality, etc etc, and I don't think we should be judging and defining people based on these.
Asserting that there is an agreeable standard around masculinity obviously overlooks the tremendous cultural divisions around perceptions of gender, and the evolving way that we have perceived masculinity and male ideals over time. A "manly" man was a very different thing in 1926 compared with 2016.
A man can chose to identify as "masculine" if he wishes, but that shouldn't be enforced as some sort of optimum condition for the human male. There's a tendency for people to be pass judgement and ridicule things that are different, that needs to stop. I've seen kids being bullied viscously because they happen to be perceived as feminine by other boys, and that is reality.
Anyway, that's not much to do with Bond, but I guess there isn't much else to talk about in this information vacuum.
By far the strongest sociocultural pressure in the modern western world today is to conform to the Left's notions of tolerance, multiculturalism, non-judgmentalism, cultural relativism and nihilism (all of which are flagrantly hypocritical, by the way). And if you fail to conform, you are remanded to Sensitivity Training, "Diversity" Seminars, and Tunnels of Oppression. That is, if you are fortunate enough not to lose your job and your career. So please spare me this twaddle about how awful it is to be encouraged to behave according to norms that remained relatively constant for 3000 years before the radical egalitarian revolution began in the 60s.
Very well put.
Was it?
Sounds like he's advocating Larry Grayson for Bond next (well next but one obviously. As we all know already Idris has to be next).
I know you're being facetious, but I'd like to make clear that I'm firmly a Fassbender man, as unlikely as that may be considering the direction of his career.
In my opinion, yes, it was. I don't agree with every single thing @JawsIsAlive - or anyone else - has said, but that was a good post. I'm not of the opinion that men are a certain way and women are a certain way and that's that, and modern equality ideals regardless of gender, ethnic background or skin color, or sexual orientation, etc. are crap and things should just be the way they used to be forever, and white male supremacy being cool and all that.
As for Bond, well, that wasn't the subject of that post. Anyway, I'm not familiar with Larry Grayson (I checked and found one guy by that name, but he died long ago), so I son't know what you meant with that. I guess I missed where @JawsIsAlive said Elba should be the next Bond - I seem to remember a comment saying that was not his point.
edit: Oh, there, he just said it again. (Thanks.)
Nice one, reassuring to see the whole Bond fandom isn't barking mad.
Yep. Leftists are absolute crazy people, PC Nazis, and the most intolerant people I have ever had the displeasure to interact with.
At least you can recognise when someone is ripping the piss old man unlike quite a few on here.
Fassbender I could certainly live with but as you say would he consider it a good move for his current career trajectory and more crucially would EON want to pay his rate?
What do we make of this?
Look at this trailer: He oozes Bond imho. He has the looks, the body, the acting ability.
Anyway, I can't wait to see that movie:
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Certainly the most flustered I've ever seen him get when talking about that thing he wishes would go away.
I can't see it happening, and it's why I think Turner is looking like a fairly likely prospect. He's got time on his side and he'd probably do it for a fiver and a pack of quavers.
Honestly I think I'd like Dan back in any case, just to clear up the whole Spectre/Blofeld mess they've made with the continuity.
People do strange things for quavers:
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I think Dan coming back is the best available option even if it means revisiting stepbrothergate.
Hopefully they'll just have the character as Blofeld just doing evil shit and never mention it again.
I could see Craig returning but with Babs I fear fosterbro maybe worse.
Or better yet, just forget Blofeld altogether for a few films. It would mean passing up an opportunity to get a faithful adaptation of You Only Live Twice, but it would be a way out of the whole 'stepbrother' nonsense. I'd just let the character sit out a few films, wait until a new actor takes over, and start slowly building up to Blofeld's return with an actual plan stretching over a few films rather than trying to retroactively tie him into films he wasn't a part of.
I'm sorry for me it would loose it's momentum and relevance.
Either ignore Swann and just reintroduce Blofeld later or..
Just do YOLT thing...
Or just ignore and ease back into old timeline/storyline.
....or any other revenge plot to bomb.
Hey, that works for me. After all, the only reason they got Connery in his first place was because many name actors turned them down. Connery was a cheaper alternative and look how that turned out.