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Have you ever successfully converted someone into becoming a James Bond fan?
Dragonpol
https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
The thread title says it all as means of introduction to this thread. This subject is something I've been thinking about recently. It takes me back to the only time I think I ever converted other people into becoming a James Bond fan.
Personally speaking, I'd say that my fandom was used to convert around three to four of my classmates at secondary school into being James Bond fans of some sort or other. At least some of them have, to the best of my knowledge, remained as Bond fans. Since then, I've not really consciously tried to recruit anyone new to the fandom, perhaps because school years are formative years of experience and so fellow pupils are more impressionable than many adults are in later life. I also wouldn't say that it was that case that I consciously went out of my way of recruit new Bond fans at school but more that my obvious interest in Bond may have smitten a few of my school friends.
So have you ever successfully converted someone into becoming a Bond fan? Do you believe that it is part of our remit as Bond fans to try to recruit others as fans or is James Bond purely a private interest in your life? I'd love to hear your stories below. :)
Personally speaking, I'd say that my fandom was used to convert around three to four of my classmates at secondary school into being James Bond fans of some sort or other. At least some of them have, to the best of my knowledge, remained as Bond fans. Since then, I've not really consciously tried to recruit anyone new to the fandom, perhaps because school years are formative years of experience and so fellow pupils are more impressionable than many adults are in later life. I also wouldn't say that it was that case that I consciously went out of my way of recruit new Bond fans at school but more that my obvious interest in Bond may have smitten a few of my school friends.
So have you ever successfully converted someone into becoming a Bond fan? Do you believe that it is part of our remit as Bond fans to try to recruit others as fans or is James Bond purely a private interest in your life? I'd love to hear your stories below. :)
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Like his old man, he loves the Connery era, and the first two DC films (ever since being a youngster, he didn't like Moore or Brosnan (EDIT: although the first couple of films I introduced to him were GE and TSWLM...; it was when he was a little older and we watched all of the films that his ambivalence and then dislike for these eras grew) , but did like the TD films).
He found SF chipped away at what made DC so great, and softened him, but, he was still willing to give B24 a shot. After all, SF was just one film (that he didn't entirely dislike (he loved the final encounter at Bond's home)).
When SP came out, he fell asleep. Several times. And that was the straw that broke him. SP committed the biggest sin to him: a boring Bond film. He thinks it kind of pissed on the entire history.
This has left such a bad taste in his mouth, that he, at the moment, refuses to watch any Bond film.
He's almost 18, so his critical weaponry is at its highest. In time, he will come back to the series. And he will enjoy them, or not, for what they are. But since we used to have such a blast watching them (at home over and over; on opening day), I have a feeling he will find a place for Bond again.
No, well I probably haven't created any Bond fanatics on my level of fandom either. It would be more casual Bond fans than that. Not sure if I made that fully clear in the OP. Still, some kind of Bond fan is better than none, I suppose!
Yes, it certainly is a victory well worth fighting for, @Agent_99! Congratulations. Dalton is an underrated Bond and also my favourite actor in the role.
Yes, that's true of course. We can at least take some comfort in the good taste of our fellow board members here on this community. :)
Perhaps "converted" was the wrong word for this thread title, but I'll leave it as it is with the rider that it can still be less than full conversion to qualify in this thread of mine!
That's great! It's about putting something back into the community and spreading awareness of Bondology.