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And that goes for any of you: feel more than free to link me (or other mods) with anything you think is outright racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, you name it, and we'll be happy to deal with it. Having said that, not every flag translates to something dealt with. If we're to ban members who call others anti-white because they're supportive of inclusion and an accurate depiction of our world today, that's as extreme as banning someone who says someone who hates a particular character is racist. If I've overlooked something more direct or apparent in that respect, point me in the right di
Just to get technical, Dexter doesn't "only" kill bad people; he's had reasons to do otherwise, like saving his own skin or doing someone a favor. The biggest example for me is his actions in New Blood, kills that felt completely out of character for him and got some negative reactions out of me. They should've left that show in the past, as excited as I was for more.
I see your Point and think the difference you mentioned is understandable. However, Bond also killed a few times without the authority of her Majesty's government. Think of Licence to kill, the PTS of Spectre, parts of QoS.
Does that bother you? I must admit that I sometimes feel a bit uncomfortable regarding Bond as a cold blooded assassin who kills unarmed people.
Have to say, off the top of my head, I don't think that CraigBond killed anyone who hadn't earned it for one reason or another. There was one guy on AJB years ago who had a theory that it was Bond who'd tortured and killed Solange (!), but I don't buy into that one!
This is why many felt LTK was way out of character for Bond. The closest is probably in YOLT where he decides to withhold his discovery of Blofeld so he can avenge Tracy, but it’s still in the service of his government, and the mission is deemed a success by the British government after his presumed death. Killing Sanchez was really not on anyone’s behalf except Bond.
I’m okay with where LTK takes the character because they reestablish Bond’s widower status to give you an understanding that he’s doing it more than just for Felix and Della. But it is kinda funny how just one film ago Pushkin remarked how professional Bond was and that he doesn’t kill out of reason.
Tell that to members of your country's army...
*There was a quite wordy long resignation letter drafted by Bond in the OHMSS novel if I remember right.
I concur!
"We had opened up [Casino Royale] and it was a big success and everybody embraced him and it was all great excitement. And, he and I were in the back of the car in Berlin, going from the screening there to the hotel. And, he brought the idea up then. He said, 'What about if I die at the end?' Well, first of all, he said, 'How many of these pictures have I got to do?' Which made me laugh. All the negotiating we'd been doing with the agents and everybody and we thought he was really up to speed, which he would've been, but he kind of put it to the back of his mind. And, he said, 'How many?' And, stupidly, I said four. I should've said nine or ten. I should've lied. But, I said four, which is what the deal was at the time."
https://screenrant.com/daniel-craig-james-bond-movies-number-barbara-broccoli/
The crazy thing is, in a perfect world, had they kept with the schedule of releasing one film every other year, we could've had 8 or 9 installments with Craig.
YouTube it without the game play. Its like watching an abbreviated Craig film in digital form
What an American way of thinking: that there are actually 'bad people'.
And in one sweep the whole concept of 'government' is undone. You really want people to just go around and kill other people on the basis of their own 'concience'? I think we've had a not-too-long-ago example in your own country where quite a few young people died on the basis of this reasoning...
Well, there ARE. Hitler, for example. ;)
Why do you twist my words?
how am I twisting words? The whole idea of Bond is that he only kills on his government's orders. The whole concept of government is to put the monopoly of violence there, in the governing body of all people, supposedly taking away the individual influence and only acting for the good of all whom are part of said society.
the slight flaw here is obviously that it's people beeing the government, but that can't be helpd as alternatives are far worse.
Even that guy has his good sides. probaly. well tucked away...
You know full well that doesn twork, and has never worked. You twisted my words so that it would appear I condoned murder.
No, I didn't twist your words, I showed you what the result is of your position. The fact that it opens the door for murder doesn't mean you condone murder and I'd never state that (I'll leave that to you if it may be true under whatever circumstances). Fact is that if you let every person be judge and executioner, you're going to end up with a lot of murders as people have different opinions of what justifies killing, and some of those are pretty twisted indeed.
There are no good or bad people, but there's a lot of bad judgement for sure. The good thing about government's monopoly of violence is that the bad judgement of an execution will first have to go through checks and balances before they are executed.
I'm not claiming it's a water tight sistem, only that it's the best we've got.
If your words are so easily misunderstood, perhaps they weren't very clearly phrased in the first place.
And you haven't bothered to respond to my stated position: the armed forces of the western powers (forgive me for not knowing where you're located, I make the rash assumption that you are a citizen of one of the western nations) all follow the orders of their superiors. If the President of the USA says "go over there and shoot at THOSE people" then the armed forces of my own nation will be following his orders. I don't fault them for that. I may disagree with their orders but then I protest to our President. I don't fault the armed forces for following their orders. According to your own statements, evidently YOU DO. Am I misunderstanding your position?