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It’s very odd; do they think she invented/is the character? And why are they against freeing slaves?
Sorry, different Matt Walsh.
These guys talk about pop culture because it's a Trojan horse to make a political point. A lecture about the perils of feminism? Bo-ring. A review (often from someone who hasn't viewed it) about the fifth entry in a beloved franchise that won't probably reach the heights of the 80s entries, blaming it all on a few convenient scapegoats, like a feminist agenda? This may strike a chord with people who are way too much emotionally involved with the series.
They're still following, a decade later, the "Gamergate" template. They approach a topic about which some fans are passionate and irrational about and they whisper some lowest-hanging fruit theories to channel their disappointment or their anger into a rallying point for a cause.
I'm quite amazed about how much the discourse at this place is cordial and balanced. A few people know a lot about the production background for the Bond franchise, and we have been spared a lot of the non-sense about Barbara Broccoli ruining Bond during the Craig years (yeah, by bringing it back to levels of commercial and critical success the franchise hadn't seen since the seventies), the stuff that's precisely ruminated in this type of videos when they talk about Bond. When Martin Campbell didn't return, nobody here blamed it seriously on "Barbara" being unable to retain talent. When Danny Boyle left, it wasn't just due to "Barbara". We don't take every rumour about the casting of the next actor as fact (especially the ludricrous ones), just because some "agenda" could magically explain it.
Consider that it might be the same with Star Wars. I don't put Kathleen Kennedy's track record at Lucasfilm at the same level as what Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson have achieved in the Craig years, but I'm simply suggesting that she's getting used as a convenient target and an excuse to push political causes by making her the only decision maker about Star Wars.
But there’s really not a whiff of anything political about PWB, the writer/actor. She just writes stories. Just stories. And that must frustrate the angry boys who can’t pin her down with their simplistic labels, but they continue trying to do so. The same little boys who only read Breitbart, who continue to rage against “Hollyweird” (another Breitbartism), and who now see the same complaint in all their favourite franchises.
Instead of posting reviews from someone with a political agenda, @AstonLotus , why don’t you wait to watch the film and make your own decision?
And @slide_99 … are you saying you have opinions on films you’ve not bothered watching? Colour-me-surprised (🙄)
Second series, the one handled by Emerald Fennell, was mostly enjoyable, but her plan to have a different writing team run by a different woman every season led to the abominations of series 3 and 4.
Everything PWB has been attached to since actually really makes sense (particularly the upcoming Tomb Raider project) and she comes over as a real reflection of us Brits and particularly us Brits of a certain generation. I actually really hope she gets more involved with Bond, because that seems right up her alley too.
Fleabag would look to camera with an eyebrow at that last statement.
The first series is extremely witty, and a welcome change of style and pace compared to the usual treatment of such a plot, with a soft palette photography, girl groups in the soundtrack, etc. After that, the show turns into its own Internet meme version and self-parody, with a dubious attempt at dealing with some mythology (the Twelve, the criminal organization behind the hit jobs). And they ruined the characters.
However, the thing that got Daniel Craig to ask Phoebe Waller-Bridge to polish the script for No Time to Die was Fleabag, her two-series show that's available on Amazon Prime. And I guess that most of the one-liners that work in NTTD (which was a massive improvement over Spectre in that regard), that also suit the personality of Craig's Bond, come from her. There's a lot of bittersweet self-deprecating comedy in Fleabag, and it was a good match for Craig's take on Bond.
The show takes a while to enjoy, the first scene in particular is a lot to take, but she does something totally unique with the talking to the camera monologue, and when you start having some grasp about the trauma of the titular character, it all makes sense.
Maybe because at his age he pretty much is a non-entity. He has done his service and he has stayed on as more of a figure head then of someone with the drive to bring Bond to the big screen. Michael's son might take on more of a role by the time the next film is ready for production.
I don't mind calling her `Babs', its quicker to type. I also refer to Michael as `Mickey', just to show I am being very fair, equal rights and all that. ;)
There's a 3min Dial of Destiny thing on there too.