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Chortle.
Presume @JawsIsAlive would see no inherent ludicrousness in a faithful adaptation of the novel GF with a Korean actor playing Bond?
If his work on movie is finished in July 2017.
There have just heard from Barbara Broccoli that there get part in two live action movies of Sjors and Sjimmie :))
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Really? That is not the saddest point of this sentiment. Not by a long stretch.
Wouldn t that be great?
"Stop blinking!
What is this? Glass eyes?
I swear, last time I did this those eyes just popped like there was an ejector button inside that head.
Open those eyes, can t you see how damaging this is to my reputation?"
POP!
"Oh God! There went the left eye, right? But your right eye is left!
Stop resisting like that, I am getting sweaty. Do you know how expensive this suit is?"
Etc. etc.
That is not "honest". That is merely an opinion. And a dubious one at that. Or did we all miss how no-one went to see THE FORCE AWAKENS because of that Black British actor called John Boyega?
Or how no one went to see that sexist man Bond in Spectre.
That was a new character lol. He did a good Woody Allen though... crouching, hiding, ..whining.
And lol @Thunderfinger... exactly.
Presume the Boyega factor is single handedly responsible for TFA's stellar box office?
You could cast Hitler, Bin Laden and Fritzl in Star Wars and it would still make ridiculous money so it's utterly pointless in claiming any actor has an effect in either boosting or reducing box office in this case.
Yeah PC crowd are annoying - shouldn't they be more concerned about his treatment of women and the fact that he kills people than being racist about his skin colour?
....and if they don't cast Elba as Bond then they are racist.
True @CatchingBullets - 'negative comic stereotyping of homosexual characters' BBFC's words not mine; part of the reason why it is now rated 12 rather than PG.
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/daf_reclassified_uk.php3
Thank you for retracting your statement.
Yes I liked the way they didn't shy away from his treatment of women in Casino Royale and QoS with the Fields scene. That's his character - it's a character flaw of Bond's (and Fleming's actually, he treated Muriel Wright in the most deplorable of ways), character flaws are what make characters interesting.
=))
'Aggressive use of the word bitch'!! Priceless.
And at what point does the film poke fun at homosexuals? We are laughing with W&K.
I love:
'Mrs Whistler did want some pictures of the canals for the children.'
'How kind of you Mr Kidd. The children will be so thrilled.'
And 'bitch' and alleged negative portrayal of gays is verboten but depicting a black girl turning into a gorilla is totally fine? Go figure.
Yes, I quite agree. The BBFC are pretty funny at times. Their ratings system is so inconsistent - why is M:I 2 a '15'?!
To be fair most people have stopped concentrating on DAF by that point. Probably missed it.
You're spot on about character flaws. The problem these days is that the SJW brigade see being a straight, white, male as a character flaw. The irony is, every creed and colour enjoy Bond. It's merely a small band of desperately insecure individuals who need a safe space from such a heathen of a man.
They don't care about characters, they only care about positive representation.
What they strive for is blanket mediocrity. Let's all stay down here on this level playing field in case someone is angry about somebody else's success.
Sounds suspiciously like socialism to me.
James Bond is a white Englishman. That's how Flemming wrote him, that's how it should be.
It's maddening whenever some magazine or website is ranking all the Bond films, and the writer is quite clearly an SJW based on how much they allow a few off-colour remarks to impact their opinion to such a degree. Live And Let Die is a very common target for this. As someone who loves that film, I can't tell you how many reviews I've read of LALD that have their own little section talking about have reprehensible the film is to modern audiences. And I'm like, "have you ever read the source material, mate?"
What's even worse is on several occasions I have seen the same reviewer go on to lament the fact that there has only ever been one black villain in the series!
Before 2005 NO ONE would have thought it possible to have a short blond Bond.
Not saying that's the same as skin colour, but anyway, if BB doesn't respect Fleming's vision of Bond in 2005 why should she do it now.
If she happens to have the hots for Elba he will be Bond. It's that simple.
Wrong. The scientific evidence, mostly genetic, demonstrates clearly that races are real entities and that they are different. But this only confirms common sense. When entire bodies of people evolve over tens of thousands of years on different continents in response to wildly different environmental conditions while breeding almost entirely amongst themselves, it would be daffy to think they would come out identical at the other end of the evolutionary pipeline. But if you think race is a hoax, then by all means take the 23andme genetic test. Your illusions will be shattered.
I've already said, if you're adapting the books faithfully then of course Bond has to be white, it's just a matter of plausibility. In the fifties you weren't likely to have Scottish-Swiss black Imperialists educated at Eton.
My point is that whiteness isn't relevant to a modern interpretation of the character, the same reason we can have a female M and a black Moneypenny. You want Bond to start referring to people as negros because that's how it's written in the books?
Christ, all this idiotic talk of PC and SJWs makes me feel l like I've wondered onto some sort of Partridge esque parody of the right wing.