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UK Daily Mail ^ | November 19, 2019 | Jabeen Waheed

[SERE_DOC]

'Daniel Craig has done an excellent job. I think he’s the best ever.'

Heresy says you!

Connery.

[Chode]

since it's all make believe think how much cooler it would be if the four strong, intelligent women were written in as flying aliens with xray vision, it'd be just as believable

[Captain Peter Blood]

I was 7 years old in 1962 when “Dr. No” came and James Bond came to life on the big screen.

I have been a faithful fan through all these years, enduring the good, the bad, and the mediocre.

Craig, I believe took a franchise that needed a new direction and has done well. I fully believe that “Skyfall” might have been the best made and we learned a lot about Bond’s past.

Craig’s films have collectively grossed about $3.2 Billion or so. Pretty good for four films with “Skyfall” doing $1.1 Billion alone.

Now with Craig’s last film producer Barbara Broccoli has decided to throw out everything that has worked for almost 60 years and possibly have given into the Anti-male, Pro- Feminist, SJW crap that is ruining movies and a good story.

Bond films are all about pure escapism for men and women, basic sex that sells. Fans like me are not looking for a message or anything else just something we can enjoy and not think about.

I can’t think of one of the Pro-Feminist, SJW type film that has done well. Everything since 2016 that has tried this has failed and lost lots of money, “Charlie’s Angels” being the latest.

I have no problem with a story with a good strong woman, when I was growing up with had Diana Rigg, Honor Blackman on “The Avengers”, and Anne Francis as a female PI in “Honey West” just to name three I know of.

There was a another character out there in the campy 1960’s that had a lot of potential and still does as a franchise, yet I see no one doing anything with it.

It was first a comic strip then a series of books. The main character was a woman named Modesty Blaise, movie of the same name came out in 1966 with Italian actress Monica Vitti in the title role.

This would be fantastic franchise with the right woman to play Modesty, she head of large criminal organization in Europe and had a sidekick, sometime lover named Willie Garvin and what adventures they had.

Personally can’t think of a woman actor who could play this, although I am sure one is out there. Of course in today’s world they probably would screw it up.

I fear that Bond could end up on the ash heap with this new movie and while it may do okay, the tale will be written on the gross. If it’s less that what they have been doing then it will classified a failure and that’s on Broccoli and her production team.

[Redwood71]

You may be getting the latter of the appearance efforts that were put in place by Albert Brocolli. Fleming himself died in the early 1960’s and didn’t see but two of the actual movies.

“When I wrote the first one in 1953, I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened; I wanted him to be a blunt instrument ... when I was casting around for a name for my protagonist I thought by God, [James Bond] is the dullest name I ever heard.

Ian Fleming, The New Yorker, 21 April 1962

Fleming decided that Bond should resemble both American singer Hoagy Carmichael and himself.”

Fleming’s original intent was to make Bond a victim rather than a super spy. And his appearance was a part of that failure in the secret world he was in. And he wasn’t the only writer that had his pen in the works.

A good article to read might be this one

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/movies/01mcgr.html

at it explains a little of the wide variety of Bond and not just the one that you saw in the latest film that also evolved from different writers making Bond different each time it seems.

rwood