Posted on 09/23/2021 4:00:45 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
With "No Time to Die," Fukunaga tried to make the Bond franchise more progressive by changing the world around 007.
Much buzz has been made out of “Fleabag” Emmy winner Phoebe Waller-Bridge joining the James Bond tentpole “No Time to Die” to punch up the script. Skeptics have claimed the film’s producers wanted a “woke” James Bond but “No Time to Die” director told The Hollywood Reporter that’s not the case at all. Even before Waller-Bridge joined, Fukunaga was adamant about “changing the world around” Bond to bring the franchise into a more progressive place.
“Is it ‘Thunderball’ or ‘Goldfinger’ where, like, basically Sean Connery’s character rapes a woman?” Fukunaga said. “She’s like ‘No, no, no,’ and he’s like, ‘Yes, yes, yes.’ That wouldn’t fly today.”
Fukunaga continued, “I think that’s the expectation, a female writing very strong female roles, but that’s something [producer] Barbara [Broccoli] wanted already. From my very first conversations with [Broccoli], that was a very strong drive. You can’t change Bond overnight into a different person. But you can definitely change the world around him and the way he has to function in that world. It’s a story about a white man as a spy in this world, but you have to be willing to lean in and do the work to make the female characters more than just contrivances.”
Lashana Lynch makes her Bond debut in “No Time to Die” as 00 agent Nomi, rumored to now be carrying the 007 moniker. The actress told THR that the film’s mission was to “give the female characters equity” and not just radically change who James Bond is from top to bototm.
Cary had big discussions with Barbara and Daniel [Craig] about how to give the female characters equity, how to keep them in charge of themselves, how to give them solo moments where the audience learns who they are,” Lynch said. “It was really important to empower the female characters as stand-alones. And I think that he kept that in mind throughout the whole shoot.
“I didn’t feel like Nomi, as a young Black woman, was constantly standing behind the white guy, which, for me, is job done,” Lynch added. “And that was a very conscious decision for Cary.”
“No Time to Die” will open in U.S. theaters October 8.
I don’t recall any of the Bond girls screaming rape.
Me either.
I’ll stick with the good ones.
Also Roger Moore’s Saint.
The black and white ones to me were better. The Saint lost something going to color.
License to Rape
This freak grew up in the Bay Area, so his ideas of “rape” have to be twisted. The media says he’s dating Andie McDowell’s daughter, Margaret Qualley, but they used to have Kristen Stewart dating men too.
If there were anything resembling rape in the Connery Bond films, I would have heard about it from my own mother and her sisters, never mind the numerous feminists that populated cities anyway.
I thought the movie with Val Kilmer was pretty good.
How long before yesteryear’s movies get edited? Mel Brooks has already said a movie like Blazing Saddles wouldn’t even make it out of the discussion room today. Eddie Murphy was criticized over his gay jokes in Delirious.
It’s been several years since I’ve read the original Bond books, and it’s about time again. Good literature is timeless, and those stories work as well as any I’ve ever read.
I vaguely remember the movie.
The old show is fun to watch.
I have the boxed set.
These woke snowflakes weren’t even alive in the 60s. They haven’t a clue as to what the culture or norms were like in that time.
“No Time to Die”
Sorry, no time to watch.
All things must come to an end. Time for things like Bond to be done, at least until our culture cleans itself out. Thing is, they won’t just retire Bond or even just kill him off; no, the character will first have to be humiliated.
Offending the woke is fun.
Do it at every opportunity that is agreeable to you to offend them.
And when they tell you they are offended just smile warmly and say “You’re welcome!” and then ignore them … unless it’s to offend them again.
“No Time to Die”
More like “No time to Cry, Cry Again.” Must miss!
Buy your favorite films on DVD while you still can
If what feminists say about story characters is true, why was 50 Shades of Gray such a tremendous success with women?
I was born in 85 and even I was taught to analyze history in a way that does not apply future values and knowledge onto the past. I read books like Huck Finn and Of Mice and Men and my teachers did not think the average student was so stupid as to not understand that the book would reflect the values of the time.
and in the 60s, he’d still be in the closet...
You can’t rape the willing
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