Posted on 05/26/2021 7:54:56 AM PDT by Red Badger
Isn’t 007 going to become a black female?
Sorry, no thanks.
Create your own “heros/characters” quit appropriating what came before you.
A black female, that is. They didn't even get a looker for the part: No Time To Die’s New 007 Replacement Confirmed by Star
I’ve enjoyed the Craig movies. The scripts so far have been good, and his character is as close to Ian Flemming’s creation as any of the others, George Lazenby in HMSS being a close second. I want to give this last Craig movie a chance.
I enjoy Connery too, but Craig portrays the dark side of Flemming’s Bond, the drinker, womanizer, mostly heartless killer. All the other Bonds were either too slapstick or the scripts were too fantastical.
The smart path would be to Mandalorian it.
Turn the Bond stories into episodic programming on Amazon. That way there is something to milk users every month.
Whether that is rebooting the franchise and set it during the context of the Cold War or adapting the non-Flemming books and comics or writing new scripts.
I pretty much share those observations. Craig has been good and I didn’t love the Roger Moore slapstick stuff but it was entertaining.
Thats a good one!
“with a black 007”
The “Shaft” title song come to mind.
There are lots of bad dudes in the ‘hoods that need to be dealt with.
Will the MGM lion be tamed? I’d think the beta males, SIMPS and their women would find it to be too aggressive.
“Theme from Shaft”, written and recorded by Isaac Hayes in 1971, is the soul and funk-styled theme song to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film Shaft.
The lyrics describe John Shaft’s coolness, courage and sex appeal and Hayes’ lead vocals are punctuated by a trio of female backup singers. At one famous moment, Hayes calls Shaft “a bad mother—;” before the backup singers (one of whom is Tony Orlando and Dawn’s Telma Hopkins) interrupt the implied profanity with the line “Shut yo’ mouth!” Hayes immediately defends himself by replying “I’m talking about Shaft”, with the back-up vocalists replying, “We can dig it.” Other well-known passages include “You’re damn right!” also uttered by Hayes, and “He’s a complicated man/but no one understands him/but his woman/John Shaft.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theme_from_Shaft
Wasn’t there a book, or a movie, that came out years ago predicting that the U.S. will become a completely fascist totalitarian country controlled not by the government, but by corporations?
I remember an old Wanda Sykes routine about why she then call herself just and American after visiting Africa. She pointed out that Africa didn’t send out rescue ships and that there was no black James Bond moving about and coming up to slave saying “ I’m here to free you, a ship is waiting” while shooting up the plantation. Where as if your an American Jesse Jackson and the the US Marines are coming for your ass. This was in the 80’s or 90’s and I’m sure she’s woke now.
Hellstroms Hive by Frank Herbert of Dune fame comes to mind.
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“We have the best government money can buy.” - Mark Twain......................
When I was a kid (back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth) baseball stadiums had names related to the city the team played in or the name of the team or some individual who had a connection to the team.
Yankee Stadium, Ebbets Field, Fenway Park.
Now half of them are named after corporations. “Citizens Bank Park”, “Coors Field” “T-MobiI Park. “Target Field”.
Disgusting.
From Wikipedia:
Ian Lancaster Fleming (28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964) was a British writer, journalist and naval intelligence officer who is best known for his James Bond series of spy novels. Fleming came from a wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co....Educated at Eton, Sandhurst and, briefly, the universities of Munich and Geneva, Fleming moved through several jobs before he started writing.
While working for Britain’s Naval Intelligence Division during the Second World War, Fleming was involved in planning Operation Goldeneye and in the planning and oversight of two intelligence units, 30 Assault Unit and T-Force. His wartime service and his career as a journalist provided much of the background, detail and depth of the James Bond novels.
Fleming wrote his first Bond novel, Casino Royale, in 1952. It was a success, with three print runs being commissioned to cope with the demand. Eleven Bond novels and two collections of short stories followed between 1953 and 1966. The novels revolve around James Bond, an officer in the Secret Intelligence Service, commonly known as MI6. Bond is also known by his code number, 007, and was a commander in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. The Bond stories rank among the best-selling series of fictional books of all time, having sold over 100 million copies worldwide. Fleming also wrote the children’s story Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Fleming
Fleming took the name for his character from that of the American ornithologist James Bond, an expert on Caribbean birds and author of the definitive field guide Birds of the West Indies. Fleming, himself a keen birdwatcher, had a copy of Bond’s guide, and later told the ornithologist’s wife, “that this brief, unromantic, Anglo-Saxon and yet very masculine name was just what I needed.
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