Female Bond WTF.
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Only if the script allows for him/her/them to be killed off within minutes of the film starting! I also hope that the casting-couch will not be required in this instance.
I am with you Ayjay. I do not enjoy them either, very poor and very much over plugged. Much prefer John le Carré, especially Smiley's people, Tinker, sailor, soldier, spy and films and stories of that nature. Films that had stories with a link to the historical truth and that portray some realism with quality acting. I do not enjoy films with special effects and pure fantasy unless science fiction or are some sort anthropological comment. The vast majority of films being released today, I feel are just like pop music and are absolute disposable effluent.
@Ayjay I couldn't agree more on the Bourne movies. I am sure I read somewhere that the Daniel Craig Bond movies were filmed the same way the Bourne movies are.
Re Female Bond, just recalled the Tomb Raider movies and they are "OK"
Lastly adventure novels, have you tried the Clive Cussler books especially the Dirk Pitt series?
Seven of Nine gets my vote.
Bootsam - At the risk of being ageist, I don't want to depress you but SW is 71 now and running around in action hero guise is probably not going to happen without an awful lot of CGI work.
You forgot to add 'and he doesn't try to sing'.
Never mind being ageist, what about if she/they try to sing even if he doesn’t?!! Shoot ‘em all, I say!
By the way, I too would need a lot of CGI assistance! #justsayin in a trendy, woke, snowflake, millennial way!
It was merely an example Ayjay, that it is perfectly feasible to have a female kick ass hero who is also easy on the eye so to speak. Same with Chaz Theron in Atomic Blond. All one has to do is go with it. Its all fiction anyway.
SW is still quite a handsome lady at 71.
SW is still quite a handsome lady at 71.
Ayjay said
Bootsam - At the risk of being ageist, I don't want to depress you but SW is 71 now and running around in action hero guise is probably not going to happen without an awful lot of CGI work.
Not to mention she is horribly scared both physically and mentally from when that thing was living and growing inside her. I doubt she could take anything like that again. So put it away.
Bootsam - At the risk of being ageist, I don't want to depress you but SW is 71 now and running around in action hero guise is probably not going to happen without an awful lot of CGI work.
Not to mention she is horribly scared both physically and mentally from when that thing was living and growing inside her. I doubt she could take anything like that again. So put it away.
Oof!
I agree, the "woke" people I know are lacking in those qualities.
For those of you who are into your spy/thriller novels I can highly recommend The Feather Men by Ranulph Fiennes.
Amazing (apparently true) story based around secret UK government groups and the SAS. There is a film based on the novel called Killer Elite, but as usual it doesn't do the story justice...
Amazing (apparently true) story based around secret UK government groups and the SAS. There is a film based on the novel called Killer Elite, but as usual it doesn't do the story justice...
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Why should Bond suddenly become a female?
Bond is a fictional character, in the same way that Bridget Jones is. Should Bridget become a man, in the next film?
Ian Flemming created Bond as a man. Fact.
Writers are perfectly at liberty to create female characters, but please, lets allow that to be done. Don't change the gender, just to satisfy a WOKE or PC whim!
Bond is a fictional character, in the same way that Bridget Jones is. Should Bridget become a man, in the next film?
Ian Flemming created Bond as a man. Fact.
Writers are perfectly at liberty to create female characters, but please, lets allow that to be done. Don't change the gender, just to satisfy a WOKE or PC whim!
It does not bother me what sex Bond is played by or what sexuality that person may have. The films gave become progressively worse each time one comes out that is if there is any room for that to happen. Are any of the films even close to what Fleming wrote or portrayed in his books? The way that I see Bond Films, are as a self effacing comedy, a send up. I do not think that they are even very good at that. The quality of anything is covered up by special effects and bling. They are not following historical fact. It was a fiction made up by someone who had a part to play in the world of espionage and I doubt anyone really thinks that is how the films are. So what does it matter. I understand the concerns about "just to satisfy a WOKE or PC whim!" but is that not the point. Women and people of colour have been written out of so much for so long and even when portrayed, parts have often been played by blacked up white people. Even from the days of Shakespeare women where played by men. How many black actors have played Othello?
Agreed but turning the central character from male to female can only be another step away from the books.
I'm all for females having central roles, but create a new one, it might be better than Bond.
Edit: and don't call her James.
