So long Daniel Craig... The identity of the new James Bond has been revealed!

Totally stupid, dumb ass idea. Ian Fleming wrote James Bond as a white British man. My all time favorite movie franchise was James Bond. Mainly because of Sean Connery. I read all of Ian Fleming's James Bond books back in the late 1960's and early 1970's. I am officially through with James Bond.

Actually the first actor to play the role was a white American actor named Barry Nelson, who played James Bond in a 1954 episode of the TV series Climax! It was an adaptation of Casino Royale. I saw it years ago. I think Peter Lorre was in it also. Years later, Nelson confessed that he didn't know how to play the role.
 
doin't forget we are now living in the world of AI - can we believe anything unless we are face to face with the human originator??
 
Paladin1950 said:
Totally stupid, dumb ass idea. Ian Fleming wrote James Bond as a white British man. My all time favorite movie franchise was James Bond. Mainly because of Sean Connery. I read all of Ian Fleming's James Bond books back in the late 1960's and early 1970's. I am officially through with James Bond.

Actually the first actor to play the role was a white American actor named Barry Nelson, who played James Bond in a 1954 episode of the TV series Climax! It was an adaptation of Casino Royale. I saw it years ago. I think Peter Lorre was in it also. Years later, Nelson confessed that he didn't know how to play the role.
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Did you know this........Ian Fleming, during WW2, was a Royal Navy Commander, who was the number 2 man in the planning branch, responsible for the ill fated Canadian Army raid on the French coastal port of Dieppe ? Fleming convinced his superior officers, including Lord Mountbatten, and Winston Churchill, that this was a great way to test the ability of a 5,000 man raiding force to take, and hold a port city for a number of hours.

The REAL reason for the Dieppe raid was to snatch one of the new 4 rotor ENIGMA code machines, from the German district naval HQ at Dieppe. A special Royal Marines Commando platoon ( commanded by the son of a former British Prime Minister ) was tasked with finding and taking the ENIGMA machine and it's code books, during the attack. AS it happened, the RM platoon did NOT get ashore that day, so the snatch operation did not happen.

The Canadians fought gallantly, taking huge casualties, and about 70 percent of them were either killed or taken prisoner. Three Canadian Army battalions ceased to exist on that day. The highest death rate of any day in the whole of WW 2 for the Canadians.

Ian Fleming and his superiors covered this up, by invoking The Official Secrets Act, for a period of 70 years. It was not until 2012, that the full story was revealed to the media. We Canadians were LIED TO for 70 years. JIMB.
 
As to a female playing James Bond, I couldn't care less. (I've thought the Bond character, both as written--yes, I've read some of the books--and as some actors have played him--was a jerk.) I heard that fine actor Idris Elba was very close to playing Bond and he himself dropped out due to all the racial hate messages he was getting. ("A non-white Bond?! Horrors!")

Does anybody remember Modesty Blaise?

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Now there was a secret agent.
 
When I was in college, a series of books came out about a new hero, Israel Bond. He was agent Oy-Oy-7 and was not only licensed to kill but was licensed to preside over a memorial service for the victim. The two books I read were Loxfinger and MatzohBall. The other two books were On the Secret Service of His Majesty, the Queen and You Only Live Until You Die.

So, I guess a female James Bond isn't all that odd.....
 
officerripley said:
As to a female playing James Bond, I couldn't care less. (I've thought the Bond character, both as written--yes, I've read some of the books--and as some actors have played him--was a jerk.) I heard that fine actor Idris Elba was very close to playing Bond and he himself dropped out due to all the racial hate messages he was getting. ("A non-white Bond?! Horrors!")

Does anybody remember Modesty Blaise?

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Now there was a secret agent.
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I'm glad he dropped out. It would be insulting to all of the James Bond fans over the years. Just like people of color would be insulted if George Jefferson or Fred Sanford, were suddenly white in a reboot of both shows. I would fully understand their anger or disappointment.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
IMO Daniel Craig was not good looking and suave enough to play James Bond. Oh hell...even the good looking replacements for Sean Connery weren't good enough. :LOL: None other than Sean would do for me.
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Sean Connery deeply feared being typecast as James Bond and felt creatively stifled by the role, leading him to quit the franchise multiple times. He grew to despise the overwhelming association with the character and sought to prove his versatility as an actor, ultimately succeeding with diverse roles in later films.
Daniel Craig is a seriously talented actor. See him in Knives Out (2019): A critically acclaimed whodunit where Craig plays detective Benoit Blanc.
Another fine Craig performance can be seen in: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011): A tense thriller showcasing his dramatic acting.
For what it's worth, Connery's role as Professor Henry Jones, Sr. really portraid his talent for acting.
 
After the Bond movies had been out for a while and I was trying to figure out why there was such a hubbub over who played him, I read a couple of the first books, the second of which contained a passage which I think explains a lot of why the Bond character is seemingly so revered (a passage which also explains why I never read any more of the books).

In the passage I'm gonna quote, I'm pretty sure Fleming used the word "girl" rather than "young woman", but oh, well let's give Fleming as much benefit of the doubt as I can stand to give him. And I'm not positive it's an exact quote, but since it really stuck with me, I think I've got it pretty close. Okay, ready? Here goes finally:

"The beautiful young woman woke Bond up several times in the night because she was that desperate to have even more s*x with him."

And there you have it, lol. A lotta people (okay, men, lol) just do not want their fantasies tinkered with; the hero of the story's gotta resemble them and only them.
 
officerripley said:
After the Bond movies had been out for a while and I was trying to figure out why there was such a hubbub over who played him, I read a couple of the first books, the second of which contained a passage which I think explains a lot of why the Bond character is seemingly so revered (a passage which also explains why I never read any more of the books).

In the passage I'm gonna quote, I'm pretty sure Fleming used the word "girl" rather than "young woman", but oh, well let's give Fleming as much benefit of the doubt as I can stand to give him. And I'm not positive it's an exact quote, but since it really stuck with me, I think I've got it pretty close. Okay, ready? Here goes finally:

"The beautiful young woman woke Bond up several times in the night because she was that desperate to have even more s*x with him."

And there you have it, lol. A lotta people (okay, men, lol) just do not want their fantasies tinkered with; the hero of the story's gotta resemble them and only them.
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You might not know this.........Fleming's son killed himself, at age 23 in October of 1975, by a drug overdose. Ian Fleming died in 1964. Caspar Fleming left a suicide note, blaming his Father for his long battle with depression. JIMB>
 
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