I would've been totally cool with Idris Elba as James Bond out of all the choices they kept throwing around. Too bad they decided to murder the franchise anyways!
I could give a shit if they want to make Bond a woman or a black bloke - so long as the character is true to being Bond, is a story about WHO the character is, and not WHAT the character is. Bond became an outsider Scotsman serving the Crown because he was effortlessly good at it, has a general disdain for ordinary life, and loves his country. An English guy from India or with an Indian ancestry could fit this and would be an interesting take on the proto-Bond. It wouldn't be casting an Indian actor because #woke, but it's an actual opportunity to explore the same character in a different way. The franchise has been around, like any legend, for a long time. It's time to get weird with it and change it up. You can always go back and revisit or remake it in its original form.
I wouldn't agree. Bond is supposed to be British. Whilst Idris Elba may be able to pull it off because of Charisma factor that isn't really what the character of Bond is about don't you agree?
I mean John Boyega is basically the new hotness when it comes to Black British actors and they have already started floating him as the "new Bond", not understand that Bond requires that Britishness that is lost with a race swap. I'd be fine with them being like a main character in a bond movie as a different agent or even being the main character with Bond playing support like a passing of the torch.
We had a Scotsman, an Australian, 2 Englishmen, a Welshman and an Irishman played bond. British Empire all the way. The problem is that we all know why Idris Elba was cast when there are hundreds of British actors around that could also be cast.
Cause they wanted for Bond to get Blacked and after that Blacked and Gender bent. To them it wasn't a case of best actor for best movie. To them it was how do we conquer more ideological territory.
Exactly. The James Bond persona is a native British one, not a paper British one. Why does Hollywood continually have to take long loved and classic stories that feature white characters and white identities and substitute another race? Why can't they come up with NEW cool stories for characters of other ethnicities instead of erasing white ones to give it to someone else? Its almost as if they don't think a new story about a non-white character can make any money, so they coattail onto something that a white character made famous hoping the audience won't notice and they'll get their "diversity points" as well. If it was me making these decisions I would simply CREATE NEW CONTENT AND STORIES that feature some non-white heroes and continue to keep James Bond as an indigenous white Brit as he's always been. Not that difficult. The way they do it now pisses everyone off because it erases white people and white culture and insults non-white people with an obvious message that Hollywood doesn't think non-whites can carry something on their own without help from a legacy white franchise.
I would've been totally cool with Idris Elba as James Bond out of all the choices they kept throwing around. Too bad they decided to murder the franchise anyways!
Me too. Let's go off topic a bit.
I could give a shit if they want to make Bond a woman or a black bloke - so long as the character is true to being Bond, is a story about WHO the character is, and not WHAT the character is. Bond became an outsider Scotsman serving the Crown because he was effortlessly good at it, has a general disdain for ordinary life, and loves his country. An English guy from India or with an Indian ancestry could fit this and would be an interesting take on the proto-Bond. It wouldn't be casting an Indian actor because #woke, but it's an actual opportunity to explore the same character in a different way. The franchise has been around, like any legend, for a long time. It's time to get weird with it and change it up. You can always go back and revisit or remake it in its original form.
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I wouldn't agree. Bond is supposed to be British. Whilst Idris Elba may be able to pull it off because of Charisma factor that isn't really what the character of Bond is about don't you agree?
I mean John Boyega is basically the new hotness when it comes to Black British actors and they have already started floating him as the "new Bond", not understand that Bond requires that Britishness that is lost with a race swap. I'd be fine with them being like a main character in a bond movie as a different agent or even being the main character with Bond playing support like a passing of the torch.
But Fleming was quite clear in how he envisioned James Bond.
We had a Scotsman, an Australian, 2 Englishmen, a Welshman and an Irishman played bond. British Empire all the way. The problem is that we all know why Idris Elba was cast when there are hundreds of British actors around that could also be cast.
Cause they wanted for Bond to get Blacked and after that Blacked and Gender bent. To them it wasn't a case of best actor for best movie. To them it was how do we conquer more ideological territory.
Exactly. The James Bond persona is a native British one, not a paper British one. Why does Hollywood continually have to take long loved and classic stories that feature white characters and white identities and substitute another race? Why can't they come up with NEW cool stories for characters of other ethnicities instead of erasing white ones to give it to someone else? Its almost as if they don't think a new story about a non-white character can make any money, so they coattail onto something that a white character made famous hoping the audience won't notice and they'll get their "diversity points" as well. If it was me making these decisions I would simply CREATE NEW CONTENT AND STORIES that feature some non-white heroes and continue to keep James Bond as an indigenous white Brit as he's always been. Not that difficult. The way they do it now pisses everyone off because it erases white people and white culture and insults non-white people with an obvious message that Hollywood doesn't think non-whites can carry something on their own without help from a legacy white franchise.