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My sympathies to any worker who is both trying to be professional, and around you.
[quote]I don't really care if they race-bend the character. A black, asian, or latino guy can be just as horny, violent, and womanizing as a white guy.[/quote]
It's not race-bending. It's more about '[b]culture-bending[/b]'. James Bond is typically, even painfully, British. A black or a Mexican James Bond doesn't make any sense, but neither does it a Italian James Bond or a Russian James Bond, no matter they're white. That why the Timothy Dalton 'James Bond' always felt odd, out of place, the outcome was too American to be British. 007 is a character that it's very linked to a culture, a way of life, a way of being. You just can't recast it like a bloody puppet.
Dis you just assume that black Bond was black? That's racist!
That's why I said ze looks more like 'Peter Bond' XD
Nobody is gonna 'save' me, or anybody else. We're doomed. All of us. White males and western culture are going to Hell, but once that has happened, the party will last only 2-3 decades. That's what takes a country to go from civilized to shitty third world.
Check South Africa. The party has ended. Right now their cities are gonna be the first ones in the History of Humankind to regress from having public services to the previous pre-modern world state. They're just going third world, and trying to fix it by selling the country to China to get some cash. XDDD
It's quite fun, when you think about it. Well, it's not really fun, but hey, at least you should have some laughs while our world goes to shit XD
[quote]I believe that this will lead to the worst case scenario, however. I am starting to think that James Bond, the man, will be killed off and that the series will continue with a different lead character, possibly a black woman, as Agent 007. [/quote]
Most likely outcome for the 007 franchise, it will have a black woman as a main character, Lashana herself probably, in some kind of super-empowered-strong-suuuuper-female-empowered-spy, surrounded by suuuuper-diverse-amazing-inclusive guys with carefully selected racial quotas, except Moneypenny, that will be casted as a cuck half-retarded white male. All of it with wrapped in some kind of Fast&Furious style, lots of rap and hip-hop and suuuuuper-diversity, and of course, very evil nazi-like white evil male villains.
In a nutshell, it'll have [b]zero[/b] relation with the 007 franchise beyond having the copyright and using the names.
[quote]If this is indeed true, they are testing the waters to see how the audience feel about seeing a black woman being called "007" to see if they can gender or race bend the next "Bond" incarnation.[/quote]
Bingo.
Actually, they haven't released the character's name, so besides 007, the name could or could not be 'James Bond'. And judging by the picture, 'James' is a name that fits hir quite well, though ze looks more like a 'Peter', more than a 'James', but that's just an opinion, of course.
I really don't like to debate about politics or any controversial subject out of Internet. When you crush somebody's beliefs and make them face their self-denial, that hurts them, even at at a physical level. It happens that I'm an extremely empathic person (who'd say, huh?), I can perceive people very easily. Actually, my friends use to trust me when I make a judgment about a person because I'm almost never wrong. Downside of that: I can't debate in real world. But at least I have internet XDDD
You're applying the modern left moral compass to a different period and a different society. In traditional western societies (at least center and north European ones), professional excellence was more important than personal distress. In traditional western society, and 80s was still part of it, what Kubrick did was acceptable.
Don't apply your moral book to a different society.
This isn't American sensibility. This is f*cking Fast & Furious with '007' in the title.
It's ridiculous.
In this case, the distress was not gratuitous. Kubrick wanted to get the best performance she could give, and that made her give the best performance of her life, far better than anything she'd ever done. This role made her enter the History of Cinema, with capital letters.
The most important role she ever had was Wendy Torrance in The Shinning. If you check her highlighted movies in imdb, her second most important role was Olive, the wife of Popeye the Sailor. That was the gap between her role in The Shinning and the rest of her career.
So, again, why should Nicholson screwed it by being helpful and chivalrous in this case?
Why he should have been helpful and chivalrous in this case?
Probably. The question is: why should he do that?
Besides that, 'El' doesn't sound like a dog name or anything like that. 'Ella' is a real female name, and 'El' could be its nickname.
You mean, like conspiracy theories about google?
Ahem...
[url]https://boundingintocomics.com/2019/06/25/new-google-leak-appears-to-contradict-google-executive-jen-gennais-response-to-project-veritas-video/[/url]
Tremors :P
No, they don't.
You think they do because you have a tribal concept of the world. I complain about Disney blackwashing the main character of a Danish folk tale... but I'd equally complain about Disney westernizing some African folk tale. I don't like political indoctrination or racewashing [i]in any way[/i].
But you can't understand that, because your mind can't move beyond tribal mindset.
Nope.
You're welcome. :-)
If you love Twilight Zone, I'd bet you'll like the original Star Trek series. Back then, SciFi and horror were more blended. I'm not talking about horror stories in space, Alien style, but about stories that are in a nowhere land between horror, fantasy and SciFi. The closest thing I've seen in modern days is Black Mirror.
If you never heard of them, I'd suggest the Quatermass movies tpp, though they lend more towards the SciFi side [url]http://www.hammerfilms.com/to-quatermass-and-beyond/[/url] (by the way, they were produced by Hammer, the ones that produced classic horror movies). If you have seen LifeForce, it feels like a tribute to the Quatermass ones.
Think that there was a 20 years gap between the original 60s Star Trek series and the following ones in the 90s. SciFi changed a lot. When people talk about Star Trek, they think mostly about the 90s series (The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and so on)... however, I keep thinking that the original series was the best of them all.
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