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poliphiloBond works for the government. As an assassin. He's an establishment man- sexist, materialist, brutal. No, I've never liked him.
I keep thinking I should maybe read one of the original books and then I think, no, I don't believe I can be bothered.
The films aren't nearly as good as we're supposed to think they are. Early Bond is to the thriller what the Carry On films are to comedy. Middle period Bond is vaudeville. In the recent films he becomes a superhero.
I find his continued popularity faintly depressing.
Rush Limbaugh says it's inconceivable the character should be played by a black man. Oh, for fuck's sake, Bond is fiction. And he keeps being rebooted and updated. If it were incumbent on the film-makers to stay entirely true to Fleming's original conception Bond, who first appeared in 1953, would have to be played by a man in his nineties.
Besides, Idris Elba is just about the sexiest, most charismatic male actor around. He'd be perfect for the role.
If you like that kind of thing...
I keep thinking I should maybe read one of the original books and then I think, no, I don't believe I can be bothered.
The films aren't nearly as good as we're supposed to think they are. Early Bond is to the thriller what the Carry On films are to comedy. Middle period Bond is vaudeville. In the recent films he becomes a superhero.
I find his continued popularity faintly depressing.
Rush Limbaugh says it's inconceivable the character should be played by a black man. Oh, for fuck's sake, Bond is fiction. And he keeps being rebooted and updated. If it were incumbent on the film-makers to stay entirely true to Fleming's original conception Bond, who first appeared in 1953, would have to be played by a man in his nineties.
Besides, Idris Elba is just about the sexiest, most charismatic male actor around. He'd be perfect for the role.
If you like that kind of thing...
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Date: 2014-12-25 06:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-12-25 08:02 pm (UTC)(You're familiar with that, right, at least in outline? The Allies were going to invade Europe to take it back from the Axis, and were trying to get them to believe that they were going to go in through one route, so the Axis would fortify there, while they went in somewhere else. In order to support this ruse, they found a dead body, dressed it up like an English intelligence officer, created an entire backstory and life for the character, gave it a bunch of fake documents which were in a briefcase handcuffed to its wrist, faked a plane crash, and dumped the body where it would be washed up onshore in a town where they knew the Nazis had a good intelligence presence.)
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Date: 2014-12-25 08:09 pm (UTC)Someone should make a movie about Fleming in all his kinky, brilliant, not entirely likeable glory.