Would Not Have Been My Choice.....

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/aaron-taylor-johnson-chosen-as-next-james-bond-reports-say-13097868

....but it's at least a white English bloke.

[ToraToraTora]

their!

[naomi24]

Sharon, I disagree.  I even heard a suggestion that a woman be given the role and turned into Jane Bond - and I recall a black woman quite recently being cast as Anne Boleyn which was ludicrous. No thanks. That sort of 'diversty' I can do without.  Give me an accurate portrayal of the original any time.

[ichkeria]

I don't think a black Bond should matter. His colour is irrelevant surely? Especially as we have long since departed from the books.

Some of the example quoted are not fair comparisons: Kunta Kinta and Othello are largely important because of their colour or situation.

[ichkeria]

A female Bond tho I would draw the line at - although in the last film isn't the current 007 a black female?

[Barsel]

I've never watched a Bond film in my life, so I couldn't care less who they choose, but TTT's comment is still a racist remark.

[ToraToraTora]

You should learn what racism is then. It is not racist to point out that Bond is a white Englishman, end of.

[ToraToraTora]

10:46 ich: "A female Bond tho I would draw the line at - although in the last film isn't the current 007 a black female?" - yes in NTTD the 007 number is assigned elsewhere when Bonfd left the service but later in the film she asks for it to be assigned back to Bond.

[TwoShortPlanks]

Sean Connery... 

White? Yes

Male? Yes

English? Nope

Nobody seems to be bothered by that? 

 

[bednobs]

one could say the same of george lazenby (australian) and pierce brosnan (irish)

[ToraToraTora]

11:13, yeah but like all Scots he was desperate to be English so that'll do. 😉

[Rosetta]

I had never heard of him, but he looks ok. 

[ToraToraTora]

Lazenby, from a British Dominion, put on a decent English accent.

Brosnan: From the British Isles, sounds English, acceptable.

[ToraToraTora]

....ok my tin hat is on⛑

[10ClarionSt]

Never heard of him and not that bothered anymore about new Bond films. Haven't watched any of the latest ones.

[retrocop]

From what I understand the character of James Bond is loosely based on the author himself.Commander  Ian Fleming was involved in British Naval Intelligence during the 2nd W.W. and featured in a film involving Bletchley Park. I seem to recall that Commander James Bond was born of Scottish parents who were killed, I think, in a car crash when Bond was young.

I have never seen or heard of the the exploits of a Dark skinned Royal Navy Commander in Intelligence during the war so it just has to be a White man and a slight Scottish burr completes the true character model. End Of .😊imho as TTT would say.

[drmorgans]

 

Didn't Bond go to the same school as Tony Blair?

 

[lankeela]

"but we can't expect otherwise from them." - HIM!  Not 'them'!  TTT is as far as I am aware a 'HIM' so why say 'them'?  It only reinforces the ridiculous need to be woke.

[ToraToraTora]

10cs, I agree I have watched the Craig ones but I'm not keen. CR was great but the others had a lot of faults and missed opportunities in my opinion. All the other Bond films I can watch again and again but of the Craig ones only CR falls into that bracket. Spectre is the best of the rest.

[ToraToraTora]

11:28 his parents died in a climbing accident.

11:29 Yes he went to Fettes after Eton.

[retrocop]

 

///From piloting an underwater Lotus to fighting in space with laser guns, the James Bond we've seen in the movies is a figment of Hollywood imagination. The character as he was originally imagined by author Ian Fleming is much more grounded in reality. In fact, though Bond is not an actual historical figure, the agent does happen to have some real-world inspirations. Even his 007 designation has some historical significance.

 

It all goes back to Fleming. Before creating Bond in 1953, Fleming served as a commander in the British Naval Intelligence during WWII. The author was a personal assistant to Admiral John Godfrey, the director of the Naval Intelligence Division for the U.K. Many of the characters in Fleming’s stories are said to be based on his colleagues during the war–including Godfrey, who is widely speculated to have been the inspiration for the MI6 director in the series, M (and apparently, Godfrey wasn’t too happy about that, according to A Brief Guide to James Bond////