If Danjaq/MGM/UA/Sony/ whoever owns Bond now and produces the films decides to go female Bond, the franchise is dead already. Bond's character has evolved over the years, but playboy superspy with varying degrees of ferocity, brutality, suaveness, and drinking & smoking are as integral to his character as sports cars, gadgets, and deformed villains and their henchman.
That's without mentioning two bigger points:
1. It dishonors how Ian Fleming wrote and described his character of James Bond.
2. It ignores the years of variations on Bond themes and characters that were progressive themselves: XXX being Bond's Soviet Union female counterpart in The Spy Who Loved Me, James trying to settle down until Blofeld and Irma Blunt murder Tracy Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Wei Lin being Bond's Chinese counterpart in Tomorrow Never Dies, Bond not having sex with Olga Kurylenko's Camille Montes and assisting her in stopping General Medrano in Quantum of Solace, and even M becoming a woman in Goldeneye and onward with Judi Dench filling the role instead of another male actor. Moneypenny is now Naomie Harris and not another "white" actress.
Woke themes infested Star Wars, Star Trek, Fox X-Men, and now Phoebe what's her face is trying it with 007. They should all learn from Star Wars, and especially for Bond, that it doesn't make for good movies.
I could see it working in two different scenarios though.
One, they make the female Bond a straight up lesbian, and write the scripts as they would for a male Bond, so the new Bond ends up shagging all the Bond Girls.
Two, they keep the new Bond straight, and begins tradition of Bonds guys, still using the punny naming technique.
M: “Your target’s name is Aloisus Percival Ness, Bond.”
Bond: “Ah yes. A.P. Ness. He’s a bit of a hard one, M.”
M: “Hard or not, Bond, you’ll have to get close to A.P. Ness for this to work.”
Bond: “No worries M. I’ll have no problem getting close to A.P. Ness.”
M: “Yes of course, Bond. You’re the best after all. I’ve no doubt you’ll have A.P. Ness in the palm of your hand before too long.”
There’d be some major UST w. the new female Jaws, who’d still have the steel teeth. Oh, the implications!
Other Bond guys could have names like Prince Everhard of the Netherlands, Herman von longschlongenstein, Vlad the Impaler, and of course, in risqué honor of Octopussy, Cocktapus.
As far as I could tell, she's not suppose to really be the new Bond (unless I'm missing something and she went through the same Bond brainwashing wringer he did). She just took the 007 SS tag. I don't see why she'd have to conform to his character traits when they're both in the movie as completely separate characters.
The way Lestov made it sound was that she was going to be the new Bond in future films after this one. That would be terrible. Like some of you have said, Bond was meant to be a male character. If they want to make a female spy movie go ahead and do it without ruining 007.
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[SPOILER - highlight to read]: It was excellent, perhaps the best bond of all time. Male is poor as the villain, and the plot at times as is common with bond veers into the ridiculous. High points, the fog fight, the Cuban death of Spectre, Bonds death. Bonds death is handled very well. The Cuban CIA girl is insanely beautiful. An enjoyable romp
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Sep 4th, 2020 06:25 PM
Off to watch Bond will review this evening.
