Oh... and now I'm "wounded"...? . I must say, foxhastings, that if you even remotely resemble the kind of person I've grown to think of you being, then you and your little friends would be superbly well-rewarded in life to be as "wounded" as I am today.... Back more-or-less on topic, did you know that "Lashana" means "Lily" in Hebrew... yeah, as in "Lily-white".... Lillies for your Happy Thanksgiving, foxhastings!
Prescisely! You hit the nail right on the head. And that is why cultural criticism is so imortant to the right and the left both. For the vast majority of people, real life is a tiny sliver of reality. Fiction allows us to understand life that we will never experience. Ever see All Quiet on the Western Front?
When I was young, I liked 007 movies primarily for the gadgets and the special effects. The older I got, the less I have enjoyed fiction when real life often is far more exciting and interesting. One of my favorite, stories in the spy genre, is that of Virginia Hall... an amazing woman. [video][/video] A movies of her story was recently released called A call to spy. Sometimes reality is better t
We are talking about the movies, not the book series. Being 007 isn't any more special than being 006, or 003, or 001 if she isn't going to be the main character in a movie. And there was a female 00 as early as Thunderball in 1965 which starred Sean Connery.
It helps to read the books. James Bond was half Brit and half Scot. Sean Connery fit better than blond Daniel Craig. Certainly neither a Black person nor Asian is, James Bond. Ian Flemming gave his characters personalities as a bigot would view their nations. Crazy, maniacal Irish, German, Russian or hybrids of them. Some of Ian Flemming's concepts should not be altered for PC sake. No Black Bond No Asian Bond. No Female Bond etc. "They" might maintain the Bond universe with a 008 or 009 or even an 006. Moi
Nope. Half Swiss and half Scottish. http://www.politicalforum.com/index.php?threads/the-new-007.580855/page-4#post-1072237029
Chinese audiences prefer action and not "witty" one liners. The effect can be noted in Craig's Bond. Endless action scenes. Gone are the "witty" one liners. Coming soon. Cup o' noodles sold at theaters.
And he wasn't even part Scottish until the movies came out. Ian Fleming was initially furious that a scotsman was cast for the role. He later changed his mind and retconned the character to be part Scottish.
I'm working with fifty year old memory and a 72 y o brain Gimme a break! How about them chingroes? Did I get that one correct? And the ancestry of the villains. We can agree he was a white man of northern latitudes.
Not a Borat/Cohen fan but thought he did a great job in the movie about the Chicago 7 and just watch The Spy and became a fan. Good and true story.
Monique Delacroix was his Swiss mother. From the Canton of Vaud. It is located in Romandy, the French-speaking western part of the country.
Waiting <foot tapping> I remember Irish, Germans, Russians, one Oriental and the hybrids such as half Irish & half German. And all were victims of their ancestry. Y'can't write that kind of racism today.
Seems you can't take a hint... OK, I'll do the Googling. Ernst Stavro Blofeld. The Moriarty to Bond's Sherlock Holmes. Appeared in Thunderball, On Her Majesty's Secret Service; and You Only Live Twice; by Flemming. Born in Gdingen Imperial Germany, now Gdynia, Poland. Father Ernst George Blofeld, Polish. Mother Maria Stavro Michelopoulos, Greek.
Wasn't the Moonraker villain a face wounded Nazi soldier who was was mistaken for a rich dead guy, Hugo Drax ? From Russia With Love, Red Grant (Robert Shaw) was ? Irish and something. Not on Google Carry on @Montegriffo what do you have on villains' ancestry? oops Red Grant was added to the Istanbul sequences right before the crew ... by Connery's Bond and even added Scottish ancestry to the character's ... Moi oops doesn't count because I was advocating the racist expressions in the books No
