• M137@lemmy.today
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      Reading your comment gave me whiplash from the cultural difference of James Bond and a trendy word with 12 year olds from 5 years ago. Every generation will have words that are popular and a few of those are fine, anyone using the word “fire” like you have is absolutely not one of those, especially now when you couldn’t even blame it on trying to be trendy. It was always an excruciatingly “I’m 9 years old and trying to sound cool” word and you should cringe qqt yourself for the rest of your life for not realising that.

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    If, and only if, no one ever references the rest of the Bond canon jokingly. Everyone just plays it perfectly straight. No nods at the camera, nothing. Just like we all looked past the Bond actor changing in the past, everyone is just like “Yeah. That’s Bond.”

    Hell, have her leave flowers at Tracy’s grave.

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      Legit one of my favorite action movies. Charlize and Sofia were so fucking good in this movie.

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    I haven’t been to the theaters in a decade or more, but I would show up to see Tig Notaro as Bond. Or maybe Leslie Jones?

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      I was confused. Then I realised I was thinking of Leslie Nielsen.

      Guys. We should get Leslie Nielsen to play James Bond.

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        or… just Judy Gemstone?

        “The name’s Bond. Judy Bond. I have regular woman panties where the string goes up my crack. I have tits. I do sex. I’m carvin’ my own path.”

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      I was thinking Phoebe Waller-Bridge. she’s already associated with the franchise as a writer, and works with Amazon as a producer, and a lot of her work involves problematic queer women. didn’t see the new Indiana Jones she was in, so idk how she is as an action actor, but if she’s half decent I think she could pull it off

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      Tig Notaro was one of the only good parts of some of the modern Star Trek shows. But, she’d be an absolutely awful Bond. It might be fun for a 5 minute sketch comedy parody of Bond, but for a full 90 minute movie it would be terrible.

      Her defining trait as a comedian is her deadpan delivery. Bond has a dry sense of humour, but that’s very different from a deadpan affect. He’s also extremely charming and charismatic, which doesn’t work well with a deadpan delivery.

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      It’s anachronistic that this is still a part of it, but womanizing is integral to bond- Daniel Craig pulled it off without the chauvinism from earlier Bonds, but still seduces women like nobody’s business. A woman turning twinks is a different kind of problematic, and is not really identifiable for the core audience of Bond fans.

      Straight men can identify with at least one party in the situations of someone relentlessly seducing women or a woman relentlessly seducing straight men. I could see the latter working on that level, but there’s a lot of cultural baggage that comes with a woman pursuing sex with men, and that might distract from the rest of the movie. We can only get rid of barriers by breaking them down, but I don’t know if it would be as commercially successful :|

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        not really identifiable for the core audience of Bond fans

        Ahhh… I forgot the part where we’ve stopped talking about weirdness for the sake of weirdness and started talking about profits.

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          Oh, I mean, yeah, if we’re just talking about what would be fun, I’d honestly prefer if she were incredibly attractive inadvertently and Mr. Magoo seduced a bunch of all kinds of people without intending to or noticing. I do think the idea in the post would actually be makeable though, and I think that would be lost without womanizing.

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    This, but make it a new IP. Not to “protect” the integrity of the Bond franchise, but because I just want to watch something without being reminded of a different thing.

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      Yeah, this exactly.

      And additionally, i am really yearning for new ideas in main stream cinema.

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    I’d totally watch this in theaters. Also hot. But also fuck vodka martinis. Toxic lesbian James bond would drink pure gin, call it a martini and the only thing she’s eaten that day is about 30 olives and some pussy. She may have some olive juice in her gin solely to make a pass at the bartender by calling it dirty.

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    Take the ambition, but not by stealing the name.

    Most “female version of” media I’ve seen ends up being derided, in Marvel, in games, etc. Take the fun concepts you’d feel from seeing this Bond parody, and ideally use it to build up a fresh, cohesive character from scratch - an experienced spy who gets chewed out by her superiors for getting drunk on the job and banging too many women, but gets the job done well.

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      The line, this line, I just see as arbitrary.

      We already cast different actors to play Bond. They’re already quite physically different. They have different accents. Craig looks to me like he was hit by a truck, contrasted to Brosnan.

      Why exactly is it OK to cast across many dimensions but gender is the “bad line”?

      I have my own answer, and that whenever Hollywood does this, they just can’t write the character as a woman. Like, thier idiot writers and algorithms and focus groups and marketing departments just fuck it up every time, just assfuck the source material with the express goal of buzz.

      But this post?? They GET it. If OP had creative control, I’m genuinely ok with it.

      I don’t have issues with different actors playing characters. They just have to be written in a way that respects the characters and by extension the fans.

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    Think of what Q could do with menstrual products.

    Detonate a maxi pad. Floatation tampon. Garrote tampon. Chloroform pads.

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    If Star Trek can have a Black queen (does she make captain? Im only on season 2) named Michael, we can have a female Bond.