No Time To Die (now contains spoilers!) Ha

G-MAN2004 said:
So predictable... Of course they won't show a white male having some sort of power over a brilliant, young black woman these days.
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But that’s what’s likely to happen, she will take over as 007 and the white man will have to come help her save the day because she can’t do it on her own, it will be ripped apart if that’s what happens as the white man saving the day from the useless black woman.
 
antijoke said:
But that’s what’s likely to happen, she will take over as 007 and the white man will have to come help her save the day because she can’t do it on her own, it will be ripped apart if that’s what happens as the white man saving the day from the useless black woman.
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You do realise you are already explaining part of the plot of "Skyfall" in which Moneypenny is suspended from Field Duty? You know, the black lady....

https://jamesbond.fandom.com/wiki/Miss_Moneypenny_(Naomie_Harris)

At the end of the film, Eve states she is not fit for field work, and will remain only in a desk job at MI6. As Bond says that they have not been properly introduced, she says her full name is Eve Moneypenny.
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I don't recall any outrage then...
 
The difference between this and the moneypenny story is that the moneypenny story was there to explain why Bond has a flirtatious relationship with M's secretary. She just happened to be black.

But this is another example of the agenda leading the story.

It is just clickbait and who knows who will be cast as the next 007. We shall see.
 
I think it's just testing the water. If the movie flops hard, they have an escape route back to mainstream bond.
If it earns well the rip commander bond.

At least that's what I hope. If it goes fully woke then god bless them.
 
Prediction; it's a tiny joke at the beginning of the movie that may or may not be true anyway. Even if she is 007, Bond is reinstated before you can say "BLM" or whatever and it's absolutely nothing to get hyped up about.

Anyway, 007 /= Bond necessarily.
 
to be fair though, 007 is pretty synonymous w/ James Bond. if you tell your average co-worker/mate/whoever xxx is playing 007 I can virtually guarantee they'll think you mean JB.

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I believe it’s Bond Movie canon that 00 numbers are unique and the number “retires” with the holder.

A mixed race, pansexual Wiccan with 3 legs and 2 heads can be 00X for all I care. He/she/they/it just can’t be 007 without curling a huge brown trout out onto Bond lore.
 
Terminal_Boy said:
I believe it’s Bond Movie canon that 00 numbers are unique and the number “retires” with the holder.
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Not true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/00_Agent#00_Agents_from_the_Eon_film_franchise


A 002 first appears in Thunderball. He is shot through the neck and killed by Francisco Scaramanga, in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1969 (film version: The Man with the Golden Gun 1974).

In The Living Daylights film, another Agent 002, named "John", played by Glyn Baker; was training at Gibraltar, with 004 and 007. 002 was "killed" and eliminated from the exercise when he landed close to a waiting SAS guard.



009 first appears in Thunderball. Mischka and Grischka kill him (dressed as a clown) after the opening credits in Octopussy by throwing a knife into his back as he tries to escape them.

In The World Is Not Enough, M assigned another 009 to kill Renard
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wolfie138 said:
to be fair though, 007 is pretty synonymous w/ James Bond. if you tell your average co-worker/mate/whoever xxx is playing 007 I can virtually guarantee they'll think you mean JB.

edit, as above. ninja'd.
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And that's why quite clearly this is a quick in-joke to shock the audience, before everything is put back to normality. Only that the internet has got wind and is intent on ruining it before it's even finished :rolleyes:
 
well it's not much of an in-joke if it doesn't make sense. as far as I, and seemingly others, understood the 007 was assigned to an agent, not passed around randomly on retirement/death. that tied to the comments quoted about how the woman is oh-so-cool to be above his flirting attempts etc seems to suggest it was not "quick in joke" at all.
 
It's got us talking about it and I imagine that is half their aim. Everything has to have an angle now, nothing can just be.

No chance I will go and see it, not because of this, just because it will be awful and I have hated the last 3 films after loving Casino Royale.

Dr No, From Russia with Love and Thunderball are still my favorites.
 
Yeah tbh the whole style of bond doesn't translate well to the modern political world.

Hence the crap we have post Goldeneye.

Just my opinion.

There's so many exotic action films these days, bond rarely cuts the mustard
 
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