James Bond Racist

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Chim

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7,259 posts

176 months

Saturday 28th March 2015
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So it seem Rodger Moore is Racist for daring to imply that a black bloke may not be quite in line with the essence of James Bond, the quintessentially British super spy.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/32100360

Getting really fed up with this, its seems if you even dare to say the word "black" in the wrong context you are labeled a racist, personally I agree with Moore, a black bond does not really fit the MO. It would be bit like casting Shaft as a white guy, just does not fit.

So looks like I am a racist though for saying this.

anonymous-user

53 months

Saturday 28th March 2015
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James Bond can't be black, he was definitely racist towards the darkies in the books.

greygoose

8,225 posts

194 months

Saturday 28th March 2015
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el stovey said:
James Bond can't be black, he was definitely racist towards the darkies in the books.
The world may have changed since Fleming died in the sixties (though it can be difficult to tell in NP&E sometimes).

myvision

1,931 posts

135 months

Saturday 28th March 2015
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Bond has to be played by a white actor.

Mark-C

5,010 posts

204 months

Saturday 28th March 2015
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myvision said:
Bond has to be played by a white actor.
Why? I think Idris Elba would be a brilliant Bond ...

xjsdriver

1,071 posts

120 months

Saturday 28th March 2015
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myvision said:
Bond has to be played by a white actor.
Says who? hehe

MrHorsepower

2,438 posts

137 months

Saturday 28th March 2015
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I think if there was a black Bond, it would be some kind of right-on statement. No one, if asked to picture Bond based on a sartorial and personality-based description, would imagine a black man. James Bond is white, if he were portrayed as a black man it would be as some sort of political statement.

I'm not saying that blacks can't play Bond (because some people are bound to need this spoon-fed to them), just that I don't think they should.

No doubt someone will come along to tell my all about my 'veiled racism', or some such ste. Sod it, they'll only make themselves look a tit.

Impasse

15,099 posts

240 months

Saturday 28th March 2015
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Poor old Sir Roger. He's too old to be embroiled in this petty PC outrage for outrage's sake rubbish.

Oh, and Elba would be an awful Bond - no matter what the colour of his skin.

The Black Baron

49 posts

120 months

Saturday 28th March 2015
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Yes, the world has changed since the sixties, but we're talking film characters.

Daniel Craig to play Django in the next film? Morgan Freeman to play John McClane in the next Die Hard?

Lunacy, absolute lunacy. Why jump on a man for speaking sense?


nyxster

1,452 posts

170 months

Saturday 28th March 2015
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The author Ian Fleming maybe? Pretty sure he described him as being blue eyed, blonde hair and was the son of a Scottish Laird. I like Idris Elba and think he's an awesome actor, but they didn't ask Daniel Craig to play Nelson Mandela, now did they?

If they want a Black MI6 agent, they should just create a new character, 008 and run a parallel storyline like they did with the Bourne franchise.


Willy Nilly

12,511 posts

166 months

Saturday 28th March 2015
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Has there been a ginger Bond?

Janluke

2,552 posts

157 months

Saturday 28th March 2015
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Personally I think JB can be played by any race any gender, However Roger Moore is entitled to his opinion without making him racist

PugwasHDJ80

7,522 posts

220 months

Saturday 28th March 2015
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Well his father s Scottish gentry and his mother is swiss from french speaking Switzerland. I never met a black person living in the canton (Vaud) that she comes from.

Having a black bond just doesn't work, his back story would be shot

nyxster

1,452 posts

170 months

Saturday 28th March 2015
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Janluke said:
Personally I think JB can be played by any race any gender However Roger Moore is entitled to his opinion without making him racist
Do you know many women called James? hehe

Mark-C

5,010 posts

204 months

Saturday 28th March 2015
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The Black Baron said:
Yes, the world has changed since the sixties, but we're talking film characters.

Daniel Craig to play Django in the next film? Morgan Freeman to play John McClane in the next Die Hard?

Lunacy, absolute lunacy. Why jump on a man for speaking sense?
OK so Elba as Bond may not be everyone’s cup of tea but Morgan Freeman would be bloody brilliant as John McClane thumbup

Mark-C

5,010 posts

204 months

Saturday 28th March 2015
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nyxster said:
Janluke said:
Personally I think JB can be played by any race any gender However Roger Moore is entitled to his opinion without making him racist
Do you know many women called James? hehe
Etta? hehe

Impasse

15,099 posts

240 months

Saturday 28th March 2015
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Mark-C said:
OK so Elba as Bond may not be everyone’s cup of tea but Morgan Freeman would be bloody brilliant as John McClane thumbup
In the same way that Tom Cruise would make a good Martin Luther King?

Don

28,377 posts

283 months

Saturday 28th March 2015
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I think the very idea of casting Idris Elba as Bond is totally wrong.

He'd be a great 'M'.

Gravitas. British. Gravelly voice. Perfect.

But not Bond. He's such a good actor I'll bet he could make you believe it but it still wouldn't be quite right. But Elba in a big Bond role? Yes, please...and not the predictable bad guy either.

Chim

Original Poster:

7,259 posts

176 months

Saturday 28th March 2015
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James Bond arrives at his ancestral family estate in Scotland



Really doesn't work with a black guy does it. PC nonsense.

Mark-C

5,010 posts

204 months

Saturday 28th March 2015
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Impasse said:
Mark-C said:
OK so Elba as Bond may not be everyone’s cup of tea but Morgan Freeman would be bloody brilliant as John McClane thumbup
In the same way that Tom Cruise would make a good Martin Luther King?
You do know only one of them was real?

A lot of white actors have played Othello.

I just don’t have a problem with a black Bond (as long as they get a good actor) but understand why others do. I don’t consider those others as racist either ....