The inevitability of a black Bond

Well, Eurotrash and Eurovision aren't much to be proud of.

I hope no-one thinks that all people on the European continent are of the same cloth.
I'm anything but a European fascist, let alone a Catholic...

Manhunter wrote:

I hope no-one thinks that all people on the European continent are of the same cloth.
I'm anything but a European fascist, let alone a Catholic...

Of course not. Only Salome takes me seriously. Everyone else realised I was taking the piss some years ago.

Salami loves it when I take the piss. Golden showers are a favourite pastime of my Brusselian overloads, or she tells me.

I'm looking forward to tonight's Newsnight exclusive.

Erica Ambler wrote:

Manhunter wrote:

I hope no-one thinks that all people on the European continent are of the same cloth.
I'm anything but a European fascist, let alone a Catholic...

Of course not. Only Salome takes me seriously. Everyone else realised I was taking the piss some years ago.

It's rather hard to deduce if your posts are meant to be taken seriously or not.

Mostly it depends on his hormones at the time.

Santa wrote:

Mostly it depends on his hormones at the time.

No, no, you misheard me. I said my whore moans all the time.

Further evidence that Skype is no substitute for Microsoft Messenger. RIP.

To be honest the casting of someone who looks and acts like Daniel Craig as Bond was so radical and bizarre that anything goes now so I would not be surprised if a non white actor was cast and the the public would enjoy it.

The casting of DC was a bit unorthodox but hardly anything so transgressive and transformational as casting a black actor for Bond. There would be a "blacklash," although how powerful I cannot say.

I don't think EON's casting of Daniel Craig was too radical. When first announced, he was apparently "too blonde and too short". Does anyone really care about that now? I never thought about it when I watched SKYFALL. Regardless, the producers made it clear that they wanted to 'return to the source material' and make the films more Fleming-esque. With that in mind, this image compares a drawing of Fleming's Bond and Daniel Craig's first Bond publicity photo for CASINO ROYALE:



Not too far off, I'd say. Although, by the time the film was released, Campbell, EON and Co. changed his appearance quite a bit--possibly more inspired by the Jason Bourne flicks, instead of Fleming. The writing is the biggest issue with Craig's films. Luckily, SKYFALL was a big step in the write direction. With Purvis and Wade gone, I hope we'll continue seeing quality Bond films.

Captain Arthurs wrote:

To be honest the casting of someone who looks and acts like Daniel Craig as Bond was so radical and bizarre that anything goes now so I would not be surprised if a non white actor was cast and the the public would enjoy it.

Yeah, a blond Bond is definitely more "radical" than a black Bond...

There is a certain amount of irony to self-proclaimed Moore thinking that casting a man with blonde hair is too radical casting. Not directed at Captain Arthurs, more in general with plenty in the CraigNotBond crowd.

Guest wrote:

What would be the Jewish culture then? Two of my rabbis could not explain that to me. The had three opinions and ended up in a brawl.

EON will never go that far. They know there's an audience that is not gonna like that for sure! Just as another poster said, "If I bend that much, I'll break".
If Bond had black hair and now he's blonde, no matter. It respects at least the "conception" we have of Bond as a white male. Remember the novel Live And Let Die... you can imagine a blonde or black haired Bond there. Now, can you imagine a black Bond there? No, the sense of the novel would not have effect. I think MGW and Babs got some things out of their hands lately: Bourne-Bond for QOS; Gunbarrel misplaced, etc. BUT they know they can NEVER go that far. It'd be the same of making Bond a woman as it was many times rumoured (played by Catherine Zeta Jones), there's something that won't fit!