Bond gets Woker with every film. In the last one, Bond spent the entire time apologising for being a White man, and saying he couldn't wait to be replaced by a black woman. He made bizarre heightist statements about his male boss becoming smaller, relative to the size of his desk (WTF?). The plot was standard wokeness (blame Ol Whitey for everything) where a White man created a virus that only targeted black people. Can't we just enjoy an action movie any more without having woke racism shoved in our faces? For me, Bond died in that movie and I no longer care about him.
I never bothered to watch the last one. Signaled itself as woke early on. For me, Bond ended with Spectre. He finally realizes the service he committed to had become corrupt and quites. Leaving it for a new life with the latest Bond girl. Probably the best ending we’re ever going to get for the franchise, honestly. There’s nothing left to say with the character anyway. The cold war is long over and any new movies will destroy things further. It’s over. Time to move on.
Bond is a Sigma through and through. John Wick is a Delta. Very capable but not mistakeable for a leader or high status in any way. Just a very capable death dealer.
My uniformed interpretation was that Ian Fleming wrote Casino Royale to be an easy read on the train commute into the city. The name James Bond was chosen because it was the most boring and generic English name Fleming could find. 007 was an empty suit the reader would don and immerse himself in the story. Bond was as nondescript as possible. John Wick seams cut from the same cloth. The early movies echo this hero as generic Englishman. Perhaps the success stems from the reader’s experience, to fulfill the consumer’s need for simple escapism as a single combat warrior and (self) hero worship
It might be a man from a video game rather than a film, but whatever the medium, wherever a gap is, it will sooner or later be filled.
Though regrettably rather than a family man who fights the world to preserve his family, something darker might take its place.
Though Hollywood in their sheer animosity for the masses prevented the Joker from cementing further as the reflection of man's aspirations.
Yet, though modern man longs to have wife and child denied to him, laughter and anarchy build in his heart.
It remains to be seen if the icon of manliness will be the hero who claims continuity of bloodline in a world gone mad or if he takes the madness and holding nothing in his hands, burns it all down.
Whichever wins out, it won't be coming from Hollywood.
Though, in light of that, what man that speaks to the men of the west would China, Russia and the others nations not part of old empire create?
Will some work of theirs supplant the anglosphere culture, or beyond the decayed western entertainment will an icon arise from those in the shadow of decay?
There's a lot of independent writers and comicbooks these days...
Still, this teller holds that it shall either be an agent of order, cleaving through madness to preserve his kin, or an agent of chaos, consuming the madness and bringing forth cathartic destruction.
Perhaps Dogtanian and the Three Musketeers could be an inspiration for this new aspirational figure. He's part of a brotherhood and occupies a place on the cusp of profound change.
Put a chick in it, and make her gay.
Bond gets Woker with every film. In the last one, Bond spent the entire time apologising for being a White man, and saying he couldn't wait to be replaced by a black woman. He made bizarre heightist statements about his male boss becoming smaller, relative to the size of his desk (WTF?). The plot was standard wokeness (blame Ol Whitey for everything) where a White man created a virus that only targeted black people. Can't we just enjoy an action movie any more without having woke racism shoved in our faces? For me, Bond died in that movie and I no longer care about him.
I never bothered to watch the last one. Signaled itself as woke early on. For me, Bond ended with Spectre. He finally realizes the service he committed to had become corrupt and quites. Leaving it for a new life with the latest Bond girl. Probably the best ending we’re ever going to get for the franchise, honestly. There’s nothing left to say with the character anyway. The cold war is long over and any new movies will destroy things further. It’s over. Time to move on.
Since daniel craig I don't think we see real bond movies anymore...
Yes. Glad I wasn’t the only one who noticed that heightist comment.
Fuck heightist hollywood.
Bond is a Sigma through and through. John Wick is a Delta. Very capable but not mistakeable for a leader or high status in any way. Just a very capable death dealer.
John Mcclane - DIE HARD
My uniformed interpretation was that Ian Fleming wrote Casino Royale to be an easy read on the train commute into the city. The name James Bond was chosen because it was the most boring and generic English name Fleming could find. 007 was an empty suit the reader would don and immerse himself in the story. Bond was as nondescript as possible. John Wick seams cut from the same cloth. The early movies echo this hero as generic Englishman. Perhaps the success stems from the reader’s experience, to fulfill the consumer’s need for simple escapism as a single combat warrior and (self) hero worship
You just need to give Amazon some time and they will de-ball him.
Further de-ball him.
It might be a man from a video game rather than a film, but whatever the medium, wherever a gap is, it will sooner or later be filled.
Though regrettably rather than a family man who fights the world to preserve his family, something darker might take its place.
Though Hollywood in their sheer animosity for the masses prevented the Joker from cementing further as the reflection of man's aspirations.
Yet, though modern man longs to have wife and child denied to him, laughter and anarchy build in his heart.
It remains to be seen if the icon of manliness will be the hero who claims continuity of bloodline in a world gone mad or if he takes the madness and holding nothing in his hands, burns it all down.
Whichever wins out, it won't be coming from Hollywood.
Though, in light of that, what man that speaks to the men of the west would China, Russia and the others nations not part of old empire create?
Will some work of theirs supplant the anglosphere culture, or beyond the decayed western entertainment will an icon arise from those in the shadow of decay?
There's a lot of independent writers and comicbooks these days...
Still, this teller holds that it shall either be an agent of order, cleaving through madness to preserve his kin, or an agent of chaos, consuming the madness and bringing forth cathartic destruction.
Time will tell.
The pinnacle of modern masculinity is a character written by someone else??
if you can’t laugh
while dying
you loose
A case could be made that the current aspirational male figure is already Andrew Tate.
To put it simply, James Bond was cool, but Andrew Tate is based.
Perhaps Dogtanian and the Three Musketeers could be an inspiration for this new aspirational figure. He's part of a brotherhood and occupies a place on the cusp of profound change.