Isn't part of James Bond's appeal the fact that he can blend in anywhere? How would Idris, as a black Bond, blend in with the criminal element which is white? A spy or any person working undercover, has to blend in. Sorry, Idris.
For one, Idris has more than one accent. He has his natural British accent, an African accent, and an American accent. A good spy should be able to blend in. He has three continents with sizeable black populations he can operate in. He stands out due to his height & build, not so much his color, imo.
Be it fiction, or real life, good guys & bad guys come in all shapes, sizes, colors, and nationalities. This James Bond where being over the top stories are the norm. Bond being black would be one of the more subtle changes, I think.
I believe you saw the film Pacific Rim, where he was the leader in humanity's battle against the invading monsters. It was not about him being black. He was British in the film. He even had an adopted Asian daughter. None of that seemed preposterous in the story.
It was about his will to.....cancel the apocalypse.
I loved this scene, too. To be honest, I really did not like the film due to the boring protagonist. Idris carried this film.
still feel u looking at it the wrong way
richard roundtree will always be shaft sean connery will always be james bond idris will always be luther tina turner will always be `proud Mary"
... certain acting parts and the actor how they fit will always leave a indelible memory of that character been played.. maybe mentally can never be replaced
.... but as of now clive is the nearest u might get to reproduce BOND{ i mean`t Sean Connery} not the succeeding counterfeits ..moore, bronson, lazenberg etc
I say no bueno to typecasting.
..typecasting and stereocasting
subtle but distinctly different
just saying
..HELL NO!!..
ain`t watching a white shaft in AFRICA
ps ... i mean tarzan did dat already
However, Shaft was specifically a black man.................... I am not sure if the ethnicity of James Bond was ever emphasized. AFAIK, the main thing was that Bond be British man of action which Idris excels at.
Fleming decided that Bond should resemble both American singer Hoagy Carmichael and himself
`` was not until the penultimate novel, You Only Live Twice, that Fleming gave Bond a sense of family background. The book was the first to be written after the release of Dr. No in cinemas and Sean Connery's depiction of Bond affected Fleming's interpretation of the character, to give Bond both a sense of humour and Scottish antecedents that were not present in the previous stories.[9] In a fictional obituary, purportedly published in The Times, Bond's parents were given as Andrew Bond, from the village of Glencoe, Scotland, and Monique Delacroix, from the canton of Vaud, Switzerland''
on the name:
``The name James Bond came from that of the American ornithologist James Bond, a Caribbean bird expert and author of the definitive field guide Birds of the West Indies. Fleming, a keen birdwatcher himself, had a copy of Bond's guide and he later explained to the ornithologist's wife that "It struck me that this brief, unromantic, Anglo-Saxon and yet very masculine name was just what I needed, and so a second James Bond was born"
ps:
as i keep saying
james bond is well ...James bond
shaft is well shaft...
those guys above are unique in their own way.... color and everything and let`s not get carried away about color Bronson and Samuel Jackson `murdered" that uniqueness despite same nationality and ethnicity
dr who... has the gift of metamorphosis .. so anybody with ``certain unique quirk" can be good enough
ps:
no i still won`t watch an Italian born in east -Harlem{yep quite some of those do exist} play a west- Harlem black mother....{shut your mouth}
Isn't part of James Bond's appeal the fact that he can blend in anywhere? How would Idris, as a black Bond, blend in with the criminal element which is white? A spy or any person working undercover, has to blend in. Sorry, Idris.
For one, Idris has more than one accent. He has his natural British accent, an African accent, and an American accent. A good spy should be able to blend in. He has three continents with sizeable black populations he can operate in. He stands out due to his height & build, not so much his color, imo.
Be it fiction, or real life, good guys & bad guys come in all shapes, sizes, colors, and nationalities. This James Bond where being over the top stories are the norm. Bond being black would be one of the more subtle changes, I think.
I believe you saw the film Pacific Rim, where he was the leader in humanity's battle against the invading monsters. It was not about him being black. He was British in the film. He even had an adopted Asian daughter. None of that seemed preposterous in the story.
It was about his will to.....cancel the apocalypse.
I loved this scene, too. To be honest, I really did not like the film due to the boring protagonist. Idris carried this film.
still feel u looking at it the wrong way
richard roundtree will always be shaft sean connery will always be james bond idris will always be luther tina turner will always be `proud Mary"
... certain acting parts and the actor how they fit will always leave a indelible memory of that character been played.. maybe mentally can never be replaced
.... but as of now clive is the nearest u might get to reproduce BOND{ i mean`t Sean Connery} not the succeeding counterfeits ..moore, bronson, lazenberg etc
I say no bueno to typecasting.
..typecasting and stereocasting
subtle but distinctly different
just saying
..HELL NO!!..
ain`t watching a white shaft in AFRICA
ps ... i mean tarzan did dat already
However, Shaft was specifically a black man.................... I am not sure if the ethnicity of James Bond was ever emphasized. AFAIK, the main thing was that Bond be British man of action which Idris excels at.
Fleming decided that Bond should resemble both American singer Hoagy Carmichael and himself
`` was not until the penultimate novel, You Only Live Twice, that Fleming gave Bond a sense of family background. The book was the first to be written after the release of Dr. No in cinemas and Sean Connery's depiction of Bond affected Fleming's interpretation of the character, to give Bond both a sense of humour and Scottish antecedents that were not present in the previous stories.[9] In a fictional obituary, purportedly published in The Times, Bond's parents were given as Andrew Bond, from the village of Glencoe, Scotland, and Monique Delacroix, from the canton of Vaud, Switzerland''
on the name:
``The name James Bond came from that of the American ornithologist James Bond, a Caribbean bird expert and author of the definitive field guide Birds of the West Indies. Fleming, a keen birdwatcher himself, had a copy of Bond's guide and he later explained to the ornithologist's wife that "It struck me that this brief, unromantic, Anglo-Saxon and yet very masculine name was just what I needed, and so a second James Bond was born"
ps:
as i keep saying
james bond is well ...James bond
shaft is well shaft...
those guys above are unique in their own way.... color and everything and let`s not get carried away about color Bronson and Samuel Jackson `murdered" that uniqueness despite same nationality and ethnicity
dr who... has the gift of metamorphosis .. so anybody with ``certain unique quirk" can be good enough
ps:
no i still won`t watch an Italian born in east -Harlem{yep quite some of those do exist} play a west- Harlem black mother....{shut your mouth}
Scotland has born & bred black folks. The subsequent Bond actors were not required to look like, nor have the exact same origins of the first interpretation of the character.
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