Wouldn't it work better if James Bond flirted with an actually attractive and young secretary instead?
Wouldn't it work better if James Bond flirted with an actually attractive and young secretary instead?
Wouldn't it work better if James Bond flirted with an actually attractive and young secretary instead?
You have bad taste, and you didn't see her in that navy uniform.
No because the point is that she's a little older and plain and he's teasing her
This. To no one's surprise, op is a huge homosexual.
He's not teasing her. He's making a fellow human feel wanted, connected. Men and women used to this to other members of society, not look at them in disgust and call them incels.
>He's making a fellow human feel wanted, connected.
>doesn't actually connect with her ever
Yep. Bond is teasing her.
Connery's Bond is a top tier larger than life CHAD in every sense. Which is why him in OHMSS would have been weird but maybe brilliant. He's the male fantasy amped up to 11. Him falling in love for real with a girl is unbelievable. Complete difference with book Bond who's a sociopathic neurotic snob who falls in love a LOT and then goes blackpilled after the girl dies/leaves/cucks him. Connery made the character who he is otherwise he's a very typical spy thriller protagonist.
He says so many autistic things all the time, but i guess you get away with even that when you're an abobawde CHAD
Goldfinger is two hours of Chad James Bond bullying a fat nerd and Fricking his girlfriends. And it's epic
Tbf that is the crux of it but Goldfinger did emasculate Bond a lot in the middle portion, having him around like a pet with his own shed so yes in the end he won and Goldfinger died but Goldfinger also had him dead to rights with that famous line. No villain has ever emasculated Bond that much.
>book Bond who's a sociopathic neurotic snob who falls in love a LOT and then goes blackpilled after the girl dies/leaves/cucks him
absolutely insane interpretation of book bond, to the I can't imagine you actually read the books
bond is the opposite of neurotic, he's ice cold most of the time and is so in control of himself he manages to shrug off incredible pain just on force of will.
he's not sociopathic either, if anything the movie versions are. he kills rarely and with some regret, it's usually a big point in the novels where he does decide he must kill the villain. he's not a spy
he's a glorified cop, not a super spy, and he's not particularly snobby either, I can't think of him ever being outright snobbish to people (very kind to quarrel, for example) but he does dislike people that are rude/overtly cruel, like drax and goldfinger.
he's a little blackpilled in casino royale with vesper but it's the first book and also works to frame him as they go on. his attitude towards women in the books is cavalier (he says multiple times women are great and fun when there isn't serious work to do) but he's pretty fatalistic with affairs and in general doesn't think they'll ever last (tracy aside, lmao)
even ones he doesn't get with like the chick from moonraker are still smitten with him and he shrugs it all off, he's a hyper-competent detective with an iron will, streak of womanizing, great at cards, and an exceptional swimmer. he's also a crack shot but he shoots people pretty sparingly in the books
True and I have read the books. I guess I overstated some of his qualities and mislabeled them. Thank you for correcting me and showing your Bond passion. I can't really explain my choice of words either, guess I am tired from the festivities. Have a good one.
all good, and in fairness neurotic aside he does exude those traits more than your average main character.
and while neurotic imho is not descriptive of him at all, I can understand why you'd feel that way since we read what he's thinking all the times in the books and so he feels a lot more human and vulnerable than the smug and/or stonefaced movie character we get who never explains himself.
enjoy the evening and merry christmas fellow bond appreciator
Oh, sorry they didn't squeeze in a B Story of ole Jimmy playing hearts or bingo with Money Penny down at the Lion's Club.
James Bond could frick any hot girl he wanted, and he did frequently. Moneypenny on the other hand was someone special, he unironically liked her for her personality.
This. They actually may have had a fling or actual relationship when younger that is still very much alive. I'd like to think he settled down with her once he got old enough.
No, she was supposed to be your typical horse-faced bong secretary and Bond flirting with her is clearly more of a joke than anything serious but you're a low IQ autistic brown mongrel uncapable of catching even surface level nuance from 60s capeshit. Go back to watching tranime where every single emotion is emphasised with 5 minutes long scream and flashy visual effects you fricking loser.
>autistic anon doesn't get it
Of course.
>be me
>want to read the original Bond novels
>only lines in print
>paperbacks that have been edited for the sensibilities of modern leftists
>extremely expensive "boutique" releases that are uncensored but 6x the price of a paperback
Find the ebooks on Libgen and read those.
No.
Well enjoy the censored versions then, homosexual.
No.
you can find the original novels unedited free in pdfs by a quick google search. hell, here.
https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20160105
No.
It's for the best. You can't give the estate which approved the destruction of his work by leftist morons a fricking cent.
you can find them by the dozen at any secondhand bookstore/half price books
the audiobooks are also completely uncensored and excellent, if you ever want to hear oscar isaacs say Black person like 30 times he reads thunderball
in fact almost all of them are read by legendary actors, bill nighy does one iirc
the Dan Stevens ones are pretty good too. He'd be a good Bond in the movies, too. They should do it now or never though bc he's 41..
>Dan Stevens
I sure hope he doesn't put on an accent for this.
dan stevens would've been kino if he'd picked it up after skyfall
i think the only way forward for bond as a franchise is to move away from the expected hollywood formula
>massive budget, massive battles, already famous actor, crosses world 3 times for no reason every time, kills villain, villain is overtly hostile whole movie, one-liners at every kill
and move back towards something closer to the novels. not in the least because these balloon budget films are dying
>hyper-tight script, good actor, serious and not quippy but not mopey or morose, have both bond and the villain be excellent actors, dial down the killing, make the cat and mouse the center of the plot
it's the recipe that made the franchise and saved it at every turn
Honestly, I don't think we're getting anything. If the reports about them already testing ATJ and him being all but cast then they're going for the former style like John Wick. Flashy, neon, with quips and reddit humour and lots of gun-fu. I'd hate that. Your suggestion is sane and would be kino but they've already discarded Fleming since CR. They'll use the brand and character name to shit out whatever slop they make. It's over.
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I'd love to see Moonraker expanded and remade. Have Domhall Gleeson play him and make the whole thing what if le Elon Musk was le evil in general terms. Cat and mouse and even keep the novel ending with Gala and her bf to please the subversionists. It'd be insanely kino and relate to the modern times.
Absolutely Unfathomably based take.
Moonraker is easily one of the best novels and it’d be such a natural adaptation
>opening at BLADES is classic bond and already written
>drax is iconic in every scene he’s in, the total dick playing as a nice guy that drops the act when cornered
>the drumpf/musk allegory can be used without hurting the character since he actually already does have a lot in common
>the girl (darla?) is one of the best Bond girls, competent and sexy without being a b***h
>plot is straightforward and easily translates to 21st century
>chase from London could be made an amazing scene with modern filming
>classic bond villain kill being from a distance, also one of the most clever
They already somewhat stole it for the end of the man from uncle, moonraker is just a perfect bond book and (thought I love Moore, pbuh) the adaptation is unrecognizable
Change Drax’s name and call the rocket silver bullet or something (the fact Fleming never does though and drax’s men are the werewolves was a nice bit of subtlety) and we’re set
Bond, like any gentleman, prefers married women who have grown tired of their husbands and want some real adventure.
>tfw at an age and not that bad looking where I could take advantage of a woman like this
Should I go for it? A guy I know slept with a customer who was a married woman nearing 40 but still looked good for her age.
He does and it's grating at the start but you getused to it. His Bond is impeccable. The rest he does put accents to differentiate but could be worse.
>Should I go for it?
Think about if you were married and some other guy slept with your wife, how you would feel about it. Now realize that you'd be doing that to some other innocent dude who never did you any harm. You should instead just frick stupid young prostitutes if you want to sleep around, they aren't worth much and no one would be hurt if you did.
>he doesn't know
for me its miss goodnight