Quote: (10-29-2015 06:41 PM)AnonymousBosch Wrote:
Quote: (10-29-2015 06:08 PM)Truth Teller Wrote:
I didn't think Judi Dench was all that terrible in everything prior to Skyfall. I think she did a pretty good job of showing the seriousness of M (Bernard Lee wasn't the happiest guy either).
It's not about the character or the actress or the performance, but the deliberate-subversion.
Who gains by gender-swapping the character? Why does it need to happen at all? Why are there no calls to gender swap female aspirational heroines, like Alice, Katniss, Buffy or Bella Swan?
A decade or so later, by Craig's first performance, who is the objectified body? I have no idea who the Bond Girl even was in that film because there was no focus on her at all, but I saw variations on this picture everywhere all through the media.
Now, of course, we're only hearing about the Bond Girl because she's post-menopausal. Media Hags are masculinised, repulsive women so end up left on the shelf, which is why they're constantly trying to sell older women as 'sexy'.
Bond now fits the Narrative, and, most likely, is only still sold to men as a opportunity to train them for consumption: Here's your aspirational male lifestyle figure: wear what he wears, drink what he drinks, drive what he drives.
That's an absolutely spot-on assessment of what happened in Bond. They gender-swapped him. While him being in great shape is fine, they obviously reduced him to good looks, being attractive and feeling somehow ashamed about his inherent male sexuality. Also they redid him as a broken man who cries and simply masks his utterly destroyed fragile mental psyche with a veneer of coldness.
The truth of the matter is that this is not how a strong man thinks. It is how a "strong" woman behaves, a 40 year old childless business woman who is all cold and professional in her job, but then at home consumes a bottle of wine each night crying herself to sleep.
Did not realize that the Craig Bond has been gender-swapped.
The magic and attraction of Bond is of course the fact that they created an impossibly masculine super-attractive hero, almost a parody of masculinity, but one that did not take itself seriously. Women loved him and men enjoyed watching the spectacle. The Sean Connery movies had many feminine, deceitful, cute, strong, smart women in it. They were seldom portrayed in a masculine manner trying out-man men themselves. Also the entire movie series was of course to be seen with a twinkle in the eye.
Now you see the Bond redo the sexy beach scenes from Bond girls, see him cry on the beach and say how unhappy he is, see him have a drab childhood and weak mentality, have him crave monopausal women.
The propaganda has utterly destroyed Bond some years ago. There is only a walking shadow of the 1950s man left.