Bond Can't Be Gay Or A Woman, Says Roger Moore

[mushroom25]

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/roger-moore-says-james-bond-cant-be-portrayed-by-gay-man-or-a-woman-that-wasn-t-what-ian-fleming-a6707851.html

it's true that ian fleming created Bond as a particular person with particular characteristics and traits, http://www.ianfleming.com/james-bond-2/s in the 1950s, and a character like that would be something of an anachronism if he was portrayed like that in modern films.

so is Sir Roger right that film makers should remain faithful to Fleming's description of James Bond? or is the Bond franchise now bigger than one man's vision of his character?

[jourdain2]

errm.... I have no info. on that point DTC.

[retrocop]

db
looks like some with a certain status are bomb proof.. :-(

[jno]

if the tough, cruel secret agent of Fleming's books can be played by Roger Smirking Moore he can be played by anyone.

[jno]

goodness, have I stumbled into a politically correct convention for the professionally outraged? All those valiant defenders of free speech demanding apologies for something they disagreed with? I must make a note.

[DaisyNonna]

Given up on Bond
Daniel Craig does nothing for me

[naomi24]

^Nor me - but James Bond can be neither gay nor a woman. That would be silly.

[Retrochic]

" you must be pretty sick"! wow such language and venom. Gromit should be dealt with appropriately by the 'outraged'. Good grief.

[Mamyalynne]

I don't think gay or a woman would fit the brief (pun there possibly) - idea for a new franchise though.

A gay woman secret service agent film series.

Black would work though.

[Retrochic]

Going bad to James Bond..
Sigourney Weaver would make a fantastic Jane Bond.

[Retrochic]

^^^^ lol! I've learnt the hard way not to make mountains out of molehills
;-)

[ludwig]

It's a stupid idea. It makes me think of Peter Cook's one legged Tarzan sketch.

Now Doctor Who on the other hand - he gets born into a completely different body every now and then, so he could be anything .

[joeluke]

James Bond is a testosterone-filled white British Secret Service Agent

Anyone else would be an imposter


Before you know it they'll be trying to ruin my childhood comic reading memories by changing Roy of the Rovers to a right-on gay left-back who wears pink boots

[DaisyNonna]

If it ain't broke don't fix it