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Ah, the old Saturday Night Live “Celebrity Jeopardy” skit, who knew there were people out there taking it deadly serious?<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

I had intended to crawl back under my rock\/parent’s basement until the next “Bond” film No Time To Die<\/em> premiered, if<\/span> it premiered rather, then comment on the film. At least that was the plan until…<\/p>\r\n

James Bond was \u2018basically\u2019 a rapist in early films, says No Time to Die director<\/a><\/h1>\r\n

Bloody hell!<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

What is it with EON Productions and their fetish for people who hate their films? Dan Craig tells anyone who will stand still long enough how much he hates Bond and Christoph Waltz thinks Bond films are nothing more than Punch and Judy<\/a> shows.<\/p>\r\n

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New footage of Christoph waltz’ performance in No Time To Die<\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Now, current francize director Cary “Here comes the funk, gotta have the” Fukunaga claims Connery’s Bond was nothing more than a common rapist!<\/a> I’ll address those claims in a moment, first I need to ask, what the bloody hell are you thinking old boy?! Even if you honestly believe this to be true, you have to admit slagging off the most beloved incarnation of the 60 year old film series you are currently promoting, just a mere week before your own film’s release is absolute insanity. Especially when that film needs to make nearly a billion dollars just to break even<\/a>!\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

You have to wonder what kind of intellectually stunted individual would do such a thing?<\/p>\r\n

“Growing up \u201cin a very liberal, progressive bubble\u201d prepared him to study history at the University of California Santa Cruz and political science in France during a year-abroad program.”<\/em><\/p>\r\n

Ah there it is! U.C. Santa Cruz is so leftist it makes U.C. Berkeley\u00b9 look like Oral Roberts University\u00b2! The only thing living in a bubble prepares you for is continued life in that bubble. I don’t imagine the Amish<\/a> people in the United States are very adept at anything but barn raising and butter churning.<\/p>\r\n

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Electricity is the devil\u00a0<\/strong>Zebadiah!<\/b><\/p>\r\n

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The only way you could believe this is a good way to promote your film is to be locked within that bubble. “Hey, those old films you love so much? Yeah, the outdated takes on the old “playing hard to get” trope they use? That makes them full of rape!”<\/p>\r\n

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What Madam Broccoli doesn’t seem to understand or doesn’t give a toss about is every time she says something like “(Bond) developed some rather distasteful pastimes but those have now receded into the past.” Or when one of her flunkies du jour rag on the pervious incarnations of Bond, she is essentially slapping her father in the face! Every complaint about the classic, cinematic Bond can be laid directly at Cubby Broccoli’s feet, sure Harry Saltzman had a say in the early films but Cubby had to at least co-sign whatever Harry came up with. When you critique Bond in such a way you aren’t criticizing the man, he doesn’t exist. You aren’t criticizing Fleming, many of the films bear little to no resemblance to the literary source material. No, when you slam Bond from Dr. No to Goldeneye you are attacking Cubby Broccoli’s personal vision for the character. In doing this, Barbara is essentially Electra King from The World Is Not Enough<\/em>, committing patricide while prattling on about her “family’s legacy.”\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

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“Take that dad, I mean Mr. Bond!”<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Of course all this nonsense is couched in the #timesup, #metoo movements. For those who forgot, or may not have known (it all happened so fast), the #timesup movement began in an attempt to hold the powerful in Hollywood accountable for their abuse of performers with their casting couches, etc., hence “times up for abuse.” The #metoo movement followed suit attempting to give a voice to other victims in the studio system to come forward and be heard, as in; “me too, I also was abused.”<\/p>\r\n

I’ve really got to hand it to Hollywood, how quickly and adeptly they were able to slip the surly bounds of this\u00a0movement organized to expose the abuse rampant in the entertainment industry and\u00a0shift the narrative off of their very real abuse and molestation and twist it to implicate fictional<\/em> characters and the fans who love them! Here’s none other than Barbara Broccoli, quoted in the Vanity Faire<\/a> puff piece above parroting the narrative:<\/p>\r\n

\u201cI think people are coming around (the fans)\u2014 with some kicking and screaming \u2014 to accepting that stuff is no longer acceptable (fun escapist films). Thank goodness.”<\/p>\r\n

Harry Houdini couldn’t have done it any better!<\/p>\r\n

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For my next trick…<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

If you doubt this movement was co-opted, then you believe the entirety of abuse in the entertainment industry over the past 40 years was committed by:<\/p>\r\n

One Producer,<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

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One Actor,<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

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One Comedian,<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

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And One Pudding Salesman.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

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Not to mention, way back in the dark ages of 2009, these same people who have no compunction about excoriating you for enjoying fictional characters, actually signed a petition<\/a> urging the release of noted statutory rapist<\/span> Roman Polanski!<\/p>\r\n

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“What can I say I likes ’em young.”<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Then the French version of the Oscars turn around and hand the guy an award… in 2020<\/a>! Yes, there was a bit of a backlash, but again I point out this was LAST YEAR!<\/p>\r\n

Of particular interest to our discussion, one of the signatories on that petition was Monica Bellucci the first “Bond Woman,” more in a moment.<\/p>\r\n

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“How dare you NOT approve of grown men having relations with 13 year olds!”<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Our supposed “betters” in Hollywood who preach self-righteousness while committing all manner of heinous acts need to learn they may be better at playing make pretend, better at making music, better at framing through a lens, or better looking, but they are NOT better than<\/span> we the people!<\/p>\r\n

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Let’s take a look at what director Funkenstein actually had to say:<\/p>\r\n

\u201cIs it Thunderball or Goldfinger where basically Sean Connery\u2019s character rapes a woman?\u201d said Fukunaga. \u201cShe\u2019s like \u2018No, no, no,\u2019 and he\u2019s like, \u2018Yes, yes, yes.\u2019 That wouldn\u2019t fly today.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\r\n

First of all Care Bear, you can’t be bothered to know exactly which film you’re accusing of rape? Not only are you making some serious accusations here, but you’re also the latest director of this series, you should at least have a working knowledge of the material!<\/p>\r\n

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Obviously a man who knows his Bond!<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

I will admit the two classic scenes we will be discussing are “problematic” especially when viewed in a vacuum and through the prism of 55 years of progress as the author at the Guardian does in their article:<\/p>\r\n

“a scene in 1965\u2019s Thunderball in which Connery\u2019s Bond forcibly kisses a nurse (played by Molly Peters) who has spurned his advances. In a later scene, Bond suggests he will keep quiet about information that could cost her her job if she sleeps with him. \u201cI suppose my silence could have a price,\u201d he says. Peter\u2019s character backs away, saying: \u201cYou don\u2019t mean \u2026 oh, no,\u201d before Bond replies \u201cOh, yes\u201d, pushes her into a sauna and takes off her clothes.”<\/em><\/p>\r\n