Live and Let Die represented an overdue barrier snapping, even if it is some distance from the much better Spy Who Loved Me. I don’t see how it can be interpreted any other way. The Bond movies have always perched near the top of the commercial tree and for the franchise to feature a black-heavy cast was an enormous step forward in terms of visibility and acceptance for the brothers. Where are all the ‘good’ blacks? They cry. A fair few people see it as racist now because it has a plethora of drug-dealers, ghetto stereotypes and generally unsavory types. A black Bond Girl, a black villain, numerous black settings (such as Harlem and the Caribbean) and basically more blacks than you could shake a stick at. Live and Let Die was Roger Moore’s debut and is best remembered as the one with the voodoo and all the blacks. How long before Bond becomes monogamous and eschews violence in a bid to shake off all that toxic masculinity? Indeed, I wouldn’t be surprised if he gets turned into a Muslim and given a mission to protect the world’s mosques from custard pie throwers.Īnyhow, back to the days when Bond still amused me.
Fucking hell, if a fantasy figure like 007 is getting slapped down for having a good time, then movie-making really is in bad shape. I think the moment I really turned away was during one of the latter-day flicks in which Judi Dench called Bond a ‘misogynist dinosaur’.
#WAKEY WAKEY HANDS OFF SNAKEY MOVIE TV#
It had its place, but any franchise that staggers on for more than six decades has gotta be stretching things, you know? Much like the Carry On stuff, I enjoy a twenty-minute burst on TV here and there but don’t feel any need to keep watching. Bronson makes sure he’ll no longer be bothering the neighbors by firing a rocket launcher at him from six feet away, a fearsome blast that sends the former gang leader out the window and smeared onto the street for rubberneckers to gawp at.Īah, God bless the heartwarming subtleties of cinema. In the movies we’ve long been treated to absurd deaths, such as the teary downfall of chief scumbag Manny Fraker in the world-class Death Wish 3.
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