Culture Lashana Lynch deleted all her social media to cope with the backlash against being the first Black female 007 - Maybe it's not because it's she black and or a woman, maybe it's because Sean Connery just fucking died and people are pissed that they immediately decided to shill out a reboot.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/lashana-lynch-deleted-her-social-155459607.html

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Lashana Lynch will play the first Black female 007 in the James Bond movie "No Time to Die," Harper's Bazaar confirmed in a new profile of the actress.

While the confirmation is new, news of Lynch's role leaked last year, leading to a backlash from people online who weren't ready for a Black woman as a secret agent.

"For a week, she deleted her social-media apps, meditated and saw no one but family, while comforting herself with the knowledge that the aggressive comments were ultimately not personal," Yrsa Daley-Ward wrote of Lynch.

"I am one Black woman -- if it were another Black woman cast in the role, it would have been the same conversation, she would have got the same attacks, the same abuse," Lynch said. "I just have to remind myself that the conversation is happening and that I'm a part of something that will be very, very revolutionary."

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Lynch in "No Time to Die." United Artists
According to the Harper's Bazaar story, Lynch's character, Nomi, takes over the 007 spy code name when James Bond (Daniel Craig) disappears following the events of "Spectre."

Daley-Ward wrote that Lynch worked closely with the "No Time to Die" co-screenwriter Phoebe Waller-Bridge (the creator of "Fleabag") to have Nomi be a "fresh female perspective" in the male-focused franchise.

Lynch also said there was another goal in having a role like this in such an anticipated movie.

"I didn't want to waste an opportunity when it came to what Nomi might represent," she said. "I searched for at least one moment in the script where Black audience members would nod their heads, tutting at the reality but glad to see their real life represented. In every project I am part of, no matter the budget or genre, the Black experience that I'm presenting needs to be 100 percent authentic."

"No Time To Die" is set to be in theaters on April 2.

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

I'd agree with the exception of Dalton in License to Kill. Was better than The Living Daylights in every way.

I actually like License to Kill, but I've heard the argument that while it's an entertaining/good film, it wasn't really a "Bond" film cause it seemed to ape off the popularity of Miami Vice.

Dalton is an outlier IMO cause he only had two films.

 

[Belligerent Monk]

Still won't be as bad as Ghostbusters 2k16

 

[A Grey Cat]

You know say what you want about die another day they at least made a new different character (Jynx) for Hallie berry to play and didn't have her take on the bond 007 role. Are the gods of progressivism so finicky that bringing that idea back for no time to die isn't enough?

 

[ZehnBoat]

You know say what you want about die another day they at least made a new different character (Jynx) for Hallie berry to play and didn't have her take on the bond 007 role. Are the gods of progressivism so finicky that bringing that idea back for no time to die isn't enough?

everyone must be a black woman now

winston churchhill? a black woman now
george washington? black woman
alexander the great? black woman
nobunaga oda? black woman
catherine the great? a black woman and so is her horse

 

[Long Tongue Silver]

catherine the great? a black woman and so is her horse

Now this I'd pay good money to see.

 

[Hongourable Madisha]

Because female action heroes are not actually anything new, look at Lara Croft: Tomb Raider or the 2000s era Charlie's Angels movies for example, but back in the day a female action hero was still expected to be sexy and that's not woke enough.

You could very easily retool this idea to not be so bad, this time the "Bond Girl" is just as much a badass as Bond is, ok, cool, but have her be as sexy as Bond girls typically are.

Even earlier than that, look at Ellen Ripley, Coffy, or Sarah Connor. They've had butch-looking female action heroes too, like Vasquez, she was great! It's nothing new, and it's been done much better. Audiences who aren't just bugmen and -women expect more than just tokenism because it's not a novelty any more to have a female or black action hero, they want a well-written character and film too.

 

[Jason Wynn]

GoldenGrill
From Harlam With Thuggin Luv
On Her Majesty's Welfare Program
Racists Are Forever
The Baby Daddy Who Loved Me
Never Say "Work" Again!
The Chicken Is Not Enough

 

[Grapefruit Soda]

IIRC it was the live action Mulan remake, they didn't think the men were handsome enough to be proper leading men. It might be different beauty standards in different cultures but they weren't happy.

While I cant say 100%, Chinese people seem to love truly beautiful and handsome people. Hollyweird just seems to be so communistically lazy and bureaucratic that beauty and wonder can't exist in there system, it's got to be this shit by the numbers garbage that no one wants, and even less people like. You cant make a Mona Lisa using a paint by numbers mindset, goes doubly for broad spectrum movies.

 

[Noideawhattopick]

No Ms.Bond you cannot raise me a pair of Jordan's

 

[Les Morfalous]

Dalton is an outlier IMO cause he only had two films.

He would've been perfect in Godeneye.

 

[HOMO FOR LIFE]

Still won't be as bad as Ghostbusters 2k16

The what?

 

[Mr. Zed da Robot Poon Fed]

Oh for fucks sake, do we really have to go through this again? People aren't mad because they are racist, that's fucking npc tier stupid. They are mad that an established character with almost a century of history is being changed to pander to a bunch of assholes who don't give a shit. They are mad that characters who inspired them have been destroyed for nothing more than a viral headline
- the story won't be better for it, it's going to be the same thing with a bunch of pandering and social justice tracts in the place of character development
- they won't make more money, they will probably lose money actually since the people who like James Bond like James Bond, not Jaqueefa Bond and the people who want Jaqueefa wouldn't be caught dead watching 007
- and now we have to spend from now until April hearing about how we're all fucking racist for not celebrating a fucking advertising campaign.

That's actually the biggest problem for most people, now what was a very simple and easy white male power fantasy, a form of escapism for the people who put up with a thousand indignities every single day to support their family and ensure the planet's economy keeps ticking along, has been destroyed. It is no longer escapism, it is as fused with the Mammon of neoliberal globalism as every fucking thing else on the planet, and every time you think about James Bond now you will remember it has been politicised and assimilated and you're a fucking scumbag for not being happy about it.

Great.

They really could have done what Tenet did and made an original spy (spy-fi) film centering on a black character instead of race-swapping one.

But this is Hollywood we're talking about, a place that's virtually devoid of originality.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

Just make original charecters you lazy fucks.

 

[Clem Fandango]

You know say what you want about die another day they at least made a new different character (Jynx) for Hallie berry to play and didn't have her take on the bond 007 role. Are the gods of progressivism so finicky that bringing that idea back for no time to die isn't enough?

Yes, because this isn't about creating a new character for SJWs to love. It's about destroying an old character that the wrong people already like.

 

[Big Brown Schlub]

nobunaga oda? black woman

>not Oda Nobunaga? Oda Nobunigga
You had ONE job

 

[Ahriman]

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No Ms.Bond you cannot raise me a pair of Jordan's

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>Miss Bond, I'm afraid they don't serve malt liquor in this establishment.
>Miss Bond, let me remind you that we're playing poker, not domino.
>Miss Bond, we'd have an easier time understanding you if you spoke standard English.

 

[Bungdit Din]

You Only Stole My Bike Twice.

 

[Pixy]

Maybe it's not because it's she black and or a woman, maybe it's because Sean Connery just fucking died and people are pissed that they immediately decided to shill out a reboot.​

This is about when she was first revealed as a new '00' agent in the new Bond film.

Personally, I just dislike the fact it proves the whole '007 is a codename' theory as being canon. I was inclined to follow the one where James is the same James throughout all the pre-Craig films.

 

[CWCissey]

This is about when she was first revealed as a new '00' agent in the new Bond film.

Personally, I just dislike the fact it proves the whole '007 is a codename' theory as being canon. I was inclined to follow the one where James is the same James throughout all the pre-Craig films.

007 is a codename though.

The 'codename theory' that I'm familiar with is that James Bond is a codename. Which is fucking dumb.

 

[moocow]

Yes, because this isn't about creating a new character for SJWs to love. It's about destroying an old character that the wrong people already like.

If an activist encounters a business with stairs leading up to its front door, he'll work with the owner to help get a ramp installed for the handicapped. When an SJW encounters the same situation, he'll call up all his friends to help rip out the stairs and proclaim victory on behalf of the handicapped.

SJWs never create. They can only destroy.