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The Sheer Absurdity of the James Bond Franchise After the 2020 Global Coup

10/30/2021

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James Bond films have always landed on the side of the ridiculous, but the latest in the franchise - completed after the 2020 global totalitarian coup - is simply absurd. 

No, I haven't seen the film; and no, by absurd I am not referring to the overall overall characteristics and cliches of the franchise: the supernatural action sequences, imagination-defying tech gadgets, or the scheming super-villains who always aim to dispose of the captured 007 via some elaborate and complex execution method - usually involving sharks, fire, whirling saw blades, rising water levels, or laser beams - that inevitably provides Bond with the time, space, and opportunity needed to escape.  

By absurd I mean the basic, underlying premise of the whole James Bond franchise itself - that of a "good" secret agent who works on behalf of a "good" system to foil evil, psychopathic geniuses and organizations that attempt to either take over the world or outright destroy it.

The James Bond franchise has always been pure fiction, and it has never aspired to be more than mere entertainment. Nevertheless, the global 2020 coup has rendered absurd the entire premise upon which the franchise is built for the simple reason that the evil, psychopathic organizations have taken over the world and are now in the process of destroying it.

To make matters worse, the forces to which the James Bond character belongs have been actively complicit in the Satanic take over and destroy process. Thus, the premise of any post-2020 James Bond film that follows the standard 007 franchise "good versus evil" formula is immediately incoherent and utterly absurd.

More than that, it intentionally insults and humiliates. To put it in the proper perspective, a post 2020 James Bond film would be akin to the Soviets having produced films featuring anti-Bolshevist secret agents fighting to save the world from the horrors of communism and then subsequently screening these films to gulag inmates serving life sentences during the height of Stalinist tyranny. 

To save the James Bond franchise from sinking further into absurdity, I humbly propose that future, post-2020 007 films should feature more realistic and "actual" conflicts between and "good and evil". Something along the lines of Bond thwarting a massive global white supremacist movement bent on instituting worldwide white supremacy. Or, 007 infiltrating the dreaded cult of the unpecked that continues to scourge with world with life-threatening pestilence.

Even better, how about one featuring the skilled and handsome member of Her Majesty's Secret Service ruthlessly hunting down malicious Christian bloggers who are forever working to motivate people to choose the side of God and Creation?   
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bruce charlton
10/30/2021 09:16:55

I really liked Bond movies aged about 9-11; but since then I have not been interested - especially not when they tried to make them appeal to more 'grown-up' audiences the usual means ambiguity, 'realism' etc.

Bond always was a shallow kind of entertainment, and any depth it had was just this idea of there being concentrated evil that could be eliminated by one hero. When the evil is dominant everywhere, and at least passively supported and defended by the global masses - that kind of heroism is simply impossible.

I suppose that in principle it would be possible for a 2021 genius to create a new kind of hero for these times - but it would take a genius, and there seem to be very few of them in the world (and excluded by the mainstream).

Meanwhile the regiments of not geniuses but 'talented' and 'hard-working' creatives are nearly-all still assisting the global totalitarians in constructing the Black Iron Prison of the world. Will they ever wake up to the fate being prepared for them?

Probably not until it is too late, and they will almost certainly blame the wrong people for their misery and despair - rather than taking responsibility themselves, and repenting their deep errors and sins.

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Francis Berger
10/30/2021 21:23:51

@ Bruce - I would love to see what that new kind of hero for these times would be like. In my more optimistic moments, I think I may just live long enough to find out.

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Whitney
10/30/2021 17:00:23

I tried to watch the original MacGyver from the mid 80's recently and I had the same problem. Richard Dean Anderson's MacGyver was the good guy working for the good government and it was explicitly stated almost every episode and I just couldn't suspend disbelief. I like Richard Dean Anderson but I guess I'll have to stick with Stargate

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Francis Berger
10/30/2021 21:28:45

@ Whitney - It's funny when you consider that it is MacGyver's working for a "good" government rather than his uncanny skill at being able to fashion a nuclear reactor out of bubble gum, a strip of masking tape, and a ball point pen that makes belief suspension impossible.

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Anthony Probst
10/30/2021 20:52:34

Your proposal is not humble, it is Modest.

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Francis Berger
10/30/2021 21:24:20

@ Anthony - Swift would approve.

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Max Overhead link
10/30/2021 22:56:58

Very few films out there demonstrate a true battle of good against evil. Three Days of the Condor, Soylent Green, The Wicker Man, Nomads, Demon Seed, Carnosaur, The Crazies, Forbin Project, Brotherhood of the Bell. I honestly can't think of any others, and I've watched thousands of films. The usual thing is to have "The One" defeat evil against impossible odds, which is of course a lie.

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Whitney
11/1/2021 01:38:37

Good movie list! Just watched The Crazies. Good Halloween movie. Quite a few I haven't of.

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Max Overhead link
11/2/2021 02:21:35

Best Halloween movie I can think of, more timely than ever before, made for THIS Halloween, and I thought about it later (I could always think of another example) is the John Carpenter film "Halloween III: Season of the Witch," a film where a Halloween mask tycoon creates incredibly popular masks which kill their wearers whilst watching television. John Carpenter was something else, I tell ya.

Max Overhead link
10/30/2021 23:04:43

Edit to my last comment, if you could possibly slide it in:
I just remembered one more film which fits into this rare category: Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

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lea
10/31/2021 10:24:32

Looking forward to a defecting Bond doing great things for a people´s movement with sincere intentions only to have it be painted as terror of some kind. Oh hollyweird already did that you say.. Someone on my new favorite movie discourse site letterboxd mentioned how Christopher Nolan tends to include subtle ish resentful messages towards anyone who dare mess with the status quo and it diminished my like for his work alot.. as if any of that matters alot but i digress.. If Batman gets suckered into working for The Evil, we should avoid getting sucked along into that narrative. The way Nolan presented it was always cinematographically pleasing but left wanting, mostly by his subconscious expression that a certain level of societal disruption would not be acceptable to him. Well well. Apparently you cannot do wyrd works and have your cake too. Somewhat similarly Bond went from protecting all of us from variously visible levels of evil, that were clear defined. to something much more ambiguous, and worse in every case. More institutionalized and detached from all of us, more in line with 3 letter agencies.Naturally we are told that these new ambitions are in our best interests, despite rising body counts. Its just entertainment right. Dont worry so much, nothing like this could ever happen in the real world.. wait is this 2021

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