Ed Miliband has unveiled his latest policy: he wants a female James Bond.
The Labour leader met Rosamund Pike today and tipped her to make history by becoming the first woman in the role.
"I think she's a great British actress, she'd make a great Bond,” Mr Miliband said during a visit to Magic Radio studios.
"This is 2015, I think we can move with the times."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/ed-miliband-wants-rosamund-pike-to-be-the-first-female-james-bond-10147248.html
Rosamund Pike makes my tongue hard, but the notion of a female Bond is completely antithetical to the very concept of the character.
They already did the old gal-as-M thing, and in some of the more chickenshit Bond films, the female leads played a far greater role in whipping the bad guy than they should have. E.g., Octopussy, A View To A Kill, and probably a majority of those Brosnan flicks.
Bond movies are quintessentially about a bad-ass, cold-hearted killer of a guy who just does his job. In that sense he's almost like a machine; yet, at the same time, he's hetero, charming and likes pussy. Then again, he only married once ... all of his other conquests ranged from a one-night liason to several weeks, perhaps months, of drilling them regularly ... all the while he was pursuing other pussy
But no, there is NO fucking way Bond could ever be a woman. Even the very best actresses of our generation (IMNSHO, that includes Julianne Moore, that little Woodley girl and ... eh. I'm tired, and nobody's gonna blink an eye at my post anyway
) could NOT pull that off. Even when you go full-ugly on a legit beauty like Charlize Theron, even her utterly hideous "Monster" look inspires ... well,
disgust, not anything remotely of the "oh, she could be the next BOND!" reaction.
James Bond is James Bond. If, in some brilliantly-executed spinoff, someone conceived of a Jaime Bond -- say, Bond's granddaughter who became a spy for MI6 -- I would entertain that notion.
Otherwise, keep up the Daniel Craig "reboot" movies. Casino rocked. The next one sucked, but the third chapter was quite good, bordering on extremely good IMO. And the next, which introduces SPECTRE ... ohhh
Shit's gonna get real
I just hope they cast another tongue-hardening gal as the female lead. In Casino, they totally nailed it with Eva Green. She drinks copious amounts of wine, chain-smokes, laughs at exercise and still looks like
that. Holy FUCK! What a goddess.
But I've run out of time. Folks are yelling at me to come eat supper, so at the risk of full evisceration -- not having provided pics and all, let alone continuing my train of thought -- eh, well ... have it me should you wish.
Remember, however, you are picking on an amalgam of a great many wounded folk ... what with all of my tears and [perhaps] irreversible gut growth, haven't I endured enough?!
