Should there be a female James Bond or not?

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I think that Hollywood is running out of ideas/getting lazy and using social justice as an excuse to recycle old stories for a quick buck.
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Right. There’s no reason they can’t make a movie centered around a female spy. But if they were to make her the “new James Bond”, then it is part of a recognizable franchise and their marketing job is 10 times easier.

I wouldn’t really care that much as I don’t generally watch the Bond movies. I don’t generally like it when creative forces co-opt existing intellectual property just because it’s easier for them than telling an original story with original characters. But that recognizability ensures they will make more money, which means they will continue doing things like that because it’s a strategy with a higher success rate than starting from scratch.
 
Eh, I’ve stopped caring. On the one hand, why can’t they create a new brand with a female lead? On the other hand, they want the power of the brand behind it. There’s absolutely no reason you can’t have that type of spy movie with a women leading it. Still, I’d like to think they’re doing it because they think it’s an interesting take on the brand, not just because they feel they have to change the brand and fill it with browbeating levels of social commentary (social commentary is fine, but it should feel naturally part of the story).
 
The next Doctor (Who) will be a woman. I wasn’t happy about the concept at first, but Michelle Gomez did an excellent job as a female version of the Master.
 
As a side note, a woman named Betty Pack was the real female James Bond of WW-II. Her story is told in Harold Blum’s book “The Last Goodnight.”

“Betty Pack was charming, beautiful, and intelligent—and she knew it. As an agent for Britain’s MI-6 and then America’s OSS during World War II, these qualities proved crucial to her success. This is the remarkable story of this “Mata Hari from Minnesota” (Time) and the passions that ruled her tempestuous life—a life filled with dangerous liaisons and death-defying missions vital to the Allied victory.”

 
I think she should constantly surround herself with responsible professional men who are very attentive to her needs and get along well with children.

(Remember: Bond girls are a typical man’s fantasy. Male bimbos would hardly qualify as a typical woman’s fantasy. And it would be nice for men to get to feel what it’s like to be completely commodified, if a female Bond could pull that off.)
 
Absolutely no female Bond.
That would disrespect Ian Fleming who created James Bond and authored the books.
 
No, there should not be a Jane Bond.

Let men be men and women be women.

Shall there also be a male wonderwoman?
 
I’m not even a huge fan of Daniel Craig’s Bond because he doesn’t fit the “Bond image” for me.

I would be okay with a black Bond, but a woman Bond? Bond isn’t a woman. If people want a strong female lead, they should create their own franchise, not hijack an iconic one that already exists. It can be done: look at Lara Croft in “Tomb Raider” or Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley from the Alien movies.
 
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I would not like a female Bond, but then I don’t like the male Bond so my viewpoint is probably biased.
James Bond uses up women; to him they’re disposable accessories. A female Bond would either use up men the same way or be a femme fatale, a fap-fantasy for male fans. Either way not good.
 
Daniel Craig’s Bond is a gritty, cynical version which deconstructs the tropes commonly used in prior Bond movies. Jason Bourne already does that and does it better. So did Kingsman too.

What makes Bond fun is the fact that it is male escapist fantasy. That makes female Bond already a stupid idea.

If you want a good female spy movie, give ScarJo a Black Widow movie and have her team up with Hawkeye to fight the Winter Soldier or something like that.
 
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well as much as I can, being my son’s age when he died!
 
A female James Bond? No. A spin off where there is a female as another 00 agent? Absolutely. We rarely get to see other 00’s in the series, and I’m always fascinated whenever they show up.
 
greenrangerx said:
A spin off where there is a female as another 00 agent?
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The original Moneypenny, played by Lois Maxwell, was only ever seen as M’s secretary or assistant in the office environment (except, of course, in her daydreams about James Bond). In contrast, the new Moneypenny (Naomie Harris) who first appeared in Skyfall, is also occasionally given the chance to see some action:

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Skyfall (2012)

Naomie Harris in Skyfall (2012)
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Rozellelily said:
What is your view?
Personally I don’t really think so.
Anyway,even when “Hollywood” does make action movies with female leads they usually do it in a way to appeal to male audiences (eg:Lara croft sex appeal and tight clothes etc) so if a female Bond was made in the same way,then she wouldn’t she really just be still like the 1960’s Bond girls stereotype-the only difference would probably be that she is able to fight?

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For starters, if there was a “female James Bond” then it would not be James Bond. It would have to be a totally new character.

And regardless of what feminists think, men do not find it cool when a woman has had as many sexual partners as James Bond has. It’s a turn off for most men.
 
phil19034 said:
And regardless of what feminists think, men do not find it cool when a woman has had as many sexual partners as James Bond has. It’s a turn off for most men.
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And you don’t think James Bond is a turn off to many women for the same reason? Do you, as a man, not find his many sexual partners a turn off?
 
Let him go… he’s jealous of how women are making him look like a fool.
 
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