So not mine, no not yours, hers, that is, that of the woman who, according to Twitter rumors, is supposed to succeed the long-running cinema hero James Bond, who hasn't even retired yet. He was, or is, something like Dr. Who of the cinema, always there full of surprises and with changing faces.
But first things first, there I am sitting here at the head of my table, leafing through the social networks, once again internally rejoicing at how far we have come since the invention of cuneiform, just turning the pages of an analogue book was quite something easier than a 10-page list in cuneiform ever would have been, and above all less prone to loss, a book did not splinter into several pieces if it fell down. Admittedly, a smartphone is a theoretical step backwards, technically more developed than a cuneiform clay tablet, but depending on the app chosen, the smartphone is less valuable in terms of breaking strength in the event of a fall, depending on the impact angle, than a cuneiform clay tablet.
While a part of my brain was cheerfully celebrating technical progress and was holding a mental ticker-tape parade for Konrad Zuse, my eyes fell on the following picture and the confetti particles floating through the canyons of my mental parade route put it together in my mind's eye on the broad magnificent parade street.
Slowly it seeped into the rest of my self, wait, that's a woman on a 007 poster!?
Gillian Anderson? Scully?
Does she move from the FBI to MI6, to the Secret Intelligence Service? Oh come on, don't tell me, how is she supposed to do that without Mulder? The two belong together, like Don Camillo and Pepone, Bud Spencer and Terence Hill, Laurel and Hardi, Lawrence and Arabia and now she should romp alone through the agent world of Felming's successors in the best Bond style, will the Chippendales be the new Bond Girls? The ladies will be happy. But in all seriousness, first Indiana Jones gets the female counterpart Lara Croft, then crazy people caused a wave in the USA because the new Jedi in Star Wars was played by an African American, in a supporting role he is allowed to, even as a red shirt in Star Trek ends his life dramatically, but please not in a leading role in a cinema classic, the question arises at the head of the table why not, they already had a potato with ears and crooked sentences as an instructor, it's more about the story and The Skywalker father-son conflict was over after 6 episodes, potato joda was used up, something new can come along.
The Ghostbusters are coming back to cinemas as women, hmm ok.
So now a woman as Bond? What cinematic tradition do you want to break next? Jason Bourne coming back as Jessie?
Am I the only one who sees a feminization of male roles in cinema coming? Nothing against women in films, I think Lara Croft is great, I don't want to see her as Lars Croft, Alice in Wonderland not as Alois in Wonderland, Agent Carter is just a woman and Frank-N-Furter is Tim Curry! There's nothing to shake it up about.
The basic idea of the story is about a universe, i.e. a completely new world, Star Wars, Star Trek, or about a person Lara Croft, Jason Bourne, or 007 James Bond. Spinoffs are ok, but don't reinterpret the original role, that destroys my cinematic world view - which doesn't mean that I wouldn't still watch the result, if only to get upset about it - but only to have a say and complain and under Protest!
I also had to get used to Daniel Craig, I still think that chase scenes in the new films are far too long, but the times have changed.
Wait, why doesn't Craig keep doing this?
Thanks to Zuse, Edison, Bell and a few others, something like this can be found out quite quickly these days. In 2005 Craig took over as James Bond, no longer really black-haired, what a faux paux. At that time he got a fairly well-paid contract for 5 films.
5?
- 2006 Casino Royale
- 2008 Quantum of Solace
- 2012 Skyfall
- 2015 Specter
Hey! That's only 4, there's still room for one film, as long as the statement that the contract would be for five films is correct. I was lucky again, somehow, purely theoretically. Five films and only four filmed, that immediately provides a quantum of consolation. Maybe Gillian Anderson is intended as M, or X or U? But wait, how does she write on Twitter? She doesn't know who made it, but she loves it? This is just fan art? Great, I ate half a pack of beta blockers and then someone just made that up? Admittedly the picture looks great, but how do I explain this to my doctor? No, not the picture, half the pack..
Whoever came up with the picture and posted it anonymously, the James Bond is a man fan base should breathe a collective sigh of relief, although a woman in a little black dress as Jane Bond certainly looks better than Daniel Craig in a little black dress. Oh I don't know, let James Bond remain a man and Lara Croft a woman and if you need a female counterpart to James, think of a new setting and don't jump on a successful train, because that can go wrong, like with this one never released East Frisian film Lars Kraft and the Reader's Goat.
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