Do We Bond Fans Celebrate Gratutious Violence?

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• chrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent

  July 2014

  Hey- imagine for a moment if Kananga's demise had been filmed realistically with his guts all over the place?
  EEeewwueeee....

  Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
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• AlphaOmegaSin EnglandPosts: 10,926MI6 Agent

  July 2014

  You do see his Innards, or at least I think that's what they are floating in the Water -{

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• Thunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent

  July 2014

  I think the fishing term is, chum )

  "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
• AlphaOmegaSin EnglandPosts: 10,926MI6 Agent

  July 2014

  Or Dog Food

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• chrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent

  July 2014

  Thunderpussy wrote:

  I think the fishing term is, chum )

  I wonder if the PM wanted his guts for garters...? ?:)

  Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
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• Higgins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent

  July 2014

  that poor balloon
  That was the most gratutious violence that I've ever seen…..

  President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.
  

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• hehadlotsofguts Durham England Posts: 2,112MI6 Agent

  July 2014

  I don't think we LIKE gratuitous violence. We just get a kick out of seeing the villain get their just desserts in the most awful way.

  Have you ever heard of the Emancipation Proclamation?"
  
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• chrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent

  July 2014

  Higgins wrote:

  that poor balloon
  That was the most gratutious violence that I've ever seen…..

  Agreed. He'd caught the balloon already- there was no need to kill it...

  Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
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• AlphaOmegaSin EnglandPosts: 10,926MI6 Agent

  July 2014

  'Mr Bond! Mr Boooooonnnnddd!'

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• Thunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent

  July 2014

  With those sharks in the water was this his " jump the shark " moment ? )

  "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
• AlphaOmegaSin EnglandPosts: 10,926MI6 Agent

  July 2014

  Blofeld on Skis? Why I never!

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• Thunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent

  July 2014

  Little bit of Bond Factoids,
  The spectre agent who went into the snow plough, was played by .... A dead goat !
  
  Suddenly I fancy a kebab )

  "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
• chrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent

  July 2014

  Thunderpussy wrote:

  Little bit of Bond Factoids,
  The spectre agent who went into the snow plough, was played by .... A dead goat !
  

  I might have looked better with a John Doe morgue cadaver. ?:)

  Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
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• Ammo08 Missouri, USAPosts: 387MI6 Agent

  July 2014

  Oh yes, generally with a martini and hardy laugh... )

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• chrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent

  July 2014

  Ammo08 wrote:

  Oh yes, generally with a martini and hardy laugh... )

  Cadavers drink Martinis & laugh? Or is this an in-joke to make fun of the silly silly American man? )

  Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
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• superado Regent's Park West (CaliforniaPosts: 2,656MI6 Agent

  July 2014

  I think the James Bond phenomenon institutionalized themes that were considered taboo and exploitative before it came along, so much so that when he became a favorite character for little kids (as indicated in the TB featurette, ""How To Blow Up A Motor Car"), parents didn't mind or notice that unlike the wholesome examples that came before it became okay for their kids to pretend to be this guy who sexually objectified women and killed in casual cold blood. Was it an issue of bourgeois thinking of the emerging middle-class, in that, "James Bond" is classy, so I must like James Bond"?
  
  I think that today's full-blown acceptance of gratuitous sex and violence took decades to develop though definitely, Bond paved the way. Even in the midst of the Bond Phenomenon movies like The Godfather, The Wild Bunch and Midnight Cowboy were classified for their adult nature, though nowadays, Bond, who categorically represents those things, is celebrated with a wink in primetime, mainstream media in that parents are desensithized with the sex and violence that their kids ingest not only in Bond movies but everything else they watch.

  "...the purposeful slant of his striding figure looked dangerous, as if he was making quickly for something bad that was happening further down the street." -SMERSH on 007 dossier photo, Ch. 6 FRWL.....