Comments on: Bondage http://jsp.org/2005/09/29/bondage/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:15:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Favorite Sister http://jsp.org/2005/09/29/bondage/#comment-223 Favorite Sister Thu, 13 Oct 2005 01:56:11 +0000 http://www.jsp.org/2005/09/29/bondage/#comment-223 Clive Owen is YUMMY! Clive Owen is YUMMY!

]]> By: Joel http://jsp.org/2005/09/29/bondage/#comment-216 Joel Thu, 06 Oct 2005 09:29:09 +0000 http://www.jsp.org/2005/09/29/bondage/#comment-216 JC says: <i>(I did hear one very ugly rumour of getting Will Smith to play Bond).</i> "The name is Boaaaw, hell no!" Will Smith, sure he's out. On the other hand, Britain seems a lot more diverse now than in the Merrie Olde Days. I think an immigrant-heritage Bond, or a Bond from somewhere in the old Empire, might be a kinda cool change. Northern Ireland Bond, Indian Bond, Rhodesian Bond, Jamaican Bond, Virginian Bond, Top-of-Mount-Everest Bond (the product of a many-splendored night between Sir Edmund Hillary and a beautiful but naive Sherpa woman)... It would be nice if Timothy Dalton could replace Martin Lawrence for <i>Bad Boys 3</i>, though. JC says:

(I did hear one very ugly rumour of getting Will Smith to play Bond).

“The name is Boaaaw, hell no!”

Will Smith, sure he’s out. On the other hand, Britain seems a lot more diverse now than in the Merrie Olde Days. I think an immigrant-heritage Bond, or a Bond from somewhere in the old Empire, might be a kinda cool change. Northern Ireland Bond, Indian Bond, Rhodesian Bond, Jamaican Bond, Virginian Bond, Top-of-Mount-Everest Bond (the product of a many-splendored night between Sir Edmund Hillary and a beautiful but naive Sherpa woman)…

It would be nice if Timothy Dalton could replace Martin Lawrence for Bad Boys 3, though.

]]> By: JC http://jsp.org/2005/09/29/bondage/#comment-212 JC Mon, 03 Oct 2005 13:42:51 +0000 http://www.jsp.org/2005/09/29/bondage/#comment-212 I can't remember the last time MI6 did a recruitment tour of Ireland but other than that I guess they all could have worked for them. To be honest I don't care who plays Bond as long as they do get the age right (problem being that Hollywood now has their leading players all in their 20s compared to the average ages of actors back in the bond hayday) and that the studios don't bow to the pressure from politically correct groups and make Bond a woman or black (I did hear one very ugly rumour of getting Will Smith to play Bond). I can’t remember the last time MI6 did a recruitment tour of Ireland but other than that I guess they all could have worked for them. To be honest I don’t care who plays Bond as long as they do get the age right (problem being that Hollywood now has their leading players all in their 20s compared to the average ages of actors back in the bond hayday) and that the studios don’t bow to the pressure from politically correct groups and make Bond a woman or black (I did hear one very ugly rumour of getting Will Smith to play Bond).

]]> By: Joel http://jsp.org/2005/09/29/bondage/#comment-208 Joel Sun, 02 Oct 2005 04:40:34 +0000 http://www.jsp.org/2005/09/29/bondage/#comment-208 Don't get me wrong, I've appreciated Clive Owen ever since he played Ser Lev Arris in <i>Privateer 2</i>. And I love how cold and professional James Bond is in the Ian Fleming novels. But even with that said, I think Owen is just not...warm, lusty, passionate enough to play Bond. He'd make a great Bond villian, especially if the screenwriters shat out another "Double-Oh Agent turns rogue" script, but I'd rather see Vinnie Bloody Jones play Bond! As for "Bond Begins", it can't be any worse than the "James Bond, Jr." cartoon they ran a little after we were too old for cartoons. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve appreciated Clive Owen ever since he played Ser Lev Arris in Privateer 2. And I love how cold and professional James Bond is in the Ian Fleming novels. But even with that said, I think Owen is just not…warm, lusty, passionate enough to play Bond. He’d make a great Bond villian, especially if the screenwriters shat out another “Double-Oh Agent turns rogue” script, but I’d rather see Vinnie Bloody Jones play Bond!

As for “Bond Begins”, it can’t be any worse than the “James Bond, Jr.” cartoon they ran a little after we were too old for cartoons.

]]> By: jsp http://jsp.org/2005/09/29/bondage/#comment-207 jsp Fri, 30 Sep 2005 20:35:06 +0000 http://www.jsp.org/2005/09/29/bondage/#comment-207 JC: Hugh Jackman was born and raised in Sydney, you might be thinking of Russell Crowe, who was born in NZ but moved to Oz as a child. I see your point about English vs. British, and I'm sure Fleming wrote him as English but at least the others (save Lazenby) could actually be employed by MI6. On a marginally related note, if one wanted to do an authentic car, what's left? The Americans own Aston Martin, Jaguar, and Land Rover. BMW owned Rover, sold it back for 10 quid, it went into administration, and I believe the Chinese bought it. (Bond would never drive a Rover, of course.) Adam: Radcliffe? Seriously? Didn't we already have the "<a href="http://imdb.com/title/tt0313911/" rel="nofollow">young secret agent</a>" movie? That said, I'm warming to the idea of a <em>Bond Begins</em>. Hey! Maybe we could have Christian Bale! Except -- he's Welsh. Sorry, JC. JC: Hugh Jackman was born and raised in Sydney, you might be thinking of Russell Crowe, who was born in NZ but moved to Oz as a child.

I see your point about English vs. British, and I’m sure Fleming wrote him as English but at least the others (save Lazenby) could actually be employed by MI6.

On a marginally related note, if one wanted to do an authentic car, what’s left? The Americans own Aston Martin, Jaguar, and Land Rover. BMW owned Rover, sold it back for 10 quid, it went into administration, and I believe the Chinese bought it. (Bond would never drive a Rover, of course.)

Adam: Radcliffe? Seriously? Didn’t we already have the “young secret agent” movie? That said, I’m warming to the idea of a Bond Begins. Hey! Maybe we could have Christian Bale!

Except — he’s Welsh. Sorry, JC.

]]> By: awarren http://jsp.org/2005/09/29/bondage/#comment-206 awarren Fri, 30 Sep 2005 13:30:48 +0000 http://www.jsp.org/2005/09/29/bondage/#comment-206 Nothing beats the humor in the "Daniel Radcliffe as Bond" rumors. Nothing beats the humor in the “Daniel Radcliffe as Bond” rumors.

]]> By: JC http://jsp.org/2005/09/29/bondage/#comment-205 JC Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:23:29 +0000 http://www.jsp.org/2005/09/29/bondage/#comment-205 The fact is that James Bond is not supposed to be British but more specifically English. This however has been ignored in the majority of castings of Bond. Sean Connery is Scottish (supposedly as he now spends most of his time in California only appearing back in the UK to say how great it would be if Scotland was independant and how he is fed up with being governed over by the English before boarding his private jet and flying back to California to be ruled over by the Austrians) George Lazenby is Austrailian (though this is hardly an advocation for an Aussie Bond) and as already mentioned Pierce Brosnan is Irish meaning only Roger Moore and Timothey Dalton were of the correct genetic stock to play Bond. Meaning that the majority of those who played Bond on film (as if you add in the original radio broadcast it evens out at 50:50) were not English. It therefore seems that its perfectly OK to bend the rules in this setting. On a side note I always thought Hugh Jackman was from New Zealand anyway though I could well be wrong about that. The fact is that James Bond is not supposed to be British but more specifically English. This however has been ignored in the majority of castings of Bond. Sean Connery is Scottish (supposedly as he now spends most of his time in California only appearing back in the UK to say how great it would be if Scotland was independant and how he is fed up with being governed over by the English before boarding his private jet and flying back to California to be ruled over by the Austrians) George Lazenby is Austrailian (though this is hardly an advocation for an Aussie Bond) and as already mentioned Pierce Brosnan is Irish meaning only Roger Moore and Timothey Dalton were of the correct genetic stock to play Bond. Meaning that the majority of those who played Bond on film (as if you add in the original radio broadcast it evens out at 50:50) were not English. It therefore seems that its perfectly OK to bend the rules in this setting. On a side note I always thought Hugh Jackman was from New Zealand anyway though I could well be wrong about that.

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