James Bond is a British icon. He's a suave, sophisticated, seductive spy. He's known for his way with women, but having been around since the '60s, a lot of his behaviour and attitudes don't hold up today. No Time To Die director Cary Fukunaga recently acknowledged this fact. In an , Fukunaga said, "Is it Thunderball or Goldfinger where, like, basically Sean Connery’s character rapes a woman? She’s like ‘No, no, no,’ and he’s like, ‘Yes, yes, yes.’ That wouldn’t fly today."
There are rape scenes in both films. In Goldfinger, Bond forces himself upon Pussy Galore - one of the many heavily sexualised names in Bond - in a barn. To make matters worse, in the Ian Flemming novel the film is based upon, this rape turns the lesbian Galore straight. In both the book and the film, she is enamoured with Bond after the assault, sending a clear message that no doesn't mean no and women are simply playing hard to get.
In Thunderball, Bond is♔ put in a stretching device by a bad guy, and a spa as🍌sistant finds him and believes it to be an accident. He coerces her into having sex with him under threat of him lying to her boss about it. He then pulls her into a sauna and proceeds to rape her.
Even Daniel Craig's Bond has a very questionable scene in Skyfall, where he joins Sévérine in the shower, uninvited, after learning she was the victim of human trafficking and rape. There's a clear message throughout the film and book series that Bond can solve any issue with sex.
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:No Time To Die, ꧅the💙 longest Bond film yet, began development in 2016🔯, just before Hollywood stars who had been sexually assaulted began using the #MeToo hashtag in the wake of numerous allegations against producer Harvey Weinstein. It seems Fukunaga, the first American to direct a Bond film, is keen to ensure Bond changes going forward. "You can’t change Bond overnight into a different person," he says, "But you can definitely change the world around him and the way he has to function in that world."
To that end, he requested B💮ritish writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge, writer and star of Fleabag, to be brought on to work on the draft of the No Time To Die script. He refutes the idea that she was brought on to make the script more "woke", and producer Barbara Broccoli, who has worked on the Bond series since 1977 confirmed that she too is happy Bond is changing.
"I think people are coming around - with some kicking and screaming - to accepting that stuff is no longer acceptable," she says. "Thank goodness. [Bond's] got a long history, and the history of the past is very different to the way he is being portrayed now."