Watch | 29. Sep 2021

Better Late Than Never

He is back. And as we waited even longer than normally - I am actually really looking forward to watching the new James Bond movie.

I was never the biggest fan of the franchises but very well accepted how those movies seriously contributed to our cultural development: car wise, fashion and style wise, hero wise. "My first time" Bond was Roger Moore, the title theme was produced by the "Wings", that hippie band Paul McCartney founded together with his wife Linda - and their song "Live And Let Die" became one of my all time favorite song-memories.

To watch and listen now seems quite odd - a naked black woman dancing, her breasts exposed in a more than obvious way. I was thirteen when I watched the movie in our old fashioned movie theatre back home - and all I could think of was: Please let me grow up as fast as possible to become as sexy and self confident as all those women acting around that well mannered British gentleman who also could work his gun quite impressively.

Now an interview with the director of the latest sequel became a talk about, him calling former James Bond characters "rapists": The way Sean Connery, the by far most popular of them all, forced women into sexual intercourse would have been harrassment at least if not pure rape.

Sure. If you watch those scenes without any historical order. But times changed for the better. Just look at the villains of those earlier movies, more of "Bozo the Clown" than a bad guy seen through our modern eyes.

Still, those typical Bond seduction method seems as out of time as smoking in a car with a new born baby on your lab.

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If you´d ask me - I would rather watch that new movie to find out in what way Daniel Craig´s James Bond is a guy to dream about or not before his last curtain falls - and another, modern, according to newer times, James Bond will step in.

Excited to find out if it will be a woman - as some rumors say - or finally a NOT white guy.

So we can say some decades later whether Daniel Craig´s James Bond was bearable or not - sexually defined and white as the cliffs of Dover.

And, oh, there is a really nice feature in the New York Times today, saying goodbye to Bond fifteen months ago before the film originally would have started. It still works.

And then there is also his sweet Goodbye on Twitter....