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They Propagandized 007
Posted on Friday, November 14 @ 05:21:29 EST
Topic: Media
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 007 is one of my favorite movie series of all time. Regardless of how full of cheap action and cheesy plots, I always saw the series as a symbol of western patriotism and respect for the men and women who do in real life (the military, CIA, FBI, MI6, etc.) what James Bond does in the movies.
Quantum of Solace takes a broad step in the strange new direction they are taking in the series. 007 has become more human, more realistic and more of a tortured elitist than the old cocky and infallible secret agent we are used to. While I do appreciate the step toward realism, to make James Bond too human would be to remove the nature of his indestructible appeal. You can't make a realistic movie franchise about a career assassin who never gets killed or permanently imprisoned. The reason why people love Bond is because he is infallible; his story is an escape from the fragility of true life. Real life stories about governmental agents who kill and capture terrorists are in the news every day and while many are heroic, the operations are rarely if ever accomplished entirely by a single man, and the tales are no where near as glamorous as any of the adventures of 007. I know this is going to be hard to swallow so I’ll try to paint the broad picture I see for you.
The change to this new style began with Casino Royale and while not my favorite of the series, the times change and I did think it was a good movie. One thing about it did bother me though; the intro. Bond movies usually start out with a gratuitous yet artful display of sex and violence in the introduction to the film and the opener for Casino Royale was absolutely devoid of sex. I didn’t think much of it, but it bothered me that they broke with tradition and went in a more “politically correct” direction. After I saw the intro to Quantum of Solace I felt a bit relieved to see that they had replaced some of the sex in the intro, but something about it was different. It had an aura of a 60 acid trip. Yeah I know, they all do but this one was... The only way I can think of to describe it was that it reminded me a little bit of an early David Bowie video. Although I admit that I probably would have dismissed it if the movie that followed didn't piss me off so much. It is also worth mentioning that Quantum of Solace had none of the usual Bond trademark one-liners and I didn't hear the 007 theme music play anywhere in the film.
The first propagandistic thing I noticed about Quantum of Solace was that there were hydrogen fuel cell cars all over the place. I counted at least 3 of them in completely geographically separate areas Bond visited while traversing the globe hunting villains. This is an obvious plug for alternative energy if not for environmental legislation. While I do find this bit of environmentalist propaganda troubling, it doesn't necessarily spoil the movie for me. The next thing I noticed was that all of the main bad guys in the movie were rich capitalist businessmen belonging to some sort of yet undisclosed illuminati type organization. This bothers me more. I get so sick of media elitists trying to shove down my throat the idea that the rich businessmen are the bad guys. That left a bad taste in my mouth but the thing that really put me off was a short fairly unrelated scene depicting CIA agents making deals to ignore corrupt governments in exchange for oil. (As if a CIA agent would have either the power or the desire to make such a deal. Such an act would be career suicide and even if they were to get away with it they would recieve no personal benefit from it. The only person who would conceivably be involved in this situation would be a politician who could brag about the posative implications to the voters.) Contrast that with the CIA agents in the other 007 films who were depicted as cowboys, but they were good guys who would often work with James Bond. Clearly the change reflects on the way that these elitist snob filmmakers see the world. Oh and there was one more thing; you know how traditionally in American films the bad guys always demand payment in U.S. dollars? Well in this movie they pay in Euros and make a point to say that “the dollar isn’t what it once was” which as Antwaan points out, is factually inaccurate; The dollar has been increasing in value against the Euro for the past few months.
I’m through funding people who tear down both my country and the capitalist system that supports their own livelihoods by telling the entire world that the United States is a corrupt and decaying nation. They corrupted one of my favorite symbols of western patriotism and turned him into an anti-American piece of propaganda.
This means war.
November 16, 2008 - Update:
Unfortunate; Quantum of Solace breaks franchise record
That means we're in for more of this crap.
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Re: They propagandized 007 (Score: 1)
by antwaan on Sunday, November 16 @ 17:07:58 EST
(User Info ) | | I saw the movie and was also disapponted in its blatant liberal propaganda. You forgot to mention that, following the comment that the dollar is not what it once was, the bad guys stated that "this is the cost of war."
The interesting point is this: when the movie was being made over the last several months, the bad guys would have had as much as $1.6 million per 1 million Euro that they received (I cannot remember what the actual amount of their transaction was). Due to the GLOBAL financial crisis, the US Dollar has strengthened greatly, with the USD/EUR exchange rate nearing its lowest (read: strongest) point in the last 5-years. By the way, with the exchange rate hitting about 1.25 USD/EUR this past week, we are getting close to the 1.18 exchange rate that the Euro was introduced at in 1999. At current exchange rates the bad guys' $1.6 million equivalent would have dropped to about $1.25 million. Let's just say that their transaction was in the amount of 200 million Euro... in the last 4 months or so, the bad guys would have LOST about $70 MILLION. Shows what the bad guys (and the idiots in Hollywood) know about worldwide economies.
It should also be noted that the Eurozone is technically in recession - according to the traditional definition of 2 consecutive quarters of economic contraction. The US economy, while weak, has not technically reached the point of recession. |
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