Re: James Bond was a neo-fascist gangster, says John Le Carré

[mfarcas at mail.com]

>Bond was pretty much always fighting against totalitarians.



Alright then. So gangsterism, as long as is fighting "totalitarians" is, according to you, acceptable!
I am really seduced by your rationale, Henry! 
Oh, those neocon canons, how deeply ingrained they are in the American psyche! I should have known.
You cannot do without them, can you?
For Bond the Englishman is actually as American(ized)  as John Wayne, Arnie Schwartzeneger or Sly Stalone
all clean shaven right wingers (Arnie hailing straight from an Austrian Nazi family).
Perhaps you feel obliged (out of patriotism) to defend/condone them.
Old or newer Cold War Warriors of the old (or recycled) school. Pure vintage products of the (post)McCarthysm 
As nauseating as their Commie counterparts, if not more, littering the screens periodically with their  cliché-ridden
fantasies, real spies, denouncers, moles or actors casted in spooky, cheeesy roles or sometimes both of these, sometimes turning to proper reality and even grabbing actual power
(as did Arnie).
I think that LeCarre is spot on and we should not alter his words (out of fear or opportunism or not to upset who knows who really?)
Living on the other side of the Pond, in London precisely, in partly Liberal ruled country, I obviously feel more inclined to call a spade a spade
than many timorous an American are (in the aftermath of those long eight years of neocon-ism and cautiously preparing for who knows what? Palinism perhaps?)
Anyway...


M. Farcas <mfarcas at mail.com>
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From: Henry M <scuffling at gmail.com>
Sent: Tue, Aug 24, 2010 1:48 pm
Subject: Re: James Bond was a neo-fascist gangster, says John Le Carré


Yeah, but calling someone a fascist when they're just being bossy is
rather juvenile.  I assume that Le Carre meant fascist in the
totalitation sense, in which case I disagree with him, as Bond was
pretty much always fighting against totalitarians.

AsB4,
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Henry Mu
http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 7:50 AM,  <mfarcas at mail.com> wrote:
>
>>When you think about it, why does Bond need to specify "not stirred"
>
> when he's already asked for his martini to be shaken.  What a fascist!

> True! It is this obsolete and absurd Bond pedantry-cum-cruelty/faux
> perfectionism (which is a hallmark of Fascism/Neo Nazism) that pisses me
> off.
>
> And the choice of actors (more and more macho-agressive lately, think Daniel
> Craig and his frozen mask-like facial muscles) fits the tableau.
>
> There is something of a steely, helmet wearing Wermacht soldier about DC in
> spite of the actor wearing civilian clothes.
>
>
>
>

 
 
 
 
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