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

[Henry M]

Your name-calling crazy-talk conflation barely deserves an answer.
How can you read Pynchon and not appreciate the nuances of appropriate
actions.

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


On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 10:12 AM, <mfarcas at mail.com> wrote:
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> >Bond was pretty much always fighting against totalitarians.
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> Alright then. So gangsterism, as long as is fighting "totalitarians" is, according to you, acceptable!
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> I am really seduced by your rationale, Henry!
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> Oh, those neocon canons, how deeply ingrained they are in the American psyche! I should have known.
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> You cannot do without them, can you?
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> For Bond the Englishman is actually as American(ized)  as John Wayne, Arnie Schwartzeneger or Sly Stalone
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> all clean shaven right wingers (Arnie hailing straight from an Austrian Nazi family).
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> Perhaps you feel obliged (out of patriotism) to defend/condone them.
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> Old or newer Cold War Warriors of the old (or recycled) school. Pure vintage products of the (post)McCarthysm
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> As nauseating as their Commie counterparts, if not more, littering the screens periodically with their  cliché-ridden
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> 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
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> (as did Arnie).
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> 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?)
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> 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
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> 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?)
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> Anyway...
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> M. Farcas <mfarcas at mail.com>
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> -----Original Message-----
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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
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> 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.
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> AsB4,
> ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
> Henry Mu
> http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20
>
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 7:50 AM,  <mfarcas at mail.com> wrote:
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> >>When you think about it, why does Bond need to specify "not stirred"
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> > when he's already asked for his martini to be shaken.  What a fascist!
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> > 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.
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> > And the choice of actors (more and more macho-agressive lately, think Daniel
> > Craig and his frozen mask-like facial muscles) fits the tableau.
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> > There is something of a steely, helmet wearing Wermacht soldier about DC in
> > spite of the actor wearing civilian clothes.
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> >