I just saw a video on YouTube proposing the Top 10 Actresses Who Could Play James Bond. The obvious answer is none, but that would make for a very short video. Though I like all the actresses listed and think each and every one of them could make a great agent in MI-6, none of them can be James Bond. Just like none of them can be Winston Churchill, Alfred the Great, or King Arthur. The point is that filmmakers today lack the talent to create an original secret agent who could get the kind of audience that the name James Bond attracts.
As described by Ian Fleming, Bond looked like Hoagy Carmichael, an American composer and actor. He also had a scar on his cheek, which has been ignored in the movies. He was not a woman. He was not black. If you want to make a James Bond who is not a white male, create your own damned character! Eidos wanted to have a female Indiana Jones and rocked it with Lara Croft. Do that. Make the female version of Bond, but don't have some actress deliver the line, "Bond, James Bond." At least the Ghostbusters reboot had the decency to have different characters, not a female Venkman, Stantz, Spengler, and Zeddemore. Make a movie about 006 or 008 but leave 007 alone.
If this travesty does come to pass, I want to start seeing videos of Top 10 Actors Who Could Play Lara Croft, Modesty Blaze, or Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Or how about Nancy Drew, Katniss Everdeen, or Pippi Longstocking? Of course, I find all of those suggestions equally ludicrous.
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