Why can't an American play James Bond?
>>220735205If he can do a convincingly authentic British accent then fine but the character has to be British
>>220735205Because he would play Felix instead.
>>220735205Could Tom Cruise play Bond if he was 10-20 years younger?
>>220735205because traditions should be respected.
>>220735264if he was taller and could do a british accent, sure. tom cruise is a good actor.
>>220735205They should do some 9 Eyes spinoffs in the same universe. Let Bond rest.
>>220735264>>220735302craig fucked up the bond heights, now any manlet can play him.
>>220735232burka women are british but dem blooody yanks arent they aughta be da bond i say
>>220735205He can under the right circumstances. Id have accepted the Cary Grant type or one with the transatlantic accentAlso someone like Fassbender with the German-Irish works for me
>>220735205james bond should be rebranded as fully american working for the cia, that way it would be at least believable. can you name a single mi6 operation, whether succesfull or not? they've always been basically a british branch of american intelligence anyway.
>>220735429>james bond should be rebranded as fully american working for the cia, that way it would be at least believable. can you name a single mi6 operation, whether succesfull or not? they've always been basically a british branch of american intelligence anyway.
>>220735429doesnt work. Americans already have this and dont like it because they need the character to be a rebel who doesnt follow orders/anti-establishment hence you have James Bourne.James Bond is disciplined and a die hard monarchist, for King and Country etc. Will always follow orders. The Craig era doesnt do this however because....its copying James Bourne
>>220735429The first mission impossible was basically that, but the sequels went retard mode
>>220735560fuck I meant Jason Bourne, obviously.
>>220735560>James Bond is disciplined and a die hard monarchist, for King and Country etc. Will always follow ordersexplain license to kill
>>220735622they killed Felix I guess. I didnt think they were so close that he was the best man at the wedding. I always preferred Living Daylights in the Dalton movies, great opening
>>220735560>James Bourne.that's the Craig era in a nutshell
>>220735622Dalton is the worst Bond so it makes sense for him to have the worst movies.
>>220735205After Felon of Troy, I fully expect Jamquavious Bondson.
>>220736012dalton was cast in the shittiest movies and was wasted, he's more disappointing than bad.daltonfags i want you to defend the afghanistan act/crazy military general in TLD and the ninjas/horny wayne newton plot NOW
>>220735205I think Americans would be more pissed off than the Bongs if an American was cast as Bond. We want Bond to be exotic and something unusual, and that means British. If I wanted to see another American I could just walk outside.
>>220736741The Living Daylight was imo kind of middling, but Licence to Kill was and is one of the best Bond films ever made. The random ninjas and goofy televangelist guy just make the film even better, they're a bit of levity thrown into a somewhat grim plot.
>>220735418>I'd have accepted the Cary Grant typeCary Grant wasn't American. He was British.He was born in Horfield, Bristol, England.
>>220735205The first actor ever to play Bond was an American, Barry Nelson, in a 1950s live TV version of "Casino Royale" opposite Peter Lorre as the villain.
>>220736847fair enough, at least you gave me an answer. i would've preferred if license was even more darker and didn't have that shit, but then it really wouldn't be a bond movie. i really feel like it should've been bond on a genuine one man vendetta, but then Q shows up and it starts feeling more in line with a normal bond movie. i guess i just wish it was darker, not craig-tier.people say it's too die hard/lethal weapon, i guess i wish it would've leaned even more into that.
>>220735205Some american should just make their own quirky gadget super agent that bangs hot chicks. I have little hope for the series. You can like the Craig movies; fine, but they arent fun like ones of the past. It takes itself too seriously and thats probably the direction they will keep going.
>>220737000That was Jimmy Bond, totally different character.
>>220737000did he take the lorry to the lift to the loo?
>>220735429>believableThis is exactly why cinema is dead. Audiences have no suspension of disbelief anymore. Also CIA agents usually just cover stuff up. They don't go on missions around the world like Ethan Hunt.
>>220735205Albert Broccoli offered Adam West the role of James Bond for Diamonds Are Forever but West rejected it because he felt James Bond should be played by an Englishman
>>220738013They use silicone masks similar to the ones in the movies.They work abroad, every US embassy is pretty much a central for spies.You are probably a glownigger.
>>220735281>THe most chaddy chad actor of all time is americanYou think?
>>220735205Because americans aren't british. Australians, New Zealanders and Canadians are though.
>>220738211this
>>220738211>Jammie bond the laid back agent of her majesty that surfs and grills on the weekend
>>220735205Bond isn't black.
>>220735205Too fat
mission impossible is what youre looking for and the first movie already surpassed bond in any way shape or form.
>>220739113Nah, James Bond is much funnier.In fact, it's much funnier than Austin Powers too, America's attempt at parodying the franchise.
>>220739151austin powers is a parody of our man flint, which is an american knock-off spy movie. There's a yo dawg in there somewhere
>>220739113Mission Impossible is just spectacle without class
>>220735429if you can name an operation carried out by a secret service then they're not very secret, are they?
>>220735205actor playing bond should be 100% englishother ethnicities just don't fit, so no americans, scots, welshmen, irishmen, australians etc.
>>220735205>Why can't an American play James Bond?Insufficient rizz.
>>220738096>every US embassyYou can take your tinfoil hat off now anon.
>>220735205Because Nobody Does it Better
>>220735281This chad was also American.
when is the last time they made an action movie about an original character?
>>220741018Why do Americans have so many photographs of shirtless men saved on their computers?
>>220741074>theyThe British?
>>220741080You don't get the joke, do you.
>>220735205
>>220736741TLD is the most grounded Bond in the entire franchise.
>>220741074Does Jason Statham playing the same but different guy in a dozen films count?
>>220735205British mafia wouldn't allow in Hollywood just like movies about American revolution
>>220735205if british men can play superman and spiderman, an American man can play James Bond
no-one wants a jew Bond
>>220742564Actually not the case at all.British actors can generally learn american accents. Americans are consistently terrible at british accents.
>Circumcised BondNope, Bond is not a jew slave.
>>220742603I'd prefer a jew bond over a brown bond. Many of the jews are white-passing.
>every single discussion on casting on r*ddit and TikTok is full of women who don't even watch James Bond pushing Dev Patel and Idris Elba or whatever brown man they are currently fetishizing why do they do this?
>>220735205Several Americans have been in the running for James Bond in the past. Josh Brolin's dad is one
>>220742855It's just white women virtue signaling
>>220735205I guess one could, but it's kind of a pride thing. Like you wouldn't cast a Brit to play Captain America.
I'm against it, but I'd make an exception for if they got Adam West back in the 70s
>>220735418This makes sense. The Bond films owe a lot to North By Northwest.
>>220735429>can you name a single mi6 operationthey're the SECRET service for a reasonalso, that's just Mission Impossible innit?
>>220735205because he's supposed to be the good guy
>>220735560>>220735622He does not always follow orders, and Licence to Kill isn't the only time he sort of goes rogue. He is 100% always loyal to king and country, that's non-negotiable, but he'll still bend the rules, go off script, and generally do whatever he thinks is necessary to get the job done (or avenge his friend as in LTK) even if he thinks it means stuffing his orders.
>>220736741There is nothing wrong with the Afghanistan act, I don't know why so many people hate it. I'll give you that the main villain sucks, but it's just part of that Bond curse that doesn't let any one single movie be perfect. At least he's not in it very much.Ninjas in LTK are kind of silly, but after the initial shock on first viewing, they happen so quick and so briefly that I don't think it detracts too much from the tone of that movie. The Wayne Newton stuff is awesome though, I wish he was in it more.
>>220742564You don't understand. It's a one way straight.An Englishman can easily tone down his rizz to play an American.You simply can't turn up what you don't have.
