Gus Poyet
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So what? How does that impair your ability to have an emotional investment with the character?
Because after 40 years of a legendary iconic "white" character suddenly becoming black is completely pointless and makes zero sense.
Thus I would sit there the whole time thinking this makes zero sense. Who invests emotions in such stupidity?
Pretty sure nobody invested anything emotionally into Depp's stupid portrayal of an American Indian.
However if you look at Outlaw Josey Wales for example and Chief Dan George's character in that movie he is very much a beloved character because of his legitimacy as the character.
Youre losing me here. Do 'Afro-carribean' parents have some kind of different 'traits' than Anglo-saxon ones? Traits that would dilute my emotional investment to a black Bond depiction?
Yes they have different traits. They throw black children. Obviously Mr and Mrs Bond had a white son they named James.
You obviously have zero emotional investment in James Bond as a character.
No, you commented above that people have an emotional investment with the Bond character. Your clear inference (by way of analogy in the same post) was that by changing his ethnicity this emotional investment would be diluted or changed in some manner.
Which I put to you indicates either a level of prejudice in your thinking, or an acceptance of the prejudice of others.
It indicates a non-acceptance of a stupid piece of casting.
James Bond is a white man, always has been, always should be. It's that simple.
And if anyone cast a white man as Shaft, I'd think it every bit as stupid a piece of casting.