Sean Connery’s James Bond a rapist says current director

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I was going to watch this film No time to die. Then the director started virtue signaling when people do that. They have skeletons. Not too long after he did, that he got called out!


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10088391/Raeden-Greer-claims-fired-HBO-refusing-topless.html

I think it's in poor taste to for a director to trash the franchise of a movie he/she was hired to direct. Perhaps the producers are in on this too and were on board with him saying this, but again, it's not in good taste to dump on your own franchise.

I can see the original Bond being a rapist, but I still don't think a director of a franchise should say it, because even if it's correct, you are hired to direct a movie in a franchise, and therefore, it is unprofessional to dump on the franchise, even if the comment is correct. Just because it's correct, doesn't mean that you are hired to say it, when hired to direct a movie. He should be promoting the franchise, he was hired to be a part of, not dump on it.

Does this make directors look bad in the business though, or is Hollywood all for directors dumping on their own franchises publically, if it means it will possibly attract people to see the movie more?

About the whole Bond being a rapist. It seems to me that this is possible in two of the movies, Goldfinger and Thunderball.

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But in Goldfinger, why didn't p**** Galore just knee Bond in the nuts if she really didn't want him? She seems to be an expert martial artist, and could have put up more of a fight, so is this inconsistent with her character, if she didn't want it?

Also, in Thunderball, the woman who was blackmailed by Bond into having sex was totally into it, because she was all over Bond after, even though she was blackmailed. So she was turned on by the blackmail and found it naughty, hot and arousing. So is it really rape if the women responded positively? Now it's a perfectly legit argument that the woman would not realistically respond positively.

But does in the context of those movies, is it really rape or is it just unrealistically written women more so? Also, I watched Goldfinger with my gf and she was really turned on by the rape scene, and wanted to have sex after. So is it really that bad by today's standards if a modern woman like my gf was turned on by it? Perhaps women can get into James Bond too, and it's just a fantasy to have fun with and is not meant as realistic?

But instead of the director dumping on it saying Bond's a rapist, couldn't he say something like, to enjoy the movies in their contexts, and have fun and make sure not to take them seriously, instead?

So are you telling me that a rich movie company like EON productions, combined with Columbia pictures, cannot afford in the multi-million dollar marketing to get the director to speak publically without the media having too much control over it? I mean directors all the time talk about their movies without making comments like that, so I would find that surprising.