But not zero racism, and there will also still be some classic Bond misogyny
that newly edited versions of Ian Fleming’s James Bond books are going to be released in honor of the series’ 70th anniversary, but there are some twists here beyond what happened with Dahl—namely that Fleming’s books are being altered so their lessThe changes all seem to be specifically related to Fleming’s depiction of Black people, withsaying that the N-word has been “almost entirely expunged” and replaced with “Black person,” though direct references to a character’s ethnicity have been...
where Bond’s impression of people in the African diamond trade has been changed from “pretty law-abiding chaps I should have thought, except when they’ve drunk too much” to “ pretty law-abiding chaps I should have thought.” Also, a scene where everybody gets horned up at a nightclub in Harlem is changed from “Bond could hear the audience panting and grunting like pigs at the trough” to “Bond could sense the electric tension in the room.
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