Happy James Bond Day!

[SocialDemocrat61]

Today is Global James Bond Day. It marks the anniversary of Dr No's 1962 premiere.

#JamesBond #dates #OTD

— The James Bond Dossier (@007dossier.bsky.social) 2025-10-05T07:13:21.861Z

[GreatGazoo]

1. Cold War propaganda in its most entertaining format

plus California surf guitar with drippy tank reverb. What a combo.

[EX500rider]

2. I don't know about Cold War propaganda

The enemy was rarely the Soviets more often "Specter"

[SocialDemocrat61]

4. Or a rich white man

who owned a large company.

[GreatGazoo]

6. Bond films were funded in part by the British government

as part of soft power efforts.

This is also where 007 fits in for Anthony. “We’re funding films, and the films should support our global brand in the era of globalization,” he says. “As regards James Bond, I had this bit in the book because it strikes me that Britain is not a hard power country anymore. They’re not really a military power, but it still has a big reputation for spying.

Good overview of the 100+ year relationship between British cinema and influence operations:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/british-propaganda-film-interview-james-bond-the-crown-1236046454/

[PCIntern]

3. The film Goldfinger changed my life....

At age 11 I realized that there were a whole lot of possibilities beyond “normalcy” which was the prevailing ethos in tv and film. This was FANTASTIC!

When they reissued the first two films as a double bill, I made my mom drive me forty miles to see them. I was enthralled. I bought all the paperbacks and read the two novels serialized in Playboy so I could read them before the paperback editions -we couldn’t afford hard back books routinely in those days.

My first and only fandom.

[orangecrush]

5. Jane Bond

[SocialDemocrat61]

7. That's a fake

And it's not happening.

[orangecrush]

8. All through history it happened

Back to Rahab in the old testament.

In WW2 women served in the most dangerous roles imaginable in the British intelligence services and OSS.

Some of them were tortured to death or died in the camps.

Those women served in combat positions when women weren't "permitted" to serve in combat.

That is the point I am making.

[SocialDemocrat61]

9. Fine

Then say that directly.
But the point I'm making is that the pic you posted is a complete fake and no plans have been announced to change the character of James Bond from a man to a woman.