› ›

Amazon’s first mis-step?

TroyTroy
edited October 4 in Bond 26 & Beyond Posts: 388
According to the Daily Mail, Amazon Prime has sanitised the digital posters for past Bond films, to remove the girls and guns

Arguably, this is a modernisation to avoid fetishising violence and objectivation of women. Others might say they are removing the essence of James Bond.

Hopefully this isn’t a foretaste of Amazon Bond.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15161727/James-Bond-fans-blast-woke-Amazon-007-posters.html

Comments

  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
    edited October 4 Posts: 26,550
    I bought the entire series from Prime a few years ago, they generally have bland art work, I saw the images from the link they are not great. The Goldeneye image looks terrible, Bond looks like he is holding an invisible gun.

    I have just had a look now on Prime and they have already replaced those images with images from the films, they must have read the article lol
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
    Posts: 9,396
    Quite frankly, in these times of MAGA, Amazon doing something "woke" (I think this term is stupid, no matter which side uses it, but so be it) is something to celebrate. Other than that, I don't give a [insert expletive here] about the posters being changed, as long as they keep the movies intact.
  • ShakenNotStirredShakenNotStirred San Monique
    Posts: 1,429
    Apparently they have already reverted the ‘disarming’ edits due to the backlash: https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/amazon-prime-2025-ditch-gunless-james-bond-key-art
  • talos7talos7 New Orleans
    Posts: 8,658
    This is one argument for physical media…
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    edited October 4 Posts: 19,255
    Of course the Mail made something of this, I expected nothing less. Well done Mr Page, hope you're happy.
    As ShakenNotStirred said, they've already gone (amusingly replaced with equally gun-less images).
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 24,960
    Ow, I was hoping for less violent titles too, like The Man With The Golden Pun, A View To A Shrill, and Licence To Thrill. Now I'm stuck with these offensively brutal references to weapons and murder.
  • DaltonforyouDaltonforyou The Daltonator
    edited October 4 Posts: 920
    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    Quite frankly, in these times of MAGA, Amazon doing something "woke" (I think this term is stupid, no matter which side uses it, but so be it) is something to celebrate. Other than that, I don't give a [insert expletive here] about the posters being changed, as long as they keep the movies intact.

    That's coming next. Ian Fleming's nepo baby grandchildren have already edited his books. So imagine what Amazon might do in 10-20 years. They'll come out with the unedited version of the films and another, thats more palatable for "modern" audiences. People will find an excuse to justify anything.

    Nobody could've predicted twenty years ago they would be editing Fleming's books so anything is possible.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 24,960
    Daltonforyou wrote: »
    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    Quite frankly, in these times of MAGA, Amazon doing something "woke" (I think this term is stupid, no matter which side uses it, but so be it) is something to celebrate. Other than that, I don't give a [insert expletive here] about the posters being changed, as long as they keep the movies intact.

    That's coming next. Ian Fleming's nepo baby grandchildren have already edited his books. So imagine what Amazon might do in 10-20 years. They'll come out with the unedited version of the films and another, thats more palatable for "modern" audiences. People will find an excuse to justify anything.

    It’s happened to Roald Dahl’s books as well. The difference, I think, lies in the target audience: Dahl wrote for children, while Fleming clearly did not. Either way, I resent the idea of altering an author’s original work, especially after it has been cherished by readers for decades. If current rights holders insist on making such changes, they should at least continue publishing both versions, so readers still have a choice.

    That said, I’m not a fan of the practice in any form. You can’t make insults or violence disappear simply by pretending they never existed. And you don’t educate future generations by covering their eyes with a gentler version of reality.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    Posts: 19,255
    Daltonforyou wrote: »
    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    Quite frankly, in these times of MAGA, Amazon doing something "woke" (I think this term is stupid, no matter which side uses it, but so be it) is something to celebrate. Other than that, I don't give a [insert expletive here] about the posters being changed, as long as they keep the movies intact.

    That's coming next. Ian Fleming's nepo baby grandchildren have already edited his books. So imagine what Amazon might do in 10-20 years. They'll come out with the unedited version of the films and another, thats more palatable for "modern" audiences. People will find an excuse to justify anything.

    Nobody could've predicted twenty years ago they would be editing Fleming's books so anything is possible.

    It's easy to work yourself up into a state of anger about something which hasn't happened.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
    Posts: 18,008
    DarthDimi wrote: »
    Daltonforyou wrote: »
    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    Quite frankly, in these times of MAGA, Amazon doing something "woke" (I think this term is stupid, no matter which side uses it, but so be it) is something to celebrate. Other than that, I don't give a [insert expletive here] about the posters being changed, as long as they keep the movies intact.

    That's coming next. Ian Fleming's nepo baby grandchildren have already edited his books. So imagine what Amazon might do in 10-20 years. They'll come out with the unedited version of the films and another, thats more palatable for "modern" audiences. People will find an excuse to justify anything.

    It’s happened to Roald Dahl’s books as well. The difference, I think, lies in the target audience: Dahl wrote for children, while Fleming clearly did not. Either way, I resent the idea of altering an author’s original work, especially after it has been cherished by readers for decades. If current rights holders insist on making such changes, they should at least continue publishing both versions, so readers still have a choice.

    That said, I’m not a fan of the practice in any form. You can’t make insults or violence disappear simply by pretending they never existed. And you don’t educate future generations by covering their eyes with a gentler version of reality.

    Ummm... YES!
Sign In or Register to comment.