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Amazon-produced 007 movie pits Bond against fulfillment center workers who want to unionize (www.thebeaverton.com)
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[-] johny@feddit.org 4 points 4 hours ago

Yeah it would be terrible if James Bond was used as some kind of cheap propaganda tool. Could you imagine James Bond - a sexyfied whitewashed secret agent of a globe-spanning colonial empire - being used as propaganda. What a world that would be…

[-] whydudothatdrcrane@lemmy.ml 12 points 17 hours ago

Oh shit, I bit that onion a tad too hard. What has the world come to?

[-] BurningRiver@beehaw.org 5 points 13 hours ago

So a quick thought experiment. If Bezos personally funded another $300,000,000 Amazon Bond flop out of his own pocket, he could actually do that almost 700 more times before he was only a singular billionaire.

[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 47 points 22 hours ago

I ate the onion. This is on point.

Uh, brb, I’m off to write & submit a movie script…

[-] zephorah@lemm.ee 17 points 22 hours ago

I ate it too. In China, they do this with their cinema, and I partook heavily of that product for many years, so it felt familiar.

[-] SARGE@startrek.website 21 points 21 hours ago

I legitimately expect there to be something negative about unions in it. Whether it's a "corrupt union boss" or a union strike blamed for something bad happening.

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 17 points 21 hours ago

I feel like they might be more clever than that. They will make it organized crime, make them incompetent mooks being manipulated by some fake humanitarian that is funneling charity into evil. Then a tech oligarch will help Bond at a critical time, and they'll be like "It's a good thing this small business owner happened to have a billion dollars that he earned through legitimate, moral effort."

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 13 points 23 hours ago

Think about this; "Thunderball" and "Goldfinger" where Bond assaults women with impunity were considered fine for kids to watch, and even generated children's toys.

https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/1966-gilbert-toys-catalog-james-bond-man-from-u-n-c-l-e-honey-west/

[-] melomelo@ttrpg.network 8 points 20 hours ago

Heck, there was a toy Xenomorph for 1979's Alien too! And that was even weirder because Alien was R rated and theoretically no children should have been allowed to watch it.

[-] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 9 points 19 hours ago

We had that toy as kids. We never saw the movie (still haven't to this day), we just thought it was cool.

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 1 points 7 hours ago

This is a good story.

Back when it first came out, "Steve" was at a party and heard some people talking about the movie. He hadn't seen it, and politely listened. He heard the entire plot, including all the twists and a dozen spoilers. Later that week he was with another group and they decided they wanted to see the movie. Steve didn't want to spoil everyone's fun, so he went, even though he thought he'd be bored.

Later, he wrote about how, even knowing the plot and the surprises, he was still on the edge of his seat for the whole movie.

There's a reason people are still talking about this decades old movie.

[-] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 2 points 6 hours ago

Funny enough I haven't actually heard a single spoiler for it. I only vaguely know about it, and it's been on my "maybe watch if I have nothing else one day" list for at least a few years. I haven't actively avoided it, but I haven't actively tried to seek it out either. I'll get to it one day, spoiled or not.

Good story in any case.

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 2 points 5 hours ago

If and when, you'll probably realize that you've been watching spoilers for years and didn't get the connection.

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 4 points 22 hours ago

Ah, you got me. It was just cartoon villain enough.

[-] robbinhood@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

lmao I would absolutely watch a satire like this.

Does anyone know if any series ever satired itself? Especially with the same actors?

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 6 points 21 hours ago

Ian Fleming crated the characters in "The Man From UNCLE" Napoleon Solo and April Dancer. The UNCLE shows were pretty tongue-in-cheek.

[-] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 hours ago

TIL

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 2 points 5 hours ago

[nsfw] there's an episode of Mad Men where young Sally Draper finds her womanhood while watching a young David McCallum fighting the forces of evil.

[-] Infynis@midwest.social 5 points 21 hours ago

There are a lot of things close to that in scifi. The Starship Troopers movie is a satire of the book it's based on, and the Orville is a satire of Star Trek with a lot of Trek actors taking part.

The pinnacle of self-parody though is, of course, Star Trek: Lower Decks

[-] Kompressor@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

They're going to modernize plots of old unionization climaxes where they were like "if you won't acknowledge our union we're going to fucking blow up the factory and you will have nothing" and they'll twist it in to a sob story about how the unions are terrorists and how the factory owner has a family and children and :'(. Surprised more of it hasn't already happened lol.

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