![]() ![]() (Milne/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Roger Moore and Jane Seymour surrounded by extras from the fictional Caribbean island of San Monique in the James Bond film Live And Let Die, 1973. ![]() These small changes of literary garnish are no different to already printed amendments – some of which Fleming himself sanctioned when Live and Let Die first hit US bookstores. To what? Not being able to be derogatory to Black people in 2023? As Ian Fleming Publications have fairly pointed out, the US editors suggested more racially sensitive changes back in 1955. ‘It’s a slippery slope!’ some have cried. Read more: James Bond books edited to remove racist references (4 min read) And certainly not when the ‘n’ word and all its sidebar bigotries were hardly acceptable parlance back in 1953. This is not actually a global call to burn Bond books. To somewhat paraphrase the opening line from the first James Bond novel Casino Royale as it approaches its seventieth anniversary, Ian Fleming Publications have been in the crosshairs of an #outrage this week as news emerged some components of the Bond novels have addressed how it is not actually 1953 anymore, following a 'sensitivity review' of the texts.įully grasping how the world has moved on from derogatory terms when presenting Black characters, stories and attitudes is not really disinfecting Commander Bond. ![]() ‘The lament and ‘woke!’ of an online panic are nauseating at three in the morning. Sean Connery as James Bond in 1962's Dr No. ![]()
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