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James Bond, the
Men in Black and Our Mind
Attending
a death of a person is not easy. Seeing someone actually die is not something a
lot of people do every day. Being in
attendance at that last breath is not one that you will seek out as
entertainment – I am sure.
Yet
in my life time I have been there all too often at that moment when the last
breath was breathed by a fellow human being.
There
are a million emotions that you will go through at this extreme moment in your
lifetime when and if it happens to you.
But most of us expect that this will happen only when we get old – or at
least when we are adults.
Death
is real and it happens, but for the most part we try to protect our children
from seeing it take place. In fact many
will go the limit to prevent kids from attending a funeral of a loved one.
So
why talk about death in this way? Well I
want to make the real world that we live in come to the surface of your mind
when you think of the next bit of information… James Bond in the movies.
The
Guardian News Paper published a great story that I read this morning. Here
is a quote …
“So, here's the data. And it shows a total of
1,299 deaths in all the official Bond films (excluding both the early Casino
Royale's and Never Say Never Again). Of those, 352
kills were by Bond (354 if you include Never…) and 947 by others.”
Right
below the quote is a chart that they have shown with the actual body counts
made by fans of the movies. The chart
shows how many James Bond killed and how many other died in the same movie.
The
movie entitled “You only live once” has almost 200 killed by others and James
Bond does a mere 20 or so.
That
is 1,299 dead bodies in all the movies.
Someone
said the other day that they would never allow their kids to see the Harry
Potter movies because of whatever… BUT
they have watched a James Bond movie which is away worse (in my mind).
Now
don’t get me wrong. I enjoy and good old Cowboy movie that has people dropping
from horses and off chuck wagons – left, right and centre. Loads of people are shot and killed in every
Cowboy movie. Today’s Cowboys kill ‘Politically
Correct’ folk – the bad ones.. not just the Indians – which always was the way
it was in my growing up years. Loads of
Indians died at the hands of the Hero.
I
also enjoy a good action movie when space men and human men nuke it out. In one of the movies that I saw not long ago
about the ‘Men in Black 3’ where few humans died but a gazillion space critters
are blown to bits – or was that another space critter attack like ‘Cowboys and
Aliens’?
I
think I have witnessed all 1292 deaths in the James Bond series. But if I add up all the deaths in all the movies
and reruns that I have seen… it may be over half of the Earth’s Population that
I have witnessed taking their last breath.
Away
back in the 1960s I read the book entitled “On the Beach” written by Nevil
Chute – that vividly described for me World War III and the entire population
of the world was wiped out. I think the total
of people dead with that Book was about 3 Billion – unlike the 6 or 7 Billion
of today.
As
I watch the movie or play the video game I allow the nuking of a lot of
critters and people. I don’t give it any thought at all that each one is
breathing their very last breath and the spirit in them has left the building
or its residence.
My
comment with this post today is simply that we are a weird lot of people. We have become accustomed to death or may I say,
acclimatized to it. It is nothing new to see someone dead.
No,
no, no – I know you would never get like that!
But when you watch the news and another murder is described by the news
media – how do you react? If that murder
is in Toronto with another young man or women breathing their last breath… we
change channels… right? If it is in our
town or city – we ask what the address was. We simply want to know if we can
drive by the place tomorrow.
There
is nothing gruesome about death any longer. There is nothing shocking or
unusual. It is normal.
We
are a funny, weird and unusual people… or at least we have become that way.
What
do you react like when the people that will die in Syria today are snuffed with
another horrific bomb being dropped in their neighborhood? What will it matter to you when the Syrian
Soldiers are blown to bits by the people opposing them?
Change
the channel right? Oh Boy!
Murray
Lincoln
Story References
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