When it comes to referendums on national identity, few are more arbitrary than the periodic debate over who should play James Bond in the next cinematic adaptations of Ian Fleming’s venerable spy franchise.
Like candidates for the Supreme Court, Bond-obsessed pundits fall into two camps: strict constructionists, who believe that every descriptive word in Fleming’s books must be adhered to directly (even though Fleming died in 1964 and, according to some media reports, the world has changed since then); and loose constructionists, who figure that Fleming wrote about spycraft and geopolitical relations in a time before cell phones, the invention of chicken tikka masala or common acceptance of the Big Bang, so maybe it’s acceptable if James Bond doesn’t directly resemble Hoagy Carmichael.
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