Amazon-produced 007 movie pits Bond against fulfillment center workers who want to unionize
Amazon-produced 007 movie pits Bond against fulfillment center workers who want to unionize
SEATTLE, WA – With Amazon now holding the rights to the 007 film franchise, the company’s CEO, Jeff Bezos, announced the first movie will pit Bond against his greatest enemy yet: ungrateful workers in fulfillment centers who want to unionize.
I ate the onion. This is on point.
Uh, brb, I’m off to write & submit a movie script…
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.
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.
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."
Oh shit, I bit that onion a tad too hard. What has the world come to?
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.
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.
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…
Ah, you got me. It was just cartoon villain enough.
lmao I would absolutely watch a satire like this.
Does anyone know if any series ever satired itself? Especially with the same actors?
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
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.
Almost ate the onion with this one 😅
Just going to be a lot of shitty careless union workers that Amazon can't terminate.
Before you say "living wage", they'd still be shitty careless workers.