"Of course I do not regret the Bond days, I regret that sadly heroes in general are depicted with guns in their hands, and to tell the truth I have always hated guns and what they represent"
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Moore threads a needle that only a long-lived pop icon can: he refuses to disown the role that made him immortal, while quietly indicting the cultural machinery that role helped lubricate. “Of course I do not regret the Bond days” is a preemptive charm offensive, the kind of gentlemanly disclaimer that keeps the fanbase from reaching for pitchforks. He knows Bond isn’t just a character; it’s a global franchise of aspiration. So he starts with gratitude, then pivots to the moral hangover.
The real target isn’t James Bond so much as the shorthand of heroism itself. “Sadly heroes in general are depicted with guns in their hands” lands like a weary observation, not a lecture. Moore frames it as an industry default: violence as visual punctuation, the firearm as a costume piece that instantly communicates competence, masculinity, authority. That “sadly” does heavy lifting, casting the gun not as thrilling but as a failure of imagination - a prop that narrows what courage can look like.
His final confession, “I have always hated guns and what they represent,” pulls the critique out of abstract media theory and into personal ethics. It’s disarming precisely because it comes from the man who held the Walther PPK with effortless cool. The subtext is accountability without self-flagellation: you can be proud of the work and still question the cultural aftershocks. In an era of real-world gun violence and increasing scrutiny of entertainment’s aesthetics of force, Moore’s line reads less like revisionism and more like late-career clarity.
The real target isn’t James Bond so much as the shorthand of heroism itself. “Sadly heroes in general are depicted with guns in their hands” lands like a weary observation, not a lecture. Moore frames it as an industry default: violence as visual punctuation, the firearm as a costume piece that instantly communicates competence, masculinity, authority. That “sadly” does heavy lifting, casting the gun not as thrilling but as a failure of imagination - a prop that narrows what courage can look like.
His final confession, “I have always hated guns and what they represent,” pulls the critique out of abstract media theory and into personal ethics. It’s disarming precisely because it comes from the man who held the Walther PPK with effortless cool. The subtext is accountability without self-flagellation: you can be proud of the work and still question the cultural aftershocks. In an era of real-world gun violence and increasing scrutiny of entertainment’s aesthetics of force, Moore’s line reads less like revisionism and more like late-career clarity.
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