James Bond trigger warnings have been blasted as a “waste of time” by Nigel Farage in a fiery analysis.
The GB News presenter took issue with the British Film Institute who have slapped classic 007 productions with warnings.
According to the BFI, they could offend modern audiences.
The organisation, which is tasked with preserving British cinema, has added the warning across movies in the Ian Fleming franchise.
Nigel Farage has criticised the trigger warning
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Speaking on GB News, Farage accused the organisation of wrapping audiences up in cotton wool.
“Would you believe that the BFI now want to put a trigger warning on James Bond films?”, he asked.
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“I am told that the material in these films may cause offence. Oh dear.
“We are all to be wrapped in cotton wool and protected from different opinions and the outside world.
“Or social norms fifty or sixty years ago. What a waste of time.”
The BFI has warned on its website: “Please note that many of these films contain language, images or other content that reflect views prevalent in its time, but will cause offence today (as they did then).
“The titles are included here for historical, cultural or aesthetic reasons and these views are in no way endorsed by the BFI or its partners.”
The blanket trigger warning is not only being applied to Bond, with the BFI also adding the warning to Sir Michael Caine films Deadfall and The Ipcress File.
1960 crime classic Never Let Go is also included.
Farage is not the only figure to take aim at the decision, with radio personality Mike Parry branding it “ludicrous”.
“Part of it says that the warning on the raft of 1960s films being offensive, they were also offensive then in the ’60s.
“No! I lived in the ’60s, I can tell you I was not offended to see James Bond assuming the identity of an oriental person because he was working in Japan.”
