pupmaster is completely 110% right when she says that if the Professionals were remade today that there would look drastically different. Infact I can see it now.
Professionals cast 2006:
Bodie: This part is gonna be played a late 20's early 30's white guy, or more specifically an second generation Afrikaan who's father was a prominent figure in the Apartheid. Thus, he's gonna be the very definition of what an enlightened new age man is supposed to be all about. Tolerant, passive, wrought with guilt, and will have no outspoken opinions (except in things dealing with "white man on" *insert minority* situations which will rightfully enrage him beyond belief). In keeping with the general flow, he will also despise Christianity and will, coincidentally, be a closet homosexual. Regular snippets of the show will be devoted to dealing with Bodie's plight, showing the audience how homosexuals are treated on the obstacles they face.
Doyle: This part is gonna be played by a black guy in his late 20's and early 30's. His background will constitue something along the lines of being the target of racial abuse while coming up the ranks, thus making his plight all the more triumphant and making him all the more heroic. There will be subtle and regular snippets of the show dealing with the racism he has to put up with, only to triumph over it at the finale with the help of his best pal and partner Bodie. In keeping with the spirit, he will also keep a Korean girlfriend.
Cowley: This part is gonna be played by a 60 something woman who is the product of an interracial marriage between an English male and a Pakistani Muslim female. Every episode she will be seen being frustrated by the old (white) boy beuracracy who look to remove her from her position on either racial or sexual grounds, which she ofcourse cannot stand, but she will ofcourse always get the last laugh and will always come out triumphant thus reminding us of the glory that is feminism wrapped around a healthy dose of multi culturalism.
It ofcourse goes without saying that the bad guys will almost exlusively be all white and male, ranging from Neo Nazi skin heads, white power terrorists, rapists, serial killers, pedophiles and Eastern Europeans. The good guys will ofcourse constitue a literal multi cultural salad bowl of women, blacks, asians, jews and muslims who will overwhelmingly dominate positions in MI6(SIS), GCHQ, MI5, DIS, SAS, SBS, and various other Anti Terrorism organisations both domestic and abroad. Infact, you can be more than sure that there will be women in the SAS because as we all know, "women have come a long way since then" and ofcourse it's completely realistic because that's just how it is in the real world. Afterall why else would this show, and all other shows like it, be made other than to illustrate to the audience that such things do, in reality, happen? We all know that women in are in ambudance in military and anti terrorism units, popular media does not lie, and to admit otherwise is just plain sexism.
Anyway I'm sure it would be a big hit.
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19 years ago
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strangepeople
19 years ago
Nice one gordon3-1, but you left out the token disabled person. I hope to God they never remake The Professionals (again), leave it be. Can you imagine a remake of the Sweeney? Liberal heads would explode just trying to work it out.
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