 Encore Presents 'True Bond: Ian Fleming's Inspiration For 007', Followed by a 52 hour 007 film marathon |
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Commander RNVR Group: Commanding Officers Enlisted: 26 June 2003 From: New York  |
29 May 2007 - 20:38
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Now on the CBn main page...
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Commodore RNVR Group: The Admiralty Enlisted: 8 October 2001 From: 38.6902N - 89.9816W |
29 May 2007 - 20:41
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Hopefully they’ll be showing these in widescreen. I’ve noticed Encore Action has been showing the Bond films in letterbox on Sunday evenings.
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Commander GCMG Group: Veterans Reserve. Enlisted: 5 June 2001 From: Lagrimas Negras |
29 May 2007 - 20:41
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How many people have been claimed as Fleming's "inspiration" or model for Bond?
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Commander RNVR Group: Commanding Officers Enlisted: 26 June 2003 From: New York |
29 May 2007 - 23:09
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QUOTE(zencat @ 29 May 2007 - 16:41)  How many people have been claimed as Fleming's "inspiration" or model for Bond? Based on the new articles covering this topic over the past two years or so, I'd say the number is around 40. ~ Nobody Knows Me Like You Know Me ~ 'People Look Up. Things Fall Down. And When It Rains, It Pours' Moving at the speed of life, we are bound to collide with each other ♦ ♦ ♦ Are You Ready To Go? ♦ ♦ ♦ |
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Commander Group: Veterans Enlisted: 10 February 2002 |
30 May 2007 - 01:38
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QUOTE(zencat @ 29 May 2007 - 20:41) How many people have been claimed as Fleming's "inspiration" or model for Bond? No kidding. I remember in my early days of collecting getting a magazine Marvel Comics used to put out called Pizzaz or something like that. They did an article on some guy who was supposedly Fleming's inspiration for Bond. What caught my eye at the time was they took one of Moore's poses from TSWLM and put a beard on him like the guy used to have. That article is still in my collection somewhere. "You didn't think I'd miss this performance, did you?"
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Lt. Commander Group: Veterans Enlisted: 11 March 2006 |
30 May 2007 - 05:33
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AWARD FOR NERDIEST FAN FICTION: In Jacques Stewart's magnum opus Just Another Kill, Bond contemplates eating his victim: "Meat. All the man was. All the man would be. Lowering his right eye (?) to the greased rim of the sniper's glass, James Bond rationalised, so far as he needed to, that meat was all that the man, still standing on the shoreline, had ever been." And it goes ON! Thanks Jacques Stewart, you meathead!
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Commander CMG Group: Veterans Enlisted: 3 May 2004 |
30 May 2007 - 12:51
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QUOTE(zencat @ 29 May 2007 - 20:41) How many people have been claimed as Fleming's "inspiration" or model for Bond? Loads! And while I think he undoubtedly did use some real-life people and incidents for the character, he certainly didn't use just one person. And, of course, the person Bond most resembles is Ian Fleming himself. Fleming was a suave womaniser, so that's why Bond is - nothing to do with Popov. Bond's tastes are largely Fleming's, while his character is broadly a genre archetype: the brilliant, ruthless, high-living secret agent. Hardly anyone reads those early British thrillers by E Phillips Oppenheim, William Le Queux and their like these days, but Fleming was a great fan of them, which is why in MOONRAKER Gala Brand thinks the following of 'Commander Bond. James Bond': 'He could probably shoot all right and talk foreign languages and do a lot of tricks that might be useful abroad. But what good could he do down here without any beautiful spies to make love to. Because he was certainly good-looking. (Gala Brand automatically reached into her bag for her vanity case. She examined herself in the little mirror and dabbed at her nose with a powder puff.) Rather like Hoagy Carmichael in a way. That black hair falling down over the right eyebrow. Much the same bones. But there was something a bit cruel in the mouth, and the eyes were cold. Were they grey or blue? It had been difficult to say last night. Well, at any rate she had put him in his place and shown him that she wasn't impressed by dashing young men from the Secret Service, however romantic they might look. There were just as good-looking men in the Special Branch, and they were real detectives, not just people that Phillips Oppenheim had dreamed up with fast cars and special cigarettes with gold bands on them and shoulder-holsters.' Author of FREE AGENT, out in the UK, Canada and US in spring 2009 |
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Sub-Lieutenant Group: Crew Enlisted: 23 July 2005 From: Norfolk, VA |
30 May 2007 - 13:46
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I always thought that Sidney Riley was Fleming's inspiration for Bond, at least in part.
"I am proposing to stay here and fight until the bloody barrel drops off." -CDR Christopher Craig, RN Captain, H.M.S. ALACRITY 07 June 1982 off the Falkland Is. |
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Commander Group: Veterans Enlisted: 24 November 2006 From: Pennsylvania USA |
31 May 2007 - 00:44
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QUOTE(Mister Asterix @ 29 May 2007 - 16:41) Hopefully they’ll be showing these in widescreen. I’ve noticed Encore Action has been showing the Bond films in letterbox on Sunday evenings. I agree -- widescreen would be very nice. I saw part of LALD very early this morning on Encore Mystery & it was in full screen.  |
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Commander Group: Veterans Enlisted: 20 July 2002 From: Washington D.C.. USA |
9 June 2007 - 01:38
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Just saw the trailer for TRUE BOND on Encore...It looks pretty sweet.
 I'll definately TiVo it.
 Robert Brown was Admiral Hargreaves in TSWLM, OP, AVTAK, TLD and LTK damnit Enforcer, Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Roger Moore Proud defender of Barbara Bach, Carole Bouquet, Barbara Carrera, Maryam D'Abo, A View to a Kill, Never Say Never Again and The Spy Who Loved Me. |
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Commander Group: Veterans Enlisted: 20 July 2002 From: Washington D.C.. USA |
22 June 2007 - 18:39
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Just a reminder that this TRUE BOND special airs tonight on ENCORE.
Followed by a "007 in '07" marathon.
Robert Brown was Admiral Hargreaves in TSWLM, OP, AVTAK, TLD and LTK damnit Enforcer, Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Roger Moore Proud defender of Barbara Bach, Carole Bouquet, Barbara Carrera, Maryam D'Abo, A View to a Kill, Never Say Never Again and The Spy Who Loved Me. |
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Commander RNVR Group: Commanding Officers Enlisted: 26 June 2003 From: New York |
23 June 2007 - 00:54
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Let us know how it is, Dlib.
~ Nobody Knows Me Like You Know Me ~ 'People Look Up. Things Fall Down. And When It Rains, It Pours' Moving at the speed of life, we are bound to collide with each other ♦ ♦ ♦ Are You Ready To Go? ♦ ♦ ♦ |
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Sub-Lieutenant Group: Crew Enlisted: 30 December 2002 From: Atlanta |
23 June 2007 - 04:36
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I was not impressed with True Bond. Maybe going in I was biased because of all the other "true life" spies that claim to have been the basis for Bond. First, the editing. The filmmakers took footage from the trailers for the Bond films (and I use "trailers" liberally because some of the footage used was actual film scenes put through Adobe Premiere to appear worn out) and spliced them into various places of the documentary about Dusko Popov to hold the audience's interest. Then, in order to provide some commentary about Bond, they hire "film critics." The only Bond historian interviewed was Andrew Lycett, and he was only referenced when asserting whether or not Fleming was acquainted with Popov.
True Bond could have been an amazing documentary on Popov without all the Bond references. I assume Encore couldn't afford to produce an authentic documentary about Bond, so they did the next best thing. Unfortunately, it wasn't all that enthralling. |
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