Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond
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Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond
Berry 2013-12-30, 01:49
FLEMING: THE MAN WHO WOULD BE BOND (BBC America), Jan. 29
The miniseries about 007′s creator would seem like a male fantasy as outsized as any James Bond movie — if most of this stuff didn’t really happen. Yes, Fleming really ordered his endless martinis shaken, not stirred, bedded one gorgeous woman after another, and lived in a Jamaican retreat called GoldenEye. No, he didn’t really battle Soviet spies like Bond did. But did outwit Nazis. Dominic Cooper’s take on Fleming might be a little too glamorous. But the reality was plenty glamorous, too.
The miniseries about 007′s creator would seem like a male fantasy as outsized as any James Bond movie — if most of this stuff didn’t really happen. Yes, Fleming really ordered his endless martinis shaken, not stirred, bedded one gorgeous woman after another, and lived in a Jamaican retreat called GoldenEye. No, he didn’t really battle Soviet spies like Bond did. But did outwit Nazis. Dominic Cooper’s take on Fleming might be a little too glamorous. But the reality was plenty glamorous, too.
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Re: Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond
Banjo 2013-12-30, 14:10
Fleming worked in British Intelligence during WWII, I don't remember the details.
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The one thing that some of us regret is that in the Bond movies, especially the early ones, the producers never saw fit to have Bond drive the car that he did in the books, the 1930 (I think it was) 4.5 litre "Blower Bentley", so named because it was supercharged with the 'blower' situated in front of the radiator in plain sight between the "dumb irons". I apologize for using automotive British-isms but there is no other accurate way....
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The one thing that some of us regret is that in the Bond movies, especially the early ones, the producers never saw fit to have Bond drive the car that he did in the books, the 1930 (I think it was) 4.5 litre "Blower Bentley", so named because it was supercharged with the 'blower' situated in front of the radiator in plain sight between the "dumb irons". I apologize for using automotive British-isms but there is no other accurate way....
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