Yesterday’s News Today
On this
day in 1900 the ornithologist James Bond was born. Bond wrote what was
considered to be the definitive book on birds of the West Indies and it was upon
seeing this book on his shelf in Jamaica that Ian Fleming decided that James
Bond would be an a good nondescript name for the English spy protagonist of
Casino Royale.
And now
the news:
There was a theory, about the Bond films, that the
name James Bond was a codename given to certain agents like the designation 007
and this was why there were several different Bonds. Basically when the actor
changed the previous James Bond had either died or retired much in the same way
as M and Q are succeeded by what are stated to be different people as the films
progress. I really liked this theory and I enjoyed telling it to people along
with “Star Wars is about the rise and fall of Anakin”, “The briefcase contains
Marcellus' soul” and “Mary Poppins wasn't magical at all but encouraged the
children to use their imagination in the retelling of their exploits to their
father so the whole film is seen through Mr Bank's eyes and is about him leaning
to love his children through their stories”. Unfortunately the most recent and
best Bond film “Skyfall” proved that theory 100% wrong. Here's the
trailer:
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