The James Bond series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming. Fleming based his fictional creation on a number of individuals he came across during his time in the Naval Intelligence Division and 30 Assault Unit during the Second World War. Since Fleming’s death in 1964, eight other authors have written authorised Bond novels or novelisations. The films are the longest continually running film series of all time and have grossed over US$7. 04 billion in total.
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The James Bond series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming. Fleming based his fictional creation on a number of individuals he came across during his time in the Naval Intelligence Division and 30 Assault Unit during the Second World War. Since Fleming’s death in 1964, eight other authors have written authorised Bond novels or novelisations: Kingsley Amis, Christopher Wood, John Gardner, Raymond Benson, Sebastian Faulks, Jeffery Deaver, William Boyd and Anthony Horowitz. The films are the longest continually running film series of all time and have grossed over US$7. 04 billion in total, making it the sixth-highest-grossing film series to date. As of 2020, there have been twenty-four films in the Eon Productions series. The most recent Bond film, Spectre, stars Daniel Craig in his fourth portrayal of Bond; he is the sixth actor to play Bond in theEon series. There have also been two independent productions of Bond films: Casino Royale and Never Say Never Again. In 2015 the series was estimated to be worth USD 19. 9 billion, making James Bond one of the highest- grossing media franchises of alltime. The name James Bond came from that of the American ornithologist James Bond, a Caribbean bird expert and author of the definitive field guide Birds of the West Indies. Fleming, a keen birdwatcher himself, had a copy of Bond’s guide and he later explained that this brief, unromantic, Anglo-Saxon and yet very masculine name was just what I needed, and so a second James Bond was born.
Fleming decided that Bond should resemble both American singer Hoagy Carmichael and Vesper Lynd, but there is something cold and ruthless and ruthless about Bond as well as a certain good-looking Officer Gala Branda. Bond’s tastes are often taken from Fleming’s own, including the same brand of toiletries for scrambled eggs and using the same golf handicap for scrambled scrambled eggs, for example. Fleming said that he wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened; he wanted him to be a blunt instrument. On another occasion, Fleming said: “I wanted the simplest, dullest, plainest-sounding name I could find, ‘James Bond’ was much better than something more interesting, like ‘Peregrine Carruthers’”. Bond is an intelligence officer in the Secret Intelligence Service, commonly known as MI6. He is known by his code number, 007, and was a Royal Naval Reserve Commander. He has been involved in behind-the-lines operations in Norway and Greece during the war. Other important elements which run through most of the films include Bond’s cars, his guns, and the gadgets with which he is supplied by Q Branch. The Bond films are renowned for the musical accompaniment, with the theme songs having received Academy Award nominations on several occasions, and two wins. Bond’s relationships with various women, who are sometimes referred to as ‘Bond girls’
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