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BTW, Brosnan was born in County Meath in Ireland (I assume the Republic, but I'm not sure), but moved to England at a young age. Which explains his lack of accent normally, but his ability to put on a fairly convincing Irish one.
I dunno if he minds being called "British". You'd have to ask him.
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I didn't even KNOW Lewellyn had died until just shortly -- car accident? Jesus!
However, Cleese will probably be "Q" in the next flick. Simply because, it's "Q" branch, and the head of "Q" branch is "Q", much as the head of MI-6 is "M." If one "M" or "Q" dies, then another person becomes "M" or "Q" and takes their place. Judi Dench is "M", not "N" ... or, actually, since she's the third "M", she'd be "O".
So, Cleese will be "Q" in the next flick. I point out that Bond nicknamed Cleese "R" -- "if you're Q, is he R?" -- and that we don't know if it's an official MI-6 moniker ... although, if "Q" is for "Quartermaster", "R" could be for "Replacement" ... or for "Bumbling Moron" but then we'd call him "B" and not "R", right?
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Dalton was ok , but personally i dont like his movies as much as I like the Connery and Moore movies , humor is one of those things that come along with Great Car , 2 Great Chicks and Stunts to make a bond flick.
The Living Daylights was probley the best out of the Dalton films , that chase sence in the was great and Bond and his girl in the cello case that was great. Plus Aha (That Euro band with the take on me song) did the theme , its one of my favs next to Goldeneye and Duran Duran's a Veiw to a kill.
BTW , M is a designation for the head of MI6 I think in the Bond movies, so I wouldnt be surprised if apon retirement someone got "promoted" to M , maybe Dench was a 00 Agent before and has been selected to desk duty. Who knows maybe Bond could get offered the M position.
Oh , and i did some research (Can you say to much time on my hands?) There have been 3 M's , unfortunatly I'm to lazy to type it here and i figure i might as well cut out the middle man so goto
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"M" wasn't a 00 agent -- in "GoldenEye", Bond & Tanner discuss her, and Tanner refers to her as an "accountant" ... seems to me, TPTB in the British government appointed someone from outside the agency to run it.
I don't think we'll ever see Bond being offered or accepting the "M" position. I mean, for one thing, he's way to good at his job. How many Double-Oh agents have died in all the films? 006 in "GoldenEye" (albeit by 007), a Double-Oh agent in "TWINE", a whole bunch in one of the Dalton ones, methinks ...
Oh, one other thing -- the black MI-6 dude, "Charlie", I think -- was he in any other Bond flicks besides "TND" and "TWINE"? Not the actor neccessarily, but the character. Just wondering, b/c, I think he's a pretty cool dude, and I would think HE would be the next "M".
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As a point, Bond works for the SIS, which is MI6 (although that was aknowledged until recently. Hell, in Dr No, he worked for the non-existent MI7). MI5 is internal. Bond is not suppossed to operate within the British Isles. He does though, anyway.
That black dude was only in the last two films. Tanner's only been in a few, hasn't he? I know the current actor was in Goldeneye and TWINE, and there was a replacement character in TMD that was also in TWINE.
If you're interested, pick up The Bond Files by Andy Lane and, er, someone. I dunno how easy it'll be to find in the US, but it's a nice little unauthorized pocket book full of interestingf facts and reviews on the books, films, comic strips, and other gunk. It goes right up to TWINE.
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In "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", after the chase between Lazenby's Aston Martin DB-S and the chic's Mercury Cougar XR-7, Lazenby steps out of the car and says "This never happened to the other guy", obviously meant to mean Sean Connery. This I believe makes it that "James Bond" is actually a namesake taken by these guys, as well as the entire history. I mean, if these guys are spies, and super-spies at that, then you'd think they'd get a whole big back-history to their alias, so this would include Bond's wife and his parents and whatnot.
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Which of course raises the question of what happened to the former Bonds. Perhaps they're NOT really that good, and we just see the movies where OTHER agents die.
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Anyone ever read "Night Probe!" by Clive Cussler? there's mention of an ex-MI6 agent by the name of Brian Shaw...he becomes an integral part of the plot. There's also the inference that he is indeed James Bond.
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JeffK: 009 in the beginning of Octopussy. In "The living daylights" about three agents were killed in the beginning, I think. They weren't necessarily Double-O agents, maybe just field agents backing up the super spies.
And after Dalton had killed the man that killed his pals, he parachuted down on a boat with a rich girl and boned her. That's a nice change of pace, that is. Talk about not being emotionally involved with one's work. Maybe it's like therapy for him.
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It was two 00 agents killed at the beginning of TLD. Only three agents participated in that exercise, 007 being the third. I think Bond also recovers something from a 00 agent's body at the beginning of "View to a Kill." What is it about despatching 00 agents at the start of Bond films?
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