J is for Bond, James Bond

James Bond 007.   Commander Sir James Bond, is a fictional officer of the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS; commonly known as MI6).  He was created in January 1952 by British journalist Ian Fleming while on holiday at his Jamaican estate, Goldeneye.  The hero was named after the American ornithologist James Bond, a Caribbean bird expert and author of the definitive field guide book Birds of the West Indies.  (interesting).  Fleming, a keen birdwatcher, had a copy of Bond's field guide at Goldeneye.  Of the name, Fleming once said in a Reader's Digest interview, "I wanted the simplest, dullest, plainest-sounding name I could find, 'James Bond' was much better than something more interesting, like 'Peregrine Carruthers.'  Exotic things would happen to and around him, but he would be a neutral figure — an anonymous, blunt instrument wielded by a government department." 

Wikipeda informs us that the James Bond movies inspired shows/movies such as Flint, Matt Helm, I Spy, Man from UNCLE (where Napolean Solo was named after a character in Fleming's novel Goldfinger), Get Smart, and Austin Powers.   George Lucas has said on various occasions that Sean Connery's portrayal of Bond was one of the primary inspirations for the Indiana Jones character, a reason Connery was chosen for the role of Indiana's father in the third film of that series. 

(Photos of my favorite Bond men). . .

  

My Favorite Character (other than James Bond):   M is a fictional character in Ian Fleming's James Bond series, as well as the films in the Bond franchise. The head of MI6 and Bond's superior, M has been portrayed by three actors in the official Bond films but my favorite is Dame Judy Dench.

We haven't even started to enter the world and mind of James Bond.  There are the Bond Girls, great music and sound tracks, characters.  Oh well, in the meantime, I will take mine shaken, not stirred, please.