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Inspiration for the character. Fleming based his creation on a number of individuals which he came across during his time in the Naval Intelligence Division during the Second World War, admitting that Bond "was a compound of all the secret agents and commando types I met during the war".
What does 007 stand for?
Agents in the British Secret Service with codifiers beginning in "00" are the agents with a "license to kill" in any means necessary. The "7" is simply his MI6 identification number.
Orgins of the name
There are two theories about orgin of the name.
First theory
Fleming took the name for his character 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 to the ornithologist's wife that "It struck me that this brief, unromantic, Anglo-Saxon and yet very masculine name was just what I needed, and so a second James Bond was born".
Second theory
In 2018, it was reported that the name could have emerged from a former member of the Special Operations Executive, James Charles Bond, who had, according to released military records, served under Fleming.
Bond's code number—007—was assigned by Fleming in reference to one of British naval intelligence's key achievements of First World War: the breaking of the German diplomatic code. One of the German documents cracked and read by the British was the Zimmermann Telegram, which was coded 0075, and which was one of the factors that led to the US entering the war.
Orgin of the logo
Bondiana is one of the greatest film series of modern times, making the 007 logos well-known to fans of action-packed movies. It’s as precise as a sharp shot, embedding itself into one’s memory like a steel bullet, striking down to the cerebellum. The emblem is easily absorbed by the subconscious because it contains iconic elements of the cinematic masterpiece. It is both a key to the mystery and an instrument of vengeance.
007 is the code name for James Bond, a secret agent of British intelligence, who is a character created by Ian Fleming. The author made Bond the main character of his works. However, it was the film company Eon Productions that brought worldwide fame to this character by making films based on cult novels (with the exception of two movies). Over time, the role of 007 has been played by many outstanding contemporary actors. The number 007 itself is not a random set of digits but a decoded cipher of the German diplomatic code – one of the legendary achievements of British naval intelligence.
Although everything began long before 1961, when Harry Saltzman and Albert Broccoli bought the film rights to Fleming’s James Bond books, that period was decisive. It was then that the partnership of the two producers led to the creation of the film company Eon Productions, which focused on filming the Bondiana. After the completion of their work, the iconic logo – a black pistol – appeared on screens. It was designed by Joe Caroff from United Artists.
The long evolution of the 007 emblems is associated with changes in the design of movie posters. Various artists were hired for the job, each with their own style, so the pistol and the agent’s code number were adapted to them, not the other way around. In the end, a chain of variations of the same symbol emerged, but they didn’t make it onto the official list.
Particular attention in the iconic logo is paid to the inner corners, the thickness ratio of the digits and the pistol grip, the dynamics, italics, and other small details. In reality, this symbol looked different on posters and advertisements, as it was harmoniously integrated into the text. That is, there are many more drawn versions where the theme of the film, the country of distribution, and the year of release are taken into account.
Historical inspiration
The central figure in Ian Fleming's work is the fictional character of James Bond, an intelligence officer in the "Secret Service". Bond is also known by his code number, 007, and was a Royal Naval Reserve Commander.
During the Second World War, Ian Fleming had mentioned to friends that he wanted to write a spy novel. It was not until 1952, however, shortly before his wedding to his pregnant girlfriend, Ann Charteris, that Fleming began to write his first book, Casino Royale, to distract himself from his forthcoming nuptials. Fleming started writing the novel at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica on 17 February 1952, typing out 2,000 words in the morning, directly from his own experiences and imagination. He finished work on the manuscript in just over a month, completing it on 18 March 1952. Describing the work as his "dreadful oafish opus", Fleming showed it to an ex-girlfriend, Clare Blanchard, who advised him not to publish it at all, but that if he did so, it should be under another name. Despite that advice, Fleming went on to write a total of twelve Bond novels and two short story collections before his death on 12 August 1964. The last two books—The Man with the Golden Gun and Octopussy and The Living Daylights—were published posthumously.
Fleming featured Bond in another 12 novels and additional short-story collections over the next 10 years. In 1962 the 007 novel Dr. No (1958) was adapted for film. Produced by Albert (“Cubby”) Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, it initiated one of the most successful movie franchises in history. After Fleming’s death, other writers continued producing new novels and original film stories in the series.
screen actors of the Bond film series
Bond was portrayed by several screen actors, including Sean Connery in the 1960s, Roger Moore in the ’70s and ’80s, and Pierce Brosnan in the ’90s, and Bond remained effectively ageless throughout those decades.
However, as Daniel Craig took up the role with a new adaptation of Casino Royale (2006), the character’s history was formally restarted, establishing him definitively as a post-Cold War hero born in 1968. Beginning in the 1990s films, in response to changing social attitudes, Bond’s chauvinism was softened. The Broccoli family continues to hold the production rights on all Bond movie adaptations.
Among all one of the most famous screen actor was
Pierce Brosnan, in full Pierce Brendan Brosnan, (born May 16, 1953, County Meath, Ireland), Irish American actor who was perhaps best known for playing James Bond in a series of films in the ’90s,
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