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In the book Goldfinger says "Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action.' Miami, Sandwich and now Geneva. I propose to wring the truth out of you."
Fleming had been to Chicago and was fascinated by gangsters (one of the first places he wanted to see was the site of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre), so it's likely he picked up the phrase during his visit.
Here's the Chicago chapter from his travel book Thrilling Cities.
I'd love that. I've been wedded to Macs for years so I've always missed out on the cool tie-in tech (though I did carry round a CR-branded USB stick until it broke).
Jo complains that working in Intelligence is distinctly unglamorous, although her friends think she's "...running around...
There's even a brief mention of MGM in Moonflower Murders too.
In the film version of The Constant Gardener, the topic of James Bond is brought up as characters are playing a round of golf. Ironic, of course, in that both Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz starred in the film--which was released just weeks prior to the announcement of Craig as the new 007.
The film also stars Donald Sumpter in a supporting role. Sumpter would go on to have a small role in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Another note: while up late watching Clint Eastwood's 1976 film Magnum Force I caught this line when the villains are inspecting a taser gun: "This looks like something out of a James Bond movie.":
In the book, a number of illustrators have made their tributes to Aukrust – one of them a tribute placing Aukrust as a Q like character in the universe of Krüger & Krogh – a Norwegian spy-fi comic book series. Aukrust was known for making up whacky inventions for his illustrations and stories (I've included one of these illustrations – a Christmas machine – in the spoiler tag below), and his comic book equivalent is no different, presenting the two main characters with a not so discrete company car and its gadgets.
The Christmas machine
A physical version of Aukrust's Christmas machine was made for TV back in 1973 (as seen in the clip this article).
Kjell Aukrust as a Q like comic book character
He hit it on the head with those first three titles listed. Fleming's best were always when he put a spin on a commonly used phrase.
Pulls no punches.
Completely agree!
Finished the book a few days ago, and Moonraker even gets another mention later in the book (although a very brief mention). It was actually quite fun to see him giving Fleming such attention in the story. Agatha Christie is also mentioned several times throughout the book.
Viz is sort of the British Mad Magazine, right?
Sort of! It's modelled on kids' comics like the Beano and Dandy, and it's incredibly childish, full of fart and willy jokes. (I am secretly very fond of Viz.)
Interesting! Never had the chance to read it myself, but I don't know what the availability is outside UK. It certainly doesn't look like they're afraid of holding back with their jokes, looking at that Connery comic!
They really don't - they make fun of everyone, right-wing, left-wing, feminists, sexists. (That's long-running character Sid The Sexist at the wheel of the DB5, and Johnny Fartpants in the jetpack.)
Haha, those two character names must be telling enough what to expect from reading Viz!
Live and Let Evolve: The James Bond Titles
Many thanks--I didn't know a new issue was out. I've now read and enjoyed several of the new articles (including the enticing book reviews). I'm very glad this journal exists--it's about time Fleming and Bond became objects of academic study, rather than hostile critique.
https://www.saxbam.com/appointment/mi6/
https://www.saxbam.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/AAMARD-Candidate-Brief-DG-Q-1.pdf
Normally, I would ask if anyone here was going for it but
Peter Kay's character is a big fan and on hearing Kayleigh, his car share friend. Has never
seen a Bond film, He looks shocked and tells her to get out and walk ! :D
"A vulgar version of the romantic tradition was continued by Ian Fleming in the James Bond books, where a thuggish and misogynistic operative with superhuman physical powers and an armoury of high-tech gadgets is pitted against cartoon figures of diabolical evil."
SOMEONE hasn't actually bothered to read those books.
Exactly what I thought. Lazy and assumptious.
He's only watched the films by the sounds of it and assumed the novels are carbon copies of them. Just another Malcolm Muggeridge type who savaged his late friend Ian Fleming's novels in an article shortly after his death even though he admitted he'd only actually read one of them - Goldfinger.
Exactly. Gray is lazily repeating the usual boilerplate that fans of "serious" spy fiction trot out when they mention Fleming.
Good comparison--Gray and Muggeridge were both pundits with mysteriously high and undeserved reputations among the British intelligentsia.