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Doppelgänger!
RichardTheBruce
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Report doppelgängers observed.
Lookalikes. Same or similar name. Character, cast, crew.
Report doppelgängers observed.
Lookalikes. Same or similar name. Character, cast, crew.
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More seriously, this thread subject has brought back a few memories of my long past high school days. On my first day at the high school when I was eleven they were putting us into our various classes presumably based on the results and references from our primary school. So the teachers were calling out the pupil names at the front of the sports hall and we were all seated you had to stand up and come forward to be shown to your form classroom and thus be placed in a particular class based on your perceived ability. Suddenly I hear what I thought was my name so I either stood up or put my hand up. The only thing was that another boy had stood up too and as he was seated a bit in front of me he looked behind as if I was some kind of joker or something. I was thinking the same thing to myself initially. I should say that my surname is rather more unusual than Brown, Smith or Jones. It turned out that it was the other boy they were looking for on this occasion and that his first name sounded very similar to my own and his surname sounded identical (although it had a variant spelling). This was then clarified somehow either by us spelling our names out or clearly pronouncing our names. I can't quite recall as it was nearly 30 years ago now. Anyway, as it turned out I was eventually in the same class as this boy and I'm sure there were a few more mix-ups with our names but certainly none quite as dramatic as that early one. It's a funny old world sometimes.
I also went to another high school in order to do my A Levels as my previous high school didn't offer these. One day a girl in the AS Level year below me said that they'd been to an event somewhere as part of their studies and they saw a boy at it who looked exactly like me. So that must've been my doppelgänger. I found this rather intriguing but I've never run into them which is maybe just as well given the fortune cookie message above! :)
Another example of a doppelgänger (and related to Bond to boot) is that I recall that we had a minister who came to our small Presbyterian Church I think when we had a vacancy with no set minister of our own. He was called Reverend Hook and he came and preached several times while we were looking for a new minister. This process usually took around two years so he was with us a few times during that period. Now this minister was the absolute double of the late Ian Fleming as he looked in his later life, only he wore spectacles. I understand that Fleming wore spectacles in later life too but there aren't very many photos (if any) which show him wearing them. It was like seeing Ian Fleming speaking before you (albeit with a different accent). It really was quite uncanny. It was a slightly surreal experience for me but I imagine I was the only one in the congregation who noticed it (Fleming's image not being as well known as the Bond actors). I had totally forgotten about this until you created this thread, so thanks for bringing back a happy memory, @RichardTheBruce.
Judi Dench M deside to use different name for safety and then in Skyfall when she died her girl named be refeald. In Casino Royale even Bond hint that he knows her real name.
Names and Masks are very important symbol in the Daniel Craig. Sometimes it be look a likes in name but stil diftent like White straight Q in Desmond vs Gay Q with Ben Wishaw, White Moneypenny and Black Moneypenny and Black 007. Sometimes even in a building, a diftent name sound close to another name (Ana De Armas) or something that Bond wearing (ID card in NTTD). Q's naked cats (who simalar symbol as Komodo Dragon animal in SF), somebody in QOS Or tables with 3 people around it.
Or song in French in NTTD who have English version in 1968.
In The Netherlands 4 May is Day of (remember) the Death and 5 May is Day to celebrate life. On same 5th May Adele celebrate her birthday.
Bell sound of day of the death..
Younger version of Ana De Armas her mother looks on Princess Diana and Ana look like on a doll a bit.
In Thunderball there is Twin Switch. And in FRWL opening we think we see Sean Bond, but turn out training to kill Bond (So not Mission Impossible be first doing Mask thing).
Dog atack in Moonraker. Tiger Tanaka sound like later Blofeld.
François Derval certainly met his own doppelgänger Mr Angelo in Thunderball too:
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, How They Met Themselves, watercolour, (1864):
It was the death of him.
As @M_Balje pointed out maybe the earliest Bond doppelgänger in FRWL, though a SPECTRE agent in disguise. And no less his other valid spots.
Then Octopussy. Octopussy, Octopussy, Octopussy. Remembered by (@M_Balje and) @Dragonpol.
Twine
Casino Royale
But okay here are my serious contenders:
1. Armand 'Mondo' Duplantis looks very much like Timothee Chalamet.
2. Honorable Mention to Simon Le Bon (particularly when he's young, let's say his look in 1983) and Elvis Presley.
3. Speaking of Bond Girls, we have Barbara Bach who looks like Julie Christie (particularly when she's young).
4. And of course Michael Billington, the man who had played Anya's boyfriend in the PTS of TSWLM who very much looked like George Lazenby.
Who said there's no replacing Brosnan Bond.
Well, in DAD it's really Brosnan Bond doing the doppelgängering around.
L. Toro: "Sounds like a load of bull."