# James Bond

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-bond/17032>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [December 9, 1999, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-bond/17032 "1999-12-09T22:53:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![David\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@David\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_B)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 1999, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-bond/17032/21 "1999-12-15T01:36:00Z")

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Clark, I don’t know if you’ve seen _The World Is Not Enough_, but you definitely see both sides that you have described in that movie. I won’t say any more for fear of spoiling it for somebody who hasn’t seen it yet, though.

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**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 1999, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-bond/17032/22 "1999-12-15T03:56:00Z")

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Trivia Note: The bad guys in _The Spy Who Loved Me_ were supposed to have been Blofeld and SPECTRE again, but the rights to those characters were owned by Kevin McClory after the _Thunderball_ dispute. So Karl Stromberg, shipping magnate, was created.

The movie _Spy_ was totally different from the novel. It was told in first-person from the POV of a young British woman who meets and falls in love with and is rescued by Bond in the Adirondacks. Fleming dis-liked his novel and specified that any movie made with the title use a totally different plot.

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\>\< DARWIN \>  
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**Author:** ![Clark\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c77e96/32.png) [@Clark\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clark_K)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 1999, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-bond/17032/23 "1999-12-17T06:28:00Z")

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David:

Yes, I have seen “The World is Not Enough” (lousy title) and was pleasantly surprised that it mixed the dashing, adventurous Bond with the cold-blooded, professional Bond. I was very impressed with Brosnan for handling both sides of the character.

Although I’m no expert, I would say this was the best Bond movie in 25 years or so – since the earlier Moore movies.

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Up, up and away!

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