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10.2 Parodies of movies
The James Bond movies have also been repeatedly parodied:
- In Like Flint and Our Man Flint, two mid-60s spy spoofs starring James Coburn
- Matt Helm movie spoofs, starring Dean Martin - The Silencers ( 1966), Murderers' Row ( 1966), The Ambushers ( 1967), The Wrecking Crew ( 1969)
- Get Smart television series
- Se Tutte le Donne del Mondo ( 1966) - possibly the inspiration for Moonraker film?
- The Dangermouse cartoon series
- Colonel K is clearly based on M
- Baron Greenback has a number of similarities to Blofeld, most notably the white hairy catapiller that takes the place of Blofeld's cat.
- Spy Hard , starring Leslie Nielsen
- Mike Myers' Austin Powers movies
- Dr. Evil is almost an exact duplicate of Bond's Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the head of S.P.E.C.T.R.E.. Similar to Dr. Evil, Blofeld also wore a white or grey suit and had a white cat.
- Emilio Largo, the S.P.E.C.T.R.E. villain from Thunderball is parodied in all of the Austin Powers movies as a character named "Number Two". Largo and Number Two are both played by an older gentlemen who wear eyepatches and are the second in command in their evil organizations.
- Rosa Klebb from From Russia With Love is often cited as the prototype for the Frau Farbissina.
- Random Task, from the first Austin Powers film, is identical in almost every way to Goldfinger's henchman, Oddjob, except that he throws a "deadly" shoe instead of a hat.
- Undercover Brother ( 2002)
- Johnny English ( 2003), starring Rowan Atkinson
- An episode of The Simpsons, "You Only Move Twice", featuring a supervillain, Hank Scorpio. The Bond analogue, "Mr. Bont", is clearly based on the Sean Connery portrayal, but unlike Bond he is captured and killed due to Homer Simpson's interference in his attempted escape from captivity. This is not the only Bond homage from The Simpsons however — for example, the "Chief Wiggum P.I." segment of "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase" episode borrows heavily from Live and Let Die, even duplicating certain shots.
- James Pond is a series of video games that parody Bond movies. Levels in a James Pond are also paordied with titles like A View to a Spill and Leak and Let Die.
- Spy Muppets: License to C.R.O.A.K. is a video game featuring Muppet characters directly spoofing James Bond characters, plots and titles.
11 Miscellaneous Bond trivia
- James Bond ( James Bond (ornithologist)) is the name of the American ornithologist who wrote Birds of the West Indies. In the film Die Another Day James Bond (spy) can be seen holding the book, Birds of the West Indies in a scene in Cuba. Ian Fleming, who was a keen bird watcher living in Jamaica, was familiar with Bond's book, and he chose the name of its author for the hero of Casino Royale in 1953, apparently because he wanted a name that sounded 'as ordinary as possible'.
- James Bond was also the name of a Quaker author and religious historian in Maryland, USA.
- Terance James Bond is the name of an ornithological and wildlife artist born in 1946 in Suffolk, Britain.
- It's also interesting to note that the mid- 1920s story "The Rajah's Emerald" by Agatha Christie is centered around a very proper British character named James Bond.
- One story for the inspiration for Bond's number came from Rudyard Kipling's railroad stories, which centered around a train called 007.
- Another version of the origins of the number 007 states that this was the number of the coach service from Dover to London in Kent, England that passed by Higham Park , a location where Ian Fleming spent a lot of time and where he gained the inspiration for and wrote Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
- Asteroid 9007 James Bond is named in honor of the fictional secret agent.
