Bond's childhood (Spoilers)

Thunderpussy

The movie seems to be at Odds with Flemings view on Bond's childhood,
which seemed quite happy. I know it's for dramatic effect, and I'm OK
with it. I just think it's a little odd when the Producers always claim to
go back to Fleming for ideas and keeping Bond close to the Novels.

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service:

It was one of those beautiful, naive seaside panoramas for which the Brittany and Picardy beaches have provided the setting. . . . To James Bond, sitting in one of the concrete shelters with his face to the setting sun, there was something poignant, ephemeral about it all. It reminded him almost too vividly of childhood [and] always in those days, it seemed, lit with sunshine. . . . It was all there, his own childhood, spread out before him to have another look at. What a long time ago they were, those spade-and-bucket days! How far he had come since the freckles and the Cadbury milk-chocolate Flakes and the fizzy lemonade! Impatiently Bond lit a cigarette, pulled his shoulders out of their slouch and slammed the mawkish memories back into their long-closed file. Today he was a grown-up, a man with years of dirty, dangerous memories—a spy.

Napoleon Plural

Agreed. What's more, the picture painted is really everyone's childhood, whereas you can't say that about his situation in SF. I only serves to alienate the viewer a bit so we can't really feel we're Bond, though whether we should relate to him is a moot point.