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jaherpy
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When Bond is talking to M in her apartment in the beginning of the film, he makes a reference to her name "I had no idea M stood for..." Does anyone know what it stands for? Or is this supposed to remain unknown?
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I think M's called Miles by Gogol in one of the films- Spy Who Loved Me? I think that's right. So it's a fair assumption that he's Miles Messervy in the films too.
And obviously there's the theory that Robert Brown's M could be Admiral Hargreaves- the character he played in Spy Who Loved Me!
Otherwise Dench's M could be anybody: Barbara Mawdsley's as good a name as any. I suppose she could even have played two different Ms so far- the one in CR does seem a bit different in character (and dress sense!).
I like to think that whatever the M stands for is simply a very embarrassing name that she doesn't want Bond to say, not for any reason of national security, but because she hates hearing it!
I had always supposed that the M character played by Bernard Lee and Robert Brown were the same person, in the same way as Bond is the same person played by 6 different actors.
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Not that unlikely, actually. When a military officer is appointed to a certain position, he or she is generally automatically promoted to the rank commensurate with that position. So for instance, if an officer of the rank of Captain/Colonel/Group Captain, has been appointed head of, say, MI6, he/she will be promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral/Major General/Air Vice Marshal.