Loeffelholz wrote:I think they should do this---a minute or two of screen time would yield a priceless insight into Bond's character.
I also think we also should see his Chelsea flat (or its modern equivalent), his treasured Scottish housekeeper, May, see him fret over his personal vehicle...his morning exercise routine, the way he likes his eggs done for breakfast, etc...
Loeffs, what's wrong with you?!? James Bond should never be too realistic! 
I guess the closest Bond onscreen ever encountered a social phenomenon contemporary to our generation was seeing him empty his desk, though a cardboard box instead of a satchel would have been perfect!
Anyway, some of Fleming's unused writing, from: http://www.ajb007.co.uk/articles/007/scrapbook/
“In the early morning, at about 7.30, the stringy whimperings of the piped radio brought visions of a million homes waking up all over Britain... of him, or perhaps her, getting up to make the early morning tea, to put the dog out, to stoke the boiler. And then will this shirt do for another day? The socks, the pants? The Everready, the Gillette shave, the Brylcreem on the hair, the bowler hat or the homburg, the umbrella and the briefcase or the sample case? Then "Dodo", the family saloon out on the concrete arterial, probably with her driving. The red-brick station, the other husbands, the other wives, the clickety-click of the 8.15 round the curve by the gold course. Hullo Sidney! Hullo Arthur! After you Mr Shacker... and the drab life picking up speed and flicking on up the rails between the conifers and the damp evergreens. Bond switched on his electric blanket and waited for his hot water with a slice of lemon and contemplated the world with horror and disgust.”
I love this kind of stuff! That happens to him too? It makes me related to 007 on a personal level.
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"...the purposeful slant of his striding figure looked dangerous, as if he was making quickly for something bad that was happening further down the street." -SMERSH on 007 dossier photo, Ch. 6 FRWL.....
