Number24 wrote:Does that house exist i real life?
probably not, I was cheating, 24. I gather you mean film locations we can really visit, not works of imagination.
I was just skimming through Dr. No after reading that Goldeneye book.
The house was inspired by a number of similar abandoned mansions that really were in a state of decay when Fleming moved to Jamaica, and the legends, superstition and gossip that surrounded those ruins.
But I was just thinking reading the long passages where Honeychile explains her origin story, that it is the hottest buildup to the expected Bond-gets-the-girl ending in all of Fleming's books. She keeps going on about all the weird wildlife she surrounds herself with, she even says as a child she would walk around with snakes on her shoulders scaring away the superstitious plantation workers, and Bond has to keep smacking himself "not now, dammit, save the world first, then get the girl!".
Fleming was really indulging in a lot of his personal fantasies about his adopted home when he wrote that character. Therefor that room beneath the ruins of the Great House, fictional as it may be, is arguably the ultimate place-to-be in the whole Bond fantasy.