r/bestof • u/AlamutJones • 7d ago

[AskHistorians] u/police-ical gets technical about James Bond’s car

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u/night_dude 7d ago

TIL Ian Fleming wrote Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

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u/Homerpaintbucket 5d ago

Roald Dahl wrote the screenplay for James Bond’s You Only Live Twice

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u/MontyPythonMan11 7d ago

Fleming was living the life. He got to write books about all of his favourite topics in life (spying, espionage, cars, alcohol, cigars, women) and turn it into a best selling series that would later go on to be an iconic movie series. Unfortunately his other passion of bird watching didn't quite fit the suave super spy narrative and subsequently never made the novels.

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u/Kwetla 7d ago

He did however take the name of James Bond) from the author (and friend of his) of a popular bird guide of birds of the West Indies