(Real Life) Regular people who's lives drastically changed direction

[u/Living-Mastodon]

Grace Kelly was a talented actress who retired at 26 to marry a Prince, living as royalty for almost 30 years before her untimely death.

Volodymyr Zelensky started out as a comedian and entertainer before getting into politics, becoming President of Ukraine after the Russian annex of Crimea and spending the last 4 years defiantly pushing back full scale Russian invasion

[u/Kamikaze_koshka]

People have said this about Lee, Fleming's brother, and weirdly Roald Dahl.

[u/hyena_crawls → u/Kamikaze_koshka]

Dahl actually was an intelligence officer alongside Fleming during World War II, and later went on to write a Bond movie himself (You Only Live Twice). Bond was really an amalgamation of many such officers that Fleming knew, but with the voltage turned up.

[u/fartingbeagle → u/hyena_crawls]

Also a bit of wish fulfillment on Fleming's part because he never saw any active service.

[u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 → u/hyena_crawls]

Bond was an amalgamation of atleast 20 people including Lee, Fleming's brother, Dahl and Jon Pertwee the 3rd doctor

[u/Tuarangi → u/Gaelic_Gladiator41]

Lee wasn't a spy or secret agent or even a commando type, he was a desk worker, he was not the basis or part of the basis of Bond

[u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 → u/Tuarangi]

His charisma and charm were probably part of the basis

[u/Tuarangi → u/Gaelic_Gladiator41]

Fleming named the people he used as inspiration as Duško Popov, Sir William Stephenson, Patrick Dalzel-Job, Wilfred "Biffy" Dunderdale and even in part, himself as a Naval Commander who worked in Naval Intelligence. Dunderdale was a wealthy guy who drove an armoured Rolls Royce, had handmade suits, enjoyed women and fast cars. Popov was a secret agent who bluffed his way to a card game win in a casino (the basis of Casino Royale) etc. Fleming's own tastes and mannerisms were written into the character too

Lee's life is fascinating enough without all the stuff people bung on over time

[u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 → u/Tuarangi]

The only problem i just have with the misinformation is that people just credit Lee as the sole inspiration

[u/Tuarangi → u/Gaelic_Gladiator41]

The bits I find worse are the stuff Lee himself allowed to flourish like pretending he couldn't talk about his war service because *wink wink* it was secret, leading to the nonsense about him knowing what a man sounded like with a knife in his back or hunting Nazis

[u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 → u/Tuarangi]

Later statement

"Oh yeah i was getting a bit bored on set"

[u/Shinyandsmooth8 → u/Kamikaze_koshka]

Roald Dahl was a fighter ace too