Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Bond introduces himself the way he does everything, as if his name alone were enough, and the double delivery, surname first and then the full name, turned a spy's alias into a brand. The popular form with 'The name's' was never in the film; the real line is just the two clipped phrases. Every later Bond actor has had to say it, and every parody of a smooth stranger borrows its rhythm.
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In context
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Dr. No (1962), the first James Bond film, introduces its hero a little way in, in a casino scene at Le Cercle, an upmarket London gambling club. Sylvia Trench has just lost a hand of chemin de fer to him. She asks his name, and he lights a cigarette before answering with the line that made Sean Connery's career: Bond, James Bond. As he says it, Monty Norman's Bond theme starts up. The scene was adapted from Bond's introduction in Ian Fleming's first novel, Casino Royale.
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- Wikipedia: Dr. No (film)Production, 'Introduction of James Bond'Reference checked
- Wikiquote: Dr. No (film)Dialogue, Bond's first sceneReference checked
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