James
Bond probably owes much of his success to the comic strips.
Before
the films were made, Ian Fleming's novels were popularized in British newspaper
comic strip adaptations, and composer John Barry admitted that he created the
iconic music for the first film, Dr. No, based
only on a familiarity with the comic strip.
“I
didn’t sit down and intellectualize about it, and I've never read a James Bond
book,” Barry said. “I’d only seen like a cartoon strip that they used to have
in the Daily Mail in England. So I knew it was about a spy. I knew roughly what
the essence was, but I never saw the movie. I just wrote the damn thing, you
know.”
Remarkable,
by the way, how much the comic strip 007 resembled Sean Connery, who had yet to
be cast.
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