007 is like complete fantasy
Shaken, not stirred.
“007 is like complete fantasy”
Actually, there was more than one real life model for the character James Bond, the most important of which was the Serbian Dusan Popov. Popov was undoubtedly the source of the baccarat scene in Casino Royale; Ian Fleming, also a British agent, had observed him in action at the Lisbon casino. Like Bond, Popov was a gambler, drinker, womanizer, and enormously brave, but unlike Bond he didn’t like to kill. The action-hero part of the Bond character was modeled on Patrick Dalzel-Job, a commando who also worked with Fleming during WW2. Dalzel-Job was however a non-drinker who only loved one woman during his life. So the character James Bond is a composite of the two most memorable men Ian Fleming observed in wartime action.