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‘THE OTHER FELLOW’ – 007 CURSE OR COOL?
- April 28, 2024
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HITLER. Manson. Putin. I’d ditch my family name. But what if you were born with the same name as one of the most iconic spy characters in the world? Bond, James Bond?
It is why ‘The Other Fellow’ by Australian filmmaker Matthew Bauer caught my Goldeneye. My only regret is not having seen Bauer’s accomplishment when it was released in 2022, now showing on SBS until May 22.
Written, produced and directed by Adelaide-born Bond fan Bauer, this 1hr 20min gem that took nearly 10 years to make explores the personal stories of men, and one woman currently in hiding, who carry the weight and mythology of 007. A gay New York theatre director, Guyanese politician, Austin skydiving oilman, Iraqi army officer and African American who was jailed for 60 days after a judge in Indiana found he had obstructed police when he said his name James Bond in a “joking manner”.
Bauer interviewed about 100 Bonds around the world narrowed down to 15 characters in ‘The Other Fellow’, a line by George Lazenby who references Sean Connery, “This never happened to the other fella”, when the ‘Bond girl’ runs off after she is rescued in ‘On Her Majesty’s Secret Service’ (1969).
Bauer uses interviews, live action, rare archival footage and re-enactment sequences of key subjects in this documentary drama including ornithologist James Bond, the real Bond who died in 1989, aged 89.
Bauer said he graduated from The New York University Tisch School of the Arts and needed to come up with his first film project.
Speaking from Sydney, he told StreetWise he was inspired to make ‘The Other Fellow’ after he joined a Facebook ‘appreciation’ group of Matt Bauers.
This led him to ponder the difficulty of joining social media platforms using a famous name such as James Bond, Tom Cruise or Luke Skywalker.
“One day I wondered what if your name is James Bond.”
The independent filmmaker spent the spent next eight years finding out using Linkedin, Facebook and Google to contact the ‘other’ Bonds. He also interviewed 30 Bonds via phone, Skype and Zoom. Bauer believes there could be up to 200 Aussie Bonds, and though he has leads for a few he knew, none are in the film. He said ‘The Other Fellow’ brought together people from all walks of life, “with that one thing in common, they are able to bond, no pun intended”.
First Bond
WHEN asked in 1953 how he chose the name for his PPK-toting martini-shaken spy, Bond creator Ian Fleming said from his winter home in Jamaica, Goldeneye, he wanted, “a really flat, quiet name”, and simply, “stole it”, from James Bond, a leading US ornithologist and author of ‘Birds of the West Indies’, which Fleming had in his library to identify bird species in the Caribbean.
An estimated 1.5 billion people have seen a Bond film in the 50 years since 1962 when the British master spy entered the public consciousness, and stuck for good.
New York theatre director James Alexander Bond, whose name is the first listed in the telephone directory, is no Bond fan and tells Bauer: “Imagine being told the same joke by a different person every day for a couple of decades … (The) sequel was a pretty new concept, so who knew they would make the same damn film for every other year of my life.” He said he knew of nine Bonds in New York and because of the film now connects with other Bonds in the world. “When is it going to stop? I’ve accepted the fact it never ever is.”
Lawyer James Bond says people still don’t believe he is the real deal. One of the questions he and most other Bonds get asked, ‘Did your parents know what they were doing?’. He said most parents who named their children after Fleming’s fictional hero in the 1960s did not believe 007 would last. Unfortunately, they underestimated the power and impact of movie sequels that led to “this snowballing eternal franchise”. After ‘Dr. No’ (1962), spawned seven 007s in 26 sequels including the most recent, ‘No Time to Die’ (2021).
He adds the name carries a lot of hyper-masculinity in which Bond is portrayed as a notorious womaniser with the best one liners and a license to kill. For many of Bauer’s interviewees, ‘dear James’ was both a blessing and a curse. Preacher James Neal Bond said even though he was given the nickname double ‘O’, “I was such a dork, women didn’t flock to me anyway”.
Great for getting free drinks, but also the quickest way to a jail cell as former inmate James Bond Jr. discovered when he tells Bauer he was sent to the county can for 60 days after police refused to accept who he said he was, because he was black. The judge told him he had obstructed a police officer by saying his name in a joking manner. Worse, Junior later became embroiled in a shooting death and robbery for which he faced 130 years in jail but was released after a hung jury. He still awaits trial. In a reference to Bauer’s film title, former inmate #280938 said one of the texts he received while on trial quipped: “This never happened to the other fellow.”
Remarkably, a resilient Junior tells Bauer if he was the real James Bond he would never have got caught: “The life of a real 007 is not easy.”
No kidding, says Texas computer programmer James Andrew Bond whose experience during a police stop involved getting forcibly pulled out his car and having a gun shoved in his face because he said his name was … Several of Bauer’s interviewees describe similar experiences. You don’t want to forget your licence and registration if you are really James Bond.
“Oh shit I’m about to die,” he recalls when asked his name. “So I tell him, ‘James’.”
To which the police officer says, “You got a last name there James?”
“And I said Bond. So he reached through the window and grabbed me by my shirt and said, ‘You fucked with the wrong guy on the wrong day’, and proceeded to pull me out of my car.
“I said, ‘please please please, my name really is James Bond’. Up from the holster and right in my face and he’s like, ‘Yeah right, and I’m Donald fucking Duck. Get on the ground!’”
He said the officer calmed down, ran a licence check and came back and said, “That’s a cool name son”, and let him on his way, shaken and stirred by the surreal police check.
One of the more interesting characters in this Bond-like drama is Gunnar ‘James Bond’ Schaefer, Sweden’s own Agent 007 and serious shoe-in for the next Bond, or a spoof of. Schaefer, sorry Bond, he legally changed his name in 2007, founded the 007 Museum in the same building he runs his spare parts dealership in Nybro. Visitors can watch a flamboyant Bond shake and stir martinis, deal casino cards and scoot around in a snowmobile, some of 25,000 items on public display. He owns a hovercraft (‘Die Another Day’ 2002); gondola (‘Moonraker’ 1979) and rickshaw tuk tuk (‘Octopussy’ 1983). And in the film, the suave Swede who styles his hair like Pierce Brosnan drives a ‘prop’ Aston Martin, plate JB 007, and says he refuses to marry, drinks only Bollinger champagne (saves the empties) and eats family-sized 007 pizza. “I will never marry,” he tells Bauer. “Well, he (George Lazenby) did and look at, ‘On Her Majesty’s Secret Service’. She was killed.”
Bauer says Schaefer and his Bond ‘props’ bring the 007 feel to the film that at all times is respectful of its subject matter and personal stories. Schaefer’s ‘conversion’ occurred after his father Johannes disappeared in 1959 when he visited family in Germany. Gunnar was two years old. Stationed in Nazi-occupied Denmark, Johannes fled to Sweden, became a citizen and married after meeting his mother in 1950.
They raised three children, the youngest Gunnar, whose life changed after he bonded with his adopted father figure Ian Fleming, whose grave he visits in the film. “I used it in a way to search for my missing father and through that, try to find myself.”
One of Bauer’s characters who does not want to be found is an unnamed woman who lives in hiding in the UK. She fled a violent husband with two secret identities (similar names, different birth dates). He kept her and their baby son prisoners in their own home until she called police, who later urged her to change her and her son’s name. The former hairdresser, to conceal their identities, decided to seek sanctuary in a name as common as Smith or Jones. “The best place to hide something is in plain sight,” she said. What person in their right mind would call their son James Bond. It seemed like the craziest sanest idea I had.”
James Hart says he dropped Bond from is name after his daughter was born. It came with ‘baggage’ he did not want her exposed to: “James Hart is definitely much happier. What I have is lightness of being now. There may have been the odd moment when it felt cool to be James Bond … I’m very happy, very very happy without it.”
His daughter asks him whether he ever thought of changing his name back to Bond. He replies: “I have never given it a thought.”
Asked what he would say to parents thinking of calling their children James Bond, he replies without hesitation: “Don’t.”
‘The Other Fellow’ also includes the largely unknown story of when for the first time in 1964 the real Bonds 007’s maker at Goldeneye in Oracabessa Bay on the northern coast of Jamaica. The historic
The Other Fellow James Hart and Gunnar James Bond Schaefer at Sweden Nybro www.007museum.com UK Premiere (photo Juriaan Booij)
25 AprHi Matt, a few days ago, I watched your, ‘The Other Fellow’, on SBS and was/am stunned, in a good way. What a wonderful and amazing piece of documentary film making Matt. Seriously.
I wish I had seen it in 2022. I am a publisher and journalist in Perth, WA, with a lifelong interest in cinema and history (http://www.streetwisemedia.com.au/and-the-winners-are).
Your unique approach is professional and exactly how an investigative journalist would approach the subject. Well done.
The latest James Bond movie No Time To Die in Sweden nr 16 of 25 Bondfilms since 1962
22 AprThe latest James Bond movie No Time To Die in Sweden nr 16 of 25 Bondfilms since 1962
Source: Svenska Filminstitutet
James Bond-filmers biobesökare i Sverige från
1962-2021
1. Åskbollen (1965) – 1 924 422 st
2. Goldfinger (1964) – 1 386 761 st
3. Man lever bara två gånger (1967) 1 272 779 st
4. Octopussy (1983) – 1 129 889 st
5. Skyfall (2012) – 1 076 125 st
6. Leva och låta dö (1973) – 1 065 798 st
7. Älskade spion (1977) – 989 223 st
8. Levande måltavla (1985) – 952 552 st
9. Tid för hämnd (1989) – 936 822 st
10. Iskallt uppdrag (1987) – 931 861 st
11. Spectre (2015) – 887 512 st
12. Casino Royale (2006) – 877 947 st
13. Agent 007 ser rött (1963) – 861 587 st
14. I Hennes Majestäts hemliga tjänst (1969), 847 922 st
15. GOLDENEYE (1995) – 843 933 st
16 No Time To Die (2021) 824 400 st
17. Ur dödlig synvinkel (1981) – 806 595 st
18. Never Say Never Again (1983) – 792 958 st
19. Die Another Day (2002) – 755 681 st
20. Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) – 749 737 st
21. Världen räcker inte till (1999) – 743 493 st
22. Diamantfeber (1971) – 731 395 st
23. Mannen med den gyllene pistolen (1974) – 730 770 st
24. Moonraker (1979) – 704 860 st
25. Quantum of Solace (2008) – 699 523 st
Källa: Svenska Filminstitutet.
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21 MarTHE OTHER FELLOW
(15) 80mins
★★★★☆
IT’S estimated that half of humanity has seen at least one 007 flick.
But for anyone born with the name James Bond, it can be a blessing or a curse.
This is the premise of director Matthew Bauer’s documentary The Other Fellow, out in cinemas and available to stream now.
The 80-minute, 15-certificate documentary is full of quirky characters, from 007 obsessive Gunnar James Bond Schafer in Sweden who drinks exclusively Bollinger champagne, to a computer programmer who says having the moniker is an ”outstanding” chat-up line and even helps him blag-free cinema tickets.
But it’s not all just fun and games for those named after 007 writer Ian Fleming’s fictional British spy.
Fans will be left shaken and stirred by the dark twists in this documentary, so shocking that not even Bond baddie Ernst Stavro Blofeld could have come up with them.
A theatre director who is featured claims his life is being ruined by his name.
‘Licence To Thrill’
And several men detail troubling encounters with the police after telling them they are called James Bond.
They include an American who was wrongly accused of murder and spent 60 days in jail for simply stating his name.
But a woman, who remains anonymous for her own safety, reveals she used the name to finally escape her abusive ex-husband after he threatened to kidnap their child and tracked her down multiple times as she moved between different UK cities. She explains that choosing to call her son James
Bond was the ”craziest, sanest idea” she ever had.
Meanwhile, another Bond, from London, had to change his last name to Hart because of the ”baggage” that came with the character.
There’s also a surprising story behind how Ian Fleming ”stole” the name for his legendary womaniser from a ”very quiet” birdwatcher. The matter nearly ended up in court after the ornithologist’s wife threatened to sue Fleming for defamation, before they struck an agreement.
We celebrate the wide release of the incredible documentary The Other Fellow with its writer/director Matthew Bauer and James Bond himself!
8 JanWe celebrate the wide release of the incredible documentary The Other Fellow with its writer/director Matthew Bauer and James Bond himself!
https://podcasts.apple.com/…/really-007/id1529674193…
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3 Jan007 Guitar Alliance Series James Bond David Arnold Edition Signed. Strictly limited to 75. For Sounded of 007 concert in October 2022. Played by David Arnold and Hans Zimmer,
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The Other Fellow
29 Dec
There’s a theatre director, a prisoner, a lawyer and a pilot. The men are old and young; Black and white. But they all have one thing in common: their name is presumably the trigger for many overfamiliar jokes. These men are all named Bond. James Bond. Some are more shaken and stirred than others by that fact. This amusing documentary explores the pleasures and pitfalls of carrying this famous name in a world in which more than half the population have seen a Bond film. It’s not always easy; James Bond support groups exist.
ITVX, from Thursday 4 January
The Other Fellow
There’s a theatre director, a prisoner, a lawyer and a pilot. The men are old and young; Black and white. But they all have one thing in common: their name is presumably the trigger for many overfamiliar jokes. These men are all named Bond. James Bond. Some are more shaken and stirred than others by that fact. This amusing documentary explores the pleasures and pitfalls of carrying this famous name in a world in which more than half the population have seen a Bond film. It’s not always easy; James Bond support groups exist.
ITVX, from Thursday 4 January
James Bond 007 museum.com 