THE 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.
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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.
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