This old beautiful house GOLDENEYE is from 1800, one of Kalmars most exclusive attractions. Owner: Bond …James Bond (Gunnar Schäfer)
We have named it after Ian Flemmings house in Jamaica to dedicate his life of James Bond.
This is a place you can go and visit everyday adress is:
Spikgatan 10, 392 33 Kalmar, Sweden.
There’s no doubt James Bond movies have become intrinsic to our culture. Nifty action events, phrases from the films, the various actors who’ve played the role and the Bond women all contribute to western culture. As do the magical wristwatches in those films. In fact, a very nice history of wristwatches in the Bond films can be found at www.007museum.com. There,
The latest vlog from the set of SPECTRE focuses on actresses Léa Seydoux and Monica Bellucci and the roles they play in the film. Director Sam Mendes says, “In SPECTRE, the two women who Bond hooks up with, both have great mystery, they both have depths and for that you need fantastic actresses.” On her role as Madeleine Swann, daughter of Bond’s old nemesis Mr White (Jesper Christensen), Seydoux says: “She’s a doctor, she’s intelligent and very sensitive…” Meanwhile, Monica Bellucci (who plays Lucia) says about her character: “She’s an Italian widow with secrets.”
SPECTRE is set for release in the UK on October 26, 2015, and in the US on November 6, 2015
Not only will the final quarter of 2015 be characterized by the release of the new James Bond film, there will also be a number of new book releases for us fans to enjoy. Independent academic publisher Intellect Ltd. was so kind to let me review their newest entry to the ‘Fan Phenomena’ series whichaims to ‘decode’ cult subjects in terms of the appeal and far reaching connections each of them have in becoming part of popular culture. ‘Fan Phenomena – James Bond’, set for a September 2015 release, made an interesting read on a train journey to Switzerland on which I rarely closed the book.
The essence of this 164 page book edited by Claire Hines is the focus on the mighty James Bond fan base. Rarely have I come across a book that highlights fan activity in a way that film character and fan are almost put on equal level. While reading through the eleven chapters, you get the feeling that, in many ways, this book is more about you than James Bond. Naturally, that is the intended purpose and works very well as such.
One thing I appreciated very much about this book was that individual Bond fans and friends are highlighted – like YouTuber Calvin Dyson whose very own style of analyzing aspects of the James Bond film series has earned the admiration of many. Inbetween the chapters, there are also four full interviews with author Raymond Benson, artwork expert & collector Peter Lorenz, Gunnar Schäfer who owns the 007 museum in Sweden as well as crossplayers CousinCecily and Winter.
The sophisticated writing style of ‘Fan Phenomena – James Bond’ paired with detailed, sometimes almost forensic, analysis opens up a whole new insight into the Bond fandom. Being part of this elaborate circle for over ten years, I thought I had seen and heard it all. However, I was amazed to discover that I had merely scratched the surface of many topics covered by this book. For instance chapter 4, that deals with Fan Edits of Bond films. I knew they exist, I own some of them in my collection but I learned, that there are many more I had never even heard of. Most of the time, I simply regarded fan edits as a reinterpretation according to the vision of the fan editor. I never gave much thought about why they were done and what their purpose is.
‘Fan Phenomena – James Bond’ should make interesting reading for any Bond fan as the book does not try to tell us something we already know. It is a fresh and intriguing look into one of the biggest fan communities, filling knowledge gaps here and there as well as appreciating fandom.
The book will be released in September 2015 but you can pre-order it now HERE
In Nybro, you can find the world’s first James Bond 007-museum. Here you can find everything connected to the film hero James Bond. For example, you can see the original film posters, the cars, the motorcycles, Black Jack tables, gold bars, spy cameras and different printed material, all things from the James Bond films.
Bond startade sitt museum 2003 vilket betyder att museet firar sitt 10-års jubileum i år. Syftet med att öppna 007-museet beror enligt Bond på att han ville hedra sin far Johannes Schäfer och Ian Fleming. Oavsett om Bonds museum ligger i Nybro så verkar det finnas en hel del besökare även från utlandet.
– Besökarna är från olika delar av samhället såsom barn, pensionärer, vuxna och alla ådrar som kan känna igen sig i bondvärlden.
Dessa kommer från alla världsdelar och lander. Några av dessa är England, Australien, Kina, Japan och USA, säger Bond.
Trots att hans museum har blivit en symbol för bondälskare världen över så har även Gunnars namnbyte till James Bond gett honom en ny identitet som har uppmärksammats i hela världen
känner sig imponerad med Nattanit Boonrungsimon och Gunnar Bond James Schäfer i/på James Bond Museum
Bond startade sitt museum 2003 vilket betyder att museet firar sitt 10-års jubileum i år. Syftet med att öppna 007-museet beror enligt Bond på att han ville hedra sin far Johannes Schäfer och Ian Fleming. Oavsett om Bonds museum ligger i Nybro så verkar det finnas en hel del besökare även från utlandet.
James Bond 007 museum.com 