Juanita: well…I have my information…If I told you my source, well, I’d have to kill you… So I won’t…actually, I made an assumption based on an article (I think it may even have been an interview with Eva Green) where it was alluded to that this was the case…Anyway, we will find out soon enough, when the next Bond movie comes out…

“She, too, attempted deception against SPECTRE (though it was a feckless attempt) and dared hope for happiness (if brief) with James. But all too soon, SPECTRE caught up with her and she knew she had to go through with her bargain, hoping they would spare her but knowing in her heart that she was heading to her death.”

What makes you think that the organization behind Le Chiffre and Mr. White is SPECTRE? Has it ever been confirmed by EON Productions?

“She, too, attempted deception against SPECTRE (though it was a feckless attempt) and dared hope for happiness (if brief) with James. But all too soon, SPECTRE caught up with her and she knew she had to go through with her bargain, hoping they would spare her but knowing in her heart that she was heading to her death.”

What makes you think that the organization behind Le Chiffre and Mr. White is SPECTRE? Has it ever been confirmed by EON Productions?

I just stumbled over your post by googling “Tosca” and “fanfiction” – a weird experiment, but seeing as I’m currently in an obsessive phase with my favourite opera I gave it a try.

Anyway, your post made my day. For not only do I love Tosca, I’m an avid fan of Bond (especially the darker side of him, as portrayed in the books and the Casino Royale film) as well, and have been fantasising about how the two could come together ever since reading about the possibility of Bond 22 using the Bregenz Tosca stage as a set for one scene.
And now I found somebody else has had the same thoughts*, albeit in a different context, and that just, as I said, made my day.
There’s probably no need to tell you that it was well-written and insightful, but I’ll do so anyway.

Thankyou!

yappy

I have often gotten the idea that all Bond has is his job — though we really don’t know who he is putside of work, but his preoccupations are pretty much anti-life building. He gambles, but not to aquire wealth, etc. So, either we can say that he does the job because it’s all he feels able to do, or we can say that he feels this is the only way he can redeem himself, by being the one to step up and do the sort of thing that needs done?

So yeah, I think I’ll go with altruist.

Personally, I think the character goes deeper than that. He denies himself real human connection to keep himself in the position he’s in. There are undoubtedly perks (women, gambling etc..) but ultimately it’s a pretty lonely existence.

I do think James Bond is an altruist. A flawed one, but one nonetheless.