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Despite the fact that infographics are, well, a bit overdone these days, when it comes to Bond I have a bit of a weakness. Apparently 007 costs us Brits quite a bit, especially as nothing he uses seems to survive longer than 10 minutes (remember that poor BMW Z8 that got cut in half?). Q’s budget must be absolutely enormous.
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I’d do all this for half the price
But would you be half the man too?
You’ve got me there
Forgot to add child care for all those impressionable women he most probably knocked up. MI5 wouldn’t want a load of hussy’s going to the press with Bond Babys!
It’s MI6!! [Facepalm]
My bad. I’m not a particularly huge Bond fan in my defense.
So James Bond cost £3.5m? Good job the film company made a quarter of a billion quid per film, then… (source: http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=jamesbond21.htm)
ermmm…. less commenting… and more writing articles please!
seconded!
You reckon you could do Bond’s job for less Matt?
I think the real question is could Bond do Matt’s job?
Good grief that’s extraordinary value for money! The equivalent army required would run into ten if not hundreds of millions, and he’s saved the world dozens of times. Keep the British end up Bond!
£100,000 annual salary for risking his life? worth it?
That’s the civil service for you.
I bet he gets some pretty tasty tax breaks.
As he’s a civil servant I doubt his salary is £100k, unless they pay him more ass he’s unlikely to get to live to claim his pension.
*damn edit….I meant as not ass (although that’s quite funny!)
You’re forgetting about all that over-time and ‘unsocial hours’ included in that total.
I suspect the booze budget is much, much higher than that! Building repair is going to run well over £1.4 million, too. Didn’t he basically knock down a fairly sizeable chunk of Venice in Casino Royale?
It’s a shame the government can’t fork out a little bit extra to sort out Mr. Bond’s pattern baldness. He’s supposed to look a spy, not a white van driver.
See, for starts who ever did this info graph clearly wasn’t thinking right. He was going of CIVILLIAN prices. Jimmy B is in the Navy (Commander Bond remember?) and as such all his stuff will have been purchased by the RN. This means that his stuff (in real life) would cost two, if not three, times as much due to companies upping their prices once a contract to the MoD has been signed. It’ll be cheap for the Aston (say £225,000) for the basic model Aston provides, thats before they add thier extras and way before Q get his hands on it!
Nothing.
And still you people are having trouble with this whole reality/fiction thing, they never should have allowed ‘care in the community’ – total cost of Bond to the taxpayer is fuck all.
Scriptwriter: I’d like to have bond crash another luxury car but I don’t think the taxpayer will stand any more expense.
Further to this, no western country have had this kind of agent for 20 plus years, you can’t do that in progressive countries with technology, nothing can be kept secret. It is really only unregulated countries like Israel and Iran that can do the fun rouge agent stuff – western spying is boring.
But that aside, who’s boss is paying for their shoes, watches, cuff links and suits, I believe that would come out of his salary – if he was real.
Reality: Means it actually happened.
Fiction: Means it is unfounded tripe.
£3.5m for Bond. BARGIN!!!!!
Also I’m sure he wears the Omega SPYMaster
So a bit less than the average civil servant then?