When Ben met "M"

In All the President’s Men, Ben Bradlee is the executive editor of the Washington Post, the paper which becomes the main outlet to uncover the Watergate scandal involving President Nixon and his administration. “M” is one of the main coordinators/leaders of the British Secret Service in the James Bond Series. Throughout the years “M” has taken the roles of both genders but overall, the character plays out the same no matter what version of Bond you are talking about. “M,” much like Bradlee, is a confident no nonsense leader who does whatever they have to get the job done, and more importantly, get that job done the right way. Bradlee is a very cocky and outspoken person who has an ego bigger than the Post’s newsroom. “M” is almost the same way but in a different role, a more welcomed role. You could see why a leader of in a security organization, especially a high class organization like the fictional British Secret Service the movies, would act the way he/she does but for an editor of a newspaper, it seems almost out of place. A cocky, almost obnoxious character, just doesn’t fit that role of a “journalist,” but Bradlee embraced the role and has become one of the most famous of his kind. These two characters come from completely different backgrounds but they hold that “swagger” that makes them perfect for their role in the movie/book, but also as characters in the real world. Bradlee, who is a non-fictional character, and “M,” who is fictional, are two small pieces of the puzzles for both wonderful stories, even if it is hard to see it on the outside.