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How does your theory overcome the fact that Blofeld doesnt recognise Bond in OHMSS?
By having them meet in YOLT and DAF it makes it even more improbable that he doesnt recognise Bond. You are going to have to go down the 'Bond has plastic surgery to confound his enemies' when they cast George to get round this elephant in the room it seems to me.
For one, I don't see Donald Pleasence's Blofeld as the same as Telly's. Him and Grey's Blofeld are just more faces to throw Bond off. Since Telly's Blofeld was busy in Switzerland setting up his allergy clinic in Piz Gloria. I don't think he took the time look at Japanese news. One of his underlings might have informed him that Bond had been killed in Japan so he continued his work there.
Granted this is my own personal way of tying all the pre Dalton Bond movies together. For me, the Series already rebooted itself when Dalton became Bond, then again once more when Craig was cast.
It is off topic, but here is my theory about why Blofeld and Bond do not recognize each other in OHMSS and it has roots in the novels:
1)For Blofeld it is simple: plastic surgery.
2)For Bond, he was disguised as a Japanese fisherman in YOLT and although he did not have makeup in YOLT when he met Blofeld, we can retcon that he did. In the novel YOLT, interestingly enough, Blofeld is not sure Bond is Bond, because of the Japanese disguise. Anyway, meeting him without a disguise in OHMSS (or rather with another disguise, however poor), he does not know for sure that this Hillary Bray or the man he met more than a year ago...
For me, it is obvious that the movie OHMSS happens after YOLT, there is even flashbacks of it in the opening titles.
Besides, In 1969, it would take a whole lot of magic to completely erase that scar and grow a foot taller. :))
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One of the best PTS's, naysayers be damned.
I agree. They could have dispatched an unnamed Blofeld in a more serious manner in the style of FYEO.
If FYEO were trying to be a great classic film or some bold form of artistic expression, this opening would be a big blemish for sure.
I would be upset if this were the opening of Goldeneye or Casino Royale. But FYEO is a typical average spy film.
Viewing it context of the time, EON didn't want to take the movies too seriously, so they felt like this scene would balance it out. Putting the gags in the opening and ending allowed the rest of the movie in the middle to be serious.
This is just one part of the overall trend of the Moore era.
EON just wanted to make escapist films with entertaining moments. They didn't value character development. They wanted a bridge of individually entertaining moments rather than plot progression.
They wanted to sell movies, but it never seemed like they wanted to make a classic, nor cared how well their movies stood up 50 years later.
Personally, I'd like to see a return to that (with silliness tuned down, though). Well, plot progression is a good thing, but I like the Moore era plots a lot more than those of other eras.
Same here, it's my favourite one. And a Top 3 in the franchise.
*although due to certain reasons they may not have been able to use the name Blofeld..
Yes indeed. And bear in mind at the point you're watching this the last thing you've seen is Bond shagging a lady in a space shuttle: this opening is silly but less silly than that - you're being eased gently into the more down-to-earth story of the main body of FYEO.
How about "Die, uncredited villain, die!"
"Die, you, die!"
Or maybe 'Die, unspeakable one, die'
That would've sounded really forced. And out-of-character for Moore.
Also, that line comes off as cartoonish. If realism were a goal, maybe a more somber and grounded line would've been better.
Yes, haha. You should write the dialogues for Bond 26!
Why thank you, but in P&W I trust. ;)
Really though, what ties it all together for me is Conti’s music and how it all flows (even if the music vanishes for a little while there).
From gunbarrel to PTS to title song, the music really helps FYEO kick off nicely.
The Tracy gravestone there wasn't real, it just serves as a meeting point for Bond and the MI6 (Universal Exports) Helicopter.
Bond just lay some flowers there for it not to be obvious that it's just a set up by the MI6 to pick up Bond (and the other MI6 agents) for a mission.
I've observed this many times that there some places that's disguised as an ordinary place when it's really an MI6 Safehouse (think of the Queen Elizabeth Wreck in TMWTGG, The Monastery in MR), so the graveyard wasn't a real graveyard at all, but a disguise for a meeting point by MI6.
I've watched the film again, and when Bond arrived at the graveyard, the Priest easily come to him to inform him about the helicopter that's going to pick him up, we could also safely assume that the Priest wasn't Priest at all but one of the MI6 staffs disguised as a Priest.
Also how Tracy would be buried in England, if she's killed in Portugal?
That gravestone wasn't real, but just a prop, Bond lays flowers there because for it not to obvious, he's just acting as he's visiting a real grave.
In my theory, the original gravestone of Tracy is either buried in Portugal, or in Corsica (to whom by Draco's wishes would be buried there in her hometown), not in England.
Of course, when it comes to burying his daughter, Draco wouldn't allowed Tracy to be buried in England (especially as there's a possibility that he's blaming Bond for the death of his daughter, so why he would allow Tracy to be buried in the country of the man whom he believed was responsible for her death?)
That Graveyard wasn't a graveyard at all, but a pick up point of the MI6 agents.
Those other graves there also belongs to other MI6 agents, and Tracy is one of them for Bond.
Just my theory....
What do you guys think of my theory?