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No Goldfinger was one of the real life movies, although you are right, I think when he saw Honor Blackman he did say "I must be dreaming", but he wasn't, he was awake.
I am only sticking up for myself. If you don't agree with me then fine, but why are you trying to make me look stupid?
because if you honestly believe what you are saying - and it's not a fun little game you like to play or a joke...... then you are... sorry ^#(^
The Blofeld who Bond met in YOLT was a decoy. Someone who was running SPECTRE's Japan lair. That Blofeld's number 2 was Henderson who was a plant and had his death staged. Bond blows up the rocket followed by the decoy blowing up the Volcano. He dies by accident never to be seen again.
Then we immediately go to DAF. It's PTS is right in Japan. (In my mind making it a Sequel to YOLT.) Bond is looking for "Blofeld" But finds "Henderson" instead. Bond might think that Henderson is Blofeld so when he boils him in mud he thinks the job is done. He later finds Henderson and his duplicate in Las Vegas. He kills the final duplicate leaving Henderson left. Bond slams him into the walls of the oil rig but his death is never known. It's assumed the real Blofeld killed him.
Finally bringing us to OHMSS. Operation Bedlam has begun. Blofeld has shown up again and Bond is looking for him and after 2 years has come up with nothing. He soon finds him thanks to Draco and Bond and the real Blofeld finally meet. Which is why they don't recognize eachother. Bond breaks his neck, Blofeld kills Tracy and gets away for 12 years. In FYEO he reappears and tries to kill Bond one last time but finally meets his end.
That's how I explain the Blofeld Fiasco. :))
That's quite an interesting theory. I might try watching them it that order :-) In terms of the Connery, Connery, Lazenby sequence, it makes sense. The only thing that throws it for me is that stylistically DAF is very 70' wheras YOLT and DIA are very 60's. This is where Moore's dream in LALD sits quite nicely.
i am offended by your stupidity.........
but i am done... can't take this anymore..
I'm tripping balls.
"Can you guys get back . on . thread? Puleeze?"
;-)
You can also say that Bond was disguised as a Japanese in YOLT... In the novel YOLT, Blofeld is not certain this Japanese fisherman is Bond in disguise.
I'm sure that attempting to retcon the series can be fun for some people, but it is ultimately futile. I would suggest you bury your head in many of the books relating to the films and their respective productions and you'll find all the answers you need to know. This thread has been answered already; take a look back at many of the posts.
The crux of your theory is pinned to the flippant nod to Blofeld in FYEO. If you really want to give his appearance credence and canonical relevance then imagine that Blofeld is paralysed when his batho-sub is destroyed in the finale of DAF. Your theory doesn't answer any questions, merely questions you've invented. If you do some reading into your Bond history you'll know that the suits were keen to distance themselves from OHMSS in 1971. Bond doesn't work like the Marvel universe, it was always about the here and now and decisions were never made to support canonical continuity.
Ok, so disregarding Blofelds paralysis. There is still the question of history. The idea that the suits wanted to distance themselves holds no water. Here is why:
There is no movie that references earlier films more than OHMSS. The opening credits show flashbacks from previous movies, there is the "this didn't happen to the other fella" quip, the little man whistling Goldfinger, the office scene with all the props from previous movies and most importantly the reference to operation Bedlam. They literally went absolutely crazy to ensure that the audience knew that there was continuity.
Now, the concept that the producers would then en masse and collectively do a 360 degree turn is highly unlikely, especially as they hired Connery at huge expense to keep the continuity. If they had really wanted to distance themselves, they would not have hired Connery and they would not have used Blofeld as a villain, they would have skipped straight to LALD.
They wanted to keep continuity within the canon as you put it, but because they had put the films in the wrong order it made no sense for the reasons I have outlined. Thus using the movie as a movie within a movie (ie Moore's dream in LALT) is a far more plausible concept.
But this isn't what happened. It's like the codename theory, you can debate it until the cows come home, but that isn't what happened. The narrative continuity of the Bond films is awry, and it always has been. FRWL states Bond and M visited Tokyo, yet YOLT is apparently Bond's first time in Japan. They just weren't that pedantic about such things back in the day. The priority was the here and now. They made OHMSS, Lazenby walked, Picker made sure they got Connery back to put bums in seats and normal service was resumed. They did their utmost to convince the audience that the Lazenby Bond was the same as the Connery Bond, but once Connery returned the narrative continuity was chucked out of the window again.
Your whole theory is pinned on this...
So this leads me to my theory that DAF isn't a dream sequence. It's just a film that features a few narrative quirks, as the aim was to put out a Connery Bond film and make some money.
How does it not make sense that they hired Connery to distance themselves from OHMSS? It was the only Bond film to not have Connery as Bond. It was like saying, "Look, the real James Bond is back! Forget all that nonsense from two years ago!" Plus, they have had different actors playing Blofeld since FRWL so how is that anything new?
IFM guys.
So let me lay this out
- Diamonds Are Forever - presented to the audience as an adventure starring Connery as James Bond.
-Diamonds Are Forever - a dream that Moore has before waking up in LALD, whereby he is imagining an adventure that he might have had whilst he was Connery, but after he was Lazenby.
It is possible for DAF to be both and stands very well to reason.
Oh and the burden of proof is on your side, since you are making the claim.
I have proved it, very conclusively.
And by the way, explain why Moore is asleep at the start of LALD? There could have been a million and one other ways to start that movie, but he was specifically asleep. This was deliberately done to demonstrate the DAF dream.