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https://bleedingcool.com/movies/when-blofeld-was-a-woman-in-spectre-sony-leaks/
That Oberhauser/Blofeld are the same person made no sense then and makes no sense now. They should have been two separate characters, Oberhauser basically the Largo to Blofeld.
Also interesting that someone thought Madeleine could be working with Blofeld. I think the female Blofeld idea has merit, but probably would have made more sense with Lucia.
I like all that.
Of course, 'Danny Bond' is more likely to stand there and smile at the explosion with a cuddly toy, rather than try to escape. But I like your version better.
That is one of the worst aspects, that the character was not properly used.
And if the concept only works with his child as the villain, then let that concept breathe and work on its own because trying to make that the motivation behind Ernst Stavro Blofeld just doesn't work.
I personally quite liked what the comic adaptation did by introducing a daughter for Oberhauser.
Benedict Cumberbatch would have been a great Philip Masters 14 years ago or so.
That could make for a great television series, throwing in TSWLM as written, as well. It's basically reads like an extended Fleming short story.
Interesting that Glidrose/the IFF didn't sell these to the public long ago, like right after Fleming died. I wonder if there are/were rights issues, as with CR, MR, etc.
I wish they had been incorporated in the film series, or better yet collected and published as they are, instead of giving it to a hack writer like Horowitz.
Thanks for that. Seems the 'suits' of mgm and Sony had some sensible ideas, and as @pierce2daniel so aptly describes in his opening post, not all issues were resolved in the final film.
It's also too self-referential to work. Blofeld and Spectre needed something different about them in this universe. Instead we got Waltz sleepwalking through his performance, the usual 'SPECTRE kills its own agent' scene in the board meeting, Blofeld getting the Pleasance Blofeld scar at the end.
I probably would have felt more disappointed upon leaving NTTD, but I had been spoiled to the point that my expectations were already shot (I was actually bummed out the whole time knowing they were going to kill him off, which prevented me from genuinely enjoying any of the many parts of the film that do work).