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The theories of Bond films! Why does Bond use Fakesh's secretary as a human shield? TSWLM
thedove
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Through-out this wonderful series there have been plot holes, jarring edits, plot points dropped or glossed over. Sometimes these are inconsequential and other times they leave us to wonder...why or how!?!
For example the car in the DAF that pivots on one side, then halfway down the alley it flips to the other wheels. How is that possible? This will not be about some of the contrivances that exist in the scripts as these are sometimes needed to move along a story.
This thread will explore the many theories that we have about these things. Give us your serious theory on how this happened or go tongue and cheek. Lets see if we can explain some of these things that happen to our favourite spy and gentleman agent.
First scenario: Bond meets Blofeld in Japan! They see each other face to face which is a big deal as Bond has yet to meet his nemesis. The next film sees Bond chasing and tracking down Blofeld. It is decided that Bond will become Sir Hilary Bray and wear glasses and change his voice. Bond gains access to Piz Gloria and we grow in anticipation of them meeting again. Finally we get Bond meeting Blofeld and...Blofeld seems to accept Bond as Bray. In fact it appears the only thing that trips up Bond is an erroneous fact about some tombs and churches. Once caught Blofeld says it will take more than cheap glasses to impersonate a member of the College of Arms. So what gives!?
How does Blofeld not recognize Bond after meeting him in Japan just 2 short years ago?
Bonus points if you can offer a theory on how Blofeld dealt with his facial scars!
For example the car in the DAF that pivots on one side, then halfway down the alley it flips to the other wheels. How is that possible? This will not be about some of the contrivances that exist in the scripts as these are sometimes needed to move along a story.
This thread will explore the many theories that we have about these things. Give us your serious theory on how this happened or go tongue and cheek. Lets see if we can explain some of these things that happen to our favourite spy and gentleman agent.
First scenario: Bond meets Blofeld in Japan! They see each other face to face which is a big deal as Bond has yet to meet his nemesis. The next film sees Bond chasing and tracking down Blofeld. It is decided that Bond will become Sir Hilary Bray and wear glasses and change his voice. Bond gains access to Piz Gloria and we grow in anticipation of them meeting again. Finally we get Bond meeting Blofeld and...Blofeld seems to accept Bond as Bray. In fact it appears the only thing that trips up Bond is an erroneous fact about some tombs and churches. Once caught Blofeld says it will take more than cheap glasses to impersonate a member of the College of Arms. So what gives!?
How does Blofeld not recognize Bond after meeting him in Japan just 2 short years ago?
Bonus points if you can offer a theory on how Blofeld dealt with his facial scars!
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The "Blofeld" Bond meets in YOLT isn't the real one. He's Largo's replacement. He runs S.P.E.C.T.R.E.'s Japanese operations while the real Blofeld is setting up his Piz Gloria operation.
After his failure of losing the volcano base, the scarred "Blofeld" is executed by the Charles Gray version who in my headcanon is Henderson turned defector. With Bond on S.P.E.C.T.R.E.'s trail, Henderson faked his death and began his plans of being the next decoy for S.P.E.C.T.R.E.'s Las Vegas operations.
DAF starts immediately after YOLT and is also the start of operation bedlam. Bond has been on a manhunt for Blofeld and when he thinks he finally found him, he's shocked to see Henderson instead. The events of the movie unfold as normal which leads into OHMSS. This whole time Bond has been meeting decoys and imposters and so he finally meets the true Blofeld in OHMSS.
Blofeld's operation in OHMSS has been so important that it requires his direct involvement for establishing the clinic and all the patients so it makes sense that he would use doubles to handle his other operations around the world. He wouldn't have much time to worry about Bond chasing his doubles while he's busy setting up his new cover and institute at Piz Gloria.
With the way the movie unfolds Bond breaks Blofeld's neck permanently paralyzing him which drives him to attempt to murder Bond only to kill Tracy instead. After that Blofeld goes into hiding for many years until he learns about Bond's annual visits to Tracy's grave and uses the last of his resources to kill him in the PTS of FYEO. That attempt ultimately leads to his true demise.
That's how I perceive things anyway. :P
You must be fun at parties! LOL!
@Murdock I love this idea. Great way to explain away this nagging loose end. I actually like the thought of a villain with minions happening around the globe. Good stuff!
That's ok, @thedove. I sometimes like to spin yarns about nothing, and sometimes I don't.
"I've outfitted an ordinary pair of spectacles with a high frequency output wave that tricks the brain into seeing a different person standing in front of them. A sort of anti-facial recognition. Tried to demonstrate them to the grandkids last Christmas but they said they're not allowed to talk to strangers."
Wonderful! :-D Thank you for this great post, @QBranch!
Good one, @QBranch! :))
Of course, Telly's scar-less Blofeld had the contact lens version.
Neither of them needed those
Forget OHMSS being a Christmas movie. OHMSS is secretly a Superman movie. :P
Yeah but I always found it odd considering clips from YOLT are shown during the Titles; and M’s comment about Bond tracking Blofeld for two years lines up perfectly with YOLT’s release date.
The only rational explanation is that James Bond is actually an interdimensional entity who can hop into different timelines.
It wasn't that he was gay but rather that respectable heralds from the College of Arms don't seduce female patients in clinics. They are much more professional than that.
Yes, that's it, I've forgotten the line actually, thank you. 🙂
It's fine. I'm surprised I remember it myself to be honest as I don't rewatch Bond films as often as I should. :)
Lets jump ahead a few films. Might be appropriate because this is the first movie to mention Bond's wife.
Yes TSWLM a Bond and Beyond adventure! Lots to like within this film and yet...one scene has always puzzled me. Bond meeting Fakesh's secretary in Cairo. They immediately get romantic with each other, which we have seen happen in other films. No the thing that bothers me is as follows:
Why does Bond use the secretary as a human shield OR why does the secretary take a bullet for a man she has just met?
To help you form a theory, here is the clip from the film. Help to make this scene make sense. Give me your theory for why Faskesh's secretary was willing to die or why Bond was willing to use her as a shield?
It’s odd as it’s all a bit out of context/left to interpretation. But I get there’s not much other way they could have done it and explaining would have been a bit hamfisted.