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There are worse things to do than trying to be faithful to the source material. And the origins of Blofeld, his background, are very important. Not only ideally, realistically too: a man named Blofeld is very unlikely to be from Somalia or India. Blofeld is more, should be more than a name.
And, to get back on topic, we are getting ahead of ourselves: Chiwetel Ejiofor has not been cast yet, and nothing tells is that he'll play Blofeld.
Do people know my mom has had an audition for the role of the villain? She will be thrilled if she gets to be Blofeld!
Is your mum Helen Mirren?
No seriously, Ejiofor is not even cast yet. If he is, we don't know what kind of villain he will play. Will he be Grant-like? That would be nice. Or maybe like Scaramanga. or maybe he is, like Largo and Greene, a field commander. That is, if he is cast.
How original.
:)) Now that would be a claim to fame!
Whoever is eventually cast they will be a new villain, and not somebody we have seen before.
Well, we don't know. It depends of who is cast.
And that is the easiest thing in the world to do, so therefore no reason whatsoever to transmogrify the character. Unless, that is, one has an arriere pensee.
Not only is it the easiest thing to do, it is the smart thing to do. Blofeld is not just a name. It is funny people mention that he could be done in "a variety of different ways" but using nothing from the source material but the name is not a different way, it is a different character altogether with nothing from the source material. Instead of Blofeld being the anti-Bond, he becomes the anti-Blofeld.
Indeed, very much seconded, @Ludovico. If they can't bring him back as faithful to Fleming then don't let's bring him back at all I say!
New fresh villains please.
It needed to be said. The book Blofelds are a different matter in my view.
Bond himself in the movies is largely Bond in name only when compared to the literary character. At the end of the day my point was mainly about the characterisation being realised more than anything, taking precedent over what colour his skin is or which country he comes from. Mikkelsen doesn't fit the description of Le Chiffre from the novel and that was obviously as everyone keeps pointing out a major travesty and really brought the movie down. I mean seriously, EoN got the rights to CR a few years prior and they had the opportunity to really bring CR to life and what do they do? They cast a 5ft something blond Bond, an Italian Mathis, a French actress as Vesper who's boyfriend is a French Algerian as opposed to being Polish and of course, there's Mikkelsen, as I mentioned before, a far cry from the description of Le Chiffre as written in the novel. Blofeld can indeed be realised effectively in a variety of ways and the series has proved this with numerous characters including Bond himself. Blofeld has to be Polish? Well, no, he really doesn't.
You are spot on and I agree with you 100%.
Forget about Blofeld!
There I've said it.
Blofeld was fine in the 60's but after DAF, we were through with him for all time. That PTS of FYEO showed that guy but I think that was Cubby's way of giving the middle finger to McClory.
But at the core Le Chiffre was the same: a physically impotent man, with similar origins too (from Albania rather than Montenegro, but still). Of course the physique was different, but Fleming's villains have near impossible physique to find. Mathis is played by an Italian but he is French. Turning Blofeld into a young, fit black man would be a huge departure, far more than having Le Chiffre not as fat as in the novel. As for your comments about Bond, they are non sequitur: even Moore was in some aspects and appearance similar to Fleming's Bond. And he is still British!
Not to this extend he wasn't. In fact even when he changed appearances, there were still parts of him that looked the same, that remained unchanged.
Ejiofor hasn't been cast as Blofeld. Chances are, if and that's a very big if, he is in line to play the villain, I would say it's 99.9% certain it will be an original character. As for the ongoing Blofeld claptrap, I would agree with the @doubleoego and @Birdleson.
I tend to agree with you.
If a white actor had been rumored, particularly a middle or Eastern European older than DC, then there would be no issue.
Re: LeChiffre, your criticism is more of CR's plot than the casting of Mikkelsen. In point of fact, Mikkelsen looks credibly like what we would imagine Fleming's LeChiffre to look like, and his mannerisms are very much in keeping with the literary figure. As to so-called "skin color," this is hardly an incidental thing; contrariwise, it is very important. Bond is white. Blofeld is white. End of story. We've already had a black Moneypenny and a black Leiter--isn't that enough? Stupid question, because it is never enough.
As we've already seen, at least one person would be fine with literally feminizing Blofeld.
Dear, dear. I've seen it all now!
But he's not playing Blofeld, so I don't understand the hoohah.
Probably not, but we shall see.
Let's hope he's not. I don't think I could stand the backlash.
Aren't you a big DAF fan?