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what a joke! after it got blown to bits!
Still salvageable...
(6 million dollar man theme da da daa da...)
That is laughable. :)
:-?
My mechanic would have written the car off, and tried to sell me a new car. Imagine!
IMO, about one year.
I think they wanted to re-write Blofeld's character, in order to provide him with a more realistic background. There's this tendency for realism in action films that's been started by the Bourne franchise. It transcended into the Bond films starting with Casino Royale. I personally like this tendency.
Now, until a certain point, I think Oberhauser's character is well written and with attention to detail. There are logical explanations for his name changes in the script (which I read some time ago, so I'm sorry if some of the facts are not perfectly accurate). His real birth name is Ernest Serban. They used the name Ernest, which is the Romanian form of Ernst (Blofeld). They made him Romanian because that makes his back story valid in the given time frame - an orphan, who's parents were sentenced to death because they were caught spying for the German government / secret services. Romania is one of the European countries that was ran by a communist regime 20 something years ago when Ernest was a kid. They had a death penalty and treated spies and "country traitors" very harsh. The name Oberhauser, I think he takes that name when he's being adopted by the Austrian family that later adopts Bond as well. And Stockmann, I think that's the name he uses to stay off of Bond's radar. From what I remember, Waltz' character doesn't die at the end of Spectre, he just gets caught. My guess is he will escape in Bond 25 and change his name once again to Blofeld.
My problem with this character is that he doesn't seem to have a clear goal or purpose, much like Skyfall's Silva. They both seem to be driven by revenge only or by their fantasy of playing God. And that's where the realism fades away for me, with all the character background they're trying to provide. I can understand guys like Le Chiffre or Dominic Greene who are driven by their hunger for money, but these guys are just lunatics. And who would let a lunatic run the biggest criminal organization in the world ? Even criminals have standards.
Which in today's world is provided by money. Le Chiffre provided banking services for terrorists and gambled at the stock market for a living, Greene was a politically connected business man who posed as an environmentalist, Silva probably didn't even needed money because he was hacking his way into life, but what does this Oberhauser do ? He's just presented as this evil entity that comes out of nowhere.
Bond never was adopted.
He just spent some time of his summer vacation in Austria with the Oberhauser-Family.
Exactly in the same way as C is building a giant intelligence agency.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/03/12/mexico-wanted-james-bond-but-only-if-the-country-looked-as-good-as-he-does/
Not to worry about any of this as the December draft already has all the requested changes.
(Also they mean Marco Sciarra not Lucia)
Journalists are really slow nowadays. The e-mails were leaked 3 months ago. Anyone who has read the e-mails could have written the same article back in December.
Blofeld, or whatever the hell he's called in Spectre, should not be motivation by any personal emo nonsense, in my opinion. It should all be about taking control away from governments and putting it into the hands of corporations, who all fall under the Spectre banner. So in essence, creating a more centralised hub of power and control over banking systems, military, media and so on. So hopefully he is not portrayed as a generic mad-man, as Silva transpired to be.
To me it all should go back to what Bond says to Mathis in the CR novel in his 'cowboys and Indians speech'. Whereas Bond once thought of this game as such, he now realises that it's more complex than that. Also, on the last pages of CR he tells himself that he will after 'the threat behind the threat'. That's what QoS touched upon, and I hope they bring that full circle with Spectre.
http://www.taxanalysts.com/www/features.nsf/Features/D0DB13181492C8E285257DFD0048BA22?OpenDocument
It goes into more detail than the December stories. One of the points made in the Tax Analysts story became reality this week with a casting announcement.
@Zekidk Where is that picture?
No slings in these shots, taken from the video blog.