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If you're going to take the inane step to include it then wouldn't you have it go somewhere?
But if you take out the Oberhauser angle and just have him say 'you came across me many times. My name is ESB' it makes no difference at all to how events pan out.
Well said.
In my view, the best ESB is the one in FRWL and TB, but come on! Waltz wasn´t going to be hired for that kind of role. The lowest pont for Blofeld, as Murdock has said, is that creepy travestite scene. In addition, so many re-casts, different looks and continuity inconsistences were much horrible than SP backstory, which is not good but it is far to ruin the movie for me.
Absolutely.
Gray is my favourite on a pure entertainment level, although Savalas is probably the best Blofeld.
1. The expositional dialogue on the boat with tanner is awful. Every line is spoon feeding information. Same with the Lucia seduction scene. It's just line / rebutall / line / rebutall
2. I've mentioned it before but it's just weird seeing Rome/ London/ the train / cns building so damn deserted. The car chase has no real jeopardy as they aren't avoiding anything. Just driving down one deserted street after another.
3. The climax is weak. I don't even know what the climax is. Q deletes the files of a global computer programme. Sorry but people solving problems on computers by tapping the keyboard and telling us that they're "in" hasn't been gripping since the 80s. What would the climax have been if bond went from Tangier to anywhere in the world except London? And Madeleine hadn't walked off on her own.
4. The score
There's some nice bits. I like about half of it but it's less than the sum of its parts.
Spectre actually gets that part right (although they just unconnectedly suggest that Blofeld influenced the events of CR, QoS and SF in an attempt to tie everything together), but they bring it down with his motivations as a petulant man-child. The original Blofeld was so much more menacing because his motivations weren't centered around hurting or manipulating Bond - it was the sense of worldwide domination in many forms (not always the best, but still).
As for Gray vs Pleasance, I'm not sure. Pleasance looks absolutely pitiful when he stands next to Connery (it's not just stature, he loses all of his menace). The only good bits he had were when he was unseen, and his reveal. Afterwards, he just lost his sense of menace. The "you can watch it all on TV" part was cringeworthy for me.
Gray, I suppose, was more entertaining. He never felt threatening (I suppose that has more to do with the theme of the film and how he was told to play the character), but he did feel like he was acting better than Pleasance. And "aren't we showing a little more cheek than usual" is actually a good pun.
Smart alecks answer "FRWL, TB Blofeld". Which is correct. But still.
Fact still remains that Pleasance was the one who brought a real and raw menace to the film (stature doesn't mean a thing in my book). He's the classic scarred Blofeld. Although I admit, classics are not well-liked around here... OHMSS and DAF Blofeld are not nearly as iconic. In fact, drag Blofeld ought to be erased from history.
And I think @ForYourEyesOnly you are misinterpreting that line... He means it ironically. As in, "I am about to start WW3, and it's all on TV for your viewing pleasure."
Haha probably! It's not Craig that is the problem. Hopefully if he does return it's a return to form, straight forward mission with a Bondian score. Not too much to ask?
If someone like Martin Campbell came back to direct I would be ecstatic. His Bond films have an energy that's been missing recently
I know what he meant. There's just something about the delivery of the line (or the line itself) that makes me uneasy.
To be fair DAF did a lot to water down Blofeld's character.
Bond outing possibly in the middle of my top ten, as for me it gets better with each
Viewing. :)
around the #6 or #7 spot.
I have it in the middle, at 13. Which puts it above SF, at 14.
This is about where, and how, I see it, although I would flop the order with SP at 14 and SF at 11 or 12.
Fair enough. SF is a bit lower for me because it is just overall very dull (although well-made). It is more well-made than SP but I like SP better all the same.
I agree with this.