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Ernesta Blofeld. I'm not opposed to the idea of the daughter of a long forgotten uber-villain, although I'm sure you'll get a few smack-downs from various quarters for mentioning 'female' and 'Blofeld' in the same sentence.
My reticence would be that they've never truly translated him to the screen in a way that I feel does justice to the literary incarnation. My choice would be the literary Blofeld from OHMSS, if they were to ever commit him to screen again. Or if it was deemed reasonable to feature a recurring villain, the transition from TB through YOLT. I'm talking visually here of course, the character details need some clever reworking.
What do you think.
Yes I thought of that a while back, I think I mentioned it. Still hoping for Helen Mirren to play a villain in a Bond film.
Blofeld did have his run perhaps with Femina Blofeld we would get SPECTRE back in a new coat.
I would not even mind QUANTUM being the renewed version with a deadly female at the wheel. With a decent actress we would get some good dynamics between DC and her with some nice sexual tension thrown in for good measure.
It would not change the character of Blofeld but actually advance the story of SPECTRE/Blofeld.
It is not Flemings Blofeld now is it, he had some help there as was documented fairly well.
I would not mind having the SPECTRE organisation continued in a new coat with the apperent same interests as QUANTUM it would be foolish to even deny its origin. With the spoofs they killed the bald guy with the pussy. Perhaps time for a new kind of Pussycat as for the bald part I am not suggesting anything here.
I would like to see Chris give it a go. A Blofeld at a similar age to 007, play mind games with him and really torment and psychologically fight Bond.
Fleming wrote the novel Thunderball at Goldeneye over the period January to March 1960, based on the screenplay written by himself, Whittingham and McClory
Who wrote the novel? Who is the author? Who described Blofeld the way he was pictured in the novels TB, OHMSS YOLT?
I don't care about the screenplay. The novels have Fleming's Blofeld.
I think he's merely suggesting that the genesis of Blofeld/SPECTRE was a collective process, channelled into the novel by Fleming.
Yes, and that is why I mentioned the screenplay. Even Fleming admits that the genesis was a collective process so please do not get too upset.
Well how amusing as we have been going a good 50 years with this 007 chap, and quite a few movies are not Flemings brainchild at all, but when there can be a change in vision or attempt it we get the good old It-is-not-as-Fleming-envisioned-argument.
Fleming took from a screenplay and wrote a book with it, he might have written the book but was certainly borrowing a shed load, in such a way that it was the easiest part to prove in court. McClory went overboard when he wanted to obtain the rights of James Bond 007. But when it comes to Thunderball the final product was written by Fleming but the basis was not his alone.
Blofeld is dead, long live the new Blofeld and I hope it will be a fantastic female character. Simply because the Silva character was not all that impressive.
(I know, wrong kind of pussy. ;-))
A lot of movies are not Fleming's because he did not write so many books, dying before his time. It matters that one stays faithful, at least to a degree, to the spirit of its creation. Getting back to Fleming would actually be a change of vision at least when Blofeld is concerned, because the movies never adapted him properly in the first place.
I challenge anyone to demonstrate that this was not due solely to Fleming's skills as a writer and a creator of character:
'Blofeld's own eyes were deep black pools surrounded -totally surrounded, as Mussoloni's were- by very clear whites. The doll-like effect of this unusual symmetry was enhanced by long silken black eyelashes that should have belonged to a woman. The gaze of these soft doll's eyes was totally relaxed and rarely held any expression stronger than the mild curiosity in the object of their focus. (...)Blofeld's gaze was a microscope, the window on the world on a superbly clear brain, with a focus that had been sharpened by thirty years of danger and of keeping just one step ahead of it (...)
The skin beneath the eyes that now slowly, mildly, surveyed his colleagues was unpouched. There was no sign of debauchery, illness, or old age on the large, white, bland face under the square, wiry black crew-cut The jawline, going on the appropriate middle-aged fat of authority, showed decision and independence. Only the mouth under a heavy, squat nose, marred what might have been the face of a philosopher or a scientist. Proud and thin, like a badly-healed wound, the compressed, dark lips, capable of only false, ugly smiles, suggested contempt, tyranny, and cruelty. But to an almost Shakespearian degree. Nothing about Blofeld was small.''
To paraphrase The Social Network, if McClory had wanted to invent Blofeld, he would have invented Blofeld. That goes for Bond, of course.
And I cannot see what a female Blofeld can bring that is better or relevant, let alone compared to the original character.
When I think of Silva - a character I liked a lot in Skyfall - I think Bardem brought it up to the highest level with his performance (and I credit Mendes' direction, too). Not just the words; the words in lesser actor, or one who was coached to be very over the top, would have been wrong and disappointing. I thought the balance was great in Silva's character.
So if Blofeld returns, it can be in many various disguises. I hope they are creative with it. :)
I should have made my original point more clearly, since I didn't really mean a female version of the original Blofeld villain but actually someone like his daughter.
Picture a future Bond film having two main villains, one standard male baddie who is killed at the end of the film but also a memorably villainous woman only known by her first name, who appears to be the villain's superior in some kind of shadowy organisation. Insert repeated references to her deceased father whose work she feels she is continuing through her villainous plot, but without making it obvious. She does familiar-looking things such as bumping off failed henchmen but then survives the final showdown.
The film appear to end in the usual pre-Craig manner of Bond clinching a girl, but then cuts to a woman walking through a cemetery. She lays a single flower on a gravestone and says that she is determined to carry on her work, as we see that she is carrying a small white cat and the name on the gravestone is BLOFELD. Cut to black.
I understand it may be controversial to suggest a singer for a part in a Bond film - Madonna's Verity still makes me loose my fluids unintentionally with her "tip up" joke - but Manson could be the game changer.
Also, she has a great Scottish accent going for her. It might make for a really different type of Blofeld than the Dr. Evil parody of a parody most of us seem to fear. ;-)
That said, please remember that I'm still generally in favour of a return of Blofeld, albeit the male version. ;-)
Something like this could work, although I am not keen to have Blofeld a father. I know they gave him a daughter in the novels, but this was a twisted road of the continuaions tn. So I could see it for a different Bond villain. But in any case, Blofeld would need to be established first. s
Something like this could work, although I am not keen to have Blofeld a father. I know they gave him a daughter in the novels, but this was a twisted road of the continuaions tn. So I could see it for a different Bond villain. But in any case, Blofeld would need to be established first. s
I don't like the idea of a female Blofeld, it's playing around with the character too much. Portray him as he was in the books, and then let's do something with his daughter perhaps. Someone here mentioned Ciarán Hinds for Blofeld. Every time I see him in a film, I immediately think Bond villain, and Blofeld could be a fine choice for him to play.
Oh and I think I'm the one who suggested him before, with reservations due to his age.