Dropping the ball on Blofeld
Hank
Posts: 37MI6 Agent
Blofeld is considered the quintessential bond villain, yet they never really did anything great with him.
And his death scene in FYEO kinda sucks. There's a lot of build up and with no real release.
That's my rant for the moment.
And his death scene in FYEO kinda sucks. There's a lot of build up and with no real release.
That's my rant for the moment.
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However, at that point, Kevin McClory popped up and claimed ownership of Blofeld and SPECTRE as his first appearance was in the novel of TB. Blofeld was swiftly changed to Stromberg.
The PTS of FYEO was therefore more of an afterthought, a way of wrapping up loose ends and - reportedly - Cubby's way of sticking two fingers up to Kevin McClory by saying "we don't NEED Blofeld". Because of the legal issues though, he couldn't be formally identified.
If they knew then what they know now, I'm sure that Blofeld would have come to a nasty and very final end at the end of DAF (he did in the original script, as he was pushed into a salt processing plant).
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