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I think EON realized that they were too CUCKOO to make Bond and Blofeld brothers. I also have written down ideas for a Blofeld spinoff story, @Ludovico it's tough. I think at best, I'm aiming for a short story, honestly.
As for the new book itself, could the press release that week be made because that week would have been Peter Hunt’s 100th birthday? The timing while not on his actual birthday does seem to be more than coincidence. Maybe a Blofeld book series is in the works.
Pleasance is suitably creepy and iconic, I dare say he's even a little underrated nowadays.
Savalas is probably objectively the best of the on-screen Blofelds.
Charles Gray is underrated and fits the film he's in like a glove.
Christoph Waltz's portrayal was abysmal.
Great viewpoints. I still think the best way to bring Blofeld back is reintroducing Irma Bunt.
But the Blofeld at the desert location. The one that says to go ahead and touch the meteor. It strikes a different tone and is not written as well as the first part. Then at the end we get back to a little more of the creepy Blofeld. So the script does him no favours.
In SP, Waltz is just kind of diminutive and doesn't "take up space" with any charisma or sense of threat or menace. He's just doing a rather poor imitation of his earlier, better performance.
In SP he just doesn't have anything to work with. He's barely in the movie to begin with- pretty much only three scenes- the SPECTRE meeting, the SPECTRE base, and finale in London. And not only is he not in the movie enough, he's not given anything to do in the scenes that he does have. He's a stock character with a stock motivation and stock lines.
Bardem did well playing Silva, a similar villain who's only in a few scenes, because he's tall and has a deep voice. He makes an impression and can do a lot with a little. Waltz can also do a lot, but only if he's given a lot. If they wanted him for Blofeld, they would've been better off going the OHMSS/DAF route by giving him plenty of scenes and a lot of dialogue.
This is a good point. Waltz is a verbose actor and the script didn't give him much.
I know people like the Spectre meeting scene and I've never understood why. It's well shot. But it's long and boring and Blofeld is not commenting on anything regarding his criminal enterprise. Compare the TB scene, which is so, so much better-written.
Even if they had copied Silva in SF and given Blofeld a long speech at some point (in the crater?), that would have been better than what we got.
100%, great writing, perfectly excecuted
Silva doesn't deliver the goods after it, though.
Goldfinger's 'I expect you to die' is far superior.
He did rid the USA of about fourteen crime lords, bring Pussy and Bond together, execute the Chinese conspirator and pre-empt Scaramanga.
Beats losing at Home Alone (to pensioners) whilst armed with a military grade helicopter, really.
Dr No for me had the most chilling in Fleming, though plenty of challengers.
You seem to think Goldfinger was trying to be a good guy...?
Silva blew up MI6, got a load of agents killed, ran a successful crime syndicate, destabilizes multinationals by manipulating stocks, interrupt transmissions from a spy satellite over Kabul, rig an election in Uganda etc. He does just fine.
Oh yeah, that's a really weird one, and quite gruesome with his hands being cut off by the Tongs. It actually reminds me a lot of Silva (not only do we get a weird, messed up story from his childhood about his Grandmother effectively manipulating a bunch of rats to murder each other - no lasting psychological impact there of course - but he tells us about his capture and him poisoning himself).
I think Silva was freely inspired by the novels' Dr No, Hugo Drax and Scaramanga.