5/27/2023 0 Comments Spectre film blofeld![]() ![]() Simply reusing a character is not an offense, mainly because Blofeld is part of original source canon. Once again, it’s ridiculous for a reboot to reference something from an older incarnation of a series. Unless you still want to buy into the theory that Bond is a code name and then argue that Oberhauser renamed himself after a previously existing villain he was related to. With the reveal, Spectre finally confirms Craig’s run as Bond to be a reboot. ![]() And for all some viewers are concerned, as well. But because Bond isn’t aware of his own character’s literary and movie history, the name is meaningless to him. In the movie, he tells James Bond ( Daniel Craig) that when he faked his death many years earlier, he renamed himself Blofeld, which comes from his mother’s side of the family. Spectre revives an iconic villain by name just to satisfy the fans.Ĭhristoph Waltz plays the role, long denied (or at least unconfimed) as being 007 arch-nemesis Ernst Stavros Blofeld, whose listed and actual name is Franz Oberhauser. ![]() At least there the resurrected baddie is of significance to the heroes of the movie. It’s a twist almost exactly like the one in Star Trek Into Darkness, where a new villain is revealed to be a popular old villain with an alter ego. The big reveal in Spectre is one of those nonsensical new breed of twists that are connected to nostalgia and fandom, and just like the last time, it’s very frustrating but more so just baffling in its devise. Why make a secret out of something familiar and popular? They’re not about winking to fans or playing off nostalgia, because that doesn’t really make any sense. That’s not to say they can’t be predicted while watching the movie, but they’re not really tied to anything outside of the experience of watching that movie or its series. ![]() And those that work best are the twists that we couldn’t possibly expect. They’re twists within and shockers for the audience. Other great movie twists have similar twofold significance. It’s a twist that is responded to on screen with Luke’s shrieking denial, and it’s a twist that is responded to off screen by the viewer, acknowledged as a total game changer. No matter if you’ve been spoiled on that reveal ahead of seeing it, and no matter how many times you’ve watched the movie, the twist remains an effective piece of the story and the telling of that story. The reveal in The Empire Strikes Back that Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker’s father is one of the all-time greatest twists in cinema. Read on only if you’ve seen it or don’t care. The globetrotting shoot will take in Norway, Jamaica and Italy as well as London and Pinewood Studios, and Bond 25 is currently scheduled for a 3 April 2020 release.Obviously this post deals with spoilers for the new James Bond movie, Spectre. Craig, Waltz, Seydoux and Malek are joined in the cast by Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris, Rory Kinnear, Ben Whishaw, Jeffrey Wright, Lashana Lynch, Billy Magnussen, Ana De Armas, David Dencik, and Dali Benssalah. Alternatively, The Playlist's Rodrigo Perez suggests a Silence Of The Lambs scenario in which Léa Seydoux's Madelaine Swann plays Clarice Starling to Blofeld's Hannibal Lecter.Ĭary Joji Fukunaga is the director of the still-untitled Bond 25, working from a screenplay by regular Bond screenwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade and series newcomer Phoebe Waller-Bridge. If he is indeed back, at a guess we might predict a supporting role this time out, once again running his henchmen from the shadows (or custody) as he was, off-screen, in Casino Royale, Quantum Of Solace and Skyfall. With Rami Malek already announced as the villain of Bond 25, it's not quite clear yet how Blofeld will fit into the latest story – and with no official confirmation of Waltz's role, his inclusion is still at the very-very-strong-rumour stage. Narratively the name would have meant nothing whatsoever to Daniel Craig's Bond, but it at least meant plenty to the audience, who've been familiar with it since the 1960s. Bond's adoptive brother, seething with resentment at Bond's childhood encroachment in his family, only revealed himself to be Ian Fleming's arch-villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld late in the film. That film's story saw him operating under the Oberhauser moniker for most of the run-time. Waltz, you'll recall, swore blind that he wasn't playing Blofeld during the entire run-up to Spectre. ![]()
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