Posted on 10/05/2019 5:17:44 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Who's the best Blofeld?
Well, that would be the guy in the books. Ian Fleming's Blofeld is very precisely delineated, beginning with his debut in Thunderball in 1961, which was a novelization of a movie project that had never gotten off the ground, and so was credited to Fleming plus a couple of screenwriting hands imposed by litigation. The complications arising therefrom would destabilize the 007 franchise until well into this century.
Nevertheless, Ernst Stavro Blofeld himself seems personal to Fleming: We are told that he was born on May 28th 1908, which happens also to be the author's date of birth, and he bears his distinctive surname because Fleming was at Eton with a Norfolk farmer called Tom Blofeld, who was the father of Henry ("Blowers") Blofeld, the BBC's peerless cricket commentator, a pillar of "Test Match Special" for almost half-a-century, and the second most famous Blofeld on the planet after Ernst Stavro. Ian Fleming had a genius for character names - Moneypenny, Goldfinger, and the consciously unremarkable James Bond - and he made them stick.
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Donald Pleasence as Ernst Stavro Blofeld in You Only Live Twice
Just FYI, Donald Pleasance served in the RAF during the war and was shot down and captured and spent time in a POW camp. Probably the only cast member in The Great Escape who actually lived the experience.
where’s the link?????
The link got lost. Repost or get the admins to fix it.
That’s not the picture I came here for.
Mark does have a way with words:)
Was a place in SF called that in early 60s
I saw an old interview of Ian Fleming. He was asked why there was no profanity in his novels. He said First That his Scottish ancestors would be unhappy.
Of course he did use a lot of double en tenders such as Pussy Galore or Plenty O’Toole. He finally said that he just didn’t like profanity in written words.
Fleming took the name for his character from that of the American ornithologist, James Bond, an expert on Caribbean birds and author of the definitive field guide Birds of the West Indies.
And the inimitable Miss Galore:
That is one fine looking woman...
Honey Rider.
Honey Rider
Honor Blackman. Still my favorite.
"Woke McLockbox"
Pleasance was always the definitive Blofeld to me, followed by Telly Savalas and Charles Gray, respectively. As good as the other actors were, they just didn’t seem to have that panache to quite capture the whole character.
Bond. Junk Bond.
Butch McGiblets.
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