Written by Mr. Mouseburger 2nd Apr 2006
Kindly submitted by grimreaper
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For a comedy pre-credit sequence of the film, Bond’s archenemy Blofeld (q.v.) returns to torment our hero. You could be forgiven for thinking that Blofeld was killed in Diamonds are Forever, but he is, according to this film, alive and kicking. Now the SPECTRE chief attempts one last attack on Bond. Bound in a wheelchair modified with a radio control device, Blofeld controls the helicopter Bond is in into performing a series of scary manoeuvres through a derelict industrial complex.
Bond though is able to break the jamming device connected to Blofeld's controls and then chases Blofeld, so that the landing gear slices through Blofeld's wheelchair, fixing him to the helicopter. Flying up towards the pinnacle of a high factory smokestack, Blofeld now at the mercy of Bond, is pleading "Mr. Bond, I'll make you a deal. I'll buy you a delicatessen in stainless steel!" In response, Bond casually pats Blofeld's bald head and says,"all right, keep your hair on!". Blofeld yells "Put me down!" to which Bond coolly replies, "Oh, do you want to get off?" Bond then avenges the murder of his wife, Tracy, by tilting the helicopter, and dumping the SPECTRE chief down the chimney.
Note from Mouseburger: I have listed Blofeld as Baddy (Minor) as that is what he is in the context of this particular film, of course he is a Baddy (Major) in the whole Bond franchise
I have to say i always thought that the chap at the beginning of FYEO was supposed to look like Blofeld, but the name Blofeld was consciously omitted from any script. My view is that he was killed in Diamonds are Forever, and only brought back for a tongue-in-cheek death sequence in this film.
Is it therefore fair to say that Blofeld dies in both films? are there any die hard Bond fans who have an opinion one way or the other? I dont want to list a death if it has not occured.
Blofeld in For Your Eyes Only has a wheelchair and neck-brace symbolizing his injuries in Diamonds are forever, his name wasn't used because of copyrights that Kevin McClory made to thunderball, S.P.E.C.T.R.E., and Blofeld (after he got jealous that Fleming got the glory for James Bond) at least that's the belief among James Bond FREAKS like me.
P.S. The Fall killed Blofeld, not the helichopper?
ok, but FYEO was some years after DAF, so he surely would not be injured that long after?! Who is Kevin McClory? is Blofeld a real character then?
with regards to "helicopter" as the killing object - yes, it was the fall that killed him, but it was the helicopter that got him into that position to be dropped - i suppose it is similar to using "gun" as the object - in reality it is the bullets that kill someone, but we list gun.
It was probably a spinal injury or broken neck, which truly doesn't heal that fast.
As for McClory, He is a screenwriter, producer, and director who allegedly was the first to write a James Bond screenplay, ("Thunderball" the first to feature Blofeld and S.P.E.C.T.R.E. in the plot) apparently, after that Fleming novelized McClory's screenplay and McClory filed a lawsuit, consequentially Dr. No, and not Thunderball, became the first Bond film. In 1965 EON Productions made a deal with McClory to get Thunderball turned into a film allowing him sole credit for the adaptation. In 1983, McClory made a sub-par remake of the film in Never Say Never Again, closer to the novel, but still substandard to the 1965 version.
P.S.Boy do I feel stupid.
If this was in fact Blofeld (and I think it was - he's specifically identified by name in the DVD audio commentary anyway), then few other deaths deserve the "Revenge" category, especially since Blofeld's attempt to kill Bond and subsequent demise comes right on the heels of Bond visiting Tracy's grave.
[quote Mr. Briggs Inc.]In 1983, McClory made a sub-par remake of the film in Never Say Never Again, closer to the novel, but still substandard to the 1965 version.[/quote]I kind of liked Never Say Never Again. *Shrugs*