Liam Gaughan is a writer at Collider with a passion for classic films and the work of Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese.
Among many other reasons, the James Bond franchise has become one of the most significant ongoing sagas in cinematic history as a result of its great villains. The series has featured memorable antagonists like Raoul Silva and Le Chiffre , but there isn’t another Bond villain who is quite as iconic as Ernst Stavro Blofeld. As the head of SPECTRE, Blofeld is responsible for leading the villainous organization against Bond as it attempts to disrupt the institution of MI6.
The lack of screentime for Blofeld in From Russia With Love and Thunderball is somewhat disappointing, as there is never a true sense of what his plans for global domination are. It was likely that this was a point in the series where MGM and the Broccoli family were still determining what type of villain Blofeld would end up being, as he rarely gets to participate in any of the action.
✕ Remove Ads The issue with Diamonds Are Forever is that it leans to heavily into science fiction, making Blofeld’s resurrection and return feel completely unbelievable; in many ways, it predates the shocking “return” of Ian McDiarmid’s Emperor Palpatine in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
✕ Remove Ads Spectre is an overstuffed film with a number of great Blofeld moments, even if his motivations are treated as a last minute reveal. Although some may have felt that the grittier Bond film should have introduced another original villain who wasn’t based on an existing character, Waltz was given the opportunity to close out his complex relationship with his half-brother when he makes a brief cameo appearance in No Time To Die.
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