From: doylemw@ccs.csus.edu
Subject: Re: Blofeld is ALIVE!
Organization: California State University, Sacramento
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 18:24:34 GMT

In article <92352.133836TOM@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>, <TOM@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> writes:
> Blofeld comes to a rather ambiguous end in Diamonds are Forever-perhaps leaving
>  the way open for further ransom threats in the future.  He is last seen trying
>  to excape from his oil rig head quarters in a personal capsule.  But Bond has
> taken over the controls of the crane lowering him into the water, and he ends u
> p being bounced up and down on the rig and generally used as a battering ram.
> -True, Blofeld could be still alive?  I never saw Never say Never Again, but wi
> ll.  It wasn't from Eon Productions Ltd., or a Ian Fleming novel, but who says
> it has to be.  If Blofeld is alive then SPECTRE (Special Executive for Counteri
> ntelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion) must still be active.  Great!
>     I also heard Fleming also wrote eight short Bond stories that were never
> made into movies.  Maybe Michael G. Wilson should get busy and open the doors
> to a television mini series.
Some of those eight short Bond stories have been used in movies...
they were published as Octopussy and For your eyes Only
in one of them...some Cuban gangsters kill a girl's parents on Jamaca (sp)
she gets her bow and tracks them to a hide out in the mountains in Canada
M has sent 007 to take out the leader...JB and the girl bump into each other
stalking their prey.  I forget the name of the movie (help...please)...but it
came from a short story...Oh that's right it was for your eyes only...because
the parents were friends of M's (he was the best man at their wedding) and
since he was sending 007 as a personal assasin (not an official mission)
he gave James the file...marked "for your eyes only" and asked 007 what
would he do in such a position. JB makes it easy for M by telling
him the man must be killed.  (this is in the story not the movie)

another one ...the last story that Ian Flemming published had 007
set up as a sniper...to take out the oppositions (in this case
Russian...not SMERSH...but commie) sniper.   007 is set up over lookin
"no man's land" at which would latter become check point Charlie
on the Berlin east west border.  an agent is going to make a run
for it and the Russians know it...so their sniper is going to
whack him.  007 is supposed to shoot the other sniper.  Well, he
has two days to think about it...and sees an orchestra setting up
in the only building with a clear field of fire.   He is attracted
to the bass player....she looks great through the 3X9 scope he is using.
 cut to the chase...when he goes to take out the Russian sniper..
he sees that it is the girl...and (this is important) he pulls the
shot and instead of a kill (like the shot at the world trade center
...were he shot second after his backup broke out the window)
he undoubtly messed up the other sniper, but did not kill her.
...and the mission succeeds
but JB does not make a kill...in Flemmings last work.
Change of heart?  Not really...after all she was
beautiful.
(this story line was used in the first JB movie that Dalton starred in)

later..
John Bryce
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