This last weekend the Starz Encore movie channel had a James Bond marathon in which they showed all the James Bond movies (In HD). James Bond spends his time, especially in the early films, chasing SPECTRE (Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion). These are The Bad Guys.

In You Only Live Twice, Ernst Stavro Blofeld is revealed to be the ring leader of SPECTRE who conveniently looks just like Dr. Evil from the Austin Power movies. Of course, the Austin Powers movies are a parody of the James Bond movies but it’s not until I actually watched all of the Bond films that I can really appreciate the parody. Some of the movies seem silly today but I’m told by old people that they were amazing when they came out.

Donald Pleasence is the original actor and most iconic of Blofeld, the one which most resembles Dr. Evil. Blofeld was also played by Telly Savalas, Charles Gray and Max von Sydow.

Blofeld had a white fuzzy cat where Dr. Evil had a skinless cat. They both wore nearly the same outfit and Blofeld escapes at the end of every episode just like Dr. Evil (until Blofeld is killed at the beginning of For Your Eyes Only).

Unrelated to Blofeld, with the appearance of Daniel Craig as James Bond it is said that the franchise was rebooted. I’ve always been confused with the time line, did each new actor start the whole story over again? Was it the same James Bond but played by different actors (If so then Pearce Bronson needed to be around 70 years old) or was each new actor assuming the name James Bond with the former James Bond in retirement somewhere?

All of the information about Ernst Stavro Blofeld, SPECTRE and James Bond is available on Wikipedia.

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