5) Reduced Role For Blofeld
After an absence of over three decades, Spectre finally reintroduced James Bond’s nemesis, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the head of the titular criminal organization and he of the bald head and Persian cat that have sunk into pop culture. Pair the character’s long history with the perfect casting of Christoph Waltz and Blofeld should have been one of the best Bond baddies ever. Unfortunately, the film ended up dropping the ball with the character. Seriously, whose idea was it to pinch the joke plot twist that the hero and the villain are secret brothers from Austin Powers 3 and play it straight?
Unusually for a Bond villain, Spectre left Blofeld still alive, with the character carted off by MI6 at the end. Obviously, this means we haven’t seen the last of the big bad. Let’s hope, though, that Blofeld’s not portrayed as the main villain of the movie once again. One of the joys of the franchise is how we’re guaranteed a fresh foe for Bond to fight each time and going back to Blofeld would prevent that.
It would be far better, then, to do a reverse of the structure of the Sean Connery films, in which Blofeld operated in the background before eventually coming to the fore. Now that we’ve met Waltz’s Blofeld, the villain can go back into the shadows and pull the strings from behind the scenes.
