The big concept is that Blofeld supposedly had plastic surgery to look like the Count he was impersonating and Bond was in cover and disguised as a genealogist. Bond has a reason to not act like he knew Blofeld and really Blofeld kinda drops the charade pretty quick and acts like he knew who Bond was all along. Also they act pretty familiar with each other once the reveals happen. Basically just assume their disguises looked better than they did and that both were sort of playing cat and mouse.
i'm really not trying to be argumentative, but I have no idea what is meant by "official" in this context. Is it that the movie doesn't have a particular production company's logo on it?
if a movie is about James Bond, and he works for the British secret service, and flirts with his boss' secretary Miss Monneypenny, and a fights an organization called SPECTRE, lead by a guy named Blofeld, and is based on a story by the character's creator (in many ways a more faithful adaptation than the original movie) how is it not an official Bond movie? Perhaps an equally justified question is how are the Craig movies still official Bond movies?
Are Godzilla 2002 or 2014 not official Godzilla movies? Is the Spider-man newspaper comic not an official Spider-man comic? A Nightmare On Elm Street? Ocean's 11 (12) (13)? Planet Of The Apes?
The idea that any of these things are not official versions of the things that they are about is line of reasoning I've never encountered before.
From the Amazon description:
AJBopp, NSNA is regularly referred to as unofficial. It is commonly left off Bond lists just like the 67 version of Casino Royale. This is normal.Product Description
Sean Connery returns - after a 12-year absence - to the role that made him famous, in this 'unofficial' Bond movie, made outside the auspices of regular producer Albert Broccoli and without any of the series' regular faces.
Here's a site that tries to explain the whole thing https://decider.com/2015/01/29/james...-never-again/:
My feeling: that's bullshit. It's a film about James Bond, and not being from a particular studio is no valid reason to ascribe "unofficial" (or "official", for that matter) to the filmConnery as James Bond, a British MI6 agent with the designation 007 who dashes across the globe in a thrilling and seemingly never ending quest to save civilization from the craven schemes of supervillains bent on creating chaos, all the while enjoying dry martinis, bedding women of innumerable national origin, and sporting sharply tailed suits and tuxes.
In short, Never Say Never Again is a James Bond film.
But it isn’t a James Bond film.
Not officially.
That’s because Never Say Never Again was not produced by Eon Productions, the Cubby Broccoli-sired studio that’s delivered the vast majority of the Bond films you know and love—the result of a long-running agreement with Bond creator Ian Fleming (and subsequently Fleming’s estate).
Well virtually the whole fandom feel that way. The film is not able to use anything that isn’t from the Novel Thunderball. It can’t use the official gunbarrel opening, didn’t have any of the primary series regulars like Llewelyn’s Q or Maxwell’s Moneypenny, wasn’t able to use any of iconography (series logos). It has virtually no connection the primary series and can’t exist within its continuity. When people think of Bond they think of the EON series. They think of the gunbarrel, they think of the opening credits sequence, the cold open, Q, Moneypenny, etc. NASA exists outside of that.
Again by your definition the 1967 spoof Casino Royals is a film about 007. It’s also considered unofficial.
It’s like if someone got the rights to one particular Superman story and could only make a non DVEU film with those plot elements but not the iconic S Sheild or iconic elements associated with the series
Well virtually the whole fandom feel that way. The film is not able to use anything that isn’t from the Novel Thunderball. It can’t use the official gunbarrel opening, didn’t have any of the primary series regulars like Llewelyn’s Q or Maxwell’s Moneypenny, wasn’t able to use any of iconography (series logos). It has virtually no connection the primary series and can’t exist within its continuity. When people think of Bond they think of the EON series. They think of the gunbarrel, they think of the opening credits sequence, the cold open, Q, Moneypenny, etc. NASA exists outside of that.
Again by your definition the 1967 spoof Casino Royals is a film about 007. It’s also considered unofficial.
It’s like if someone got the rights to one particular Superman story and could only make a non DVEU film with those plot elements but not the iconic S Sheild or iconic elements associated with the series
NO, Bond was always white! make your own goddamn original movie you idiots.
I don't care who plays Bond next except I'd like to see to tone to be more like it was before Craig I miss old school Bond.