On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Ernst Stavros Blofeld and James Bond do not recognize each other. I wonder why?
WHO IS JAMES BOND? Well, funny story, one that does not need to be recounted here. Suffice to say, James Bond is young again, which counts for something. He’s dapper, classy, amused and amusing, can still fight fiercely and kill without remorse. Because the year is 1969, he’s even now anti-authoritarian, going “off the res” to get the bad guy. Because the year is 1969, he is also deeper and more complex than before. It’s bad enough for poor George Lazenby that he had to follow Connery, who owned the part from the first shot of him in Dr. No, but Lazenby also need to reinvent Bond as a thinking, feeling, loving human being. He’s not unlikeable as Bond, but let’s face it, he’s not good enough to make us forget the man he refers to as “the other fella.”
we have all the time in the world — 2 hours and 20 minutes, to be precise