Like most people, I've enjoyed the
James Bond films my entire life. They're the ultimate in action adventure
bloke-flicks. When I became aware of it I also realized the films, and the
books they're based on by Ian Fleming (Fleming himself has an interesting
background, see: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/helen-duncan-wartime-psychic-jailed.html),
are inherently very politically incorrect and put up a brave resistance to
cultural Marxism. However not all the films live up to the quality I expect
from the franchise, especially those later in the series. The cause of this
decline has been mostly bad casting for the eponymous character; Timothy Dalton
was a particularly awful choice. In 2005 Pierce Brosnan, a reasonable Bond, was
replaced by Daniel Craig. Craig's first film was Casino Royale (not to be confused with the official 1967 spoof with
that title). I didn't think it was very good and the next one, Quantum of Solace, was truly poor. This
was despite the bright spark of Judy Dench's brilliant performance as
"M", head of the secret service and Bond's boss. At that point I gave
up watching Bond cinema releases altogether. However, after Sam Mendes became
the director the films have dramatically improved. I watched Skyfall on DVD and really liked it. Then
came Spectre.
Spectre was released
last year as the most expensive James Bond film ever made. It also featured the
world's biggest pyrotechnic explosion ever seen in cinema. The title of the
film refers to the organization "SPECTRE". It is an old nemesis of
James Bond, an international criminal network last appearing in Diamonds are Forever in 1971. It is run
by an evil genius called Ernst Stavro Blofeld, famous for being accompanied
everywhere by a white cat. The film Spectre
has all the features I've come to enjoy from Bond; great camerawork and
excitement, stunts and special effects, emotion and sensuality, intrigue and
mystery. However, this film caught my eye in a way none of the others have
before because of its breathtaking conspiratorial awareness. Paranormal and
anti-New World Order themes have appeared in James Bond stories before; for
example in the aforementioned Diamonds
are Forever in which Bond infiltrates a secret laboratory that appears to
be faking the Apollo moon landings, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y03zBX_q4TM
(See here for more details on the subject of the fake moon landings: http://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/programme-179-podcast-marcus-allen.html).
In Spectre there is far more than
just a hint. In the storyline, MI6 is about to be closed down because the
government want to amalgamate it with an international intelligence agency
called "Nine Eyes" which would use all the latest intelligence technology
to monitor the entire world under a complete electronic surveillance grid;
"George Orwell's worst nightmare" as one of the characters says in
the script. The changeover is being managed by a youthful and obnoxious bureaucrat
called Max Denbigh, codename "C"... presumably because he's a total
one! "C" intends to make Bond and his colleagues "M",
"Q" and Miss Moneypenny redundant. Bond's conflict with "C"
is one I sympathize with totally. In any large modern institution, like the NHS
in my case, especially nowadays, old veterans will inevitably find themselves
being ordered about by young whippersnappers fully-loaded with academic
qualifications and all the attendant pomposity, but with no experience of the
job. C's objective is for all the existing national intelligence groups to
become part of his new international organization. He holds a meeting in which he openly says he wants a "New World Order", with all the agencies. All of them agree to sign up except one, South Africa . A short time later a "terrorist bomb" explodes
in a city centre in South Africa and the viewer is left in no doubt that this is a false
flag attack carried out by C, meant to act as a warning to the country and
punishment for not joining his "Nine Eyes". This is an astonishing
new element which is growing in cinema generally, with movies like V for Vendetta and Hitler- the Rise of Evil. I never expected the James Bond films to
follow suit. Predictably it turns out that C is really working for SPECTRE.
Previously portrayed as a mere organized crime family, in this movie it plays a
role that is similar to the Illuminati, having secret meetings in Rome and with
its own people in covert positions, like C, and with a long term geopolitical
agenda. It also has the power to censor Google Earth. SPECTRE's headquarters
lie inside a volcanic crater, like they did in You Only Live Twice, but this time it is in the middle of the Sahara Desert
See here for background:
http://hpanwo.blogspot.co.uk/2007/11/this-is-drawing-done-by-my-12-year-old.html.
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