22 On Her Majesty's Secret Service
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This article is from the James Bond FAQ, by Michael Reed reed55@core.com with numerous contributions by others.
22 On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Two prevalent questions arise often. The first is explaining why Blofeld
does not recognize Bond when they meet at Piz Gloria. The previous film,
"You Only Live Twice", had the two antagonists come face-to-face for the
first time. This flew in the face of the Fleming novels where the Piz Gloria
meeting was the first meeting. EON both scrapped the entire novel and
storyline of "You Only Live Twice" and filmed it out of sequence.
Director Peter Hunt and writer Richard Maibaum had to deal with this issue.
They decided to stay true to Fleming and film the Piz Gloria scene as it had
been, simply ignoring the gaffe. In truth they need not have done so, since
Bond did not glean anything with Blofeld/de Bleuchamp at that time and could
have merely held off their face-to-face meeting until later with a bit of
tweaking. But they did not go this route.
The other question regards Bond's marriage. He marries Tracy di Vicenzo in
the movie. It is the only time he ever married on screen. There is a wedding
scene in "You Only Live Twice", but it is explained in the film that the
ceremony was a hoax.
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