The CEO's, criminal masterminds and whatever other people that would be control of this SPECTRE wouldn't be working towards a NWO, but instead doing it for themselves and simply because they could. SPECTRE would become the middle man for the real terrorist groups of world, providing weapons, stealing intelligence and selling to the highest bidder, kidnapping and extortion, assassination ect. I would much prefer it if they went back to the books and made SPECTRE as Fleming intended: a secret organisation that does the things it does simply because it can, not because of any ideology or dream of a new world order. It just gets sooooooo boring (it also gives conspiracy theorists more things to complain about). They all essentially see humanity as corrupt and incapable of doing things for themselves and believe they, as the elite, can run things better. Their methods may be different, but all strive for the same thing. It becomes a bit repetitive when you have all these organisations all striving for world domination. Personally, I'm not in favour of SPECTRE being a new world order, illuminati, Templar etc style organisation, as I believe it's become a bit of a cliche in the current era. In this sense the head of the British secret service could have ties to such a group. Furthermore, if the do go down this route I don't think SPECTRE will be the type of organisation who make demands on world leaders or hollow out volcanoes as anonymity would be the name of there game. In this sense Blofeld would we the chief architect of the group. Could SPECTRE be such a group? Much like in Stanley Kubrick's 'Eyes Wide Shut' the organisation could be depicted as a powerful group of elite people, big CEOs, world leaders etc who are in control and can manipulate current affairs to there own satisfaction. The Illuminati of course have their known iconography with the eye in the pyramid and SPECTRE have their Octopus rings - this would lead some credence to the idea. There has always been talk that such groups exist and have there own rituals and ceremonies like the Freemasons or the Illuminati. ![]() The other option I see available is the possibility that SPECTRE are not a terrorist group and instead a long-standing secret organisation that have been manipulating the world order from behind closed doors for a while. In comparison SPECTRE from those early Fleming novels and the films are a little more quaint, so should the modern SPECTRE evolve and become a League of Shadows type group? Possibly with Blofeld worshipped by the members as a God?Ģ. In many ways the League were a take on groups like Al Quadia where there leaders are essentially zealots with ideological motives and their followers have a religious devotion to their cause. Furthermore, I think Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight films already went down this route of presenting a modern day terrorist group wrecking chaos in 'Batman Begins' and 'The Dark Knight Rises' with The League of Shadows. ![]() I don't think the version of SPECTRE used in those films would be correct in a modern more opaque political and social climate. I see the organisation going one of two ways:ġ. Opposed to having the Russians appear as the villains time and time again, SPECTRE presented themselves as an apolitical threat. For the time they were used as a proxy to essentially avoid making the Bond films overly political. In the earlier Connery films, SPECTRE had a rather large ambit but in the most part where a terrorist organisation. ![]() ![]() Considering SPECTRE are returning in the latest Bond film, I thought the time is ripe to discuss what type of role the organisation will have in a modern context.
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