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Ha, funny you should mention that because I noticed that for the first time too when I last watched MR.
Wow, hadn't noticed that, either. A culmination of all the glowing fan reviews of MR on the forums lately, combined with us talking about it in the 'SP vs. MR' thread got me craving a viewing of it last night, more than I've wanted to in several years. Looks like I should give this one a few more rewatches in the near future, as I obviously don't know it as well as I initially believed.
He doesn't kill Kamal Khan in Octopussy.
His tampering with the plane to cause the engine to fail doesn't help though :-)
This has been debated endlessly, so I won't argue my point, but my view is that Klebb is the villain.
Yes! That's how I see it.
Blofeld, technically. ;)
I see it as Klebb. Blofeld doesn t have enough screentime, Grant is more of a henchman. You can argue that Klebb is too, but at least she is above Grant.
This is what I meant to quote, and then I manage to quote myself instead. X_X
I can understand the reasoning behind this but then what does that make Blofeld?
Supplementary but superior villain?
Isn't there a case to say that if you have a boss above you, you aren't the main villain?
So that would, with the exception of GF, make Blofeld the main villain for every film up to and including DAF. This seems logical but not sure I agree with downgrading Dr No and Largo to such an extent though.
However I do see a fundamental difference between Dr No & Largo and Klebb - namely I can't imagine Blofeld giving them a bollocking like he does to Klebb.
Doctor No is clearly on different level of seniority to Klebb (he even announces 'I am a member of SPECTRE' with a sneer of superiority that sounds like he's right at the top) and Largo nonchalantly leafs through his papers while Ernst executes lesser SPECTRE members. Klebb on the other hand looks like she's shitting it in Blofeld's presence.
In addition it's Blofeld who gives out the orders, who kills Kronsteen and who gives Rosa a right digging out for constantly f**king up.
Dr No and Largo clearly seem to know what they're doing and don't need Blofeld holding their hand every minute. Klebb on the other hand is very lucky to not be on the end of the spiked shoe and if Tania didn't kill her at the end she would surely finally be executed by SPECTRE for serial incompetence.
In FRWL Blofeld is certainly calling the shots. In DN and TB is happy to let the guys in charge run the show therefore I would say he qualifies for main villain in FRWL but not DN or TB.
Except SF obviously.
But fair point I suppose. There again Professor Dent has way more screen time that Dr No. Is he the main villain?
If that is the sole criterion, James Bond is the main villain.
No because James Bond is a hero.
You have to actually be a villain in the first place to be eligible to be main villain.
Of course the lefties out there will say that James Bond is a villain because he represents white imperialism, is misogynist blah, blah, blah
So we can finally stop the arguing on whether Koskov or Whitaker is the main villain in TLD, as the true answer is Necros since he beats both in terms of screen time.
Thank you.
It really is a waste of time trying to debate things rationally on here.
Having thought about this more, I believe Kronsteen is the main villain in FRWL, because he is the one with strategic control. Klebb has operational control only. Kronsteen is the one who outlines the plan at the start of the film. Klebb says herself: "It was your plan. They followed it implicitly". Moreover, Blofeld kills Kronsteen and not Klebb. That suggests to me that he is held responsible for their failure in FRWL.
So despite having less screen time, I think Kronsteen is the main villain here. Blofeld is the boss of course, but this plan is Kronsteen's. He has the same role as Largo or Dr. No.
I'm pretty passionate about the color timing issues as well. Having had the opportunity to see many of the Bonds on 35mm in the past several years, I distinctly remember the colors, and as sharp as most of the blu rays are, they often don't accurately represent what the prints look like on the big screen.
To be honest, as lame as it sounds, I think the mid 1980s VHS editions of the Bond films are the closest in terms of colors, to the cinematic prints.
Some of the blu-rays, I think aren't too far off, though. DAF, for instance is pretty close as is MR. GF is alright.
The UE edition of TLD is WAY off the beam. The "chocolate box" shot of the sunrise in the desert is so muted it loses it's magic.
I don't know about anyone else here, but I almost always go for the original mono track when popping these films in since the sound effects and music cues have been so drastically altered in the restored versions.