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Bond helping the 3 Blind Mice to a funeral with 6 votes
A small drop in the ocean with 3 votes
Taxi Driver loses his car in Paris with 3 votes
Bond and Tiffany flip flop on the strip with 4 votes
Bond and Hinx on the empty streets of Rome with 10 votes
We now give away another Klebbie! Worst actor in a villain role. These were either the main or lead villain in the production. Remember we are judging the actor's performance. Not the role itself! The nominees are:
Now it's time for the academy to vote!
For me Pryce is one of the highlights of TND so he shouldn’t even by on that list IMO.
I pick Waltz as he seems to channel Landa more than anything else and doesn’t really bring anything new to the table, especially in such an anticipated role.
Hmm that's very tough. I don't think any of them did particularly badly. Not the strongest villains ever but not bad at all.
Gray is maybe not hugely menacing but he's got decent presence; Baker was pretty imposing and did a nice little bit of madness if not hugely memorable; Amalric I thought was quite convincingly snarlingly mad and dangerous- I liked him; Waltz... not the scariest moment of his career as we all hoped but again, very decent; Pryce was a lot of fun if, like Gray, missing the menace a bit.
I'll have to go for Joe Don Baker I guess as he didn't really get to be as mad and foregrounded as the rest of them, and I guess I could possibly imagine a different star giving a bigger, perhaps more charismatic performance. I suppose you could picture Jack Nicholson or someone like that (first name off the top of my head so don't overanalyse! :) ) being more impressive with it. Jack Palance, Kirk Douglas. I dunno. James Coburn would have fun in it.
EDIT: I’ll still have to vote for Charles Gray, only because I love the others so much. Joe Don Baker is a second place, but I do like him a lot and his delivery in TLD is very memorable. “Lies, spread by my competitors!”
Yeah I was trying to think if someone else would have been better: mostly folks think of Savalas as being the best Blofeld, and although I think he could have done it I don't think he'd have been necessarily better in DAF.
I must admit though, I'm really liking the idea of Coburn as Whittaker! :D He'd have given it some power and real madness...
Which are you thinking of? Stromberg was bit average, and Julian Glover wasn't hugely memorable, but I rather liked Louis Jordan and the rest. Certainly not much wrong with Chris Lee.
No, i'm with you there, the QOS IS thrilling, and really well constructed!
Agree about the BMW chase as one of the worst, terrible idea and poorly shot!
I think I voted to give the Bondie to QOS in that category as well, really like that chase.
Come to think of it, Eon has never gotten the various disguises of Blofeld right.
Graves should be on this list.
Charles Grey gets my vote.
Stephens did alright with what he was given, IMO.
Yes, that's a fair observation. But what he was hired to do, I guess. In a way I'm sort of surprised he took it because, as you say, he'd already done that sort of thing. Sam Mendes is an appealing name I guess and Bardem had just been very successful in the last one.
I rather like that they hired Jonathan Pryce on that train of thought: I'm not really aware of much on his CV that suggested 'Bond villain' (although it is an extensive CV and very wide ranging!).
Back to the car chases, as I missed the voting:
1. Am really glad the Lotus won the vote as it’s a great chase. The shot where the Lotus drives into the sea with the helicopter just inches above it is one of my all-time favourite shots in any movie. No CGI there. Presumably only one opportunity to film it, so they had to get it right first time. Perfect cinematography, preceded by a perfectly cool Bond line too (“can you swim?”). Just wonderful.
2. Understandable that Spectre’s chase through the deserted, post-apocalyptic streets of Rome won that vote. Objectively DN is worse but hey it’s 1962 and the budget is tiny. SP though has no excuse. But I don’t think SP is the worst chase out of the franchise.
Fiona in TB on her motorbike “chasing” Bond’s car at slow speed in a straight line on an empty road is the worst chase.
I love the DAF chase, continuity error and all
I actually came to like Mathieu's performance on the watch-along. I guess the villains have been well cast and acted over the years.
I was going to put Renard on the list, but then thought people would say he wasn't a lead villain. I was tempted to put Pleasance on the list too but that might have caused a revolt. LOL!
“Everything he touches seems to wither and die.” I like how he snarls that line.
Yeah he was great in the role. I think the role is what people took issue with; for me, though, Greene was a great villain in a more down to earth plot.
Ha! Pleasance is the one guy where I would have felt comfortable voting on this. But yeah, there would have been a revolt!
++PRESS RELEASE++
The DRP hereby announces their immediate withdrawal from the Academy and issue a statement strongly distancing themselves from the disgraceful comments that have been made regarding Donald Pleasence and his definitive portrayal of Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
*”Number Two dispatch our top operative to ensure the Academy President realises the error of his ways“*
Oh hang on, you NEARLY put Pleasence on the list? Yes well, just remember, you only live twice @thedove!! 😉🦜