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This is a tough one. All the nominees are very, very good. I like Silva a lot, Sanchez is just chilling, Dr. No is truly iconic, and Christopher Lee is one of the screen's most memorable villains. I was originally going to discount Gert Frobe's performance because his voice is dubbed, but then I realized: it's even more impressive that we don't notice the dubbing -- his presence is just so overwhelming that we accept Auric Goldfinger precisely as he is. Gert Frobe for the win.
BECAUSE he said those mean things.
Mmm point taken!
PS: Raoul Silva/Javier Bardem is my No. 2
No Mr Bond I expect you to die.
Christopher Lee as Scaramanga in The Man with The Golden Gun
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• Gert Frobe as Auric Goldfinger in Goldfinger
• Javier Bardem as Silva in Skyfall
• Joseph Wiseman as Doctor Julius No in Doctor No
• Christopher Lee as Scaramanga in The Man with The Golden Gun
All of these choices are excellent, and I could easily vote for anyone of them. And I agree with @mtm that Christopher Lee’s Scaramanga is THE highlight of TMWTGG. Which makes him unique.
For today, however, I add to the vote total of Gert Frobe.
Joseph Wiseman for Dr. No with 5 votes
Gert Frobe for Goldfinger with 7 votes
Robert Davi for Franz Sanchez with 5 votes
Javier Bardem for Silva with 2 votes
Christopher Lee for Scaramanga with 3 votes
Now we shall award another Bondie. Over the years the series has been home to many jaw dropping stunts! Done before the era of CGI real men and women risked their lives for a moment on the big screen to thrill audiences. It is time we award the stunt performers. The next Bondie is for best scene stealing stunt! These stunts had big risk and big reward for the viewers! The nominees are:
Time for the academy to weigh in and vote for best scene stealing stunt in a Bond film!
These are actually all great. I'd say it's a four way tie for second place, with TMWTGG in last place. Great stunt as well, but the others are just fantastic.
Objectively Rick Sylvester should probably take this home. I'll still vote for Wayne though.
So i will go with Rick Sylvester union jack ski jump!
Cargo net fight should have been for "best fight in a confined space", not as a singular stunt.
Another list of crackers it's hard to pick from...
BJ Worth's MR jump... this is a fantastic sequence, and yet I don't know if I could describe it as the all-time best stunt, because it's kind of a collection of nice stunts edited together (and they haven't not got parachutes)... I love it but in terms of a stunt it's not there for me: it's a great scene.
Rick Sylvester's Spy parachute ski... well it's an icon for a reason. It's superb.
Willard's Golden Gun jump is amazing. No real debate about that.
Michaels' GE bungee is rather fab because of his performance, which you can't say about all of these stunts. He's actually playing James Bond doing that, he's not just doing a big fall, and it takes your breath away. He's a great double for Pierce too.
Sylvester's FYEO climb falls. These are great, silly dangerous falls. Somehow they never really thrill me though. Not his fault, but it's hard not to judge it on the scene a little bit.
So for me it's between Sylvester's ski jump, Willard's car jump and Michaels' bungee.
I've got to go with Rick Sylvester's ski jump. He skied off a mountain! :D