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I also thought once that I'mnot so weird but we shouldn't be sure. It is only one statistic. More scienticic data will be necessary.
LOTTE LENYA
as Rosa Klebb
in FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
Klebb collected two silver medals and one bronze medal. She was also awarded two 5th places, one 6th, one 8th, three 9th and one 10th place.
No-one placed her in the bottom 5, her lowest rating was one 22nd place.
She’s the highest rated female villain in our list, finishing six places above Elektra.
Lenya also triumphed over Brandauer and Waltz as the best Austrian, the 4th most represented nationality on this list.
In total Rosa Klebb acquired 142 points.
Did that cause any traumas, @SomethingThatAteHim?
Sorry, couldn't resist. ;-)
SEAN BEAN
as Alec Trevelyan (006)
in GOLDENEYE
So we've finally come to Alec, who triumphs over all other of Brosnan's main villains with quite some distance.
Alec obtained two gold medals, one silver medal and two bronze medals. He also ended up 4th on one occasion, 7th on one occasion, 8th on four occasions, 9th on two occasions and 10th on one occasion.
I've been told not everyone likes Alec, which would explain the three bottom 5's he received. One participant even gave him the bottom spot, making Alec the highest ranked main villain with a last place to his tally.
In total Alec Trevelyan acquired 151 points.
Only if Bond was played by Derek Nimmo!
As you can imagine, I put Trevelyan near bottom.
Always liked Sean Bean, but that silly accent and some really bad dialogue ("soon you and I will have more money than Gawd!" "For England, James?" Ugh!!!) makes him one of the worst!
The fight scene I dont rate very highly either, its ok, that's all! But its the accent, Bean is from Sheffield, maybe if he did it in that voice, "Ay oop Bond, tis closin' time!" I can relax now, as the cream is coming up!
How could it not? The funny thing is, I don’t think I’m her type!
We see that the pair have developed a fairly extensive vocabulary of somewhat laddish code words that they use on their many adventures together. “Closing time, James. Last call.” “Buy me a pint.” “Shut the door, Alec, there’s a draught.”
Hang on, how often do these two guys do this? In the 16 previous James Bond films, we’d never heard another 00 agent speak to anyone, let alone accompany Bond on repeated adventures using pub references as signals to one another. This is very odd.
The references to an extensive history are peppered throughout Alec’s many monologues: “You know, James and I shared everything. Absolutely everything.” “So, how is old Q? Up to his usual tricks?” Some of the more detailed recollections are very odd indeed: “Did you ever ask why we toppled all those dictators and regimes only to come home – ‘Well done. Good job, but sorry, old boy. Everything you risked your life for has changed.’"
None of this sounds very connected to the 007 we all know. And this is odd, because most of the characters in Goldeneye seem to be familiar with the classic 007 on a meta level. Trevelyan again: “I might as well ask you if all the vodka martinis ever silence the screams of all the men you've killed, or if you find forgiveness in the arms of all those willing women, for all the dead ones you failed to protect.” Despite the appearance that half of the people we see in this film have a complete laserdisc collection of the previous Bond movies, the working relationship described between 006 and 007 is completely alien to the established character of James Bond.
It's almost as if Alec is imagining all of this shared history. I mean, if 006 really was the Starsky to Bond’s Hutch, you’d think he’d have learned a bit more about his partner. Upon his reappearance in the statue park, Trevelyan actually remarks, “It's insulting to think I haven't anticipated your every move,” and then proceeds to put Bond in an ineffective death trap and walk away. In all his years of working alongside James Bond, Alec somehow never noticed how good his partner was at escaping unmonitored death traps.
The extensive monologuing at the statue park (you can almost hear the lines being tapped into a word processor) introduces a host of other questions:
For starters, we have to ask ourselves what the hell was going on at the Arkhangelsk chemical weapons facility. In a franchise return to nonsensical death-faking, we realize that Alec faked his death for Bond’s benefit, even though Bond was, in Alec’s own words, “supposed to die”. Why not shoot Bond when you had a gun pointed at him, and just skip the somewhat risky fake death? It doesn’t make any sense. And did that gun shoot blanks AND bullets? That's some crazy planning/technology.
After Ouromov pretends to shoot Alec in the head, Bond resets the bomb timers from six minutes to three, and in another failure to anticipate Bond’s every move, Alec’s face is burned (rather mildly, all things considered) in the resulting explosion. And he seems to carry a bit of a grudge about this: “It wasn't God who gave me this face. It was you, setting the timers for three minutes instead of six.”
I know Alec is a jerk, but he must realize this is unfair. He told Bond to “finish the job” and then pretended to be dead. What did he think Bond was supposed to do? Why is he so hung up on this? The second ineffective death trap he left Bond in even involves timers set to six minutes, “the same six minutes you gave me.” Does he feel at least a little silly about this weird grudge?
Alec has a less ridiculous grudge, however, against the United Kingdom, who sent his Lienz Cossack parents back to the USSR in 1945. After escaping Stalin’s execution squads, Alec’s father killed himself and his wife. Nasty business, and one can certainly—hang on, how old is this guy? Is he 50 years old? Burn scars or not, he looks bloody good. Or perhaps he’s the same age as Sean Bean (about 35), and his father just waited a long time before getting around to the murder-suicide solution? Hard to say, though the latter idea may explain why Alec would join the British Secret Service and go on loads of missions before finally getting revenge against Britain. Maybe extreme procrastination is a Trevelyan family trait.
Anyway, I'll leave it there. Number 27 for me. And in a few hours, he'll probably be number 28.
The accent and lines? They were never a problem for me. Lines in a Bond film can be extremely over the top, I agree. And Bean is producing that artificially hyper-polished "cinema English". I don't think it's cringeworthy.
My #1 to #7 and Drax (#10) are left.
But top spot?
But upon repeated viewings, Dr. No managed to take over as my favorite villain and that is mostly due to the dinner scene which in my opinion has never been bettered as far as Bond-villain exchanges go.
Wiseman is simply superb, conveying cold menace with so few gestures and a mere gaze (and that VOICE).
It’s a masterful performance. It’s also quite remarkable how with so little screen time, we manage to get a villain that actually has a backstory, something that we very rarely get with Bond villains even though they feature much more prominently.
Dr. No is my number 1 as well, for precisely those reasons.
Klebb I had at 12: I love her dearly and sinisterly... but Red Grant played the more pivotal role to me...
Alec is my number 15. He's one of the five things I enjoyed about the film (M, Ourmov, Mishkin (love this actor), Tina Turner, Trevelyan)
same @Birdleson