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you can spot evil people in a line up?
Yes, indeed and Franciso Scaramanga from the novel TMWTGG certainly fitted this bill as did Horror and Sluggsy from TSWLM. Kristatos in the film of FYEO also fitted the bill of what Hannah Arendt called "the banality of evil" as did Dominic Greene in QoS though perhaps to a lesser extent.
you are building a strawman. Nobody says all Bond villains should have liabilities. We are saying they can. I.doubt anyone in a wheelchair was offended by Blofeld in the pts of FYEO.
No offence to Amalric, but I think his slimy, creepy look was far from banal. He didn't need makeup.
Yes, that was kind of what I was getting at.
I suppose you could say that Brad Whitaker and General Koskov were rather banal too, though perhaps they were less than evil?
No fair points, my comment was made at the claim that in the real world, more often than not, you can spot evil people by their appearance, that pressed one of my buttons, re Bond you are correct :-)
One of my issues with TLD, which I loved otherwise: the villains were rather weak and a bit mundane. But even in TLD they needed one Aryan looking henchman. Which also shows that physical perfection and beauty when it is pushed to its extreme, can appear unsettling and sinister.
The villains were certainly weak but Necros was the most menacing of the lot for me, though it wasn't a hard contest to be fair!
Yes, Hitler rather popularised the Aryan Myth and cost countless lives in the process.
No. You have moved on. And not to a better place.
Aryans of the world fight to rid yourself of the villainous "stereotype"! High time they got on the Victim Train.
I thought that was the Celts.
Celts were allegedly blond and tall and Saxons short and dark haired.
Actually no. Kil sounds as unsubtle as it is... And the character was even lamer. Hinx is already better. Is his name really worse than Grant (the magnificent henchman) or Oddjob? Hinx sounds nasty, like the stab of a sharp knife. Not the greatest name, but not the worst we've had.
And in any case, his appearance is great. Not a Grant clone, or indeed any clone of what we've had before. He is clad in dark like the SPECTRE agents of old, yet there is that sophistication about him, as you said. And there is his beard and his cap, so out of place on a thug. A very menacing villain.
I love him already. He will be a magnificent bastard.
Conjures terrible flashbacks to Jinx and that really stinx.
I never liked the name Jinx, but wonder if it is more because of the character.
http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/channel-4-the-superhumans-return-4creative/1371862
"Hats off to the team at 4Creative. No-one would have blamed them if they trailed Channel 4’s coverage of the 2016 Paralympic Games with a carbon copy of its goose-bump-inducing 2012 effort. But Channel 4’s first teasers for the Rio de Janeiro Paralympics take a different direction, drawing attention to the link between disabilities and Hollywood villains. The spot opens with disabled actors playing over-the-top baddies and then uses snapshots of Paralympic athletes to explain that disabled people can be the heroes too. The work was created by Jack Croft and Stacey Bird, and directed by Alex Boutell through 4Creative.
Read more at http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/channel-4-the-superhumans-return-4creative/1371862#8uqdG5zbWsilKVhZ.99";
Didn't Warwick Davis say he played the Leprechaun because he was fed up of playing friendly gnomes and Ewoks? And whose disabled actor would not LOVE to play Ahab?
However, this is the Bond franchise, and gradually one has to admit that most Bond villains have physical deformities, and one could consider it one of the most iconic elements of a Bond villain, and of Bond itself too. However, I do agree that most physical deformities have been used up by Bond villains, thus there is a problem of repeating them/parodying them, like SP, which I found out, has references/repeating plot lines from many previous Bond films.
Another way to do it could be through unique behavioral patterns, like Kingsman, which features a villain who would throw up when he sees blood. No deformities whatsoever, but it still makes for a great villain who would be hard to forget.