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Amalric was a great villain, very overlooked and i will always defend Joe Don Bakeras Whitaker, certainly better than his awful Jack Wade character!
I'm sure they could just fish it out again.
What gets me about that every single time is that the angle of the car hitting the water on top doesn't match the model Lotus entering the water we see from below! Really annoys me!
:D
I always rather like the "Then he shouldn't be looking at me" bit in the car at the opera. It's nicely nasty.
That being said, none of your "candidates" deserve a Klebbie. The blandest villain there is in JB history is Curd Jürgens (aka Curt Jurgens) as Stromberg (not his fault, I presume, but nevertheless). Something that IMO gets lost because the movie he's in is terribly overrated.
Among the five up for selection, both Carver and Greene (though each of them exaggerated in the script) are the most realistic villains you can have in these times. Carver is basically a modern-day William Randolph Hearst, who organised the Spanish-American War through his publishing empire.
OK, Whitaker is a cartoon villain. But that what makes him believable, actually. Wouldn't everybody think an American arms dealer is able to do the things portrayed?
And I'm also reluctant to blame Gray. It was the producers/script writers' decision to turn his Blofeld into a drag queen. Not his fault.
Then Christoph Waltz's Blofeld. Another script-writing miscarriage. But he's nevertheless probably the best actor, and his acting in SP along the lines provided by the questionable script, the best among those in question.
I herewith abstain.
Hear hear 😁
By far the worst Blofeld, but you cannot blame the actor for the daft script, but even then it is the usual schmaltz by Waltz.
Great Stuff @Max_The_Parrot. :-)
Joe Don Baker as Brad Whitaker in TLD gets my vote.
I could see it for Worst Villain, but not Worst Actor in a Villain Role. Graves wasn't Stephens' fault.
Hm, he still carries a lot of the blame I think.
The same argument can surely be used for Charles Grey´s Blofeld then. He just played the character he was told to play.
Fair enough. I think the argument could be made that Stephens played Graves more “interestingly” than Gray played Blofeld.
I agree with @Max_The_Parrot about the quality of Pleasance's Blofeld. I prefer Savalas, but the criticism his portrayal gets is very much undeserved IMO.
The Klebbie for worst actor in a lead villain role is...Christoph Waltz as Blofeld in Spectre!
Here is how the dear academy voted:
Charles Gray received 3 votes
Christoph Waltz 8 votes
Joe Don Baker 5 votes
Jonathan Pryce 2 votes
Mathieu Amalric with 1 vote
Lets hand out a Bondie and select best actor in a villain role! The nominees are:
I shall now leave the stage before I am pelted! Please remember we are considering the actor's performance and not the character!
The founding father for all iconic villains to come, not just in the Bond universe.
I say this is the most well-rounded and passionate performance, Davi really delivers the good, the bad, and the ugly of the Sanchez character. Role of a lifetime for him!
Gert Frobe is awesome and the fact that he didn't speak any English really magnifies the quality of his performance. Its so good you don't even realize that he's being dubbed (at least for me the first time I saw the movie).
Bardem is alright but I never believed for one second he was a former MI6 agent.
Chris Lee is a legend but his Scaramanga could have been so much better.
Len Wiseman is the only actor on this list that gives Gert a run for his money. The build up to his reveal is well handled and from the point when he finally reveals himself until his death lives up to the potential that was teased prior.
Vote goes to Gert Frobe
Agree and also voting for Joseph. He’s the proto-Blofeld! Disembodied voice, nehru suit, he’s got it all. Very iconic portrayal.
Oh that is a cruel one! They're all fab.
Davi... is great; big magnetic presence. I like that in some way you actually come to like him slightly.
Frobe... I might have to put him bottom of that list. I think he's great and everything but the film doesn't give him as much of a chance to shine as perhaps the others get, and it wasn't his voice of course!
Bardem. Well he gets to do everything and he does it fantastically. I love the campness: no one's really done a scarily camp Bond villain before. He's right up there.
Wiseman. Excellent, very chilling.
Lee is immense. He's charming and fantastic to look at, very much Roger Moore's equal onscreen in every way.
Wow, it's a hard one: I really can't decide. I think it's between Bardem and Lee for me... I think I'm going to give it to Javier Bardem. Because he doesn't just give us the latest version of the Joker like so many villain actors do in lesser films, he does something fresh and new and it works fantastically.
But ask me again in ten minutes and I might say Christopher :D I don't mind if any of them win!
Anyone of these are very worthy winners, but I think Bardem, his performance and importance to the succes of Skyfall, is almost understated by many fans. He deserves all the praise he can get for the job he did, and if no one else will do it, I am going to! ;)
This is what I have been saying all along. +1.