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Pryce is always a delight to watch. One of the rare actors who can make an over the top character seem truly believable.
I think after this one, or maybe the next one (Elektra?), we'll see somewhat substantial jumps in points. This looks like the end of the consensus low-tier.
EDIT: Ah, I forgot Max Largo. He may not get out of this tier....
And Pryce is an incredible actor, which made/makes his performance that much more disappointing to me.
No. 24 for me!
Could be the tag line of the Brosnan era.
That bit is rough, for sure - or I guess you could say "pa-thet-ic."
Right. :)>- See, and that's my issue. Pryce himself is "de-li-cious" in this film. He's got a permanent smile on him that suggests he knows that he's playing the closest thing to a cartoonish, moustache-twirling supervillain. Sadly, they weren't playing to his strengths. Still, I love him as a propagator of fake news, a prophetic twenty years before the world would see real Elliot Carvers ignite nationalistic rage in Europe and the USA. Somehow, TND has grown even more relevant in its politics than most other Bond films.
TND has an evergreen plot it seems. Carver seems rather restrained compared to his real life counterparts!
I have a great time with this guy. I even like the mock Kung-fu.
He is unique in that regard, I'll give him that.
That moment when Carver tells Stamper to make sure Bond gets to see his own heart stop beating... terrific.
As is the kung fu!
Speaking of Carver, it took me many watches to really pay attention to this shot. Perfectly cast, distinctive-looking actors around Pryce.
I've always thought I would have loved (and would still love) to see Anthony Hopkins as a Bond villain, but not at the cost of losing Pryce. Top-notch.
KLAUS MARIA BRANDAUER
as Maximilian Largo
in NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN
Two top 10’s for Largo 2.0: one 6th and one 10th place. On top of that 9 more spots between 11th and 15th were acquired by the inventor of “Domination”.
Not everyone’s a fan though, there were also three bottom 5’s, of which one was a bottom finish.
Maximilian Largo was awarded a total of 106 points.
I didn’t go back to check it out but I think this is the first instant that anything non-EON has collected more than 100 points.
He’s also the second-highest rated Austrian on this list, beating his countryman Christoph Waltz by quite some distance. There is one other yet to come though.
He's not the most threatening or physically imposing villain, plus his friendly disposition kind of reminds me of Koskov, one of my least favorite baddies.
But he's got this mad glow in his eyes and his quirkiness manages to instil a sense of uneasiness every time he's on screen.
I could easily imagine Klaus Kinski playing this version of Largo, probably to even more disturbing effect.
There's no "probably" about that!
He has some memorable moments (mainly due to his behaviour in otherwise mediocre scenes) like the “domination“ duel and the moment he explains Domino that he would kill her when she would betray him.
I ranked him as #20.
Naturally Max Largo is a top 10 Bond villain for me. Charming on the outside, I can imagine he can easily win people over, total nutter on the inside.
As I mentioned at the start of all this, I surprised even myself when Carver took 6th place in my ranking. I can find no fault with Pryce's brilliant, heaving, mad-eye-twinkling turn as media mogul Elliot Carver. Between his opening speech to his golden retrievers, his party banter, his moment with Paris, his threat to remove Bond's heart and show it to him still beating, and his standoff with Bond aboard the stealth ship, he's given more moments to shine than most of the competition, and shine he does. Somehow Pryce managed to make the role both campy and a force to be reckoned with, delivering a positively delicious over-the-top megalomaniac perfect for turn of the century audiences and beyond.
I placed him last here, but I like Brandauer very much in The Lightship.