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It amazes me that one little change with the GB causes so much stir.
When I first heard about this, I obviously hadn't seen the movie and I was livid but after seeing the movie, the opening made me forget all about the gb and to be honest, having it at the end for this movie makes sense and made more sense than it did in QoS.
Anyway, Silva is as weird as Scaramanga & Blofeld in the novels.
Wholly agree with this.
The best bond villians were "likeable" and "clever". Going around London/Scotland trying to put a bullet in M and shooting everyone else in sight was just thuggish.
Shooting severine?? Why??
Maybe dying his hair blonde didn't help either. Silva's entrance just made me want to burst out laughing, not in a good way.
You may well be in the minority here my friend? I thought Bardem was superb and alot of other people did too. However? I accept that some will not like his take on a Bond villain.
Why did he shoot Severine.... Because he's a nutter with no compassion? She had outlived her usefulness to him? She had shown weakness towards Bond when he's a threat to Silva? Maybe all three? And more!
Much as I loved Javier its difficult to really argue with that assessment. I've only seen itonce and really need to see it again but I'm strating to think the plot was little bit simplistic.
I do love his entrance and the way it's filmed.
When he took his teeth out i thought that was really freaky :-&
Yes. Considerably.
His introduction was pure Fleming.
Bardem did a fine job with what he got and I actually see a resemblence of him between Columbo & Apostis both from FYEO. not saying he is exactly the same look as them two but close.
For Bond 24 villain I would like to see British actor Gareth Marks as a contender. He was brilliant as the villain Jean Daniel in BBC series BUGS 1996-1998.
Not saying that he's not versatile, but still... And I can easily see that ladies like him.
Simplistic? Maybe. But if it was a bit more complicated, it would've been "oh noes, I kant understand dis movie. Bond should be liek cool action heroes."
Many good Bonds have simple stories, like Dr No.
When he took his teeth out i thought that was really freaky :-& [/quote]
I had no idea what was going on when he did that, it was quite revolting. And I was waiting for him to do it again at the end of the film. A friend of mine who saw that bit said that many people in the cinema started saying 'Jaws' thinking it was him.
To be fair, I think Craig's gotten some interesting villains so far. LeChiffre's plot was brilliant but then also direct testimony to Fleming's creative writing. I like Greene as well, more of a real life baddie than some would like to admit but a scary little berserker with and axe if you think about it. :) And as for Silva, wow! His mannerism, crazy sense of humour and just his persistence! True: I can see elements stripped from past 24 baddies, but I'm liking his every scene. IMO, 3 for 3 in the villain department of the Craig era!
So was I!
That one take shot of him approaching bond is excellent.
The whole scene is just pure gold.
Yep I'd go out on a limb and say he's my fave at the moment.
An ACTUAL villain compared to whatever Dominic Greene was supposed to be (on a side note, does anyone else agree that Greene's henchman Elvis was the most pointless character ever?)
That introduction! The approach from the elevator right up to the screen talking about rats in one continuous shot. Absolute cinematic genius! Loved it.
Here, here. Le Chiffre is a particular favorite of mine. I do like his opening line from CR;
"I believe in a reasonable rate of returns". Plus one feels rather sorry for him, what with him being terrorised by Obanna and then shot.
Despite being a original story, Silva's introduction reeked of Fleming.
His bluffing + reaction when Bond re-appears at the table are two of my favorite scenes in CR. The latter, especially "that last hand", is even one of my top Bond moments.
To say nothing bad of Greene or Silva, it's important to remember that LeChiffre comes from a vastly different source, THE source by all means: Ian Fleming. In the writing of CR, they took from the novel what was useful and left other things out. Even then, LeChiffre is literary brilliance personified. That's how good Fleming really was, which begs the question when they will finally bring in the unused material of YOLT (a lot of the novel), TMWTGG (most of the novel) and MR (the entire novel).
And they were trying to match the quirkiness of the Joker? I must've missed that.
I thought it was a pity that we did not saw a good fight between Bond and Silva in the end. That was one of the things I missed in Skyfall. We did not get the chance to see how well Bardem was in physical fights. Only a little bit.