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He creeped the hell out of me as a kid and tbh still does to an extent 😅
The scar, the piercing stare, the voice, not to mention how he strokes his cat… perfection!
Its unfortunate that now, after Austin Powers, its hard to take him seriously in the role! But Pleasence is impressive, and has a great first appearance, pushing an aide to one side to reveal that scarred mug of his!
I remember the quote from Hunt being, "He minced around."
Yes, i heard that story too, about Jan! I was going by Raymond Bensons book 'The James Bond Bedside Companion' which states he became ill before shooting started!
A much better choice.
Also, not being a physical threat to Bond was never a deal breaker for me, but I know it's very important to some fans. To each their own. Unfortunately, more people probably recognize Dr. Evil than the character he's based on and I know that grates on fans as well. Craig's comment that "Austin Powers fucked us" was right on the money.
Despite all that I still love this version of Blofeld. That moment where he finally reveals himself to Bond is so powerful to me still, after all this time. You wonder the whole time how he got that scar. It was a big mistake for Spectre to try to explain it in my opinion. Some (perhaps even most) things are better left to the imagination.
How long does he want to point the weapon in Bond's direction before shooting? He definitely likes Bond and doesn't want to kill him.
When you think about it, he doesn’t have that much screen time in YOLT, and (IMO) his most menacing moments occur before his big reveal (“…extortion is my business…”/”…I will be in my apartment, I may send for you later…”). Those scenes, set to John Barry’s score are great, After the reveal, his moments are less so, but still iconic.
Plus, where would Mike Myers and the “Austin Powers” movies be without this version of Blofeld? Or even the old “Inspector Gadget” cartoon series and films?
Oh Zorin and Drax are much more appealing villains. A lot more interesting than Blofeld!
Walken in the shoes of a Bond villain. Nice pun.
YAPHET KOTTO
as Dr. Ross Kananga (aka Mr. Big)
in LIVE AND LET DIE
Kananga’s best rating was one 2nd place. He also obtained two 5th places, two eight places and three 9th places.
11th was his most frequent placement, on four occasions.
Our “American gangster”/“small island diplomat crossover” received only one bottom 5: a single 25th place.
In total Dr. Kananga was awarded 135 points.
I was one of the #5 votes for Kananga. Yaphet Kotto was such a gifted actor, and his ability to radiate quiet menace, engage Bond in “polite” conversation, and have scary outbursts makes him one of my favorite villains. Sure the Mr. Big fakeout was a convoluted way to tip the hat to the novel, and his death scene is an ignominious end, but for a film that is absolutely loaded with a memorable villain ensemble, Kananga never has his spotlight stolen.
For instance, when he asks Solitaire a yes/no question and she wrongfully answers "yes", he later reveals that she was "not even close!"
I thought he meant the numbers on the watch weren't' even close.
He says "You had a 50/50 chance. You weren t even close." Not "I wasn t even close". It is clumsily written, whatever the intention was.
With only eleven villains left, that’s good going!
I think he's great in the climax. I love watching the crazy villains finally lose their cool, and Yaphet Kotto does it in a wonderful way. He has this delirious, deluded aura about him as he pretends he's actually winning somehow.
As usual, I'm off the consensus, but I did predict he would end up right in this position! I couldn't see him beating the next eleven. So he did as well as I could have hoped!