I was referring to his roe in the spy who loved me, since you were suggesting that he was so loved there that:
I get that his moonraker appearance was more “loveable”, but he was after no more than murder in his first appearance, IIRC, which was my point.
Jaws was a great henchman-for-hire but not much of a villain in his own right. He never had an evil vision or ideology of his own, let alone one that he explained to 007 just before leaving the spy to perish in a diabolical death-trap.
Nailed it.
yeah, true, my bad – it was his appearance in The Spy Who Loved Me that generated the kid fanbase. he was menacing but also funny in that one, but not nearly as funny as in Moonraker. I get why kids loved him, even if he was a killer in Spy Who Loved Me… the way the actor portrayed him made him sympathetic somehow.
Peter Lorre as Le Chiffre in the 1954 CBS live anthology show Climax! version of Casino Royale should really be up near the top.
One of the worst Bond films?? But… But I love The Man with the Golden Gun!
Am I wrong? Will people point and laugh at me for confessing my love?
Just so we know – Michael Lonsdale didn’t write his own dialogue. Christopher Wood was the screenwriter who has that “Wildean way with words”.
Does a henchman count as a villain? I wouldn’t have said so.
Famke Janssen played that character masterfully. One of my all-time faves!
Eh. It’s sort of mix-and-match, and I’ve gone back and forth several times on some of the character versions.
What would really have been fun would have been if the plans for yet another Thunderball remake with Timothy Dalton had gone ahead. I actually like the idea that every decade or so the official franchise would have had to put up with competition from a new version of that story, featuring a former “real” Bond in the lead.
Either as the price for getting Blofeld/SPECTRE back in the regular Bond movies, or hell, when that finally happened it turned out to be such a massive disappointment (and I was one who rooted for years for that to happen) it might have been worth it for none of that to get cleared up.
Thanks for the info. Interesting guy (obituary): https://www.steynonline.com/7252/keeping-the-british-end-up. Apparently had a big impact on the continuing Bond innuendo over the years, and also wrote erotic fiction:
So in 1971, adopting the pen-name “Timothy Lea”, he wrote Confessions of a Window Cleaner, the “confessions” supposedly being the real-life autobiographical experience of Mr Lea.
And many more stories, which — from a glance at Google Books snippets and NSFW covers — look to be exactly what you would expect from the man who wrote Bond in the 70s.
Wonderful line.
Famke Janssen … rrrrrrr
I’m psyched about Waller-Bridge writing the next JB.
They really need a separate list. The qualities that make for a great villain are not the same as the qualities that make for a great henchman.
Scaramanga at #2?
The only correct answer to any “Who is the greatest villain?” question is “Any villain played by Christopher Lee.”
(And yes, that includes Count Dooku.)
I’m not sure whether to be impressed with myself that I recognised most of these people. Clearly a miss-spent youth.
61. Claus
The Film: For Your Eyes Only
The Actor: Charles Dance
The Basics: Henchman who always pays his debts
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