Which Villain gave Bond his toughest battle?
raptors_887
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I'm thinking maybe Alec Trevelyan from Goldeneye. He kicked Bond's a$$ pretty good and then had him dangling 500 feet in the air at one point. It was then that he made the mistake of climbing down the ladder after him when Bond was pretty much already toast.
There's been some good hard fought battles through-out the series though. Where do you think Bond met his match?
There's been some good hard fought battles through-out the series though. Where do you think Bond met his match?
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Alec Trevelyan with James Bond on satellite
Max Zorin and James Bond on Golden Gate Bridge
Franz Sanchez and James Bond on crashed tanker
Dr No and James Bond in reactor coolant
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The "First Bullet won't kill you " speach is chilling. You know
Bond is dealing with a Person who Loves to Kill and Torture.
The following Fight on the train is Brutal, and Must of seemed
even more violent in the 60's.
For everything else, I'd say it goes to Franz Sanchez and Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
Blofeld had his wife killed and it took four films to finally get rid of him once and for all.
Sanchez made Bond work. He emotionally damaged Bond by maiming Felix and killing Della. He was fighting him on his own turf, while very alone, He had to work hard to ingratiate himself to Sanchez, and then work hard to turn him against the people who worked for him. Plus, the mission changed and Bond had to go from solely concentrating on killing Sanchez to taking him out and destroying his operation, and he had to do it all on the fly. Some may say that the actual final battle between them is brief, but IMO, it has to be. After everything that's taken place between the tankers, explosions, and the fight on the back between them, these are two men who are shown, very realistically, barely able to stand up. Sanchez has the rage to fuel him long enough to nearly lop Bond's head off, But Bond has both the rage and resourcefulness to not only regain the upper hand, but dig deep enough to ask the one question he knows will distract Sanchez long enough to nail him.
So I'd go:
1. Sanchez
2. Blofeld
3. Red Grant
4. Alec Trevelyan
5. Emilio Largo
I'd give honorable mention to Max Zorin, because chasing Bond with an axe is pretty epic.
I was more scared for Bond when Greene did it. He came across as a proper maniac!
I was just never intimidated by Greene. The sequence was well-filmed, but Zorin seemed more of a threat. We needed a scene of a laughing Greene machine-gunning a bunch of unlucky suckers to really drive home his being a maniac.
That's probably true! Zorin always seemed in control of his maniacal behaviour though, whereas Greene sort of just lost the plot at the end. Which is scarier, who knows!?
I feel like Zorin's actions at the end on the bridge are the fracturing of the last strains keeping him holding it together. The plan is screwed up, Bond is still alive, and now they're stuck. If he'd been in control, he'd have taken Mortner's gun and wasted Bond, rather than getting into a fisticuffs with him. Even if he is a physical superior to Bond, it's a risk he didn't have to take and he paid for it dearly.
Agreed though, Greene also totally loses it in the end. In a way, those Bond villains are the best. The ones that aren't in control are usually quite dangerous.
Yes, but I do think that this was the whole point of the thing in QoS - he was almost more dangerous with the axe as he was in no way a trained killer or fighter - much more the lordly amateur. This in a way made him come across as even more psychotic. This was one of the very underrated QoS's strengths IMHO.
With many of the villains, it boils down to just one mistake which Bond is able to exploit. Sanchez pauses, Grant's greed, Trevelyan's hubris, Blofeld's need for personal gratification in ending Bond's life, etc. LOVE IT!! :x
Great, another "homage" in QoS to other bond films. As you can guess, I felt it was uncreative.
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yes just because he was he going to kill Bond slowly /painfully
but he realy hated Bond by that stage ,he wanted Bond to beg for that cigarette
and still kill him any way
Yes, Grant was a right sadistic psychopathic bastard in the film of FRWL - just like the early serial killer type in the FRWL novel from 1957.