Do you guys think we will never see a henchman like Nick Nack, Jaws, Stamper, Tee Hee etc. with the more serious movies these days? Austin Powers made sure we can never take a Bond Henchman serious.
Do you guys think we will never see a henchman like Nick Nack, Jaws, Stamper, Tee Hee etc. with the more serious movies these days? Austin Powers made sure we can never take a Bond Henchman serious.
Do you guys think we will never see a henchman like Nick Nack, Jaws, Stamper, Tee Hee etc. with the more serious movies these days? Austin Powers made sure we can never take a Bond Henchman serious.
No I don't. In it's effort to "bring realism" to Bond, EOS has all but guaranteed we will see many more Elvis's and no more Jaws, Tee Hee's, or Nick Nack's. And I weep for them ...
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The problem with the QoS guy is that like some other of the "minor badguys" he doesn' have much. However unlike some of the other bad guys, he never EVER even looks intimidating. In Skyfall you have the grey haired assassin that shoots depleted U bullets, in Casino Royal you have pretty blond who actually does kill bond (he lucky that Vesper was able to restart him.) In QoS on screen, he never seems a threat, He doesn't show he has smarts, guile, or physicality. Heck, Michael Cera looks more intimidating then "Elvis"
Yes, but I think that this was the intention with Elvis from QoS. He was designed to be a backroom boy. Dominic Greene gave him this job as he is his cousin. Not a well-known fact there, I'd imagine. This is the sort of thing I want to try to bring out in my blog article on Elvis.
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Perhaps not the oddest, but Vargas from Thunderball was certainly the most useless and non threatening, the guy did nothing the entire film expect wear sunglasses at night and get shot with a spear gun.
Perhaps not the oddest, but Vargas from Thunderball was certainly the most useless and non threatening, the guy did nothing the entire film expect wear sunglasses at night and get shot with a spear gun.
I thought Yanni (sp?) seemed more threatening than Vargas
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No I don't. In it's effort to "bring realism" to Bond, EOS has all but guaranteed we will see many more Elvis's and no more Jaws, Tee Hee's, or Nick Nack's. And I weep for them ...
Yes, but I think that this was the intention with Elvis from QoS. He was designed to be a backroom boy. Dominic Greene gave him this job as he is his cousin. Not a well-known fact there, I'd imagine. This is the sort of thing I want to try to bring out in my blog article on Elvis.
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I thought Yanni (sp?) seemed more threatening than Vargas
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