Alec Trevelyan vs. Le Chiffre vs. Dominic Greene

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• thesecretagent CornwallPosts: 2,151MI6 Agent

  July 2009

  Sean Bean's performance was excellent. It was also intriguing to have a villain as well trained as Bond, an equal.
  Le Chiffre was my favorite of the three because he was very different to any villains we've seen before and I found him quietly menacing.
  I hated Greene and found him to be like Le Chiffre's under-achieving, weaker brother.

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• Dan Same Victoria, AustraliaPosts: 6,054MI6 Agent

  July 2009

  I loved ALec. Played by the superbly underrated Sean Bean, he very much was Bond's equal and was a physical and intellectual foe worthy of Bond. He joined other great villains like Scaramanga and Sanchez who were Bond's other half, so to speak, and was IMO Brosnan's best main villain, along with Electra from TWINE.
  
  Le Chiffre was well acted and was probably appropiate for CR, however I didn't find him particularly interesting and his behaviour during the torture scene was quite irrational and extremely bizarre.
  
  Greene was just a terrible villain, with no redeeming features whatsoever. He also committed one of cinema's ultimate sins regarding villains; he was boring.
  
  Alec is by far my favourite of the three.

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• Lexi LondonPosts: 3,000MI6 Agent

  July 2009

  Well being a Sean Bean fan, :x I would have gone with Alec, but I really enjoyed Le Chiffres character - and portrayal, it had the right amount of menace and I loved the fact that it was his ultimate greed that got him caught in the end.
  
  I thought the torture scene was superb (and not just for the fact we saw DC naked ) but the switch from (seemingly) pure dominance to utter surrender was very justifying.

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• j.blades Currently? You must be joking?Posts: 530MI6 Agent

  July 2009

  i liked le chiffre, because he added depth to the movie, in a way that he wasnt really supposed to be villain, he was just trying to save himself. therefore the line; the villains and heros get all mixed up. bond was sent to beat him at poker for no reason, le chiffre was just trying to win the money fairly, to save his life, until bond comes strolling along and he beats him, causing le chiffres death.

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• delicious SydneyPosts: 371MI6 Agent

  July 2009

  j.blades wrote:

  i liked le chiffre, because he added depth to the movie, in a way that he wasnt really supposed to be villain, he was just trying to save himself. therefore the line; the villains and heros get all mixed up. bond was sent to beat him at poker for no reason, le chiffre was just trying to win the money fairly, to save his life, until bond comes strolling along and he beats him, causing le chiffres death.

  
  ...er yeah - but Le Chiffre WAS trying to make back the money (and not even his money either) that he lost on the stock market because his plan to profit from the destruction of the new jet plane in Miami was foiled by Bond - so he dug his own grave basically and deserved everything he got.