hey everybody and welcome back to another edition of james bond revisited and this week we're doing
something a little bit different we're counting down the top 10 greatest james bond villains of
all time and yes i am including henchmen and henchwomen so i apologize if i've missed your
favorite but here are my top ten coming in at number 10 is the shift and of course i'm talking
about mads mikkelsen's performance as le schiff as in point of fact due to a complicated legal
rights situation mikkelsen was not the first actor to play the part peter laurie actually
played him in a cbs climax theater tv version of the book while orson welles played him in the big
budget 07 spoof version of casino royale which strangely enough is actually my most popular
james bond revisited video ever martin campbell directed the performances of no less than three
of my top 10 bond villains and i think what makes his villain so good is how grounded he keeps them
while also making them a credible physical threat to bond miglson has a great look with the scar and
the bleeding tear duct but there's a humanity to him and that he's desperate when bond cleans him
out of the tables he knows he's marked for death and his desperate act against bond where he nearly
destroys his testicles with a carpet beater is one of the most cringe inducing moments of the
franchise and i have to mention straight out of ian fleming i don't think any guy went to see
casino royale and didn't cross their legs in the sequence it is nerve-racking no to the right to
the right to the right you are a funny man mr bond number nine is give me a very controversial choice
grace jones's mayday now hear me out she's one of i think a recurring motif in this video hench
people that overshadow the main villain now this may sound like sacrilege as i know people love
christopher walken as max zorn but i never found that character to be all that interesting he's
basically just an 80s ripoff of goldfinger except instead of gold you've got microchips yet mayday
is played by grace jones was something different now roger moore always had this kind of jocular
buddy buddy kind of relationship with everybody on set you know and it seemed like everybody really
liked him but one of the few people he didn't get along with was grace jones in fact apparently they
despised each other off screen but that kind of leads to some intriguing energy between the two
especially when they have sex in a really uncomfortable moment jones also strikes a really
sympathetic note especially towards the end when she's been betrayed by zoran and actually becomes
kind of a good guy and more is playing opposite her in the final act doing something kind of
different for roger moore he's acting i love roger moore but you know heavy lifting in terms of drama
isn't necessarily really his thing in the james bond movies he kind of plays it cool and easy
going but you know at the end of view to a kill he really has to kind of evoke some sympathy and it's
pretty interesting also she looks really cool i mean i love that hair the outfits it's really neat
number eight another henchman but man one of the best richard kiel's jaws made for an unforgettable
sight seven foot two with a mouth full of steel teeth a lot of kids are probably afraid of him but
i wanted to be jaws best friend the fight between bond and keel on the train inspired love me is a
classic and everyone knew they had such a good thing going with richard keel they let him live
sadly the impact of the character was ruined when he became essentially wily coyote to james bond's
roadrunner in moonraker even becoming a good guy at the end with a dopey love interest to boot they
even let him talk actually i have to say richard kiel's got a pretty good voice well here's to us
coming in at number seven goldfinger the one who started it all or goldfingers played by gert frobe
was an imposing sight with his german accent which was actually dubbed because gertrobe's german
accent was actually too heavy for the role and humpty dumpty look goldfinger was the first james
bond villain that was larger than life right down to his obsession with gold this is gold mr bond
all my life i've been in love with its color it's brilliance it's divine heaviness some of
the dialogue here is unbelievable and i always get a kick out of his death scene also he had a
really cool henchman of his own odd job but this is the one time the henchman didn't overshadow
the villain do you expect me to talk no mr bond i expect you to die number six another hench person
but man a really hot one zegna onotop as played by famke janssen wow i mean i don't think nowadays
you'd be able to do a pg-13 james bond movie where the henchwoman orgasms when she kills people with
her thighs i mean it's just unbelievable but fab jansen is so over the top and great in this role i
mean look at her she's absolutely gorgeous and you can tell that pierce brosnan or james bond i guess
who really wants to you know have sex with her throughout most the movie even if she's evil
who can blame him but it's a really good part i think that jansen's great knit i can see why
she was one of the few women to star in james bond movies that actually kind of escaped the
curse of the bond girls because she went on to have a really good career because the fact is
she's actually a really really solid actress she's terrific in this role and some of the
dialogue and the acting is just terrific i think xenia on the top is just an absolute scene stealer
wait for your turn coming in at number five this is interesting because this is the first shadow
james bond character on my list red grant as played by robert shaw in from russia with love now
he's a really physically imposing guy with his bleach blonde hair and his physical build which
makes him pretty much the exact you know kind of clone in some ways of sean connery because they're
built in almost exactly the same way and he's kind of like bond in a lot of ways he's just as smart
as he is he's just as physically capable but he has no morality at all he works for spectre and
he's is invaluable to them as james bond is to mi6 at the end of the movie when they fight on
the orient express it's a real nail-biter because they both seem like they're kicking the [ __ ] out
of each other and it's so good i think robert shaw is such a good actor and probably could
have played james bond if you watch him when he's pretending to be colonel nash he's all smooth and
sophisticated he really could have played the part man does he ever make for a good villain i get
a kick out of watching the great james bond find out what a bloody fool he's been making of himself
we're pros mr bond coming in at number four javier bardem silva who i talked about a couple weeks ago
in my james bond revisited on skyfall like red grant he's another shadow james bond he was a
secret agent with a great relationship with judy dench's m but he was betrayed
and left physically disfigured after being tortured by the chinese and now he wants revenge
bond has been betrayed several times but always kind of shrugs it off because he's honor bound
silva is not and wants revenge and the ending of this movie is really powerful because you have
javier bardem at the top of his game acting opposite judy dench and daniel craig neither
of whom are slouches plus they've got an amazing director sam mendes it's emotional it's operatic i
think that he is terrific in this movie you see what comes of all this running around mr bond
all this jumping and fighting it's exhausting coming in at number three one of my favorite
modern james bond villains and one that also might be a little bit controversial on this list robert
davie as franz sanchez in license to kill now what i really like about this part is that in the 80s
you see drug dealing villains were kind of all the rage but they're always played as psychotic
sanchez while definitely a sadist as you can see by his introduction where he whips lupe is
probably not psychotic you see the thing that's interesting about him is that you can really
see that the character inspires loyalty among his men specifically benicio del toro's dario
who i think is actually quite a good hedge person in this movie he looks like a kid and in fact del
toro was only about 21 when it was made but you can really tell that he loves sanchez and looks
up to him like a big brother or a father and sanchez is very loyal to him he doesn't want to
give him up and his life is more important to him than money that's the thing about sanchez
loyalty is the most important thing to him above all things and it's pretty amazing there's a scene
where daario is being shredded at the end by pam bouvier and he's just screaming out sanchez
over and over and over again because he wants his friend or his mentor to come and save him
but it doesn't happen and i almost kind of felt bad for sanchez because you can tell he actually
in a weird way wants to be friends with james bond because when he thinks that bond's a mercenary he
kind of sees himself in it and wants to build him up to be kind of like the number two man in his
corporation but of course he's evil he's a drug dealer he's gotta die and robert davi really gave
his performance as all because i think davi in some ways wanted to be a leading man and in fact
would star on a lot of movies after this it's funny john glenn said that in the audition for
talisa soto he had robert davey acting as james bond and he said you know what he wasn't half bad
coming in at number two sean bean as double06 in goldeneye now the interesting thing about
sean bean was that he was one of the finalists to actually take over the role and could have easily
played james bond but i think what made him cool as 06 is that he really does feel kind of like the
other side of a coin for james bond he's just one rank ahead of him but unlike bond he doesn't have
that unassailable loyalty to the british empire in fact his family being lian's cossacks were
betrayed by the government and he wants revenge he also wants revenge against bond because
by changing the detonators he ended up with a scar there's also kind of a warmness between them which
i think is really cool and their fight scene at the end is unbelievable because these are two
guys that are clearly in their physical prime and just equally trained it's so good and i remember
getting really excited for pierce bros and as james bond after the scene because he was so
good in the fight scenes unfortunately the james bond movies that followed with pierce bros and
kind of devolved into just generic shoot-em-ups which is too bad in some ways the daniel craig
james bond movies delivered on the promise of goldeneye why can't you just be a good boy and die
you first and coming in at number one who else could it be but ernst stavro blofeld now i'll give
you this not every actor that played earnest davo blofeld is good when i'm talking about the best
james bond villains i'm really talking about the early blofeld you know the guy in the shadows with
the signet ring and the cat in for marshall with love and thunderball and then donald pleasence
and you only live twice i mean he really unnerved me as a kid with his bald head and his scar you
look in his eyes he never blinks once and that nero jacket is very creepy i think he was terrific
and i also really like telly cevallos in kind of a different take on the role in on his majesty's
secret service he's still bald he still wears a narrow jacket but he doesn't have the scar and
he's a little bit more charismatic and a little bit more physically capable he's still got the
cat but you actually don't see him holding the cat too much because i don't think the cat actually
liked telly cevallos or vice versa however the person that they got to play blofeld afterwards
in diamonds or forever charles gray was an absolute disaster now i like charles gray as
an actor he's fun and kind of a camp way in rocky horror picture show but he also plays blofeld like
he's in rocky horror picture show it's such a camp performance that doesn't suit the movie at
all it's just terrible and i think he was awful in the role now of course blofeld did come back in a
fashion in for your eyes only where roger moore drops him down a smoke stack but you know it's
kind of a goofy jokey scene that they just did as a dig at kevin mcclory and in fact kevin mcclory
would have his revenge two years later when he would come out with nevers never again which would
have blowfeld as played by max monsaito although i have to say even though he's a great actor
doesn't make much of an impact as blofeld in fact klaus maria brandauer is much better in
that as the other villain also barbara carrera is really good in that but you know i didn't really
put any james bond villains who never ever get on this list because they're not official james bond
villains of course there's christoph waltz as blofeld inspector and i have to say as a huge
fan of blowfeld i was very disappointed in his performance because christophe waltz is just too
typical for that role in fact somebody suggested on my james bond revisited video on spectre
that they should have put dave bautista as blofeld and i think that kind of would have been amazing
i mean he was great as hicks the henchman but man if you watch dave bautista in some of his
other movies like blade runner you really kind of get the sense that he's an amazing actor and man
he would have been so good as the villain in this movie he would have really delivered something and
they just didn't allow him they just cast them as a henchman because i think the casting choices in
this one were a little bit narrow but you know what they've recast blofeld before they could
recast them again so i don't know maybe give them a chance if it doesn't work out in no time to die
which of course features the return of christoph waltz's blowfelt and what i assume is actually
going to be kind of a small role anyway those are my top 10 favorite james bond villains i'm sure
that a lot of you have different opinions than me there were some that almost made the list but
didn't quite make it of course there was dr no as played by joseph wiseman but his role in the film
is just too small for him to make the list i also came very close to putting christopher lee on this
for francisco scaramunga but i just never liked his kind of scheme with the solex agitator it felt
tacked on and he's almost too sympathetic and bond is such an [ __ ] in that movie
it's the only james bond movie where i wanted the villain to win most of the pierce brawls then bond
villains are all kind of terrible and the probably the worst james bond villains of all time even
though it's one of my favorite james bond movies ever strangely enough is the living daylights
with jeroen krabi as koskov and joedon baker as whitaker i mean these guys are terrible but man
what a great movie so join us next time here on james bond revisited well we'll have another list
for you but i'm not going to tell you what it is yet you'll have to tune in next week
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