Who says seven is lucky? Seven is a dangerous number. The seven deadly sins, the seven evil dwarfs (um…maybe I’ve got that one wrong). As part of our continuing Bond Week, today we give you the seven deadliest and most memorable villains of the Bond series.
Here are seven of the deadliest and most memorable Bond villains. Did your favorite make the list?
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Bond Week continues with this clip of comedian Eddie Izzard poking some fun at the Bond films, particularily the gadgets used in the series. He makes a good point about Q giving Bond exactly what he needs for each movie, no more, no less. Fun stuff.
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Timothy Dalton left the franchise after two films in the midst of MGM’s legal and financial nightmare that threatened to end the series for good. But that was not to be. Much like Dalton before him, Pierce Brosnan had been offered the role of Bond years before. but could not accept because of his starring role in Remington Steele. Fast-forward a few years, and again like Dalton, Brosnan was given a second chance.
With GoldenEye Bond was relaunced with some subtle differences. Bond was no longer the hot-shot top spy, now he was “a relic of the Cold War” who seemed out of place in the current world events. M was also given a drastic makeover as Judi Dench took over the role, the first woman to do so, with a particular flair and wit. The movie was a huge success and Bond and Brosnan continued for three more profitable films, making Bond not only relevant to the modern world, but worth the ticket price as well.
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Here’s a fun sequence from BBC’s Top Gear as they put together a Bond Car for 300 Quid (around $600 US). At first it’s a little hokey, but I must say the ejection seat is pretty damn cool.
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Move over Pierce Brosnan, there’s a new Bond in town. Feeling some disconnect with James Bond and the movie going audience a new direction for the franchise was decided on. Bond would be reborn. The producers decided the series would relaunch the character in the present day still new to the game, snubbing their nose at 42 years of continuity and character development and removing him out of the crucible of the Cold War which formed him.
MI6 agent James Bond (Daniel Craig) is promoted to 00-status and given a license to kill, but gets in trouble on his first mission, which creates a PR nightmare. M (Judi Dench) sends him on vacation only to discover Bond is continuing his mission in the Bahamas, tracking down a banker, Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen), who launders money for many of the world’s terrorist organizations.
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