5. Scaramanga Gets Too Greedy - The Man With The Golden Gun
The Plan: Steal the Solex Agitator to harness the power of the sun to take pot shots at the world from a private island. Three-nippled supervillain (not too many of those knocking around) Francisco Scaramanga has done pretty well for himself, having successfully harnessed the power of solar energy decades before anyone else could be bothered with the idea. But instead of asking if anyone wanted some solar panels on their shed, he decides to use this new world saving source of energy to destroy the world. Played with Dracula-esque stiffness by Hammer Horror legend Christopher Lee, Scaramanga is something of a contradiction: he's a dab hand at keeping a low profile by using a one-bullet golden gun constructed from a fountain pen and cigarette lighter right up until he makes his getaway in an attention-grabbing flying car. As if that wasn't flamboyant enough, he lives on his own island at Ko Tapu and has a dwarf henchman called Nick Nack who serves a welcoming glass of champagne to you one minute and then tries to kill you the next. Lifestyle choices aside, surely Scaramanga should've just kept at extorting either of his two lucrative and powerful careers energy or assassination to truly succeed and not end up on the wrong side of a bullet.
Despite a fear of using plastic cutlery and drinking overly milky brews, Dave is open to indulging in most other things at least once especially when it comes to movies and music.
10 of his favourite films are: Masaki Kobayashi's Hara-Kiri, Ingmar Bergman's Persona, Martin Brest's Midnight Run, Lawrence Kasdan's The Big Chill, Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves, Peter Medak's The Ruling Class, H.G. Clouzot's Les Diaboliques, Hector Babenco's Kiss of the Spider Woman, Fritz Lang's The Testament of Dr. Mabuse and Sidney Lumet's Network.
