10 Respected Actors Who Completely Hammed It Up To Play Flamboyant Villains

1. Javier Bardem As Raoul Silva - Skyfall

For Skyfall, Javier Bardem absorbed the essence of all previous Bond villains, donned a horrific blonde wig pulled from Tina Turner's rejects pile and topped it all off with a big healthy chunk of camp. Et voila - Raoul Silva was born, Bardem giving audiences the best true Bond villain in years. He even has a great Bond villain backstory, and Silva, having once bitten into a cyanide capsule and survived the agonising ordeal of being burned internally, obviously isn't the most together sort of chap. But elaborate assassination attempts - why just use a sniper to take out James Bond when you can use a helicopter gunship blaring The Doors through a loudspeaker? - an evil lair situated on an abandoned, creepy old island and a fashion sense untouched by taste or decency are all just part of Silva's fabulous way of living. Trying to draw out Bond's latent homosexual tendencies is nothing to Silva - to him, it's all just a game, and an insanely entertaining game at that. Raoul Silva is the ultimate flamboyant movie villain type.