9. Rose Klebb, via Heath Ledger
When we looked at 20 things you didnt know about Batman Begins, we talked about
how much Christopher Nolan loves James Bond movies; in many ways, between The Dark Knight trilogy and Inception, hes spent the last decade making defacto Bond films, from giving Batman his own Q in the form of Lucius Fox to emphasizing the idea of Bruce Wayne as a world traveler who faces megalomaniacal villains. The Dark Knight borrows less from the Bond playbook than either the first or third films in the trilogy, but the influences are still there. Batmans skyhook stunt *might* be a little homage to the ending of Thunderball, Sean Connerys fourth Bond film (virtually the same gag closes out that picture), and theres an obvious homage to the Bond series when, at Bruce Waynes fundraiser for Harvey Dent, the Joker attacks Batman with a knife tipped shoe. In From Russia with Love, the second (and still, arguably, one of the best) Bond picture, Lotte Lenyas Russian mastermind Rosa Klebb attacks Sean Connery using a poison tipped knife concealed in the tip of her shoe.