Villains
Bond: Do you expect me to talkGoldfinger: No, Mr Bond, I expect you to die Goldfinger, the third entry in the series, was not only important in terms of Bond girls but also in terms of villains. Dr No was only introduced with twenty minutes of the first film to go and acted mainly as a link to SPECTRE, where greater foes awaited, and Colonel Rosa Klebb, or Number 3, only meets Bond at the very end of From Russia with Love. Auric Goldfinger was the first villain who played an important part throughout the entire movie, wasnt linked to SPECTRE and had a motive of his own. In the first two Craig films Le Chiffre and Dominic Greene both disappointed as villains, with neither coming across as powerful or dangerous. While Ive yet to see Skyfall, the reviews of Raoul Silva seem to point towards a huge improvement in that department.
Attempt to think of a Bond villain and many will remember Ernst Stavro Blofeld, leader of SPECTRE. It is highly impressive to think that the Bond creators built Blofeld up over five films, with 007 first meeting him in the fifth instalment, You Only Live Twice. It made their eventual confrontation all the more special. In some sense, I do hope that SPECTRE and Blofeld who was only presumed dead after being dropped into a chimney in For Your Eyes Only, which was hugely anti-climactic are resurrected for the modern Bond. Bond villains dont always need the best motives or plans, but they need to be intelligent and almost a match for 007.
Dominic Greene: You should know something about me and the people I work with. We deal with the left and the right, dictators and liberators. If the current president had been more agreeable, I wouldn't be talking to you. So if you decide not to sign, you'll wake up with your balls in your mouth and your willing replacement standing over you