After almost dying from poison during the card game in Casino Royale, Bond quips. Bond also uses puns to refer to situations he gets into it. The sweat-drenched Le Chiffre does nothing, as Obanno comments to the terrified girl “not a word of protest. Examples are Bond saying 'shocking' to a villain being electrocuted, 'I think he got the point' after shooting a villain with a harpoon gun, and 'he had to fly' after a villain is sucked out of an airlock. Worst Moment: An out of his depth Le Chiffre is emasculated by African warlord Obanno, who tracks him down and threatens to mutilate Le Chiffre’s girlfriend with a machete. Any man reading winces at the memory of a scene in which Le Chiffre truly holds Bond at his mercy, naked and physically defeated. It’s the simplest thing… to cause more pain than a man can possibly endure.” A meta reflection on past villains and their convoluted methods of attempting to kill or maim Bond. White enters and executes Le Chiffre for betraying his organisation, it marks the earliest death of any Bond villain, but also hands Bond the indignity of needing to be rescued by a foe.īest Moment: “I never understood all these elaborate tortures. Using nothing but a chair and a rope, he also inflicts more physical pain on Bond than any villain before him in an infamous torture sequence.
The terrorist financier is a unique adversary for Bond, fuelled by desperation to survive. However, the films actual villains are one of the few times where a great Bond movie does not have a great villain.
