[DogByte6RER]

Indeed … this writer is spot on.

It appears that many of the occupations of the villains in the 007 rogues gallery have the title "businessman".

So it appears that capitalists with over sized egos are a greater threat to Her Majesty's Realm than the Taliban, al Qaeda, MS-13, Shining Path terrorists, The Red Brigade, the Khmer Rouge, Mao's Peoples' Republic, USSR, the Warsaw Pact, East German STASI, Fidel Castro & Che Guevara, Carlos the Jackal, the PLO, Hezbollah, Hamas, etc., etc.

This is why I find the Austin Powers spoof movies so much fun. They satirize and mock the clownish villains, their plots and their Rube Goldberg like execution devices contrived from the 007 movies.

[Perdogg]

ping

[Vince Ferrer]

In Quantum of Solace, it is Dominic Green and General Medrano of Bolivia who are the villains.

Actually, I found Dominic Green to be one of the more plausible villans. He is an Al Gore clone working to get control of the Bolivian water supply in order to rake in profits, all under the guise of being a kind hearted environmentalist.

[Moltke]

Why would this be? • The Villains of Fiction

Uh, there's your answer: because it's fiction. How is that difficult to understand?

[Chode]

it has to be a fictional character/organization that will Never, EVER come back to haunt/attack them in real life...

i think that's why there are so many Zombie movies instead of real life enemies getting slaughtered

[Perdogg]

I also think that the writer has never read the novels and understand the term “context”. Especially in the context of Dr No, Goldfinger, and Hugo Drax. People need to read the novels to understand the context.

[Moltke]

So, according to the British filmmakers

Actually, according to the author, Ian Fleming. Did the writer know that the films are based on books?

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

If I ever decide to run a world-wide criminal enterprise, I will have to remember to dress my henchmen in matching jumpsuits bearing the logo of my dreaded organization.

[Brother Cracker]

[dancusa]

I liked the Dean Martin Matt Helm movies series.

I called it James Bombed.

[left that other site]

And in the book “The Sum of All fears” by Tom Clancy, the villain was a muzzie terrorist.

However, when the movie came out, the muzzie had miraculously morphed into a cabal of old, white, European businessmen.

Go figure.

[ctdonath2]

It’s fantasy. Lighten up.

[ReformationFan]

In a way I understand this. The 007 producers were themselves capitalist businessmen who just wanted to maximize their box office profits by making their films appealing to as broad an audience as possible while audiences came to these films to escape reality and forget about the real problems of the world for a couple of hours.

What’s sadder is the failure for either them or someone else to make more serious and realistic espionage films outside of the 007 world with politically incorrect villains.

[BobL]

Once James Bond turned gay, I was done. No more of those movies for me.

[Conan the Librarian]

What about Dr. NO-means-NO.

[doorgunner69]

Unlees I be blind, they glarinly left lut “Never Say Never” from the list. Not the best by any stretch, but it had muzzies in it.

[Califreak]

Well they goofed on “Tomorrow Never Dies” then.

You watch that movie and just try to tell me it’s not a completely believeable portrait of our own corrupt media!

“Carver Media Group-Tomorrow’s News Today”

They created tomorrow’s news by sending a remote controlled drill to penetrate the hull of a Russian submarine. They did this in the South China Sea in order to trigger a war that they would then cover.

Our media does things like this by egging on rioters, shaping public opinion to build hysteria.

Carver Media Group=CNN or any other alphabet noozgroup

[Impy]

“The Living Daylights, the Muslim Mujahedeen appear, but as heroes and allies in the fight against the Soviets.) “

This is not disconnected from reality, unfortunately.

For the that movie I consider Koskov to be the “main” villain (over Whitaker), the only one to survive the end of a Bond film.

“In The World is Not Enough, it is Renard Zokas and Electra King (a businesswomen), who are the villains.”

Electra was the villain, the poorly realized character of Renard was nothing more than glorified mook.

It always bothered me how LTK (”Isthmus” instead of Panama) and LALD (”San Monique” instead of Jamaica) used fake countries.

[jmcenanly]

Many of the villains could have made a bigger profit at less risk by going straight. In You Only Live Twice,Blofeld has a reusable spacecraft that can easily retrieve a Gemini spacecraft from orbit, while in Moonraker, Drax has used a fleet of Space Shuttles to build a Space station that is not only several times bigger than the one we currently have, but rotates for artificial gravity. The people who write the scripts have no idea how a free market works