It’s always tough for me to pick a favorite Bond, or favorite Bond movie, or favorite Bond villain. I just love the Bond movies all in different ways. (Except for A View To a Kill, the second Timothy Dalton one where he goes rogue to go after a drug dealer, and Never Say Never again, featuring an older Sean Connery on the set of a B-movie calling himself James Bond).
But picking my favorite Bond Babe is easy. The only Bond babe who was so spunky and seemed such an equal to Bond. She had so much life and personality, it seemed so fitting that she would finally be the woman to marry James Bond. That’s why her subsequent death was so sad at the end of the movie. The movie was On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. The actress was Diana Rigg, and I initially used to hate this movie because I didn’t really care for George Lazenby as Bond. But upon seeing the movie a few more times, it’s become one of my favorite Bond movies.
As long as I’m getting slightly off-topic in a thread I started, as much as I love the current Aston Martins, my favorite Bond car is the Toyota 2000GT from You Only Live Twice. Yes, he’s had more gadget filled cars, or elegant cars, or more powerful, but hey, this one only existed for Bond as a faux convertible.
Jaws is unkillable. He eats a shark in The Spy Who Loved Me. He finds his True Love and becomes a hero in Moonraker. And on Mythbusters they showed there’s no way he could bite through that steel cable.
For me he’s the worst thing about the worst Bond movies.
As a sort of disclaimer, let me just say I’m a huge fan of the Bond movies.
Regarding Jaws, to me the Roger Moore films are practically a different series because the tone is so different from the others. And in that series Jaws is awesome. He eats sharks. Bites through metal chains. Knocks over Egyptian ruins and picks up delivery vans. He totally wouldn’t work in Dr. No or Casino Royale, but sometimes, there’s a man, well, he’s the man for his time and place. He fits right in there. And that’s Jaws.
Likewise, Robert Shaw (my favorite henchman) wouldn’t fit in Moonraker.
But I can’t believe that Hawk the Slayer played Felix Leiter.
But to the list:
Best villain: Auric Goldfinger. My understanding is that Gert Frobe spoke no english and mouthed the words as best as possible. Best line: “Man has climbed Mount Everest, gone to the bottom of the ocean. He’s fired rockets at the Moon, split the atom, achieved miracles in every field of human endeavor… except CRIME!!”
Best babe: So many good ones, but I think Carole Bouquet on For Your Eyes Only.
