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He's memorable and menacing, very violent and a true threat for Bond.
But sadly underutilized. Good henchman though.
Same feelings here. I have him at 7.
When he returns in the laboratory, you feel the danger. Bond is in big trouble there. Lucky for Bond that the whole (!) facility burns down without no reason. (Why did they think in SP that this was plausible in LTK and they repeated that??) Anyway, the tension is great there and Dario is a character I love to hate. Great casting.
Ah, and I like the very brutal death. LTK really isn't the light fun movie for the whole family.
XENIA ONATOPP
by Famke Janssen
in GoldenEye
By very very far the most popular henchman/woman of the post-1990 Bond films, outranking the second favourite, Primo, by no less than 10 spots.
Xenia is also one of only two candidates that finished in each of the top 5 slots. She did so on one occasion for all of them. Which means she obtained one gold, one silver and one bronze medal, in addition to one 4th and one 5th place.
Four other members ranked her in the lower half of their top 10, while one member ranked her as low as penultimate. She is however not the highest-ranked sidekick with a bottom 3 finish, since one other entry beat her to that.
In total Xenia Onatopp collected 98 points.
P.S. it's noteworthy that she's meant to be Georgian, while the countrycode for Georgia is GE, exactly the same lettrecode us fans use for GoldenEye.
Yours truly,
An admiral
You win the price for most eloquent analysis of the contest, my friend.
I have nothing to add to all that, though I must warn you that it won't be easy to quit while you still hit :p
Personally I even ranked her one spot higher, in 4th.
We are not going to apologize, are we, @GoldenGun? Famke is a delight.
That said, wait for your turn, brother.
She’s a truly classic Bond villain. Easily the best female villain since Fiona Volpe.
Sexy, unhinged, exotic and dangerous. She’s perfect in GE and a true highlight of not only the film, but also the series.
I find her character to be nothing more than a poorly executed rehash of Fatima Blush, who in my opinion, is a much better villainess.
I love quirky, ‘slightly’ over-the-top baddies but this character is straight out of a cartoon.
She’s just one of the many aspects of this film that I find irritating.
Xenia would have one extra line of dialogue in the unfinished comic, during the shooting on the frigate. After the sailor says, "I think I've gone to heaven", she responds, "Not yet." (shoots) "Maybe now." The same pistol fired in this scene (and I think same prop) being previously used by Octopussy when confronting Kamal Khan.
You're right, she's a lot more conceptually interesting, but Fatima kind of was the first properly psychotic Bond lady villain wasn't she? In fact there weren't even many other psychos in the henchmen stakes who took as much pleasure as she did in the killing: maybe Wint & Kidd and that's about it? Jaws to some extent maybe, but he's a bit more unknowable. Tee Hee? But she's on another level, and Xenia does kind of join her there.
As we were talking about Necros, someone else just mentioned that did Eon miss a trick in not getting Dolph Lundgren back for that? Or was he maybe too well-known?
I suppose (although Blush is a bit of a twist on Volpe, albeit more overtly psychotic and flamboyant). Onnatop also has traces of May Day in her in terms of her strength, capability and even sexuality, although obviously May Day has some semblance of a conscience where Onnatop has none.
Anyway, for me Onnatop is by far the more interesting, menacing character. I’d have loved to have seen them do a bit more with Blush - the scene where she makes Bond write out a letter saying she was the best shag he’s ever had is… a bit meh honestly, if not for how good Carrera is. Something about a psychopath crushing men with her thighs is on a whole other level I’d say!
That could have been cool. I guess that would have been not long after he did Rocky?
Red Grant
Oddjob
Fiona Volpe
Mr. Wint & Mr. Kidd
Tee Hee
Jaws (TSWLM)
Fatima Blush
Even Ourumov is shocked when he sees how much joy she has in killing all these people in Severnaya.
Oops. I fixed it. Yes, very difficult to describe this feeling :P
Definitely also in line with my reaction to the poor admiral's death when I first saw that as an 11-year old lad :))
FATIMA BLUSH
by Barbara Carrera
in Never Say Never Again
Well if NSNA was ever going to crack a top 10-spot it was always going to be this one, wasn't it?
Nicaraguan actress Carrera brings such a memorable performance to this unofficial Bond film that EON themselves went on to be inspired by it for Xenia years later.
Fatima obtained one bronze medal in addition of one 4th and two 5th places. On top of that she scored six more top 10's, collecting a total of ten top 10's.
Only twice she landed outside the top 20, of which one 24th spot was her lowest finish.
In total Fatima Blush scored exactly 100 points, making her the first in this contest to mark the 100-point mark.
Easily one of NSNA’s best aspects.
Don't forget that Bernie Casey was voted "Best Felix Leiter" by this board (albeit in an elimination game)! https://mi6community.com/discussion/21398/the-quick-and-fun-felix-leiter-elimination-game/p6
I'm one of those who voted her No. 5, but the difference is sort of negligible. And four of the remaining six are also my top four.
But... I put Fatima in the 4th place! Barbara Carrera is the needle in the haystack, the one glorious bit of fun in NSNA worthy of a proud spot amid all those EON counterparts. She's hot as hell, a sexy bag of fun as a crazy vixen, and just a joy in every possible way. She lusts after Bond as a trophy screw before leaving him for the sharks. That's cold and hot at the same time. Her feelings seem genuinely hurt when Bond, still alive, hits the sheets with another woman. She wants him to write down exactly how unforgettable his horizontal adventure with her had been before trying to kill him again. And when the pen fires a clear message into her, she gives us a maniacal laugh not unlike Joker's at the end of Mask Of The Phantasm. I love how she oozes psychotic danger and a dark hunger for 007's flesh. A risqué performance, this, in a film that aspired to TV quality at best.
Fatima is wonderful, hands-down one of the most colorful, intriguing creations in the Bond series, and -- credit where credit is due -- not by EON this time.
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Definitely, I also consider him my favourite Felix. Maybe we should do a Felix Leiter game next.
As for Fatima, I absolutely love her too and even though she barely missed my top 10 I am happy she managed to crack the overall one nonetheless. Deserved!
I'm also an EON fan without much love for the other Bond movies. I prefer all EON Bond movies to NSNA but there are a few things I like (fight against Lippe, motorcycle chase, several stunning women) and there is one thing I love: Barbara Carrera is super hot in this movie (honestly, I don't know any other movies with her) and she is crazy. My english isn't good enough to describe it but @DarthDimi mentions almost everything :)
She deserved a better movie! Without her, I would maybe never rewatch NSNA. But hey, nsna.