Main villain in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
I think he is one of the better acted villain, Curt Jurgens has genuine menace in the role.
Very ruthless at the start where he feeds the assistant to the sharks and destroys the helicopter and says calmly
'The funeral was at sea'
His lair is one of the best for a Bond villain, Ken Adam surpassed himself there
A decent villain thoroughly overshadowed by his henchman and lacking enough screen time to make any sort of impact.
shareHe was a pretty darn ruthless villain in his own right even though he was initially written to be Blofeld and because of that, he is essentially a Blofeld clone. His evil plan is very much the same as in You Only Live Twice. Additionally, his scheme to trigger nuclear armageddon between the United States and the Soviet Union because his hatred of human decadence seems contradictory. Surely, nuclear radiation would get into the water and potentially kill his beloved underwater species.
Nevertheless, Curd Jurgens plays him so cold and menacing that it makes you ignore his outlandish villain scheme. And his Atlantis lair was spectacular to look at.
What we do in life, echoes in eternity.
That's no way to speak about your boss.
shareAdditionally, his scheme to trigger nuclear armageddon between the United States and the Soviet Union because his hatred of human decadence seems contradictory. Surely, nuclear radiation would get into the water and potentially kill his beloved underwater species.
Excellent point. That's one reason I prefer The Spy Who Loved Me's less highly regarded follow up film Moonraker. Both Stromberg's and Drax's schemes are outlandish and OTT but Drax seems to have thought his plan out a bit better. In Drax's destroy mankind plan, the black orchid gas he uses would only hurt humans but plants and animals would remain untouched. Then, after the gas dissipated, his "master race" men and women could return to earth and repopulate. In Stromberg's plan, didn't he realize the danger to the underwater creatures he claimed to love so much? Plus, with Agent Triple X being the only female left, how would the world repopulate itself? Anya could only bear so many children.
I thought that Stromberg, just like Drax, had a certain number of couples to ensure the survival of his master race, but I may be wrong here. Anyway, quite a considerable number of people still seem to seriously believe we all descended from a single woman with a penchant for forbidden apples, and actually base their daily lives on the publication that states that ridiculous hypothesis.
Considering that, it is perfectly all right for a Bond maniac villain to suppose one single KGB agent could spawn the entire new race that he's wishing to create. After all, he's a maniac.
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Ceterum censeo OCTOPUSSY esse delendam.
Anyway, quite a considerable number of people still seem to seriously believe we all descended from a single woman with a penchant for forbidden apples, and actually base their daily lives on the publication that states that ridiculous hypothesis.
And a considerable number of people seriously believe in an utterly ridiculous (not to mention absolutely impossible) concept called the Big Bang!
I love how atheists mock Christians for their faith without realizing that they themselves actually have much greater faith than we do. Because it takes a whooooole lotta faith to believe that something sprang up from nothing. Now that's a doozy right there!
Connery, Moore, and Brosnan! Accept NO substitutes!
Either system of belief seems to follow that same basic idea...
Something from nothing.
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Ian Fleming created the universe as far as this board should be concerned.
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