The Best Villains - the Brosnan era

So we move on to GoldenEye, a new era in James Bond in the '90s, mid-'90s, and a new James Bond, Pierce Brosnan.

And perhaps there wasn't really much press about, "Oh, who's the villain? Who's gonna be the villain? And what's gonna happen here?" 'Cause the attention was, oh, yes, we love Pierce, can't wait to see him as Bond, because he'd missed the chance in the '80s.

And people loved him instantly, so there wasn't as much pressure on having a really famous, iconic villain.

And of course, the plot is, is a bit different to ones we've seen before, in that it's the personal collection with 009, which of course eventually is a big twist in the film.

006.

Sorry, yeah.

Right, start again.

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Stromberg's rats, yeah.

Uh, yeah, so the plot is a bit different to the classic master villain, uber villain, who has this plan to kill everybody in the world, the Louis Gilbert type stuff.

It is a more personal one.

And yes, after this film we get a lot more of that.

But the twist that 006 was a...

You know, was his friend and then became his, the villain, the main villain, it was a big twist at the time.

And I, I, I mean, we hear stuff that there was this, of course, uh, this tr- the trailer that ruined it.

But part of the reason it works is because there's a more stereotypical villain on paper to start with in General Ourumov in the pre-title sequence.

And I think the audience...

That's partly to make the audience think that of course Ourumov is the baddie.

And the reason we've been shown that is because we need to stop Ourumov because...

And Bond will get revenge for him killing 006.

So the two villain, the two main villains I'd say, Ourumov and 006, Trevelyan, are linked throughout the film.

We'll just start with Ourumov.

Now, he, he's a popular villain with, with Bond fans, and every t- every moment he's on screen he's exciting to watch, isn't he? It brings something a little bit different.

It is a bit of Orlov energy, isn't it? That sort of slightly larger than life.

Nowhere near as mad cap as, as Orlov, but he does, he does start to lose it, doesn't he, towards the end? And, and obviously when he's chasing Bond in all the tank, the tank scene.