| Cacique Caribe | 15 Sep 2017 7:52 a.m. PST |
I'll start it off. Rosa Klebb, Soviet Agent, the consummate defender of Marxism – From Russia With Love (1963) That Rosa was like a dog on a bone. She had a mission and was going to see it through to the very end. Wow, SHE persisted! I loved her knife shoe too. She was a million kinds of creepy, plain nasty at times. She was willing to become whatever it took to make the Free World pay and to bring it down. So, who is your favorite female villain? Dan
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| Winston Smith | 15 Sep 2017 8:00 a.m. PST |
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| Allen57 | 15 Sep 2017 8:04 a.m. PST |
Kleb. She was the only believable villain in the Bond movies. |
| Winston Smith | 15 Sep 2017 8:51 a.m. PST |
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| Cacique Caribe | 15 Sep 2017 9:20 a.m. PST |
Ha! She's Klebb the (Shoe) Knife! Dab |
 piper909  | 15 Sep 2017 9:31 a.m. PST |
A number of memorable "Bond Girls" at least start in their films as baddies. Honor Blackman, Gloria Hendry, Caroline Munro. Even Romanova in From Russia with Love is playing a double game at first. I can't remember her character's name, but wasn't lovely Sophie Marceau another pseudo-villain? Kleb is certainly the most memorable through-and-through villainess. |
 StoneMtnMinis | 15 Sep 2017 9:42 a.m. PST |
Ok, Dab…good one.  Unfortunately, those types were and aren't limited to the silver screen. Look around and listen. Dave |
| mjkerner | 15 Sep 2017 11:17 a.m. PST |
Pussy Galore, hands down. I remember being mortified when her name first came up in Goldfinger…my 10 year old self sitting between my Mom and my sister in the movie theater was pretty certain it was a reference to what I thought it meant, especially when I heard a few chuckles in the audience. Of course, it was never mentioned on the way home, or ever, for that matter! |
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| Cyrus the Great | 15 Sep 2017 1:12 p.m. PST |
Grace Jones as May Day.
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| Sobieski | 15 Sep 2017 2:22 p.m. PST |
Kleb is a renegade – she ISN'T a defender of Marxism. |
| Cacique Caribe | 15 Sep 2017 2:25 p.m. PST |
Lol. Of course. The Soviet Colonel simply trained female Soviet assassins out of the Istanbul consulate. And she was in charge of enemy interrogations and many other things on behalf of the Marxist regime. And she started her career with POUM (Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista) during the Spanish Civil War.* She seemed to be everywhere "the cause" required it. I keep forgetting that it's everyone else from Cold War history and fiction that gets to be judged for the crazies produced in their own ranks. :) Dan
* The decadent agents of Western imperialist and capitalist governments kept thwarting some of her missions. Nevertheless, she persisted.
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 Herkybird | 15 Sep 2017 2:51 p.m. PST |
Rosa Kleb, she gave me nightmares as a child! |
 Der Alte Fritz | 15 Sep 2017 4:21 p.m. PST |
I'd have to vote for Pussy Galore. I don't think that I have to explain why.  |
 Unlucky General | 17 Sep 2017 11:31 a.m. PST |
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| Crazyivanov | 17 Sep 2017 12:01 p.m. PST |
May Day is my favorite. I really like A View To A Kill, like the entire Moore era, as it understands that it is faintly ridiculous, and it actively works in its favor. Plus it isn't universally reviled like Mooraker because "Space Suck" or whatever. If you want realism in Bond Kleb is a good go, though I always had a soft spot for Xenia Onatop. |
| Ottoathome | 17 Sep 2017 2:58 p.m. PST |
Mrs. Moneypenny She's the mistressmind behind Spectre |
| Crazyivanov | 17 Sep 2017 8:22 p.m. PST |
Ottoahome, did you know they were actually considering the actress who played the original Moneypenny for the role of M in the Brosnan era? Then you know, they got access to Dame Judy Dench, and when you have access to Dame Judy Dench, you go with Dame Judy Dench. |
| Cacique Caribe | 17 Sep 2017 8:39 p.m. PST |
Dame, that Judy Dench! :) Dan |
| Sobieski | 19 Sep 2017 1:37 a.m. PST |
Ohhhhh, she brought so much to the role! |
| Ottoathome | 19 Sep 2017 6:46 a.m. PST |
Dear Crazyivanov Did YOU know that Dame Judy Dench played, in the nude, Titania, Queen of the Fairies, in the 1968 movie of Shakespeare's "Midsummer Nights Dream", nude? I believe it also had a very, very young, Diana Rigg playing Helena, Ian Richardson (also nude) as Oberon, Ian Holm as Puck, and David Warner as Lysander, and many other stars.\ |
| Old Wolfman | 19 Sep 2017 7:36 a.m. PST |
Looked like Rosa was wearing the insignia of a Soviet major. |
| Dr Argent | 30 Sep 2017 8:49 p.m. PST |
Most memorable was the machine gun granny at the guard post in Goldfinger YouTube link |
| Pyrate Captain | 10 Oct 2017 5:48 a.m. PST |
Pussy Galore – Any woman that wears a Rolex GMT Master wins my heart, no matter which side she's on. |
| MacColla | 16 Oct 2017 5:17 a.m. PST |
Another vote for Xenia Onatopp! |
| GGouveia | 01 Jan 2018 12:28 p.m. PST |
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| HansTrier | 12 Feb 2018 1:17 p.m. PST |
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| oabee51 | 16 Feb 2018 5:14 p.m. PST |
For me it will always be Sophie Marceau as Elektra King. With Denise Richards along for the ride, it will always be one of my favorites, at least visually!
And a most…ahem…interesting scene here:
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