6 months ago 14th May 10:50
As well as an action hero Bond was suave and sophisticated with a keen interest in women and over the years a string of beautiful women have played the love interest for 007.
Bond was a huge hit, popularising the genre of the action movie, as audiences were taken in by elaborate car chases, guns, gadgets and girls.
With every film the stunts and action sequences became more daring as technology advanced and each actor brought different aspects of Bond's character to the screen as Ian Fleming's novels, which included Live and Let Die, Moonraker, From Russia With Love and Goldfinger were turned into a highly successful franchise.
But it's the recent incarnation of Bond, played by Daniel Craig, that has had the most success. released in 2006 Casino Royale went on to become the highest grossing Bond film of all time.
The film goes back to the very first Ian Fleming novel with Bond just receiving 00 status.
Opening in Madagascar, where Bond pursues a guerilla bomb-maker in one of the most breathtaking chase scenes ever--and it all takes place on foot.
Botching that assignment, Bond goes to Montenegro to square off against terrorist baddie Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelson), an international loan shark who gambles with the money of his equally dangerous clients.
Beautiful British Treasury representative Vesper Lynd (Eva Green) supplies Bond’s own funds, appearing on his arm in Montenegro, while M (Dame Judi Dench) keeps a close watch on the action from headquarters.
The extravagant poker game forms the centre of the action, with Jeffrey Wright putting in an intense appearance at the table; interrupting the game are assassination attempts, poisoning, and other dramatic events that keep the adrenaline pumping.
It's perhaps Casino Royale that confirms Bond as the action her gone are the elaborate gadgets and in it's place it Bond's raw power and physical prowess, a side we have never seen before.
In November Craig returns in Quantum of Solace.
Anthony Hopkins' Hannibal Lector became one of cinemas classic villains in psychological thriller The Silence of the Lambs in 1991.
Based on Thomas Harris' novel Lector is a brilliant psychiatrist and a cannibalistic serial killer currently in prison.
The character is rumoured to be based on murders that Harris covered as a crime scene reporter in the 1960s and on Albert Fish, a serial killer, cannibal and pedophile.
The character of Lector has spanned four movies. In Silence of the Lambs Lector is in prison and is visited by an FBI trainee Clarice Starling seeking his help on catching Buffalo Bill, a serial killer.
For his performance in the film Hopkins won a best Actor Oscar.
In 2001 Lector returned in Hannibal which took place ten years after Silence of the Lambs with lector out of prison and living in France.
2002's Red Dragon takes place before the events of the first movie but after Lector's original crime that placed him in prison.
But it was Hannibal Rising that attempted to explore Lector's childhood that led to him becoming the infamous serial killer.
When he is a young boy in Lithuania, Hannibal and his privileged family flee their castle as both the Nazi and Russian troops advance, going into hiding in a nearby humble cottage.
But the war quickly finds them, and Hannibal witnesses horrible atrocities against his family, particularly from a local independent force of brutes led by the creepy Grutas (Rhys Ifans).
Years after the war, teenage Hannibal (Gaspard Ulliel) leaves Lithuania and travels to France, where his uncle's wife, Lady Murasaki (Gong Li), takes him in and befriends him.
A gifted medical student, Hannibal studies corpses and anatomy with extreme diligence, but dreams of tracking down and destroying those who harmed him and his family.
Soon, he is acting on his impulses, hunting down the perpetrators from his youth and inflicting cruel punishment
FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw
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