Analyzing Evil: Raoul Silva From Skyfall 

It's a bit of a thing in the film industry that some of the most horrible characters on-screen are played by some of the most gentle people in real life. I suppose it's an outlet for all their actual evil, leaving only the goodness behind to actually walk around.

@@josephd.5524 well psychopaths are naturally charming outwardly so maybe theyre more like their characters

Based

Ralph Fiennes and Giancarlo Esposito also excell at these roles

Not that it matters, but good actors are not "nice". Actors learn not to be "nice", in fact, because it is such a roadblock at being effective.

You know, you make a good point.👍🤌

Yep.

he just didnt live to see the result

@@joecrow5484 He wasn't planning to live though.

whta about the creepy dude who forced bond to kill himself?

Yes, that scene is intense. I’ve watched it many times.

Do you know what it does to you?!

@@TheOblake2 look upon your work....

The CGI was awful, it had zero effect on me, I was just laughing at how bad it looked.

​@@cavemanbendamn that's too bad.... could've enjoyed it.

yes.that happens and it is so brutal for you to realize that your efforts meant nothing.

Because a nation is always more important than an individual.

True…. However that no excuse for disloyality or betraying your members. That greater good bs has been overplayed now days it’s an excuse for governments to do whatever they want. I fail how to see politicians lining their pockets and sending young men to die for a conflict they had no small part in starting was for the greater good. If a spy or soilder should be sacrificed on the fly for the so called greater good then so should any member of the royal family or politician of course they would see their country destroyed before allowing themselves to come to harm because that’s the(( greater good))

@@user-vt3vo1yd3vnot when the nation doesn’t fight for its individuals. “By the people, for the people”?

That's the job. They never lied on what could happen to him. He just got too comfortable.

That was a cold, coooooold line. Goddamn.

its the little things

🤯

It really gets me every time

Not every time

Never noticed this

😂😂

Wrong film😂

"What makes you think this is my first coin toss?"

Subject is not approved for field duty and immediate suspension is advised

@Larry Koopa Her attachment to Bond overrode her judgement. Malory even warned her about that.

Yeah, I kind of felt that way for Safin and Mr. White, especially at the end.

@@victorrain reminds me of shinsui from yuyuhakusho

He should’ve known the risks with the job. He also got plenty of others killed for his revenge quest so as far as I’m concerned he deserves zero sympathy.

@@mrbluesky4838 Yeah if it's one thing you should count on its your boss SELLING YOU OUT and getting you tortured for months. The fact that she makes it sound so heartless and apathetic just proves his point. To him all right and wrong is trivial if you have the means to alter them on a whim. He just got paid to do it instead of adhering to a corrupt political system.

@@mrbluesky4838 if you put yourself in his shoes then you would have done the same thing.

DOOM is dead, long live DOOM

I think EYE hit it on the head for the average viewer: Silva had a choice post-capture to do whatever he wanted, AND THEN he chose revenge, in spite of his other capabilities to live a better life instead. This likely strikes most viewers as unrelatable, and so he doesn't get justice in the fanfare. For me, though, Silva made the choice for revenge, AND THEN had choices post-capture, that he was blind to. The cyanide was his choice for revenge. Him surviving it meant little, other than the opportunity to seek more revenge. Choices of this nature have a stickiness an order of magnitude greater than getting the same meal from your favorite restaurant every week in the face of near infinite options of different meals. Most people have never made such a choice and would therefore have trouble relating to characters on the other side of one. Oddly enough, it occurs that Bond has made a similarly sticky choice to Silva, that of his dogged loyalty to King and Country, which isn't problematic in terms of relatability, somehow. I can't easily reconcile this, and have already gone on long enough for a comment in a comment.

Idk I think he effed up the most when he felt up Bond. It seemed like watched a grown man get molested. I don't see that as a cool villain.

@@lickenchicken143 How are you supposed to relate to someone who is simply so laughably written that any other Bond villain up to and including Drax looks downright realistic? He's supposedly a former field agent, but he knows the IT of MI6 better than the IT guys at MI6. He is clairvoyant, knowing precisely when and where Bond will be after him. He can ignore basic biology and clearly doesn't even need oxygen to exist. And he has infinite pockets from which he can pull an equally infinite number of grenades.

@@ohauss Occasionally I wonder if some of these plot holes are deliberate, especially ones mentioned in the text, like Silva miraculously surviving the cyanide, but I don't immediately jump to it just being bad writing. Bond is similar; infinite ammo and dang near indestructible, often utilizing uncanny levels of perception and banks of knowledge beyond the scope of reasonable expectations of his trade, infinite moneys, etc. But again the viewer can find themselves relating to this unrealistic character with ease. Movies, especially action packed blockbusters in general, tend to be a more impressionist painting of a person than a photographic representation, and sometimes it can be hard to make sense of but nevertheless evoke a recognizable character. Bad writing? Bad cinematography or direction? Or maybe deliberate soft spots in the crafting to make room for interpretation of the minutiae of irrelevant details and events?

@@maryumgardner737 colonialism didn’t go away there, if anything it just let new players move in, China being a major one ironically. The neocolonialism projected by the liberal crowd these days is also very ironic.

Britain, not England.

Funny thing is that China didn't have admin control until recently. Lease ended in 97 but hi had its own autonomy and was supposed to until 2047 but China took it over more in sense of t approved what leaders control there now. However they really still don't control HK way film implies. You I can hop on a flight go to HK right away walk around freely there etc but certainly can't do that rest of PRC except Macau

@Maryum Gardner Hong Kong wasn't a colonial appropriation. Was leased from China. Colonial days don't truly end until there's no Commonwealth left and it's going strong still

@@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus lol never was colonial as land was leaesed from China. Furthermore your idea that China be the colonizers is just sheer stupidity. Lol hint Kong area has always been part of some kind of historical china area . Also lol honk king was barely anything until after world war two. Seriously doubt it even had a hundred k people in early 1950s. Didn't really start to boom until mid 60s them wasn't until mid 80s really started taking off. Lol most of the Chinese people living there now aren't Hong Kong parents born but Guangdong and area. Pretty funny you implying China is a colonizer Bwahaha that be like Indians in north america reclaiming Manhattan and you calling them colonizers

Ironic as Ralph Fiennes features in the series as well.

You miss Jack Nicholson lol He literally played himself as the Joker in Tim Burton’s Batman movies.

@@kevinthielmann9408 only batman 1989

"I'm reminded of the interview with Daniel Craig that he said there's not a single redeeming trait about Bond." Hmm, that must be the underlying reason why Craig is the worst Bond of all time.

Bond has never been a good person.

To get the job done, you can't be a good person. The act of deception is a need in that line of work, one good thing about Bond is that he is actually loyal to the people he respects.

Didn’t he also say if Bond showed up to his door asking for his daughter he would knock him out?

​@@jstos3675Connery said the same about bond. Also and I quote "I always hated that bastard Bond, I wanted to kill him".😂😂

Time flies too fast. Or maybe just how 2 years ruined our sense of time. I still can't believe pandemic was 3 years ago.

Probably not, considering she signed a kill-or-capture order for him on Quantum of Solace despite knowing that Bond was on the case the whole time. He also accepted the fact the M doesn’t care about him because he heard her order Moneypenny to take the bloody shot but came back to do his duty after MI6 got attacked. M would never have tried to save Silva because she sold him out to the Chinese in return for captured agents and a peaceful handover.

@@victorrain BRUTAL REALPOLITIK

@@judeannethecandorchannel2153 “You know the game. We’ve been playing it long enough.”

Remember, Raoul was abandoned by M, Bond was sacrificed by M. She traded Raoul in exchange for more agents and assets, she commanded the shooting that she knew would likely kill Bond.

What about Mads?

Alec Treveleyan: Am I a joke to you?

I like to think of him as "What might have happened to Bond if he'd cracked (and not been traded) in Die Another Day" - it's even in the right part of the world!

Sorry, but he can't hold a candle to Alec Trevelyan. Silva is so cartoonish it's not even fun anymore. He never kept me invested, he kept me wondering whether the person who wrote him ever made it through school. He's supposedly a former field agent, but he has knowledge no field agent would credibly have. He knows everything, he can do everything, he can predict everything and he can survive almost everything without any major consequences.

@@ohauss Don't be sorry!

@Larry Koopa well , i never liked the ideo of the character or find it very interesting. I forced mysfelf to watch some of his movies but It just not my cup of tea. There are definetly great Bond films , and I respect them , I just dont love them . But Skyfall is the one I really like

I'd love this. Goldeneye was the first bond film i watched so it would have sentimental value for me.

A fantastic suggestion, one I didn't know I wanted to see until I read this comment. I second this!

"When I killed your brother... I sounded... JUST! LIKE! THIIIIIIIIIIISSSSS!!"

Talk about missing the point of the film in order to try and sound as edgy as possible.

@@pinealdreams1064 I'm not trying to sound edgy. I'm just stating my opinion.

It may interest you that the fictional M is based on the real life M, and Judy Dench’s portrayal resembles her so closely that her family was freaked out by it. There’s a radio interview with the real life M by NPR about this.

He was an improvement over Blofeld but pales in comparison to Silva for sure.

@@alwaysxnever Blofeld just got more scenes and more build up, the fucking darkness and style of Raoul was just something else for a Bond villain. But those are two giants in acting for sure. Imo Blofeld got script fucked in the end, such a subpar ending for such a character.

@@RandomAutist nothing about Blofeld ever got better than that scene of him in darkness before revealing himself to Bond. I wish that MGM had the rights to Spectre when Quantum was in production and the writer's strike didn't happen.

I think they really fell off with Specter and No Time To Die. They should‘ve switched the movies so Christoph Waltz is the final villain which would’ve made more sense to me. Malick just didn’t seem like a final villain to me

@@gggallin8279 villain wise I agree, no time to die disappointed me, but ngl I still really enjoyed the film. Thought it was great

@@N_o196 I also enjoyed it and Malick was a cold villain but I didn’t understand the reason why he’s the final villain.

@@gggallin8279 agreed. Its stupid that Malik's villain is the one who caused Bonds death too given how weak and unimposing he seemed as a Villian.

Craig's run I find very bizarre as a long time 007 fan: it includes 2 of the best movies in the franchise with Casino Royale and Skyfall, and 3 of the worst of the series (Quantum of Solace, Spectre, No Time To Die).

Perfect character for a video that can be used to talk about morality just like in the vein of Light

Agreed Clive Shelton is a character who's ideal for this channel to cover.

Underrated how? Skyfall has been regarded as one of the best Daniel Craig Bond movies & lots of people have praised Javier Bardem's performance as Silva

Skyfall made a lot of many and is critically acclaimed. Not underrated whatsoever

Underrated 😂😂😂 idiot

There will be old men

Good choice, good choice Hated they forgot how he was supposed to be this irredeemable monster whose been doing horrific things for possibly over a century by the end, but beyond that an excellent and scary villian

That is a good point...& you really can't tell by looking at her...my complements!

I don't think so. Not entirely. I'm sure there hundreds of pages outlining the risks involved in taking the job of an agent there. All she did was take a calculated risk. (Not like Black Ops agents are treated any better. One tiny mistake and you're dropped, as you never worked there.) Silva did go rogue after all. Doing plenty of questionable things off the books. He almost did himself in. Not too mention he is for sure not the first agent to take a cyanide pill. So his circumstance of him being felt left alone and betrayed isn't rare. Him surviving the pill is ultimately what led to this fiasco.

@@gredangeo Only that had he indeed taken a cyanide pill and survived, he wouldn't be doing what he's doing in the movie. He'd likely have significant health problems.

She have moved on. She is not the same person with Bond as she was for Raoul. I would say that is a part that motivates Raoul: jealousy. He is jealous over M's relationship with 007. That whole trio's dynamic is very Freudian, two brothers fighting for love of their mother. I would say that Silva is trying to kill M to prove her that he was underrated and that he is at least as good as James. That's part of his motivation.

the movie is not about bpnd defending world, it was about M facing reality

💯💯👍. Great villain and performance

Haven't seen the movie but the guy looks super annoying. Please tell me he's the villain.

@@ollikoskiniemi6221 💀

Maybe after his story ends

Yes please do this.

Yessss

Yes LeChiffre!

Same!

“Oops” 🃏

Great villain though not much depth to him

@@haustyl12 Disagree as this video says otherwise as he has ENOUGH depth to be understood and fleshed out.

Alec Treveleyan: Am I a joke to you?

His content is amazing! Especially his stuff on Commodus from Gladiator and John Doe from Se7en

Uh oh, found the woke scold

@@jstos3675 she's right britbong

@@kitosjek9541 ah another wokescold. Also, I'm not British, 😆

@@jstos3675 sir it's not that serious. This isn't reality I know that's hard for you to process because you don't leave your mom's basement, but we are talking about the movie.

@@trinat347 is the one bringing the "British Empire" into a video about a fictional character but is now trying to say "its just a movie", lol.

He’s good at being a bad guy