Name: Hai Fat (Loo, Richard)

Plot:
Fat seeks to dominate the enrgy market by controlling industiral solar power.

Background:
Wealthy and powerful east asian industrialist who finances the theft of the Solex for his own purposes.

Employer:
Self Employed.

How Killed:
Shot by Scaramanga.

Comments:
Hai Fat is only nominally a villain -- while he orders Bond killed, his plot seems to be simple industrial espionage. The main problems with his character seem to revolve around his stubbornness and stupidity. Fat orderes 007 killed, but for some reason is too squeamish to kill him on his own proerty. Instead, Hai-Fat has Bond taken to his school of elite martial arts masters...masters who can be defeated by two schoolgirls. His second failure leads to his undoing: he trusts a famously ruthless assasin with his life. Hai-Fat serves his puprose in advancing the plot; unfortunately, he only comes off as a weak copy of Osato.

Verdict:
2.0/4.0

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Name: Scaramanga, Francisco (Lee, Christopher)

Plot:
To make a killing on the solar energy market, to mirror his successes as an assassin.

Background:
Scaramanga was the son of a Cuban ringmaster and an English circus performer. He became an excellent trick shot in his youth. Later, he was picked up in Rio by the KGB. They trained him to be an 'underpaid, overworked' assassin. In the 50's, he went solo and has since become the top in his field. Current price, $1 Million per hit.

Employer:
Self employed, although he does a favor for his landlords from time to time. He is nominally a junior partner to Hai-Fat during the first half of the film.

How Killed:


Comments:
Christopher Lee is an excellent opponent for Moore. Originally called upon to play Dr. No, he does an excellent job as the best shot in the world (Bond is a better survivor, but not a better shot).

Scaramanga is a rare villain, thanks largely to the complex emotions we see in him and the volume of back story revealed. He doesn't get angry for no reason and he repeatedly attempts to avoid fighting Bond, who he respects deeply. Lee's touching dinner repartee almost makes us pity Scaramanga, although not quite enough to root for him. This scene, along with his tolerance of Nick Nack contrasts interestingly with his emotionless execution of Andrea.

His cool but open demeanor makes the build up to the final battle all the more tense -- a good shot with no back story could never have compared.

Verdict:
3.5/4.0

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Name: Nick Nack (Villechaize, Herv)

Plot:
Assists Scaramanga in his villainous ways, but periodically attempts to bring about his demise.

Background:
Scaramanga's midget butler, Nick Nack wants scaramanga dead so he can inherit Scaramanga's fortune and island hideaway.

Employer:
Scaramanga

How Killed:
He survives, assuming that he didn't run out of air in that suitcase.

Comments:
Nick Nack is one of the most memorable henchmen of the series, thanks in part to the extremely entertaining performance of Villechaize and partly thanks to the character's insidious loyalties.

Nick Nack is the only henchman thus far of vacillating loyalty and it benefits him greatly. Unfortunately, his desire to kill Scaramanga is a bit too much of a game. He never seriously helps Scaramanga's opponents in the film's contests of skill. Indeed, he seems to mostly be indifferent. Such actions could be forgiven as fear of failure in the opening battle, but in the final fight, Nick Nack knows that Moore is his best hope.

Nick Nack's final attack on Bond is characteristic -- he never seems to act completely rationally, simply as an agent of the plot. The fight is formulaic and present purely for the now stock 'final henchman fight' that has been going on since Diamonds. Nick Nack is understandably mad, but his anger should have been directed at Goodnight, who is actually responsible for the destruction of Scaramanga Island.

Verdict:
3.0/4.0

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Name: Kra (Caldinez, Sonny)

Plot:
Scaramanga's maintenance goon.

Background:
Had a body temperature above 0? Kelvin

Employer:
Scaramanga.

How Killed:
Fell into liquid helium, he met an even colder end than Boris.

Comments:
No comment.

Verdict:
N/A /4.0

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