How was such a great villain trapped in a mediocre Bond film?

She killed her father to inherit his business and worked with an ex kgb agitator to destroy an oil terminal in turkey, which would force the producers in the region to use her pipeline, which would give her more money than god and allow her to finance the agitator to do whatever he wanted.

She was 33 at this point faggot. So yeah she was hot. She was not so great as a teen, learn to read.

the ultimate simp btw
>nooooooooooooooooooo you killed her, I was about to kill myself for her

Renard was fucking based, even if he was a simp for Electra. He came the closest to actually beating Bond hand to hand

She was a deconstruction of the typical Bond girl and what it means to be the subject of desire and how that can ruin someone. Everyone saw her as a pawn and she used being a hostage and her father/MI6 refusing to help her out as a means to get the only power she could in her position: she slept with the man holding her hostage and played him like a marionette. She does the same thing to Bond. She’s angry at the world for how she was treated and wanted to hurt everyone that made her that way.

She’s actually pretty well written, especially for the Brosnan era, but all that work is undone by the trashy Christmas Jones that seems to fly in the face of whatever statement they were making with Elektra.

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I feel like Tomorrow Never Dies and The World is not Enough made the same mistake in that they introduced the second Bond girl which deflated the story. They both have similar twists, in one the Bond girl dies and in the other the Bond girl is the villian. Introducing a second girl just feels like backpedaling after that.

The World Is Not Enough is better than mediocre, I thought. I think it's better than Tomorrow Never Dies or any of Moore's movies.

One of the most interesting things about the switch with Elektra that is clever is that she actually has the mark that all great Bond villains have: a disfiguring injury. She is missing an earlobe from when Renard had her captured. She covers this with jewelry to hide this, as well as hiding the fact that she is true villain to the audience.

>mediocre
It's top 10 and Brosnan's second best bond movie.

The problem with Tommorrow Never Dies was the first girl literally served no point cause they killed her off in the first half of the movie after Bond banged her, and the other girl had no screen time to really develop as a character other than Chinese girl who knows Kung-Fu. I'd have cut the first girl off entirely and played up the tension between Bond and The Chinese Girl

She's also fucking hot.

In a complete contrast to Christmas, she's more the classic, seductive beauty with depth, whereas Christmas was just big titties in a skimpy outfit.

Either that or kill the first girl later after more development. I'm guessing the idea was to have the Teri Hatcher character be "The One", where there's a deeper connection between her and Bond and her death is meant to be gut-wrenching and give Bond motivation in the final act. My guess is that they didn't want to have a Bond movie end without Bond with a girl so they introduced the Chinese agent and killed Teri Hatcher earlier.

>no MFF sex with Sophie and Denise

The idea was that Hatcher was supposed to be woman Bond got closest to marrying (you know, the 2nd time), but he let his work take him away from her.

Problem was Hatcher was three months pregnant at the time and showed up to the set an hour late one day, so Brosnan flipped out on her and called her unproffessional. They also had to cut the sex scene down to keep her from showing her pregggo belly.

The agitator would also conveniently die soon after her plan came to fruition due to the bullet in his brain so all the loose ends would be taken care of.

The idea of having an old flame come back only to be killed off would have been a good one had they actually brought back an old Bond girl. Have Bond run into Natalya or one of the Dalton girls so that when he finds her dead it really means something and the audience gets as angry as the character. As it is, it just felt like Bond was getting super pissed over some rando.

why does she have different sized ear rings?

>or one of the Dalton girls
I've never thought the inter-era continuity ever worked very well, but I agree that a returning Bond girl would have made it more impactful. I still think it worked well-enough as is. My biggest issue with TND is that Carver is a total cartoon even for Bond standards.

Was there a timeline on how long Renard had left? I figured he'd be alive long enough to see the plan go off, and maybe pork Electra one last time.

I recall one scene where she was lying in bed and guessed she was pissed cause he couldn't get it up.

The one on the left is covering up her missing earlobe that Renard cut off, it's literally explained in the movie...

>Was there a timeline on how long Renard had left?
I'm not sure if they ever mention specifics but the general feeling I got was "not long". I do think that he'd be able to see the plan unfold had Bond not showed up to stop them but he wouldn't have been a continuing liability to Elektra for very long afterward and she knew this.

You fucking blew my mind, user

All I remember was when they introduced him they said the bullet would kill him "eventually" but until he died he'd get stronger everyday as a result, which is why he was able to kick the fuck out of Bond on the sub.

I would guess maybe a year at tops.