Skyfall the service. Javier Bardem was cast as the film's principal villain, Raoul Silva, a cyberterrorist who is seeking revenge against those he holds responsible for betraying him. Bardem described Silva as "more than a villain", while Craig stated that Bond has a "very important relationship" to Silva. In casting the role, director Sam Mendes admitted that he lobbied hard for Bardem to accept the part. Mendes saw the potential for the character to be recognised as one of the most memorable characters in the series and wanted to create "something [the audience] may consider to have been absent from the
Motifs in the James Bond film series in the films: the laboratory of Hugo Drax is opened by touchtones that play the tune of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", whilst when Bond and Anya are seen walking across the desert in "The Spy Who Loved Me", the theme from "Lawrence of Arabia" is heard. In most of the films, the main villain often captures Bond and, rather than kill him quickly, attempts a slow and protracted death, from which Bond will always escape. This will often also come with a scene of the villain explaining his master plan to Bond. Goldfinger chained Bond to a nuclear