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Jaws
Jaws is a fictional assassin in the James Bond films The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker (plus some later videogames). Jaws' nickname is due to his strong, stainless steel teeth that can bite through virtually anything; he uses them to kill victims by biting through their jugular. Until the character of Mr. White was introduced in Casino Royale (2006), returning in Quantum of Solace (2008), he was notable for being the only villainous henchman character in the James Bond movies to appear twice in succession.
The character was played by actor Richard Kiel. During filming, Kiel wore the metal teeth for only a few minutes at a time because they pushed his tongue further back in his mouth, causing him to gag.
Appearances
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Jaws first appeared in the 1977 film The Spy Who Loved Me as a henchman to the villain, Karl Stromberg. He would later appear in the sequel Moonraker as a henchman to the villain Hugo Drax. However, in this second appearance, his character was changed from that of a ruthless and unstoppable killing machine to more of a comedy figure. He eventually turns against Drax and helps Bond to defeat him, and also gains a girlfriend named Dolly who never speaks (although she is seen whispering to Jaws in one scene).
In addition to having steel teeth, Jaws was also 7 feet, 2 inches (2.18 m) tall and extremely strong, which forced Bond to be especially inventive while fighting him. In combat, Bond found himself caught in an unbreakable death grip by Jaws, who was about to fatally bite him; Bond only escaped by using a broken electric lamp to send an electric shock through the assassin's teeth to stun him.
Jaws also has an uncanny ability to survive any misfortune seemingly unscathed and come back to challenge Bond again. In The Spy Who Loved Me, Jaws survives an Egyptian structure's collapse on top of him, being hit by a van, being thrown from a rapidly-moving train, sitting in the passenger seat of a car which drives off a cliff (landing in a hut below, to the owner's dismay), a battle underwater with a shark, and the destruction of Stromberg's lair.
Most notably, in Moonraker he survives falling several thousand feet after accidentally disabling his own parachute (granted, he falls through a circus tent and lands in the trapeze net), a crash through a building inside a runaway cable car, and going over Iguazu Falls. After each of these incidents, he always picks himself up, dusts off his jacket and nonchalantly walks away. (Although it was in the aftermath of the cable car incident that he meets his girlfriend, who eventually persuades him to turn good and help Bond stop Drax.) After the destruction of Drax's space station, a throw-away line near the end is made that the American shuttle rescued him and his girlfriend.
Jaws only speaks once, in Moonraker, when he makes a toast to his girlfriend, "Well, here's to us".
Elsewhere in popular culture
- A year before The Spy Who Loved Me, Kiel played essentially the same character but of a different name (Reace), in the film "Silver Streak".
- Jaws was spoofed in the 1977 Mel Brooks film, High Anxiety, which featured a psychopathic killer named "Braces", who wore large metal braces on his teeth for a reason that was never explained.
- He also makes a cameo in the animated series Jackie Chan Adventures (episode Tough Break), where he auditions as a possible henchman for Finn and loses his steel teeth after biting into a board.
- Jaws appeared in the 1990s animated spin-off James Bond Jr. as a member of the SCUM organization and partner-in-crime of fellow henchman Nick Nack.
- In the final credits sequence of the Inspector Gadget movie, Dr. Claw's assistant is shown attending a "Henchman's Anonymous" meetings. Nick Nack is one of the participants (along with Oddjob and Richard Kiel, who is billed in the credits as 'Famous Big Guy with Metal Teeth'}
- Get Smart, which is both a parody and an homage to the James Bond film series, has a character named Dalip, who looks like Jaws and does his Moonraker stunt of falling from the sky without a parachute and surviving. He also turns towards good side in the end.
- Mythbusters tested the the plausibility of Jaws biting through the steel cable car wire. This was busted, however, to make it work, Jamie Hyneman took huge metal pincers and went as "Claws", who, as the announcer said, was "worse than Oddjob, stronger than Jaws, taller than Nick Nack, and creepier than Tee Hee." With the metal pincers, he gets through the cord easily.
Games
Jaws' principal videogame appearances are in the 1997 Nintendo 64 game GoldenEye 007 in a bonus mission in which he is a henchman to the deceased Hugo Drax who Bond needs to defeat, and a playable character in the multi-player mode, and the multi-platform 2004 game Everything or Nothing as a henchman to Nikolai Diavolo (voiced by Willem Dafoe). Both games use Richard Kiel's likeness. His likeness can also be found as the character Chuck Ferdon in the 2006 game Rugby by Electronic Arts.
In the game Everything Or Nothing, Jaws is electrocuted and is inside a tanker that is knocked over the side of a bridge. In another instance during a fight on a large lift in which Jaws is equipped with a flamethrower, Bond shoots the flamethrower backpack which ignites Jaws. Bond then climbs into the cockpit of a plane and ejects his seat as the lift plummets to the ground. When Bond later lands on the remains at the bottom, Jaws is nowhere to be found, so this concludes that he has escaped unharmed again.
In a multiplayer arena in the same game, Jaws wanders around looking for players to hurt. He can't be hurt himself, and any players that try to hurt him will be killed almost immediately by him.
Jaws is an unlockable multiplayer character in the game Nightfire. He is the tallest character in the game, and his punches can kill almost instantly. The character model's teeth are visible at close range.
Jaws appears briefly in the Sega Megadrive/Genesis game James Bond The Duel. He wanders briefly around a section toward the end of the first stage and defeats the player with one touch.
Jaws also appears in the Game Boy game James Bond 007 as a boss. Bond must lead him to magnetized pads that will temporarily hold him in place, allowing time for Bond to attack him.
Films compared with novelisations
Most of the background information on Jaws comes from Christopher Wood's novelisation of the film The Spy Who Loved Me; published as James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me to differentiate from Ian Fleming's novel. In Wood's version, Jaws's real name is Zbigniew Krycsiwiki and he was born in Kraków, Poland. After a failed attempt at becoming a basketball player (despite his astonishing height) Krycsiwiki was arrested by the secret police for having taken part in the (fictitious) "1972 bread riots". Whilst he was imprisoned the police "beat him with hollow steel clubs encased in thick leather" until they thought he was dead, leaving his jaw broken beyond repair. Krycsiwiki later escaped and stowed aboard one of Stromberg's vessels. Eventually he was caught, but instead of turning him in, Stromberg hired a prestigious doctor to create an artificial jaw. After 14 operations Krycsiwiki's jaw was restored using steel components that created two rows of terrifying razor-sharp teeth, although Jaws was left mute.
Since none of the above is actually mentioned in either movie, this is not necessarily considered canonical, and Wood contradicts his own continuity when one compares his scripts and his novelisations. In the novelisation of The Spy Who Loved Me Wood specifically states that Jaws is a mute. However, though Jaws remains mute in Wood's James Bond and Moonraker novelisation, he actually does speak at the end of the film.
In the book, Jaws remains attached to the magnet that Bond dips into the tank, as opposed to the film where Bond releases Jaws from the magnet into the water:
- Now both hands were tearing at the magnet, and Jaws twisted furiously like a fish on the hook. As Bond watched in fascinated horror, a relentless triangle streaked up behind the stricken giant. A huge gray force launched itself through the wild water, and two rows of white teeth closed around the threshing flesh.[1]
The initial script concluded with Jaws being killed by the shark, but after a rough test screening (where Lewis Gilbert's grandson was present), Jaws was so well liked that the scene was changed to have him survive.
Production
The character was inspired by Fleming's description of a hoodlum named Horror in his novel The Spy Who Loved Me. When Horror speaks, he reveals steel-capped teeth.
When Jaws was to bite through an object a normal human can't bite through - for example, cable car wire - film makers used licorice. Still, it was hard for Richard Kiel to bite it because of how painful the metal teeth were.
In reality, no matter how sharp the metal teeth, a human being would not be able to apply the necessary pressure using their jaw muscles to cut a several-inch thick metal cable. This was proved on a special episode of Mythbuster dedicated to "Bond Myths".
References
- ^ Wood, Christopher (1977). James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me, Glidrose Publications. ISBN 0-446-84544-2.
Sandor
Sandor is a fictional character in the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, played by actor Milton Reid. Sandor, a stereotypical stocky bald thug attempts to kill Bond in Egypt under the orders of Stromberg; he finds Bond before Jaws does and ambushes him in a bath after he was lured there by Felicca, a Stromberg agent, but misses his shot and kills her instead of Bond. Bond then pursues him over the rooftops and after a brief fistfight Sandor starts to fall over the edge of the building. Sandor grabs Bond by his tie at the last second to try to hold on. Bond demands information; right after Sandor divulges what he knows, Bond lets him fall to his death.
Last Words:
Bond: "Where's Fekkesh?"
Sandor: "Pyramids!"
Bond lets Sandor fall to his death
Bond: "What a helpful chap."
Log Cabin Girl
Log Cabin Girl is a fictional character in the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, played by actress Sue Vanner. She appears in the intro to the film making love with Bond overnight in the cosy log cabin high in the mountains. However after he leaves it appears she is an enemy and contacts her cohorts to pursue Bond as he leaves on skis.
Felicca
Felicca is a fictional character in the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, played by actress Olga Bisera. When Bond arrived in Cairo, Egypt to contact Aziz Frekkesh in regard to the microfilm of the submarine tracking system developed by Stromberg, he found the man missing. Instead, he found Felicca, who coyly said that Frekkesh will be "a little late". As Felicca distracts Bond, Sandor, hiding from a behind an overlooking window, poised to aim to shoot Bond. Felicca meets her demise when Sandor misses his mark and the bullet strikes her instead of Bond in a manner reminiscent of Thunderball.
Naomi
Naomi is a fictional character in the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, played by actress Caroline Munro.
Biography
Naomi is Karl Stromberg's personal helicopter pilot/assistant. She is first seen in the film escorting Professor Beckman and Dr. Markovitz in to see Stromberg and then exits. She is then not seen again until much later in the film.
When we next see Naomi, she is escorting Bond and Amasova, who are posing as a marine biologist and his wife, on a boat to Atlantis to meet Stromberg. Bond flirts with Naomi, enraging Amasova. While Bond has his meeting with Stromberg, Naomi entertains Amasova, showing her around the base.
After Bond and Amasova leave their meeting with Mr. Stromberg, he is seen talking to Jaws about letting them get ashore and then kill them. Indeed while driving along Sardinia's coastal roads several attempts are made to kill Bond and Amasova. There is a failed attempt by the motorcycle assassin, followed by Jaws and his henchmen trying to machine gun them from another car. After Jaws' car runs off the road, a helicopter appears, chasing the car. As the helicopter comes from behind the cliff, it tries to gun down Bond's Lotus Esprit. It then flies alongside the car, and Bond is shocked to see Naomi piloting it. Bond nods at her, and Naomi responds with a sultry wink and opens fire again.
Naomi chases Bond all over the highways of Sardinia until he comes to a pier which he immediately drives off into the water. Naomi hovers overhead, believing she's won. Unbeknownst to her, however, the Lotus is a submersible, and so she can't see it when she's trying to look into the sea.
Bond then arms a surface-to-air missile and blows Naomi out of the sky. She was the first woman to ever be undeniably killed by James Bond. (There is debate over whether Bond actually kills the character of Fiona Volpe in Thunderball or whether it is accidental; the film leaves this ambiguous.)
Sergei Borzov
Sergei Borzov is portrayed by Michael Billington.
A sniper and assassin for the KGB, Borzov, at a signal from the girl in the cabin, leads a group of men skiing down the slopes to catch up with James. When he gets close, James aims and fires a ski-pole into his chest, killing him.
Later, it is discovered that Borzov is Anya Amasova's boyfriend, and that she has sworn to avenge his death by killing James.
Aziz Fekkesh
Aziz Fekkesh is portrayed by Nadim Sawalha.
Fekkesh is an Egyptian businessman and part of the ring smuggling the submarine tracking device that Karl Stromberg desires. Bond, hoping to intercept it, is ambushed by Sandor at Fekkesh's apartment. Getting the information out of Sandor that Fekkesh is at a show at the Pyramids of Giza, Bond follows him there, but Fekkesh is killed by Jaws, though not before Fekkesh passes the device on to the next link in the chain, Max Kalba.
Searching for information, Bond opts to follow Fekkesh's trail and meet with Kalba at his nightclub.
Max Kalba
Max Kalba is portrayed by Vernon Dobtcheff.
Kalba is a nightclub owner in Egypt and another link in the chain smuggling the submarine tracking device. After he receives the device from Aziz Fekkesh and Fekkesh is killed, Bond takes Fekkesh's place to meet with Kalba.
During the meeting, Kalba is distracted by a phone call, and when he goes to take it, he is met by Jaws, who crushes Kalba's trachea with his metal teeth and steals the device from him.
Dr. Bechmann
Affiliation Karl Stromberg. Dr. Bechmann is portrayed by Cyril Shaps.
Bechmann is a renowned scientist who is working for Karl Stromberg. He designs the submarine-tracking microfilm along with his colleague, Professor Markovitz. When the microfilm is complete, Stromberg decides that instead of paying them they have outlived their usefulness and has their helicopter blown up.
Professor Markovitz
Affiliation Karl Stromberg Professor Markovitz is portrayed by Milo Sperber.
Markovitz is a renowned scientist who is working for Karl Stromberg. He designs the submarine-tracking microfilm along with his colleague, Dr. Bechmann. When the microfilm is complete, Stromberg decides that they have outlived their usefulness and has their helicopter blown up. A secretary who attempts to steal the microfilm is also killed by being dropped into a shark tank.
Liparus Captain
The Liparus Captain is played by Sydney Tafler
The Liparus Captain is the captain of the Liparus which is owned by Stromberg. He isn't seen until late in the film carrying out various duties and operations in the control centre of The Liparus, the captain ultimately answers to Karl Stromberg.
Regrettably reporting to Stromberg when the other submarine crews escape, the captain gives the order to seal off the control centre telling Stromberg no other mishaps will happen. The Liparus captain is killed however when Bond detonates the bomb placed against the wall of the control centre, only telling Bond he is too late to stop Stromberg’s plan.
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