Elliot Carver
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| James Bond Character | |
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| Elliot Carver | |
| Gender | Male |
| Age | Late 40s |
| Status | Killed |
| Behind the scenes | |
| Portrayed By | Jonathan Pryce |
Elliot Carver is a fictional character and villain from the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies. In the film he is played by Jonathan Pryce.
Carver planned to start a war between the British and China so that his television network, the Carver Media Group Network could gain higher ratings as well as secure exclusive broadcasting rights in China for the forseeable future.
After learning his wife, Paris Carver, helped Bond in recovering a GPS encoder used to send ships off course, he had her killed.
Carver runs his operations on a stealth boat that can move undetected by radar. Bond and Chinese People's External Security Force agent Wai Lin infiltrate his boat and learn he's going to fire a missile at China so as to start a war. Bond kills Carver by allowing a sea drill to crush him. The drill was previously used in the film as a torpedo-like drill that sank the HMS Devonshire.
Carver is unique in the fact that he is probably the first main Bond villain that the audience know who was positively married. Previous Bond foes appeared to be single, and never even a hint of divorce or widowhood. He is the third villain to attempt to start a World War, the first being Ernst Stavro Blofeld and the second being Karl Stromberg
Carver is based largely on two real-life media moguls, Rupert Murdoch, who owns News Corporation, and Microsoft founder Bill Gates. A clever jab at Gates and Microsoft is made early in the film, when Carver inquires about his new computer software:
Tech: As you requested, it's full of bugs, meaning that people will have to upgrade for years.
Carver: Outstanding.
He is also based, in part, on deceased British media magnate Robert Maxwell, who died in mysterious circumstances on his luxury yacht and who is believed to have committed suicide (though some believe he may have been assassinated). In the movie, M's cover story for Carver's death is strikingly similar! Carver, in announcing his hypocritical 'Declaration of Principles' on the abortive inaugural broadcast of his news network, is also reminiscent of fictional newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane, who in turn was based on real tycoon William Randolph Hearst, whom Carver paraphrases to Bond on his stealth ship.
[edit] Henchmen
- Mr. Stamper
- Henry Gupta
- Dr. Kaufman
