Nerding About Raoul Silva

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Hai guyz!! Okay, I was doing some stupid research about...stuff and ended up on the wikipedia page about Raoul Silva and in turn those for hydrogen cyanide and Silva's island. Here's some semi-interesting crap I found out!

- Cassava roots (the stuff tapioca is made of), cherry stones, apple pips and green potatoes all contain quantities of the poison hydrogen cyanide, which Raoul Silva makes famous in Skyfall by presenting the cosmetic damage caused by the lethal and highly acidic poison he attempted and failed to kill himself with. God, he must've eaten a helluva lot of cherries!!
- His abandoned island is an actual place. It's known as The Dead City and is off the coast of Hiroshima. Much like how Silva acquired it, it was a mining island until 1974 when an explosion caused a full-scale evacuation.
- Silva is not actually gay. Nor is he bisexual; an interview with a combination of Sam Mendes and Javier Bardem confirmed that his odd dress sense, platinum blonde locks and intimidating rape face, stripping 007 and thigh-rubbing was their combined idea to give the villain an intimidating air; it wasn't just him being kinky. Bardem also has a theory that Silva's twisted love/hate relationship with his 'Mommy' may have been sexual or romantic at some stage.
- Silva's prior connections with M were in no way parental. He refers to her as 'Mommy' and 'Mother' throughout the movie as a means of intimidation or causing fear; perhaps even to show (in a perfect world for Silva/M-shippers like myself) rekindled sexual desire. She is not his mother, nor did she adopt him (Lotte, if you're reading this; I TOLD YOU SO!!!!!!)
- Silva is possibly the least factually accurate villain in film history. Because;
1. It would take litres of hydrogen cyanide to do that sort of damage to a person's face, though a 12mg suicide implant would have undoubtedly severely damaged his digestive system and would have been excruciatingly painful.
2. If his escape plan took years to map out, how would he know exactly where M would be on that day, where he would be imprisoned and that Q would have to plug his computer into the direct MI6 network, thus opening the gates for a full-scale hack?
3. The removing the cheek prosthesis was a nice touch, but if he was held in the MI6 building, retainers, prostheses and dental bridgework would be removed and disposed of when he was strip-searched (assuming that they had the forethought to do that) as they are potential weapons.
4. On his island; that number of computers would
a) make far too much noise to be heard over
and b) overheat due to there being far too many of them and no fans and spontaneously combust or explode.
5. And how the hell did he survive the cyanide in the first place?

Despite this, he has to be the sexiest Bond villain since Zao :D
Mr Silva, you're welcome at my place any night :) <3 :D ;D
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MigraineSky's avatar
well i can argue with some of the facts about being accurate... not that being inaccurate makes Silva any less appealing :D
1. that one is true
2. he didn't know where M would be, but he could know about the bunker and it took him years to get the police "cooperating" and stuff like that...
3. that one is probably true
4. a) my computer at work had a new cooler recently and i guess i'm breathing louder than it works now :D
b) again with nice coolers overheating is not the problem. the inaccuracy here is more about dust - the server room should have been a sort of clean-room, with dust-free environment...