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| Dr. Evil | |
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| Austin Powers grapheme | |
 Mike Myers as Dr. Evil | |
| Beginning appearance | Austin Powers: International Homo of Mystery (1997) |
| Concluding appearance | Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) |
| Created by | Mike Myers |
| Based on | Ernst Stavro Blofeld |
| Portrayed by | Mike Myers Josh Zuckerman (young) |
| In-universe data | |
| Full name | Douglas Powers |
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| Meaning other | Frau Farbissina |
Douglas "Dougie" Powers, known primarily as Dr. Evil, is a fictional character portrayed by Mike Myers in the Austin Powers film series. He is the main antagonist and Austin Powers' nemesis. He is a parody of James Bond villains, primarily Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Dr. Evil routinely hatches schemes to terrorize and have over the world, and is usually accompanied by "Number 2", a goon who fronts his evil corporation Virtucon Industries, his cat Mr. Bigglesworth and his sidekick Mini-Me, a dwarf clone of himself.
American costume maker Phillip Morris had also created a long-running character named Dr. Evil in 1959. Later an eight-yr legal battle, New Line Cinema paid him a settlement in response to a trademark dispute.[1]
Fictional background [edit]
Co-ordinate to his own business relationship in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, delivered in a grouping therapy session with his estranged son Scott, Dr. Evil's upbringing went as follows:
The details of my life are quite inconsequential.... My male parent was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My female parent was a 15-year-onetime French prostitute named Chloé with webbed feet. My begetter would womanize; he would potable; he would make outrageous claims similar he invented the question mark. Sometimes, he would accuse chestnuts of existence lazy, the sort of general angst that only the genius possess and the insane complaining.[2] [3]
In the second film, he went on the Jerry Springer show and declared that he had once fabricated a "marzipan voodoo effigy of the Fonz while in a blackout after smoking some Bolivian prayer hash at Sammy Davis Jr.'southward house", and that he'southward the "Princess of Canada".
In the third Austin Powers film, Goldmember, Nigel Powers reveals that Dr. Evil is in fact Austin Powers' twin blood brother, Douglas "Dougie" Powers. He explains that Douglas and Austin were separated as babies following a motorcar explosion, and that he had thought that only Austin had survived. Post-obit the explosion, Dougie was raised past Belgians in Bruges, situated in the Flemish region of Belgium just he claims to not know how to speak "freaky-deeky Dutch".
He also attended and graduated from the British Intelligence Academy with Austin (along with Basil Exposition and Number 2), and is angered that Austin won the "International Human of Mystery" award, while he, the academy'south best student, was overlooked.
In the first pic, Dr. Evil is an internationally known criminal genius, cryogenically frozen in 1967 and reawakened in 1997. Like Austin Powers, he faces challenges in acclimating to the new period. He often places his little finger near his mouth, specially when excited or to emphasize a statement. The gesture seems to take been borrowed from Dr. Male monarch, a graphic symbol in "Number 12 Looks Merely Like Yous," an episode of The Twilight Zone. Dr. Evil occasionally uses unnecessary air quotes around at present-familiar technical terms such equally "laser".
The scar on his face is a reference to similar scars on early 20th century motion-picture show villains, such as several portrayed by Erich von Stroheim (likewise every bit a homage to Donald Pleasence every bit Blofeld in You Only Live Twice). This type of scar is usually a remnant of Mensur fencing, an activity in which European student groups participate. Clearly a parody of a James Bond villain, Dr. Evil dislikes the honorific "Mr." when applied to himself, and says: "I didn't spend 6 years in evil medical school to be called 'Mister'!"
Dr. Evil also wears vesture with a strong resemblance to Julius No, played by Joseph Wiseman, from the film Dr. No, specifically grey Nehru jacket jumpsuits and similar anti-radiation suits. Some aspects, including some of his quotes and his henchman Random Task, parody elements from Goldfinger. While Dr. Evil is primarily a send-up of the 1960s Sean Connery-era Bail villains, the 1970s Roger Moore era also gets skewered: the interior of Dr. Evil's space station in The Spy Who Shagged Me resembles Hugo Drax's infinite station from Moonraker, and the picture show's title spoofs The Spy Who Loved Me.
Entourage [edit]
Dr. Evil employs a various and highly stereotypical group of minions.
Frau Farbissina [edit]
Possibly closest to Dr. Evil is his personal banana Frau Farbissina (played by Mindy Sterling) who is the founder of the militant wing of The Salvation Army. ("Farbissina" is Yiddish for "embittered".) In the second film, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, after imbibing some of Austin Powers' mojo, Dr. Evil becomes temporarily irresistible to Frau Farbissina, who is portrayed every bit a lesbian. In Goldmember, Farbissina and Dr. Evil kiss while he is in prison house; the purpose was to transfer a primal to Evil so that he could escape. She is a parody of the characters Rosa Klebb in the James Bond flick From Russia with Love and Irma Bunt from On Her Majesty'due south Hush-hush Service, and does not appear to age over time, which was used for comedic upshot in the film.
Scott Evil [edit]
Dr. Evil has a strained relationship with his son Scott (played past Seth Green), even liquidating their therapy group over an accusation of insolence. Scott points out Dr. Evil's incompetence and immaturity, equally well every bit obvious mistakes and flaws in his plans. Scott later grows more "evil" and momentarily gains his father'south respect, peculiarly after Scott provides him a puddle filled with sharks with lasers on their heads. When Dr. Evil switches sides to help Austin salve the world, Scott takes over as the head of the evil organization.
Number 2 [edit]
Number Two (played by Robert Wagner, while the young Number Two is portrayed by Rob Lowe) leads Dr. Evil's industrial empire Virtucon and is primarily concerned with the financial aspects of world domination. In successive films, his schemes and ventures garner massive profits for Virtucon without straying very far into illegality. Dr. Evil claims that Number Two's strategies in bringing in legitimately-obtained income insult the "ideals" of an evil empire. Number Two is a parody of Emilio Largo from the James Bond moving picture Thunderball, second-in-command of the SPECTRE terrorist system.
Mr. Bigglesworth [edit]
| Mr. Bigglesworth | |
|---|---|
 Mr. Bigglesworth in International Human being of Mystery |
Mr. Bigglesworth is a fictional cat belonging to Dr. Evil. He was originally like to Blofeld's cat, a typical white Persian cat from the James Bond picture series. Having escaped with Dr. Evil in a cryonic sheathing, he lost all his fur due to an error in the thawing process. Mr. Bigglesworth has afterward become bald, played by a Sphynx cat, whilst Dr. Evil's miniature clone, Mini-Me, has a kitten named Mini Mr. Bigglesworth.[4]
In the 3rd installment of the franchise, Mr. Bigglesworth is only seen once.[5]
Fatty Bastard [edit]
Fat Bounder (as well Mike Myers) is a morbidly obese henchman hailing from Scotland, said to counterbalance a metric ton. His extreme size endows Fatty Bastard with super-human strength, as exhibited by his prowess in the Sumo ring from Goldmember. Fat Bastard is noted for his foul temper, frequent flatulence, vulgar manners, and cannibalism. Fat Bastard reappears at the end of Austin Powers in Goldmember, having lost most of his girth, challenge he lost "180 lbs" and attributing the loss to the "Subway diet".
Random Task [edit]
Dr. Evil's handyman extraordinaire is Random Job, an ex-wrestler whose personality and assassination style parody those of Oddjob from Goldfinger, except that he throws his shoe instead of his hat. His names themselves are synonyms of 'odd' and 'chore'. Task repetitively cracks his neck and it is oft his chore to move dead bodies away silently and to move Dr. Evil's chair.
Paddy O'Brien [edit]
Paddy O'Brien is an ex-assassin who is extremely superstitious, leaving a emblem from his proficient-luck amuse bracelet on the body of every victim he kills. Evidently Scotland G has been trying to recover that bracelet for some fourth dimension. O'Brien attempts to assassinate Austin by choking him with his bracelet in the bathroom stall, but Austin drowns him in a parody of a scene in the Woody Allen motion picture "What's Upwards Tiger Lily." He is a parody of Donald "Red" Grant from the 007 film "From Russia With Love."[ citation needed ]
Mustafa [edit]
Mustafa (played by Will Ferrell), another banana, designs the cryogenic freezing procedure that preserves Dr. Evil for 30 years. In 1969, two years later the early Dr. Evil was frozen, Mustafa is defenseless past the early Austin Powers, who had followed '90s Dr. Evil through time, and is forced to answer questions on the location of Dr. Evil's hideout. He feels compelled to respond any question that is posed to him iii times. Silenced by Mini-Me before he can reveal his boss's location, he falls down a cliff but survives. Later, he ensures that Dr. Evil is thawed out, and survives several attempts to kill him.
Mini-Me [edit]
The second pic introduces Dr. Evil'due south clone Mini-Me (played by Verne Troyer) who is "one-8th his size just twice equally evil." Dr. Evil considers him more of a real son than Scott, provoking the latter'due south jealousy. Mini-Me later joins Austin to become a miniature version of him. Every bit revealed past Myers in the audio commentary for the 2nd film, Mini-Me is a parody of the character Majai, from the picture show The Island of Dr. Moreau, equally played by Nelson de la Rosa, whose sole purpose in that film is to follow Marlon Brando'southward Dr. Moreau character and re-create his every move, dressing identically to Brando. Majai never speaks in the film, and similarly, Mini-Me does non speak either. Mini-Me is also a parody of the miniature butler Nick Nack from The Man with the Golden Gun.
Other administration [edit]
In the opening few minutes of the first flick, Dr. Evil has 4 assembly, namely Jurgen (a doctor), Generalissimo (a dictator), Rita (a meter maid), and Don Luigi (a mob boss with a claw for a hand, with a cigar speared on it), all executed because of their failure to kill Austin Powers. In The Spy Who Shagged Me, Vanessa Kensington (Elizabeth Hurley) turns out to be one of Dr. Evil's female person robots, sent by him as a wedding gift for Austin.
Secret lairs [edit]
The Space Needle in Seattle
Parodying the many Bail villains, Dr. Evil inhabits a sequence of elaborate lairs.
In Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery, Dr. Evil's start lair is secret in the Nevada desert, "somewhere outside Las Vegas"; which are obvious homages to You lot Only Live Twice and Diamonds Are Forever. It was destroyed when Dr. Evil set information technology to self-destruct.
In Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me Dr. Evil'southward lair is atop the Space Needle in Seattle, portrayed every bit the Starbucks headquarters; later, information technology is in a Caribbean area island volcano with Dr. Evil'due south face carved into it (a homage to both You lot Only Live Twice and Live and Let Die), and and then on the moon (the picture's final villainous homage, to Moonraker). The moon base was destroyed when Dr. Evil set it to self-destruct.
For the 3rd picture, Austin Powers In Goldmember, Dr. Evil has a new lair behind the famous Hollywood Sign and a submarine lair, shaped similar himself (a homage to Karl Stromberg'due south Liparus tanker in The Spy Who Loved Me).
Schemes [edit]
Dr. Evil's projects for world domination are often named afterwards post-1960s pop civilization trademarks (Death Star, The Alan Parsons Project, Preparation H), and he is ofttimes unaware of the accidental pun due to having been frozen for 30 years. For instance, when Dr. Evil says he will turn the moon into a "Death Star" (said with finger quotes), Scott laughs and calls him "Darth".
Some of his threats are exaggerated, as when he makes his threat of causing all the earth'southward volcanoes to erupt at once but only displays his machinery, something of an homage to Thunderball. When he makes the threat of "Death Star", he "demonstrates" the ability of his laser past showing the President and the cabinet footage of the White House being destroyed, before admitting information technology was only footage from the flick Independence Day. "The real laser would exist a lot similar that", he lamely concludes.
Dr. Evil seems to have a problem in general with understanding money, especially regarding inflation, variously threatening to hold the world ransom for $1 one thousand thousand and $100 billion, provoking laughter at the suggested sum existence perceived as being either trivial or unrealistically large. Other idiotic schemes include a threat to destroy the ozone layer and make a scandal of Prince Charles' marriage, unaware that these were already bug that allowable popular attention. He expresses disappointment when endangered-species legislation prevents him from getting light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation-beam-equipped sharks but finally settles on mutated ocean bass. As with Auric Goldfinger, he creates models of his plans, worried that they are as well complicated for his minions to sympathise. He also cares nothing for the companies (Virtucon, Starbucks, Hollywood Talent Agency) that fund his plans, ignoring all suggestions from Number Two on how to increase the profit of such companies.
In television [edit]
Myers later revived the Dr. Evil character for a cursory advent on the Dec 20, 2014 episode of Saturday Nighttime Live, a show on which Myers had previously had a regular role. During the sketch, Dr. Evil lampooned Democratic people's republic of korea[6] and Sony Pictures on their spat over The Interview.[7] Myers once more revived the character for a brief appearance on a 2018 episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in a sketch where Dr. Evil has been fired from President Trump'south cabinet, and again on Election Day to announce his run for Congress.
Myers recently played Dr. Evil for a Super Bowl LVI commercial, for Full general Motors. Seth Green, Rob Lowe, and Mindy Sterling likewise reprised their roles as Scott Evil, Number Two, and Frau Farbissina. [8] In the commercial, Dr. Evil along with his henchmen take over Full general Motors, merely his henchmen tell him that climatic change is the biggest threat of the planet, making Dr. Evil the second threat on the planet. So, Evil decides he and his henchmen will save the planet, with the lineup of the company'southward electrical vehicles. Scott Evil too informs his father he has a grandson named Kyle (just Dr. Evil names him Babe Me.) [9] [x]
Some of Dr. Evil'south facial and song expressions are allegedly patterned after Lorne Michaels, producer of tv set'south Saturday Nighttime Alive, where Myers worked for a number of years. Most notably, Dr. Evil's argument "throw me a frickin' os here" was supposedly uttered frequently by Michaels at script meetings for SNL. Like Dr. Evil, Myers occasionally affects an Ontario accent, reflecting his (and Michaels's) upbringing.
References [edit]
- ^ Henderson, Bruce (September 25, 2017). "A showman to the cease, his gorilla suits launched a costume empire". The Charlotte Observer . Retrieved February 27, 2022.
- ^ "The details of my life are quite inconsequential"
- ^ Wright, Enda (2008-04-eleven). Austin Powers Doc Evil Talks About Himself. Archived from the original on 2021-12-15. Retrieved 2019-06-18 .
- ^ Martens, Todd (28 March 2015). "Spectre trailer reinvents a famous Bond rival". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved vii Nov 2015.
- ^ "Austin Powers in Goldmember". ahafilm.info. Archived from the original on xviii August 2002. Retrieved February 27, 2022.
- ^ Lemkin, Rob (July xx, 2003). "The Existent Dr Evil". BBC News . Retrieved February 27, 2022.
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- ^ McRady, Rachel (Dec 21, 2014). "Mike Myers Played Dr. Evil on Sabbatum Nighttime Alive to Talk About the Sony Hack". Usa Weekly . Retrieved February 27, 2022.
- ^ Johncox, Cassidy (February 10, 2022). "Dr. Evil teams upward with 'Austin Powers' cast for GM Super Basin ad". WDIV. Detroit. Retrieved February 27, 2022.
- ^ Falcone, Dana Rose (February 10, 2022). "Mike Myers Brings Dorsum Dr. Evil and Reunites with Rob Lowe and Seth Green in New GM Super Bowl Advertizement". People magazine . Retrieved February 27, 2022.
- ^ Hsu, Ben (February 10, 2022). "GM Super Bowl spot touts EV lineup with Dr. Evil". Autoblog. Retrieved February 27, 2022.
External links [edit]
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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Evil
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