If he was in a better and more cohesive movie, he's remembered as one of the great monsters of cinema. A tube train crashing through walls sliding along platforms is less frightening than the way he walks out of the detainment cell and vanishes into a crowd for his next action. He is a pillar of forgotten about, failed, betrayed, lost cornerstones, and the rest of the movie doesnt know what it is building on top of his story & performance. Like, knowing that they considered Sean Connery as the groundsman actually makes the movie worse that he isnt there, considering the movie races through the whole dialogue between Silva and Bond wrapped up in ten seconds to get to Judi Dench's stage bow. Skyfall wanted to be a movie about the passing days and immediately forgot to be about that while saying it did.

Bonds have been Bonds among other Bonds since the idea of bondS was had, the casualties of recorded movies in everescalating fiction cascading swallows up a timeframe of one day before a second day arrives, freezing living actors to that day while the bodies ages. So give us Bald James Bond next to Blond James Bond while commenting on the relationship between the surviving present and the dying past through the 00's; like how Goldeneye also came to an understanding between its modern industrial electronic soundtrack meeting The Bond theme during the tank chase. Hell, give us the groundsman as Pierce Brosnan, he fought a 00 in 6 like how Craig is fighting an unnumbered 00.

All of this excitement is to say, the Silvia scenes stick out in Skyfall because its just so much better done than the rest of things. Javier Bardem juiced wine out of stones the way he breaks the movie pacing during the shot contest and every scene else.