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Oddjob (lenoj)

Goldfinger film (1964)
created by author Ian Fleming (1959)

Oddjob is a henchman to the villain Auric Goldfinger.

In the novel Oddjob, so named by Goldfinger, is Korean-born, and, is extremely strong, proven in one sequence where he breaks the railing of a staircase with his hand and the mantel of a fireplace with his foot. An expert at karate, Oddjob is also expert with a bow and arrow, and with his metal bowler hat. He is a ruthless killer, but also acts as Goldfinger's personal guard, driver, and manservant (though not his golf caddy). He has a taste for cats as food, apparently acquired in Korea when food was in short supply (Bond frames Goldfinger's yellow cat for destruction of surveillance film, and as punishment, sees the cat given to Oddjob for dinner). He is killed when Bond uses a knife to shatter the window next to his seat on an airplane, which depressurises the plane and sucks Oddjob out of the window.

In the film Oddjob acts as Goldfinger's personal chauffeur, bodyguard and golf caddy in the film. He is extremely strong and durable, demonstrating his strength in a number of scenes including one where he crushes a golf ball with one hand and other in which he is struck with a gold brick in the chest, scarcely flinching, but never mentioned to be a karate expert. He wears what appears to be a bowler lined with a metal razor disk in the rim, using it as a lethal flying disc of sorts (this is a bowler hat in the novel, and as such, would have had a round top). Physically, Oddjob is practically invincible to Bond's hand-to-hand combat tactics, even when Bond uses a wooden object as a club. The only time Oddjob shows anything resembling fear or wariness in the film is when Bond attempts to use his own hat against him. Bond misses him with the throw, causing his hat to get stuck between the metal bars in the Fort Knox vault. Oddjob is then outmaneuvered when, as he reaches to retrieve his hat, Bond uses a severed live electrical cable to electrify the bars, causing a lethal current to run from the bars through the metal hat to Oddjob, killing him.

SUMMARY

ARCH RIVAL :	James Bond.
STRENGTHS :	As a martial arts expert, Oddjob is superior in unarmed combat skills to Bond, and therefore is finally killed by electrocution which is a blend of pure good luck and personal cunning on Bond's part. He is very tough and proves this many times, by breaking objects around him, using super human strength.
WEAKNESSES :	Oddjob happens to be scared of his own hat! - and also has a strange appetite for felines!.
WEAPONS :	Guns and he wears what appears to be a bowler lined with a metal razor disk in the rim, using it as a lethal flying disc of sorts (this is a bowler hat in the novel, and as such, would have had a round top).
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