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Yaphet Kotto playing Dr Kananga/Mr Big
Starred In Live And Let Die (1973)
Born in New York, USA on 15th November 1937
film information
Dr Kananga/Mr Big played by Yaphet Kotto is the second villain of Live And Let Die. While Kananga puts in an appearance as a ruler of a small island somewhere in the Caribbean, he is in fact the de facto dictator of the island, San Monique.
While Bond doesn’t meet Kananga until late in the film, he is introduced to his alter ego Mr Big. To promote his drugs operations Kananga uses the character of Mr Big to run the chain of Fillet of Soul restaurants in New York and New Orleans. Kananga the main villain of Live And Let Die is mostly seen giving orders to his various henchmen. Bond and Kananga meet when he reveals that Mr Big and Kananga are one in the same.
At the end of the film Kananga is strangely happy when Bond disrupts his plans and attempts to kill both Bond and Solitaire by feeding them to sharks. Bond manages to gain the upper hand and forces Kananga to swallow a compressed air pellet causing him to inflate and explode. Nasty.
character information
This dictator turned New York drug dealer uses his alter egos as a means to achieve his objective. Growing vast qualities of poppies on San Monique covered under camouflaged nets; Baron Samedi and Kananga’s Scarecrows ensure the local population doesn’t go near them. Kananga’s plan is to flood the American market with two tons of heroin distributed through Fillet of Soul restaurants free. This will force other dealers out of business getting Kananga a monopoly on the American drugs market. A menacing but sophisticated character, Kananga is more with giving orders and threats, and the occasional witticism, than physical violence personally – leaving his henchmen to do the work for him. §
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