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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
If another actor played Khan in the original I'm not sure if today we still look back at the Wrath of Khan so fondly as many do. When I think of Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan the first thing that comes into my mind is Khan not Kirk, Spock, etc. He owned that movie. It was just the perfect casting as Ricardo Montalban really made that movie as one of the best motion picture villains of all time in that he straddled the boundaries of believable and over the top performances. They simply swung and missed on the casting the 2nd time around.
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And he was a far different Khan then the one you saw in Space Seed. In Space Seed he played the cold hearted ruthless leader. At the end of it, he was looking forward to ruling his own kingdom and building a civilization.
In WOK he played the grief stricken man driven completely by a need for revenge. In a lot of ways he was a very sympathetic character.
When in his encounter with Chekov he plainly says "Admiral Kirk never bothered to check on our progress". You could feel the man who was desparate to hang on to anything including his sanity and at that point letting it go as old wounds re-opened.
People forget that RM was a very good actor, he and Christopher Plumber and Christopher Lloyd represented the one big thing that the generation and rebooting movies missed.
A strong scene stealing villain.