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{{quote|''"So you want me to be half monk, half hitman."''}}
Ian Fleming sold the rights to his first [[James Bond]] novel separately from the rest of the films, which is the reason that it took so long for a proper adaptation of the first novel.
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In this film, adapted from the novel (moving its setting from the 1950s to the present day and from France to the newly-independent Montenegro), Bond must essentially win a high-stakes game of [[Poker]] against a terrorist financier known only as Le Chiffre. Along the way, Bond gets tortured and falls in love with Vesper Lynd.
The film's first half, which shows how Bond earned his 00 status and tracked down Le Chiffre, was written directly for the screen. The second half follows Fleming's original novel, but features several changes. The card game was originally Baccarat but changed to Texas Hold 'Em Poker, a trendy move but also better suited for film. The book in general lacks the wisecracks and otherwise humorous moments, which makes the torture scene a different affair altogether. Lastly Vesper's final scenes are less action-packed, which also leaves out a long discussion between Bond and Mathis on the nature of evil.
This film is a lot darker than the previous films, with the fight scenes brutal and bloody. At some point during the Bond franchise it became essentially its own genre, about a suave superhero secret agent who would save the world from megalomaniacs using [[Underwater Base|Underwater Bases]], [[Kill Sat|Kill Sats]], pilfered [[Nuke'Em|nuclear weapons]] or anything else that might spell out the end of the world. This film in general tone is a bit closer to a political thriller at its core (tracking down the cash flow of a terrorist organization) modified to include the talents of James Bond. It was cheered on by fans of the franchise for rebooting and generally tightening what had become somewhat tired and stale.
''[[Quantum of Solace]]'' continues directly from this movie, making it among the few Bond movies that elaborate a greater story arc instead of the standalone format.
The film is in fact the third (and certainly best) production of ''Casino Royale''. Its predecessors were made by companies other than EON. Neither can be considered in any way canon, and both took a lot of liberties with the story and character (of course, true to form, this film took its own liberties):
* The [[Casino Royale (Climax!)|1954 version]], a live TV episode of ''Climax!''.
* The [[Casino Royale (1967 film)|1967 version]], a satire with eight "James Bonds" and six directors involved.
{{tropelist}}
A surprising number of these also turn up in the novel.
* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Brutally [[Deconstructed]] with Solange. She married Demitrios and regrets it, then briefly hooks up with Bond, remarking on how they're both "bad men" and how she loves this kind of guy because they're "so much more interesting" than "nice guys". Later in the film, her association with the man who helped orchestrate the bomb plot (Demitrios) and the man who foiled it (Bond) are what gets her tortured to death.
* [[Awesome Yet Practical]]
** The relative lack of gadgets can be a case of [[Technology Marches On]]. Imagine if [[Sean Connery]]'s Bond was given a radio telephone that could download navigational data from a network of military satellites in geosynchronous orbit over the Earth?
*** Good God man, be ''reasonable!'' We have to make it believable!
** Actually there are as many gadgets as in any other Bond movie, they only lack traditional exposition. Tracking device allowing to precisely show the location of the target on the 3D map of the building and using a cellphone application as an interface? Bloodstream toxin analyzer with satellite connection? Call analysis system allowing to track the place the call was made by reading the SIM card? Definitely 'gadgety' enough.
* [[Badass]]
** Which is quite accurate to [[Ian Fleming]]'s original novel version.
* [[Badass in a Nice Suit]]: Particularly in the film's final scene.
* [[Blood on These Hands]]
* [[Bond Gun Barrel]]
* [[Break the Cutie]]
* [[Briefcase Full of Money]]: The poker winnings.
* [[Bulungi]]: In Madagascar, Bond storms the embassy of a fictional country named "Nambutu".
* [[Byronic Hero]]: Bond.
* [[California Doubling]]: All scenes that take place in Montenegro and United States are actually shot in Czech Republic (that is located in different climatic zone than Montenegro and Florida). Also, Madagascar in the opening is the Bahamas.
* [[The Cameo]]: In the Miami airport scene, look very closely at who is in the metal detection scanner opposite the {{spoiler|Skyfleet bomber.}} Of all people, Richard Branson decides to make an appearance.
** When the film is shown in airlines, [[Clumsy Copyright Censorship|it's usually cut or blurred.]]
* [[The Can Kicked Him]]: Bond's first murder was in a bathroom in a Paris subway.
* [[Cat Smile]]: Valenka (Le Chiffre's girlfriend).
* [[Chase Scene]]
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Near the beginning is a scene with Le Chiffre playing poker. "I have 2 pair, you have a 17.5% chance of getting a straight". Guess what happens during the big poker game...
** Bond actually
** Early in the movie, [[
* [[Chess Motifs]]: Variation, with casino and poker motifs.
* [[City of Canals]]
* [[Cool Car]]: Just look at Bond's Aston! Just freaking look at it! Even if it was completely stock it would still be gorgeous!
** And the [[Continuity Nod|older Aston]] that Bond runs into isn't half bad either.
* [[Cold-Blooded Torture]]: Pretty disturbing especially for a Bond movie.
* [[Continuity Reboot]]
** Possibly. A popular fan theory holds that "James Bond" is just a pseudonym used by 007 agents, and that each Bond actor in the series portrays a different character. If it's true, ''[[Casino Royale]]'' could just be the origin story for a new agent.
** [[Broad Strokes]]
* [[Cosmopolitan Council]]: The players at the high-stakes poker game.
* [[CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable]]: At the end, Bond isn't so much trying to restore circulation as {{spoiler|getting one last grope of Vesper's rack.}}
* [[Dare to Be Badass]]: The chorus from the [[Crowning Music of Awesome|opening song]] puts a darker spin on this trope, basically couching it in a warning that if you ''don't'' [[Take a Level In Badass]], you will be dead very quickly:
{{quote|''Arm yourself, because no one else here will save you''
''The odds will betray you''
''And I will replace you...''
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: The movie tries to be more mature and realistic than its predecessors -- for example, instead of just adding extra blood, sex, and swearing (all of which existed in previous Bond films), the movie made more subtle changes. Interestingly, some of its darkest elements were actually taken straight from the book (such as the torture scene late in the film).
* [[Death by Cameo]]: The director of the film plays a truck driver who has his [[Neck Snap|neck snapped]] at the Miami airport.
* [[Design Student's Orgasm]]: With a playing card theme, in the opening credits.
* [[Determinator]]: Bond, whenever he's in chase mode. When going after the ''Parkour''-adept bombmaker, he uses a ''bulldozer'' to smash through the obstacles.
* [[Didn't Think This Through]]: At least a couple on the part of the writers, where they somewhat misunderstood elements of the original novel.
** Bond blows his cover when he and Vesper arrive at the hotel, his reasons for doing so being that he's giving Le Chiffre a name he already has in exchange for more vital information about him. In the original novel it is stated that Bond's cover didn't matter as far as Le Chiffre was concerned, he already knew who he was and if he didn't he was going to as soon as they sat down to play cards with each other, but it was important to keep up appearances so as to keep his identity as a SECRET agent a secret from all the other guests and players.
* [[Downer Ending]]: {{spoiler|"The bitch is dead." The line's from the original novel, more or less. Interestingly, M's response to this line provokes a change in 007 that was not there in the novel. Rather than turning hard and misogynistic, he becomes obsessed with revenge. (Of course in either case Bond was simply covering his feelings, showing hatred and contempt instead of the sadness he felt at being betrayed by and losing the woman he loved)}}.
* [[Drop-Dead Gorgeous]]: {{spoiler|Vesper Lynd does a [[Wet Sari Scene]] as a corpse}}.
* [[Dungeon Bypass]]: Bond's answer to Mollaka's [[Le Parkour|freerunning]].
* [[Eye Scream]]: In the final gunfight, {{spoiler|Bond shoots the head of the thugs in the eye with a nailgun. Ironically, the exact eye that is punctured by the nail was already blind (indicated by the opaque lenses of his glasses), if not gone altogether.}}
** {{spoiler|He might not have been actually blind. Some marksmen close one eye while shooting (or, in this case, have one of their lenses blacked out) to cut down on depth perception and improve their aim.}}
* [[Fake-Out
* [[Five-Bad Band]]:
** [[The Big Bad]]: Le Chiffre
** [[The Dragon]]: Leo.
** [[The Evil Genius]]: Alex Dimitrios.
** [[The Brute]]: Kratt.
** [[The Dark Chick]]: Valenka.
** [[Bigger Bad]]: Mr. White.
* [[Finger-Suck Healing]]: Bond sucks on Vesper's fingers when she is going into shock.
* [[Freeze-Frame Bonus]]
* [[Grenade Tag]]
* [[Groin Attack]]: What Le Chiffre does with a knotted rope.
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Bond has a variation at the end of one game {{spoiler|after Le Chiffre deliberately uses his tell to fool Bond}} while everyone else leaves the table.
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: In one scene, a mook tries to blow up a plane via remote
* [[Hollywood Nerd]]: Le Chiffre somewhat qualifies. He's very good at math, a poker prodigy, and he has an inhaler.
** In the book, it's stated that the inhaler is
*** Benzedrine is an older name for dextroamphetamine.
* [[Hostage Situation]]
* [[Image Song]]
* [[Informed Attractiveness]]
{{quote|'''Vesper:''' Hello.
'''Mathis:''' I suppose I [[As You Know|don't have to tell you]] how beautiful you look. [[Hello, Nurse!|Half the people on that table are still watching you.]]
* [[It Gets Easier]]:
{{quote|'''Dryden''': How did he die?
'''Bond''': Your contact? Not well.
'''Dryden''': Made you feel it, did he? Well, you needn't worry. [[Killed Mid-Sentence|The second is]]--''(gets shot by Bond)''
'''Bond''': [[Bond One-Liner|Yes. Considerably.]]
* [[It Works Better with Bullets]]: Bond to Dryden in the [[The Teaser|pre-credits sequence]].
** The African bomber tries to shoot Bond while on the crane, but his gun isn't loaded.
*** To be fair, he just couldn't remember if he [[Dirty Harry|fired six shots or only five.]]
* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Fashionable]]: An [[Inverted Trope|inversion]]: Bond and Lynd are dressing each other up long before their relationship has had much development.
* [[Jack of All Stats]]: They make a point of establishing this about him early in the movie. He's athletic but can't match the [[Le Parkour]] skills of his quarry and has to use his brain, working the environment, to make up the difference.
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Craig's Bond is shown initially as a cynical and tough guy. However that doesn't mean he has no humanity or he doesn't feel compassion or pity. The "shower" sequence says all.
* [[Killed Mid-Sentence]]: Bond does this early in the film to earn his 00 status.
{{quote|'''Dryden:''' ''[Discussing Bond's first kill]'' Made you ''feel'' it, did he? Well... not to worry. The second is-
[[Boom! Headshot!|*
'''Bond:''' ...Yes. ''Considerably.''
* [[Kiss of Life]]: {{spoiler|Bond tries this on Vesper. [[Tear Jerker|It doesn't work]] and quickly turns into a heartbreaking [[Last Kiss]].}}
* [[Kneecapping]]: ''[[Casino Royale]]'' ends with Bond locating and knee-capping
* [[Kung Shui]]
* [[Le Parkour]]: The original creator of parkour plays a bomber running away from Bond. The bomber uses parkour, whereas Bond [[Dungeon Bypass|takes somewhat more of a ''direct'' route...]]
* [[The Man Behind the Man]]: Alex Dimitrios to the parkour bomber, then Le Chiffre to Dimitrios and Mr. White to Le Chiffre. Continues on into ''[[Quantum of Solace]]'', where more men behind Mr. White are revealed.
* [[Fan Service|Manservice]]
** For the more traditional fanservice: Why is that woman in a bathing suit riding a horse on a beach?
* [[Meaningful Echo]]
* [[Misplaced Wildlife]]
* [[Mobstacle Course]]: The [[Le Parkour]] villain does this when he wants to be a jerk.
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: During the exceptionally brutal torture scene, Bond informs Le Chiffre that he has an itch "down there". The villain takes another whack at the poor man's family jewels while Bonds screams: "No, no! To the right! To the right!" before breaking down into hysterical laughter/tears and exclaiming: "Now the whole world's gonna know you died scratching my balls!"
* [[Mythology Gag]]
** And on their way to the Casino, Bond jokingly tells Vesper her alias is "Stephanie Broadchest", referencing the naming style of Bond girls like [[Goldfinger|Pussy Galore]], [[Dr. No|Honey Ryder]] and [[You Only Live Twice|Kissy Suzuki]].
** When M chastises Bond early in the movie, she mentions "Christ, I miss the [[Cold War]]," a callback to her character's introduction in ''[[
** Also Bond wins a classic Aston Martin DB5, which is one of the best known cars from the older movies.
** Can anyone say "Two measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lilet, shaken well over ice until chilled, and served with a thin slice of lemon"?
* [[Nail'Em]]: Gettler attacks bond with a nail gun in the climax. It appears to have rapid fire function.
* [[The Name Is Bond, James Bond]]
* [[Never Bring a Knife to A Fist Fight]]: Bond can handle the guy with a machete.
* [[Never Trust a Trailer]]
* [[Parking Payback]]
* [[Pragmatic Adaptation]]
* [[Product Placement]]
** Also, Vesper brings up James's watch when evaluating his personality, which he corrects her Rolex guess to Omega. The marketing for the film also included Omega ads involving Bond.
* [[Race Lift]]
* [[Railing Kill]]: Bond throws a bodyguard over a stairwell railing before fighting Obanno.
* [[Rated "M" for Manly]]
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* [[Rewind, Replay, Repeat]]: Bond checks the security tapes at the Ocean Club.
* [[Road Trip Across the Street]]
* [[Rule of Cool]]
** Nearly mathematically impossible, yes, but ask any card player about their worst bad beat, and it'll sound [[Reality Is Unrealistic|almost exactly like Le Chiffre's]]. The odds of quad aces losing a hand are effectively zero, and yet it happens.
* [[Scenery Porn]]: [[California Doubling|Southern Europe]] is ''gorgeous''.
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* [[Sherlock Scan]]: Bond and Vesper do this to each other on the train.
* [[Shirtless Scene]]: [[Stupid Sexy Flanders|Oh, yeah.]]
* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]: It sure took a long time for Bond and Vesper to go to Italy just for
* [[Shower of Angst]]
* [[Show Some Leg]]
* [[Somebody Set Up Us the Bomb]]
* [[Staggered Zoom]]
* [[The Stoic]]: James Bond, as mentioned above.
* [[Tampering with Food and Drink]]: {{spoiler|Bond gets poisoned and has to defib himself. Ouch.}}
* [[Theme Music Withholding]]: Done so very well.
* [[These Hands Have Killed]]: Vesper goes through this during her [[Shower of Angst]], after she's involved with Bond's confrontation with the African warlords.
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* [[Too Kinky to Torture]]: Not really, but [[Invoked Trope|invoked]] by Bond as part of being [[Defiant to the End]]. He asks Le Chiffre to scratch an itch for him.
{{quote|''[[Groin Attack|*thump*]] "Yeaaaaaargh!'' [[Casual Danger Dialogue|No! No! A little more to the right."]]}}
* [[To the Pain]]
** This also may be a [[Take That]] [[Mythology Gag]] referring to the fairly elaborate torture scenes from prior Bond movies, most notably the laser cutting table in ''[[Goldfinger]]''.
*** But that wasn't a torture scene in Goldfinger. He didn't expect him to talk, he expected him to DIE!
* [[Tragic Hero]]
* [[Trailers Always Spoil]]: The trailers for the film include ''the very last shot of the film'', with Bond in the [[Badass in a Nice Suit|very nice suit and vest]] while carrying a silenced submachine gun. They do leave out the context and the line that makes that scene so awesome though.
* [[Try and Follow]]
* [[Two Decades Behind]]: ''Definitely'' an example of [[Pandering to the Base]]. The recipe for the martini variant Bond names after Vesper Lynd is taken word-for-word from the novel. The problem is, Lillet stopped making one of its ingredients, Kina Lillet, in 1986, replacing it with a reformulated Lillet (''sans'' the quinine that gave it the "Kina" part of the name) called Lillet Blanc. But the film is set in the present-day, and mentions Kina Lillet by name
* [[Viewers are Morons]]: Baccarat is changed to the more popular Texas Hold 'Em, which was enjoying a surge of popularity in mid-decade.
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]
* [[Watch the Paint Job]]
** On the DVD extra featurette about how they performed the stunt, they felt it necessary to include a disclaimer noting the car was specially reinforced and [[Do Not Try This At Home]]. As if the average person who buys an Aston Martin's first impulse is to see how many times you can roll it . . . .
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?|What Happened to Felix Leiter Stepping In To Bring In Le Chiffre?]]
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Subverted. M gives Bond a severe chewing out for shooting the unarmed bombmaker and blowing up an embassy, but her main complaint is that he got caught on videotape doing it.
* [[Why We're Bummed Communism Fell]]
** It's also a [[Mythology Gag]]. When Judi Dench was first cast in the Bond universe, while chastising Brosnan!Bond about his trigger-happy nature, she refers to him as a "relic from the Cold War."
* [[Xanatos Speed Chess]]
* [[Yank the Dog's Chain]]
* [[You Look Familiar]]
* [[You're Not My Type]]: In an exchange between Bond and Vesper.
{{quote|'''Bond:''' "Don't worry, you're not my type."
'''Vesper:''' "Smart?"
'''Bond:''' "Single."
* [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle]]
** {{spoiler|Again from the original novel, although the money isn't stolen there and Vesper's suicide is far more sudden.}}
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