Casino Royale (2006 film): Difference between revisions

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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.

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 (Film)|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.

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* [[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.

* [[Cold-Blooded Torture]]: Pretty disturbing especially for a Bond movie.

* [[Continuity Reboot]] - The movie did this to the Bond movie franchise. Though they also have claimed in secondary material that it's a [[Prequel]].

** 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 (Film)|Casino Royale]]'' could just be the origin story for a new agent.

** [[Broad Strokes]] - It still retains [[Judi Dench]] and the post-[[Cold War]] scenario from the Pierce Brosnan films, [[Why ~~Were~~ Bummed Communism Fell|though now she misses the Cold War]], when agents had the decency to defect after a big mistake, rather than seeing Bond as a relic of that era.

** [[Broad Strokes]] - It still retains [[Judi Dench]] and the post-[[Cold War]] scenario from the Pierce Brosnan films, [[Why We're Bummed Communism Fell|though now she misses the Cold War]], when agents had the decency to defect after a big mistake, rather than seeing Bond as a relic of that era.

* [[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.}}

* [[Cosmopolitan Council]] - The players at the high-stakes poker game.

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''The odds will betray you''

''And I will replace you...'' }}

* [[Design ~~Students~~ Orgasm]] - With a playing card theme, in the opening credits.

* [[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.

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* [[Fake Brit]] - Eva Green is French.

* [[Fake Out Make Out]] - Fails when a guard spots Bond's earpiece.

* [[Five Bad Band]]:

* [[Five-Bad Band]]:

** [[The Big Bad]]: Le Chiffre

** [[The Dragon]]: Leo

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{{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)''

'''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.]] }}

'''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.

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* [[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.

* [[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|* pew* ]]

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** 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]] - Avoided until the last scene. Complete with the [[Leitmotif]].

* [[The Name Is Bond, James Bond]] - Avoided until the last scene. Complete with the [[Leitmotif]].

* [[Never Bring a Knife To A Fist Fight]]: Bond can handle the guy with a machete.

* [[Never Trust a Trailer]] - You see Bond kissing Vesper in the sea in the poster up there? The scene, which also appears in the trailer, is not in the movie.

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* [[Try and Follow]] - Bond chasing after the bomber.

* [[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. (This also shows up in ''[[Quantum of Solace (Film)|Quantum of Solace]]''.)

* [[Viewers ~~Are~~ Morons]]: Baccarat is changed to the more popular Texas Hold 'Em, which was enjoying a surge of popularity in mid-decade.

* [[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]] - Le Chiffre's "''You!'' Are '''SO''' ''WRONG!!''"

* [[Watch the Paint Job]] - The effects crew managed to rotate Bond's Aston Martin ''7 times'' for the scene where it's totaled. Makes any car fan weep, and it set a world record in the process.

** 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 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.

* [[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 ~~Were~~ Bummed Communism Fell]] - "Christ, I miss the [[Cold War]]." (Consider too that this is the first Bond film explicitly set after 9/11 and world politics in [[Hollywood History]] terms is much more complex.)

* [[Why We're Bummed Communism Fell]] - "Christ, I miss the [[Cold War]]." (Consider too that this is the first Bond film explicitly set after 9/11 and world politics in [[Hollywood History]] terms is much more complex.)

** 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]] - Things take a sharp turn for the confusing after Bond and Vesper are rescued following the card game.

* [[Yank the ~~Dogs~~ Chain]] - {{spoiler|Bond, [[Happily Married]]? A beautiful dream, not gonna happen. Especially since it ended badly [[On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Film)|the last time it happened]].}}

* [[Yank the Dog's Chain]] - {{spoiler|Bond, [[Happily Married]]? A beautiful dream, not gonna happen. Especially since it ended badly [[On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Film)|the last time it happened]].}}

* [[You Look Familiar]] - Poker game participant Madame Wu is played by Tsai Chin, who also played the Chinese girl Bond bedded at the beginning of ''[[You Only Live Twice (Film)|You Only Live Twice]]''.

* [[You're Not My Type]]: In an exchange between Bond and Vesper.

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=== The 1967 movie contains examples of: ===

* [[All Star Cast]]

* [[All-Star Cast]]

* [[Americans Are Cowboys]] - The American army is apparently composed of cowboys and Indians.

* [[And Starring]] - Terence Cooper and Barbara Bouchet are credited as co-stars, but right before them, George Raft and Jean Paul Belmondo are featured in the secondary cast with no special words around their names despite making a very minor appearance at the climax.

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* [[Egocentric Team Naming]]: Once Sir James Bond becomes head of [[MI 6]] after the previous M gets offed, the very first thing he does is rename ALL his agents, male AND female, James Bond 007 as a ploy to confuse the enemy.

* [[Everyone Join the Party]]: In the finale, all Hell breaks loose when the [[Big Bad]]'s casino is invaded by Ransome and an army of secret agents (apparently) sent to assist James Bond, consisting of {{spoiler|a French-Foreign Legionnaire, George Raft playing himself, sterotypical Cowboys and Indians, chimpanzees, and even seals}}. And then everyone else in the casino joins in on the action. No one is safe, {{spoiler|especially when the whole casino explodes at the end, [[Kill Them All|killing everyone inside]]}}.

* [[~~Everythings~~ Better With Monkeys]] - {{spoiler|A chimp shows up in the big fight climax.}}

* [[Everything's Better With Monkeys]] - {{spoiler|A chimp shows up in the big fight climax.}}

* [[Fluffy Cloud Heaven]] and [[Fire and Brimstone Hell]] - Spoofed in the final scene.

** "Six of them went to a heavenly spot, the seventh one is going to a place where it's terribly hot."

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* [[Instrument of Murder]] - Ursula Andress uses the old machine-gun-in-the-bagpipes trick.

* [[Karma Houdini]] - {{spoiler|Vesper Lynd betrayed [[MI 6]] in the end but, unlike Jimmy Bond, actually makes it to Heaven with the other James Bonds ''and stays there.''}}

* {{spoiler|[[Kill Em All]]: Played for laughs.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Kill'Em All]]: Played for laughs.}}

* [[Mood Whiplash]] - When Vesper Lynd recruits Evelyn Tremble, the film suddenly becomes considerably less wacky, though still heavy on comic [[Double Entendre]]; it's where "The Look of Love" comes in - after 40+ minutes of slapstick. Indeed, most of [[Peter Sellers]]' scenes come as this compared to the rest of the film, in part because he plays his role mostly straight.

* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]] - The increasingly zany nature of the film and its production was largely compensating for Sellers being fired before all his material was shot. How zany did things get? In the end, each segment of the movie was filmed by a different director, making it seem absurdly disjointed.

* [[Rule of Funny]] - About the only reason for all the stuff that happens in the climactic fight.

* [[Star Derailing Role]] - For Peter Sellers; this started a downward trajectory for his career that lasted eight years before a [[Career Resurrection]].

* [[Star-Derailing Role]] - For Peter Sellers; this started a downward trajectory for his career that lasted eight years before a [[Career Resurrection]].

* [[Take That]] - Niven's Bond calls [[Sean Connery]]'s Bond a sex maniac who dragged the James Bond name through the dirt, and takes his fellow spies to task for relying on gadgets.

** Peter Sellers was fired midway through the shoot due to chronic absence and miscellaneous poor behavior, so the filmmakers making up for this by having his character {{spoiler|[[Dropped a Bridge On Him|shot to death]] [[Face Heel Turn|by the suddenly turncoat Vesper]]}} can be seen as this as well.

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* [[Troubled Production]]: Not only an obscene number of directors and screenwriters got involved, but the actors fought with them.

* [[Villainous Rescue]]- {{spoiler|Mr. White interrupting Bond's torture to kill Le Chiffre.}}

* [[~~Whos~~ Laughing Now]] - {{spoiler|Jimmy Bond is the [[Big Bad]], intending to conquer the world as revenge against his famous, and infinitely more stylish and sophisticated, uncle.}}

* [[Who's Laughing Now?]] - {{spoiler|Jimmy Bond is the [[Big Bad]], intending to conquer the world as revenge against his famous, and infinitely more stylish and sophisticated, uncle.}}

* [[Your Makeup Is Running]]

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* [[Pretty in Mink]]

* {{spoiler|[[Spared By the Adaptation]]: Vesper and, possibly, Le Chiffre}}

* [[The Un Reveal]] - Chiffre is shown groping for his hat -- then the show ends. It had previously been mentioned that he kept a razor hidden there.

* [[The Un-Reveal]] - Chiffre is shown groping for his hat -- then the show ends. It had previously been mentioned that he kept a razor hidden there.

* [[What Could Have Been]]: The network apparently commissioned a James Bond TV show based on the strength of this one special. Ian Fleming wrote a few outlines for some episodes and then negotiations fell through, and Fleming used the outlines he had already created and that became the eighth Bond book ''For Your Eyes Only''. Fleming would have his turn in television again when he did some concept work for ''[[The Man From UNCLE]]''.