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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 1954 version was an episode made for the American ''Climax!'' TV series. While it has the honor of being the first Bond production outside a book, it Americanized everything including Bond himself, as well as greatly simplifying the story. It starred Barry Nelson as Jimmy Bond and Peter Lorre as Le Chiffre. In turn Leiter was [[Keep It Foreign|changed from American to British]].
* The 1967 version was an unholy mess of a spoof, with no less than 8 Bonds (9 including [[Sean Connery]], who does not appear but receives a [[Shout
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=== The 2006 film contains examples of these tropes--and you'd be surprised how many of these actually turn up in the novel: ===
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* [[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 {{spoiler|gets a straight flush, the probability of which is ''much'' lower than getting a regular straight.}}
** Early in the movie, [[Everybody Calls Him Barkeep|The Bombmaker]] gets spooked when he sees one of the British agents holding a finger to his ear, giving away that [[Overt Agent|he was using an earpiece.]] Later on, when Bond and Vesper are trying to evade a pair of bad guys via [[Fake
* [[Chess Motifs]]: Variation, with casino and poker motifs.
* [[City of Canals]] - Including a scene where {{spoiler|Bond sinks a floating building.}}
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** 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 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.
* [[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).
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** 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
* [[Dungeon Bypass]] - Bond's answer to Mollaka's [[Le Parkour|freerunning]].
* [[Dyeing for Your Art]] - Daniel Craig buffed up and put on 20 lbs of muscle for the role of Bond.
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** {{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 Brit]] - Eva Green is French.
* [[Fake
* [[Five-Bad Band]]:
** [[The Big Bad]]: Le Chiffre
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** [[The Dark Chick]]: Valenka
** [[Bigger Bad]]: Mr. White
* [[Finger
* [[Freeze Frame Bonus]] - When Dryden is shot, there's a brief shot of him with his family, emphasizing the fact that no matter how you paint him, Bond is a killer.
* [[Grenade Tag]]
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* [[Informed Attractiveness]]
{{quote| '''Vesper:''' Hello.<br />
'''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?<br />
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* [[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-<br />
[[Boom! Headshot!|* pew* ]]<br />
'''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]].}}
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** 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
* [[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.
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* [[Race Lift]] - Felix Leiter (a blond Texan in the novels) is black in this movie and in ''[[Quantum of Solace (Film)|Quantum of Solace]]'' (played by Jeffrey Wright). Incidentally, before Wright the actor playing Leiter had [[The Other Darrin|changed with every film]]; only one actor (David Hedison) had ever reprised the role, and his two appearances were non-consecutive and 16 years apart. (There was a black Leiter prior to Wright: Bernie Casey in the non-canonical ''[[Never Say Never Again (Film)|Never Say Never Again]]''.)
* [[Railing Kill]]: Bond throws a bodyguard over a stairwell railing before fighting Obanno.
* [[Rated "M" for Manly]]
* [[Red Right Hand]]: As many Bond villains do, most of the bad guys have one.
* [[Rewind, Replay, Repeat]]: Bond checks the security tapes at the Ocean Club.
* [[Road Trip Across the Street]]
* [[Rule of Cool]] - {{spoiler|Bond wins the card game, against master poker players, not by outplaying them or by some great strategy, but because he gets a straight flush at the exact right moment in the ideal situation, where everyone else stays in because they all happen to have hands that are near impossible to beat (as opposed to folding when they realize Bond probably has a good hand, which would be the typical outcome), which has even more ridiculous odds. The only reason the audience does not question what is nearly mathematically impossible is that Bond getting a straight flush is flippin' cool.}}
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* [[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.
* [[Anyone Can Die]] - It's the only movie where James Bond dies. {{spoiler|All eight of them. Many at the same time.}}
* [[Backwards
* Bizarritecture- East Berlin
* [[BLAM Episode]]- If there was one film that could be called a Big Lipped Alligator movie this is it
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* [[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."
* [[Follow That Car!]] - Spoofed.
* [[Gainax Ending]]
* [[I Am Spartacus]]- The original Bond gives orders that all agents are to be James Bond, 007.
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