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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-Out]]) and almost as many directors. Logic is paid little heed in the pursuit of comedy. Notably, it includes David Niven as the one-and-only original Sir James Bond -- Niven was Fleming's first choice for the part before Connery made it his own -- as well as Ursula Andress's second appearance in a Bond movie, this time as both the Bond girl and James Bond. It also starred [[Woody Allen]] as young Jimmy Bond (his "disappointing" nephew), [[Peter Sellers]] as Evelyn Tremble a.k.a. James Bond, and [[Orson Welles]] as Le Chiffre. This version of the movie is now [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upMtEJSj9NA officially hosted on YouTube], for your viewing curiousitycuriosity.
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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]]: Very few gadgets, very little jokes, greater focus on the intelligence and physical skill of the main character. (Thisthis comes more or less from the book, since Bond didn't become a gadgeteer until the original film adaptations.). In fact, the only two pieces of truly high-tech equipment are a tracer placed into Bond's forearm and a rather high-tech first-aid kit in his car with an electrocardiogram that is connected to the [[MI 6]] headquarters, both of which are ''extremely'' 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? NevermindNever mind his portable wireless computer terminal that can connect to [[MI 6]]'s computer database from evidently anywhere, even a fishing boat in the middle of the water, and which can '' fit in a suitcase easily''?
*** 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.
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* [[Break the Cutie]]: Bond in the chair with no bottom. Bond being heartbroken {{spoiler|after Vesper's death}}, and that causes Bond's depression and weariness seen in most of ''[[Quantum of Solace]]''.
* [[Briefcase Full of Money]]: The poker winnings.
* [[Bulungi]]: In Madagascar, Bond storms the embassy of a fictionnalfictional 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]]: Played straight with the Parkour scene, but subverted for the car chase: {{spoiler|When Bond rushes out in his fancy modified Aston-Martin after the people who kidnapped Vesper, he's almost immediately driven off the road by them dropping her in the centrecenter of the road. He is summarily captured (This is taken directly from the book; all that's changed is the model of car)}}.
* [[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-Out Make-Out]], one of the bad guys notices the earpiece that Bond was using to listen in on Le Chifre with.
* [[Chess Motifs]]: Variation, with casino and poker motifs.
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{{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.
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* [[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 lenselenses 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 Make-Out]]: Fails when a guard spots Bond's earpiece.
* [[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]]: 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.
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* [[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 detontatordetonator, only to find that Bond somehow clipped the bomb to his belt...
* [[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 benzedrineBenzedrine. It might not necessarily be for asthma, though; perhaps he's using it as a stimulant.
*** Benzedrine is an older name for dextroamphetamine.
* [[Hostage Situation]]: Somewhat reversed, in that the hero is the one taking the hostage. Subverted ''again'' in that {{spoiler|when the eye-patched villain tries to take Vesper hostage, Bond doesn't care what happens to her, because he thinks she's a double agent.}}
* [[Image Song]]: Chris Cornell's "You Know My Name", which also has cues in the score to act as the [[Leitmotif]] before the final scene.
* [[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)''<br />
'''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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{{quote|'''Dryden:''' ''[Discussing Bond's first kill]'' Made you ''feel'' it, did he? Well... not to worry. The second is-
[[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]].}}
* [[Kneecapping]]: ''[[Casino Royale]]'' ends with Bond locating and knee-capping {{spoiler|[[The Man Behind the Man]]}}.
* [[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...]]
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* [[Product Placement]]: Lots, especially for Sony. The most bizarre one has to be the hotel that stores its surveillance camera footage on Blu-ray discs...
** 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]]: Felix Leiter (a blond Texan in the novels) is black in this movie and in ''[[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 reprisedreprized the role, and his two appearances were non-consecutive and 16 years apart. (Therethere was a black Leiter prior to Wright: Bernie Casey in the non-canonical ''[[Never Say Never Again]]''.).
* [[Railing Kill]]: Bond throws a bodyguard over a stairwell railing before fighting Obanno.
* [[Rated "M" for Manly]]
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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 {{spoiler|her to betray him and die.}}
* [[Shower of Angst]]: [[Heroic BSOD|Vesper takes one fully clothed]] while Bond tries to comfort her.
* [[Show Some Leg]]: To give Bond an advantage in the poker game, he gets Vesper a very low-cut dress. It backfires somewhat - Bond ends up [[Distracted by the Sexy|just as distracted]], especially since Vesper intentionally ignores his instruction to walk up behind him and instead approaches from the other side of the table so that he can see her coming.
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* [[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]]: 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. (Thisthis also shows up in ''[[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.
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Le Chiffre's "''You!'' Are '''SO''' ''WRONG!!''"
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{{quote|'''Bond:''' "Don't worry, you're not my type."
'''Vesper:''' "Smart?"
'''Bond:''' "Single." }}
* [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle]]: [[The Big Bad]] has been defeated, Vesper and Bond do it, all is good... {{spoiler|Vesper suddenly steals 120 million dollars to pay for her fiancé's ransom. And dies.}}
** {{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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* [[Anyone Can Die]]: It's the only movie where James Bond dies. {{spoiler|All eight of them. Many at the same time.}}
* [[Backwards-Firing Gun]]
* [[Bizarritecture]]: East Berlin.
* [[BLAM Episode]]: If there was one film that could be called a Big Lipped Alligator movie this is it.
* [[Bonnie Scotland]]: Much of the film's first section takes place here.
* [[Cast as a Mask]]: Dr. Noah is pretty much a spoof of this trope.
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* [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]] / [[McLeaned]]: {{spoiler|Evelyn Tremble's death, because Peter Sellers quit/was fired from the film.}}
* [[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, sterotypicalstereotypical 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]]}}.
* [[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.
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