The 3 Guys Podcast
Recorded on 3/30/2023
Everyone has a past. Every legend has a beginning. Discover how James…became Bond. This week we are reviewing the movie “Casino Royale” starring Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen and directed by Martin Campbell. WARNING: There will be SPOILERS!
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Released: November 16, 2006 (United Kingdom), November 17 2006 (United States)
Directed By: Martin Campbell
Screenplay By: Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Paul Haggis
Based on the Book: Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
Music By: David Arnold
Stars: Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Jeffrey Wright, Dame Judi Dench and a bunch more peoplePlot: After earning 00 status and a licence to kill, secret agent James Bond sets out on his first mission as 007. Bond must defeat a private banker funding terrorists in a high-stakes game of poker at Casino Royale, Montenegro.
Tagline: Everyone has a past. Every legend has a beginning. On November 17th, discover how James…became Bond.
How did this movie do?
Budget: $150 Million
Box Office: $617 Million -
Casting
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- According to director Martin Campbell, Henry Cavill was the only actor in serious contention for the role of James Bond, but at 22 years old, was considered too young. Hugh Jackman reportedly turned the role down as 007. Gerard Butler and Ewan McGregor turned down the role of James Bond, due to fears of typecasting.
- Daniel Craig was producer Barbara Broccoli’s first choice for the role of Bond. She had him in mind after seeing his performance in Layer Cake (2004).
- Angelina Jolie, Naomi Watts, Scarlett Johansson, and Charlize Theron were strongly considered for the part of Vesper Lynd.
- When Quentin Tarantino was in talks with Sony Pictures, he wanted Samuel L. Jackson as Felix Leiter and Uma Thurman as Bond Girl Vesper Lynd.
- According to director Martin Campbell, Henry Cavill was the only actor in serious contention for the role of James Bond, but at 22 years old, was considered too young. Hugh Jackman reportedly turned the role down as 007. Gerard Butler and Ewan McGregor turned down the role of James Bond, due to fears of typecasting.
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Awards
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- Most BAFTA nominations ever received by a James Bond movie, totalling nine. The previous record had been two each for GoldenEye (1995) and The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). The nine nominations were for Best British Film, Adapted Screenplay, Actor in a Leading Role, Film Music, Cinematography, Editing, Production Design, Sound, and Special Visual Effects. It only won for Best Sound.
- Daniel Craig became the first actor to be nominated for a BAFTA (British Academy) Award for playing James Bond.
- Most BAFTA nominations ever received by a James Bond movie, totalling nine. The previous record had been two each for GoldenEye (1995) and The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). The nine nominations were for Best British Film, Adapted Screenplay, Actor in a Leading Role, Film Music, Cinematography, Editing, Production Design, Sound, and Special Visual Effects. It only won for Best Sound.
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Book Differences
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- The way Bond orders his first vodka martini is lifted directly from the Ian Fleming novels.
- Ian Fleming is said to have based the character of Le Chiffre on English occultist Aleister Crowley
- First James Bond movie to be based on a full-length Ian Fleming novel since Moonraker (1979).
- Marks the first time since The Living Daylights (1987) that a James Bond movie has used an original Ian Fleming short story or novel title.
- Daniel Craig is the first actor to play James Bond who is younger than the series itself.
- The “Vesper” that James Bond orders at Casino Royale is taken from the novel. It consists of three parts gin (Gordon’s was Bond’s choice), one part vodka [Bond preferred a grain vodka be used (Absolut)] and half part of Kina Lillet. The ingredients are shaken over ice until cold, served in a cocktail glass with a slice of lemon peel for garnish. In 1985, Kina Lillet was reformulated to reduce sugar and quinine (the “Kina” in the name) and was rebranded just as “Lillet”. The addition of red and rose versions of the aperitif have caused the original to be known as “Lillet Blanc”.
- In the original novel, Le Chiffre is described as being short (5’8″) and heavyset (over three hundred pounds).
- The scene where Le Chiffre tortures Bond is taken directly from the novel. However, the scene leaves out the part where Le Chiffre cuts Bond’s back so he bleeds on the floor and rats are released in a feeding frenzy underneath the chair.
- The demise of Vesper Lynd was different in the novel. In the novel, Vesper committed suicide and left a note for James Bond admitting her treachery and her pledging love to Bond.
- The way Bond orders his first vodka martini is lifted directly from the Ian Fleming novels.
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Trivia
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- Before Daniel Craig’s critically acclaimed adaptation, two versions of Casino Royale had already been made, albeit outside of the main film series:
- 1954 50 minute television episode – An installment of the anthology series Climax! Marked the first on-screen appearance of the iconic 007. CBS paid Ian Fleming $1,000 (about $10,000 today) to adapt the book into a one-hour TV special.
- Columbia Pictures’ 1967 film Casino Royale – loosely based on Fleming’s book of the same name, it had nothing to do with the official film series, serving as a humorous spoof of the franchise and spy movies.
- 1954 50 minute television episode – An installment of the anthology series Climax! Marked the first on-screen appearance of the iconic 007. CBS paid Ian Fleming $1,000 (about $10,000 today) to adapt the book into a one-hour TV special.
- Daniel Craig initially rejected the part of James Bond, as he felt that the series had settled into a standard formula. He changed his mind when he read the finished script.
- Daniel Craig said he was shopping for groceries when he got the call from producer Barbara Broccoli that he had won the James Bond role. She apparently told him, “Over to you, kiddo.” Craig left the groceries behind and celebrated with martinis (shaken, not stirred).
- Daniel Craig gained twenty pounds of muscle for the role by adhering to eating mostly proteins, minimizing his carbohydrates intake, training five days a week, only doing cardio exercises on weekends.
- To prepare for the role, Daniel Craig read all of Ian Fleming’s novels and talked with Mossad and British Secret Service agents who had served as advisers on Munich (2005)
- Daniel Craig claimed to be in a state of pain for most of the shoot due to the many vigorous stunts he was required to perform.
- Daniel Craig lost his two front teeth while filming a fight scene in Prague (the first action scene to be shot), and his dentist had to fly from London to replace them.
- This is the first movie in the forty-four years of James Bond where it rains.
- In one afternoon’s shooting, three Aston Martin DB9 cars, valued at $300,000 each, were destroyed for the car roll sequence
- The car barrel roll stunt by the Aston Martin DBS broke the world record for the most barrel rolls assisted by a cannon. Originally, the racing specifications of the DBS meant that a standard ramp would not be sufficient to get the car to roll, so the special effects team were called in to install an air-powered cannon behind the driver’s seat. This allowed the car to complete seven full rolls. The stunt was officially entered into the Guinness Book of World Records on November 5, 2006.
- Producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson didn’t secure the rights to Casino Royale until 2000 when Sony exchanged them for MGM’s rights to Spider-Man.
- The first film to show James Bond as a rookie in MI6. In all previous movies, he had long been a spy.
- M’s (Dame Judi Dench) partner, sleeping next to her when she receives a call in the night, was played by the transport coordinator.
- It was a conscious decision to leave the semi-naked girls out of the opening credits as the James Bond persona is not effectively established until the end of the movie. This is the first movie since Dr. No (1962) where there were no nude dancing females during the opening title sequence.
- According to Daniel Craig, the only CGI in this movie was to erase safety wires in a lot of the stunt sequences, and to integrate the models for the sinking palazzo into the real Venetian location.
- Sir Sean Connery, Sir Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, and George Lazenby all supported the casting of Daniel Craig as James Bond.
- First James Bond movie approved by Chinese censors. All of the other films were available in China only as illegal bootlegs.
- Product placement was deliberately scaled back following the criticism levelled at Die Another Day (2002), which earned itself the nickname “Buy Another Day”.
- Ian Fleming celebrated the completion of the “Casino Royale” novel’s first draft by purchasing a gold-plated typewriter. Former James Bond actor Pierce Brosnan reportedly bought the typewriter a few years ago for $52,000.
- Le Chiffre’s (Mads Mikkelsen’s) left eye is deformed and weeps blood. Le Chiffre’s girlfriend Valenka (Ivana Milicevic) almost always has her hair styled to cover her left eye. She hides her eye in deference to his damaged one.
- The old woman that played poker with James Bond and Alex Dimitrios is Diane Hartford, who also appeared in Thunderball (1965) as the woman with whom Bond decides to dance at the Kiss Kiss Bang Bang Club.
- As of 2020, this was highest-grossing Bond film, until Skyfall (2012) surpassed it.
- Le Chiffre is the first leading Bond villain in the EON Productions series to have two readily apparent physical dysfunctions. He has an inhaler for breathing, which is a character trait from the original novel, but he also has tear ducts that weep blood. This bleeding of the eye is a real medical condition, which is known as haemolacria. This usually manifests itself as either partially blood-tinged tears, which are part teardrops and part blood, or as full blood drops. Haemolacria can be an indicator of a tumor in the lacrimal apparatus of the eye, and can also be an indicator of a variety of other diseases.
- Daniel Craig is the first James Bond not to act with Desmond Llewelyn, who played Q in seventeen of the previous twenty movies, and died in 1999.
- “Le Chiffre” is a French word which translates into English as “The Number”.
- Despite being second billed to Daniel Craig, Eva Green does not appear until fifty-eight minutes into this movie.
- During the black-and-white sequence at the beginning, Dryden goes up in an elevator, showing the floor indicator. The scene cuts before the elevator goes higher than six, because Bond has not yet earned his “double-0” status, 007.
- “Q” does not appear in this movie. The last time this happened was in Live and Let Die (1973), which was Sir Roger Moore’s debut as Bond. (It is possible however that the unnamed MI6 Technician who implants a tracking device in Bond’s is, if not the current Q, at least someone who works in Q Branch.)
- Daniel Craig is the shortest actor to play James Bond in the EON franchise at 5’10”. Sir Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Sir Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, and Pierce Brosnan are all around 6’2″.
- In 1999, Sony paid MGM $5 million to settle the $40 million lawsuit that MGM had brought against Sony over the James Bond rights. The lawsuit was filed because of Sony’s intentions to make a second adaptation of “Casino Royale”. In the settlement, Sony agreed to hand over all of its rights to the Bond character and “Casino Royale”. In an ironic twist of fate, Sony bought MGM in 2005, and in 2006, released a serious adaptation of “Casino Royale”.
- Chris Cornell has said inspirations for writing the song “You Know My Name” came from Sir Paul McCartney’s theme for Live and Let Die (1973) and Sir Tom Jones’ theme for Thunderball (1965).
- Although this movie is a reboot, and takes place in a new timeline, producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli decided not to re-cast the role of M, and brought back Dame Judi Dench, who played M in the Pierce Brosnan era. Dame Judi reprised the role in Quantum of Solace (2008) and Skyfall (2012).
- Director Cameo: Martin Campbell: The airport tanker truck driver murdered by the terrorist at Miami Airport.
- Vesper Lynd (Eva Green) died never knowing that her kidnapped boyfriend, Yusef Kabira (Simon Kassianides), had set her up from the beginning, being a Quantum agent, and his kidnapping was staged by Quantum to force Vesper to become a double agent.
- This is the first James Bond movie where he failed in all of his mission objectives (Le Chiffre died without revealing any information on his network, MI6’s money was lost to the terrorist organization, Vesper also died without revealing anything). However, at the end, Bond captured Mr. White, so there’s a chance he might be able to salvage something.
- After winning the final game of poker and beating Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen), James Bond (Daniel Craig) tips the dealer a red plaque for the amount of $500,000.
- Before Daniel Craig’s critically acclaimed adaptation, two versions of Casino Royale had already been made, albeit outside of the main film series:
Released: November 16, 2006 (United Kingdom), November 17 2006 (United States)
Directed By: Martin Campbell
Screenplay By: Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Paul Haggis
Based on the Book: Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
Music By: David Arnold
Stars: Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Jeffrey Wright, Dame Judi Dench and a bunch more people
Plot: After earning 00 status and a licence to kill, secret agent James Bond sets out on his first mission as 007. Bond must defeat a private banker funding terrorists in a high-stakes game of poker at Casino Royale, Montenegro.
Tagline: Everyone has a past. Every legend has a beginning. On November 17th, discover how James…became Bond.
How did this movie do?
Budget: $150 Million
Box Office: $617 Million
- According to director Martin Campbell, Henry Cavill was the only actor in serious contention for the role of James Bond, but at 22 years old, was considered too young. Hugh Jackman reportedly turned the role down as 007. Gerard Butler and Ewan McGregor turned down the role of James Bond, due to fears of typecasting.
- Daniel Craig was producer Barbara Broccoli’s first choice for the role of Bond. She had him in mind after seeing his performance in Layer Cake (2004).
- Angelina Jolie, Naomi Watts, Scarlett Johansson, and Charlize Theron were strongly considered for the part of Vesper Lynd.
- When Quentin Tarantino was in talks with Sony Pictures, he wanted Samuel L. Jackson as Felix Leiter and Uma Thurman as Bond Girl Vesper Lynd.
- Most BAFTA nominations ever received by a James Bond movie, totalling nine. The previous record had been two each for GoldenEye (1995) and The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). The nine nominations were for Best British Film, Adapted Screenplay, Actor in a Leading Role, Film Music, Cinematography, Editing, Production Design, Sound, and Special Visual Effects. It only won for Best Sound.
- Daniel Craig became the first actor to be nominated for a BAFTA (British Academy) Award for playing James Bond.
- The way Bond orders his first vodka martini is lifted directly from the Ian Fleming novels.
- Ian Fleming is said to have based the character of Le Chiffre on English occultist Aleister Crowley
- First James Bond movie to be based on a full-length Ian Fleming novel since Moonraker (1979).
- Marks the first time since The Living Daylights (1987) that a James Bond movie has used an original Ian Fleming short story or novel title.
- Daniel Craig is the first actor to play James Bond who is younger than the series itself.
- The “Vesper” that James Bond orders at Casino Royale is taken from the novel. It consists of three parts gin (Gordon’s was Bond’s choice), one part vodka [Bond preferred a grain vodka be used (Absolut)] and half part of Kina Lillet. The ingredients are shaken over ice until cold, served in a cocktail glass with a slice of lemon peel for garnish. In 1985, Kina Lillet was reformulated to reduce sugar and quinine (the “Kina” in the name) and was rebranded just as “Lillet”. The addition of red and rose versions of the aperitif have caused the original to be known as “Lillet Blanc”.
- In the original novel, Le Chiffre is described as being short (5’8″) and heavyset (over three hundred pounds).
- The scene where Le Chiffre tortures Bond is taken directly from the novel. However, the scene leaves out the part where Le Chiffre cuts Bond’s back so he bleeds on the floor and rats are released in a feeding frenzy underneath the chair.
- The demise of Vesper Lynd was different in the novel. In the novel, Vesper committed suicide and left a note for James Bond admitting her treachery and her pledging love to Bond.
- Before Daniel Craig’s critically acclaimed adaptation, two versions of Casino Royale had already been made, albeit outside of the main film series:
- 1954 50 minute television episode – An installment of the anthology series Climax! Marked the first on-screen appearance of the iconic 007. CBS paid Ian Fleming $1,000 (about $10,000 today) to adapt the book into a one-hour TV special.
- Columbia Pictures’ 1967 film Casino Royale – loosely based on Fleming’s book of the same name, it had nothing to do with the official film series, serving as a humorous spoof of the franchise and spy movies.
- 1954 50 minute television episode – An installment of the anthology series Climax! Marked the first on-screen appearance of the iconic 007. CBS paid Ian Fleming $1,000 (about $10,000 today) to adapt the book into a one-hour TV special.
- Daniel Craig initially rejected the part of James Bond, as he felt that the series had settled into a standard formula. He changed his mind when he read the finished script.
- Daniel Craig said he was shopping for groceries when he got the call from producer Barbara Broccoli that he had won the James Bond role. She apparently told him, “Over to you, kiddo.” Craig left the groceries behind and celebrated with martinis (shaken, not stirred).
- Daniel Craig gained twenty pounds of muscle for the role by adhering to eating mostly proteins, minimizing his carbohydrates intake, training five days a week, only doing cardio exercises on weekends.
- To prepare for the role, Daniel Craig read all of Ian Fleming’s novels and talked with Mossad and British Secret Service agents who had served as advisers on Munich (2005)
- Daniel Craig claimed to be in a state of pain for most of the shoot due to the many vigorous stunts he was required to perform.
- Daniel Craig lost his two front teeth while filming a fight scene in Prague (the first action scene to be shot), and his dentist had to fly from London to replace them.
- This is the first movie in the forty-four years of James Bond where it rains.
- In one afternoon’s shooting, three Aston Martin DB9 cars, valued at $300,000 each, were destroyed for the car roll sequence
- The car barrel roll stunt by the Aston Martin DBS broke the world record for the most barrel rolls assisted by a cannon. Originally, the racing specifications of the DBS meant that a standard ramp would not be sufficient to get the car to roll, so the special effects team were called in to install an air-powered cannon behind the driver’s seat. This allowed the car to complete seven full rolls. The stunt was officially entered into the Guinness Book of World Records on November 5, 2006.
- Producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson didn’t secure the rights to Casino Royale until 2000 when Sony exchanged them for MGM’s rights to Spider-Man.
- The first film to show James Bond as a rookie in MI6. In all previous movies, he had long been a spy.
- M’s (Dame Judi Dench) partner, sleeping next to her when she receives a call in the night, was played by the transport coordinator.
- It was a conscious decision to leave the semi-naked girls out of the opening credits as the James Bond persona is not effectively established until the end of the movie. This is the first movie since Dr. No (1962) where there were no nude dancing females during the opening title sequence.
- According to Daniel Craig, the only CGI in this movie was to erase safety wires in a lot of the stunt sequences, and to integrate the models for the sinking palazzo into the real Venetian location.
- Sir Sean Connery, Sir Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, and George Lazenby all supported the casting of Daniel Craig as James Bond.
- First James Bond movie approved by Chinese censors. All of the other films were available in China only as illegal bootlegs.
- Product placement was deliberately scaled back following the criticism levelled at Die Another Day (2002), which earned itself the nickname “Buy Another Day”.
- Ian Fleming celebrated the completion of the “Casino Royale” novel’s first draft by purchasing a gold-plated typewriter. Former James Bond actor Pierce Brosnan reportedly bought the typewriter a few years ago for $52,000.
- Le Chiffre’s (Mads Mikkelsen’s) left eye is deformed and weeps blood. Le Chiffre’s girlfriend Valenka (Ivana Milicevic) almost always has her hair styled to cover her left eye. She hides her eye in deference to his damaged one.
- The old woman that played poker with James Bond and Alex Dimitrios is Diane Hartford, who also appeared in Thunderball (1965) as the woman with whom Bond decides to dance at the Kiss Kiss Bang Bang Club.
- As of 2020, this was highest-grossing Bond film, until Skyfall (2012) surpassed it.
- Le Chiffre is the first leading Bond villain in the EON Productions series to have two readily apparent physical dysfunctions. He has an inhaler for breathing, which is a character trait from the original novel, but he also has tear ducts that weep blood. This bleeding of the eye is a real medical condition, which is known as haemolacria. This usually manifests itself as either partially blood-tinged tears, which are part teardrops and part blood, or as full blood drops. Haemolacria can be an indicator of a tumor in the lacrimal apparatus of the eye, and can also be an indicator of a variety of other diseases.
- Daniel Craig is the first James Bond not to act with Desmond Llewelyn, who played Q in seventeen of the previous twenty movies, and died in 1999.
- “Le Chiffre” is a French word which translates into English as “The Number”.
- Despite being second billed to Daniel Craig, Eva Green does not appear until fifty-eight minutes into this movie.
- During the black-and-white sequence at the beginning, Dryden goes up in an elevator, showing the floor indicator. The scene cuts before the elevator goes higher than six, because Bond has not yet earned his “double-0” status, 007.
- “Q” does not appear in this movie. The last time this happened was in Live and Let Die (1973), which was Sir Roger Moore’s debut as Bond. (It is possible however that the unnamed MI6 Technician who implants a tracking device in Bond’s is, if not the current Q, at least someone who works in Q Branch.)
- Daniel Craig is the shortest actor to play James Bond in the EON franchise at 5’10”. Sir Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Sir Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, and Pierce Brosnan are all around 6’2″.
- In 1999, Sony paid MGM $5 million to settle the $40 million lawsuit that MGM had brought against Sony over the James Bond rights. The lawsuit was filed because of Sony’s intentions to make a second adaptation of “Casino Royale”. In the settlement, Sony agreed to hand over all of its rights to the Bond character and “Casino Royale”. In an ironic twist of fate, Sony bought MGM in 2005, and in 2006, released a serious adaptation of “Casino Royale”.
- Chris Cornell has said inspirations for writing the song “You Know My Name” came from Sir Paul McCartney’s theme for Live and Let Die (1973) and Sir Tom Jones’ theme for Thunderball (1965).
- Although this movie is a reboot, and takes place in a new timeline, producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli decided not to re-cast the role of M, and brought back Dame Judi Dench, who played M in the Pierce Brosnan era. Dame Judi reprised the role in Quantum of Solace (2008) and Skyfall (2012).
- Director Cameo: Martin Campbell: The airport tanker truck driver murdered by the terrorist at Miami Airport.
- Vesper Lynd (Eva Green) died never knowing that her kidnapped boyfriend, Yusef Kabira (Simon Kassianides), had set her up from the beginning, being a Quantum agent, and his kidnapping was staged by Quantum to force Vesper to become a double agent.
- This is the first James Bond movie where he failed in all of his mission objectives (Le Chiffre died without revealing any information on his network, MI6’s money was lost to the terrorist organization, Vesper also died without revealing anything). However, at the end, Bond captured Mr. White, so there’s a chance he might be able to salvage something.
- After winning the final game of poker and beating Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen), James Bond (Daniel Craig) tips the dealer a red plaque for the amount of $500,000.
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Countries: United Kingdom, Czech Republic, United States, Germany, BahamasLanguages: English, Serbian, German, Italian, FrenchBudget: $150,000,000 (estimated)
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Quotes
James Bond: [to Vesper] Why is it that people who can't take advice always insist on giving it?
James Bond: [sarcastically to Le Chiffre and, after nearly dying from poisoning] I'm sorry. That last hand... nearly killed me.
James Bond: [to the bartender in the casino] Dry Martini.
Bartender: Oui, monsieur.
James Bond: Wait... three measures of Gordon's; one of vodka; half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it over ice, and add a thin slice of lemon peel.
Bartender: Yes, sir.
Tomelli: You know, I'll have one of those.
Infante: So will I.
Bartender: Certainly.
Felix Leiter: My friend, bring me one as well, keep the fruit.
Le Chiffre: [annoyed] That's it, hmm? Anyone want to play poker now?
Felix Leiter: Someone's in a hurry.
James Bond: [Reading about their alias covers] We've been involved for quite a long while. Hence, the shared suite.
Vesper Lynd: But, my family is strict Roman Catholic. So, for appearances sake, it'll be a two-bedroom suite.
James Bond: I do *hate* it when religion comes between us.
Vesper Lynd: Religion - and a securely locked door. Am I going to have a problem with you, Bond?
James Bond: No, don't worry, you're not my type.
Vesper Lynd: Smart?
James Bond: Single.
Vesper Lynd: [sitting on opposite sides of the dinner table, discussing poker skills on the train heading towards Montenegro] What else can you surmise, Mr. Bond?
James Bond: About you, Miss Lynd? Well, your beauty's a problem. You worry you won't be taken seriously.
Vesper Lynd: Which one can say of any attractive woman with half a brain.
James Bond: True. But this one overcompensates by wearing slightly masculine clothing. Being more aggressive than her female colleagues. Which gives her a somewhat *prickly* demeanor, and ironically enough, makes it less likely for her to be accepted and promoted by her male superiors, who mistake her insecurities for arrogance. Now, I'd have normally gone with "only child," but, you see, by the way you ignored the quip about your parents... I'm gonna have to go with "orphan."
Vesper Lynd: All right... by the cut of your suit, you went to Oxford or wherever. Naturally you think human beings dress like that. But you wear it with such disdain, my guess is you didn't come from money, and your school friends never let you forget it. Which means you were at that school by the grace of someone else's charity - hence that chip on your shoulder. And since your first thought about me ran to "orphan," that's what I'd say you are.
[he smiles but says nothing]
Vesper Lynd: Oh, you are? I like this poker thing. And that makes perfect sense! Since MI6 looks for maladjusted young men, who give little thought to sacrificing others in order to protect Queen and country. You know... former SAS types with easy smiles and expensive watches.
[Glances at his wrist]
Vesper Lynd: Rolex?
James Bond: Omega.
Vesper Lynd: Beautiful. Now, having just met you, I wouldn't go as far as calling you a cold-hearted bastard...
James Bond: No, of course not.
Vesper Lynd: But it wouldn't be a stretch to imagine. You think of women as disposable pleasures, rather than meaningful pursuits. So as charming as you are, Mr. Bond, I will be keeping my eye on our government's money - and off your perfectly-formed arse.
James Bond: You noticed?
Vesper Lynd: Even accountants have imagination. How was your lamb?
James Bond: Skewered! One sympathizes.
Vesper Lynd: Good evening, Mr. Bond.
James Bond: Good evening, Ms. Lynd.
James Bond: [after Bond has just lost his 10 million in the game, to the bartender in the casino] Vodka-martini.
Bartender: Shaken or stirred?
James Bond: [agitated] Do I look like I give a damn?
James Bond: [tied to a wooden chair as he is being tortured] I've got a little itch, down there. Would you mind?
[last lines]
James Bond: The name's Bond... James Bond.
James Bond: [laughing - after being stuck five times with a knotted rope inside a steel chamber] Now the whole world's gonna know that you died scratching my balls!
Le Chiffre: [holding the rope over one shoulder] Oh... I died? I died?
James Bond: [laughing] Yeah! 'Cause no matter what you do, I'm not gonna give you the password which means your clients are gonna hunt you down and cut you into little pieces of meat while you're still breathing. Because if you kill me, there'll be nowhere else to hide.
Le Chiffre: [rounds on Bond] But you are SO WRONG! 'Cause even after I slaughtered you and your little girlfriend, your people would still welcome me with open arms... because they need... what I know.
James Bond: [quietly] The big picture.
[in another room, Vesper screams. Bond and Le Chiffre notice this]
Le Chiffre: Give me the password, and I will at least let her live.
[slaps Bond on the cheek again]
Le Chiffre: Bond, do it soon enough and she might even be in one piece.
[Bond considers this, then looks at Le Chiffre and laughs. Le Chiffre laughs as well, and realizes that Bond will not give in to the torture]
Le Chiffre: You *really* aren't going to tell me, are you?
James Bond: [laughing] No.
James Bond: [after tasting the Dry Martini] I think I'll call it a Vesper.
Vesper Lynd: Because of the bitter aftertaste?
James Bond: No, because once you've tasted it, that's all you want to drink.
James Bond: [angrily to M] The job's done and the bitch is dead.
Le Chiffre: [having coming back to the poker table] You changed your shirt, Mr Bond. I hope our little game isn't causing you to perspire.
James Bond: A little. But I won't consider myself to be in trouble until I start weeping blood.
Vesper Lynd: [introducing herself to Bond on the train traveling towards Montenegro] I'm the money.
James Bond: Every penny of it.
Vesper Lynd: You're not going to let me in there, are you? You've got your armour back on. That's that.
James Bond: I have no armour left. You've stripped it from me. Whatever is left of me - whatever is left of me - whatever I am - I'm yours.
Vesper Lynd: You love me?
James Bond: Enough to travel the world with you until one of us has to take an honest job... which I think is going to have to be you, because I have no idea what an honest job is.
Felix Leiter: [standing on the stairway in the casino] I should have introduced myself, seeing as we're related. Felix Leiter, a brother from Langley.
[sees that Bond has a knife]
Felix Leiter: You should have faith. As long as you keep your head about you, I think you have him.
James Bond: Had. Excuse me.
Felix Leiter: You're not buying in?
James Bond: No.
Felix Leiter: Listen, I'm bleeding chips. I'm not going to last much longer. You have a better chance. I'll stake you. I'm saying I'll give you the money to keep going. Just one thing: you pull it off, the CIA bring him in.
James Bond: What about the winnings?
Felix Leiter: Does it look like we need the money?
James Bond: I always thought M was a randomly assigned initial, I had no idea it stood for...
M: Utter one more syllable and I'll have you killed.
Vesper Lynd: [standing inside the elevator to James who is standing in front of her outside the elevator] There isn't enough room for me and your ego.
Vesper Lynd: You can switch off so easily, can't you? It doesn't bother you? Killing those people?
James Bond: Well, I wouldn't be very good at my job if it did.
M: Sometimes we pay so much attention to our enemies, we forget to watch our friends as well.
Le Chiffre: [trying to calm an assassin] I'll get the money. Tell them I'll-I'll get the money.
Mr. White: Money isn't as valuable to our organization as knowing who to trust.
[shoots him]
Vesper Lynd: I can't resist waking you. Every time I do, you look at me as if you hadn't seen me in years. Makes me feel reborn.
James Bond: If you had just been born, wouldn't you be naked?
Le Chiffre: [telling Bond he was betrayed] I'm afraid that your friend Mathis... is really... my friend Mathis.
M: Who the hell do they think they are? I report to the Prime Minister and even he's smart enough not to ask me what we do. Have you ever seen such a bunch of self-righteous, ass-covering prigs? They don't care what we do; they care what we get photographed doing. And how the hell could Bond be so stupid? I give him 00 status and he celebrates by shooting up an embassy. Is the man deranged? And where the hell is he? In the old days if an agent did something that embarrassing he'd have a good sense to defect. Christ, I miss the Cold War.
James Bond: [after reading a note left by M and seeing the Aston Martin] I love you too M.
Villiers: He's logged into our secure website, using your name and password.
M: [annoyed] How the hell does he *know* these things?
Vesper Lynd: I'm afraid I'm a complicated woman.
James Bond: That is something to be afraid of.
M: [standing in front of him in her apartment] I knew it was too early to promote you.
James Bond: [sitting down in front of her computer] Well, I understand 00s have a very short life expectancy... so your mistake will be short-lived.
James Bond: [Bond has just won Dimitrios's car in a game of poker] Oh, and the valet ticket.
Villiers: [calling M up in the middle of the night in her bed] He's in the Bahamas.
M: [through video conference] You woke me to share his holiday plans?
Solange: [Kissing on the floor of his beachfront suite] Mmmmm. You like married women... don't you, James?
James Bond: It keeps things simple.
Solange: [laughs] What is it about bad men? You... my husband. I had so many chances to be happy, so many nice guys. Why can't nice guys be more like you?
James Bond: Because then they'd be bad.
Solange: [kissing him some more] Mmmmm, yes!... But, so much more interesting.
Doctor #1: [to Bond, who is going into cardiac arrest with M listening] Stay calm and don't interrupt. Because you'll be dead within two minutes unless you do exactly what I tell you.
James Bond: [breathing slowly, siting in his Aston Martin] I'm all ears.
[Dryden, an MOD director, comes into his office late at night. He notices that his safe has been broken into, and soon finds James Bond sitting in the shadows]
James Bond: M doesn't mind you earning a little money on the side, Dryden. She'd just prefer it if it wasn't selling secrets.
[Dryden sits at his desk and quietly opens a concealed drawer, containing a gun]
Dryden: If the theatrics are supposed to scare me, you have the wrong man, Bond. If M was so sure that I was bent, she'd have sent a 00. Benefits of being section chief; I'd know if anyone had been promoted to 00 status, wouldn't I? Your file shows no kills. And it takes...
James Bond: Two.
[flashback to Bond savagely fighting Dryden's contact, Fisher, in a bathroom]
Dryden: [points his gun at Bond] Shame... we barely got to know each other.
[pulls the trigger, but nothing happens]
James Bond: [holds up the clip from Dryden's pistol] I know where you keep your gun. I suppose that's something.
Dryden: [lowers his gun] True. How did he die?
James Bond: Your contact? Not well.
[cut back to Bond beating Fisher, then trying to drown him in a sink]
Dryden: Made you feel it, did he? Well, you needn't worry. The second is...
[Bond draws his gun and kills Dryden. As he falls back, his lifeless hand is seen pushing a photo of himself with his wife and their daughter off the table]
James Bond: Yes. Considerably.
[last lines]
Mr. White: [answering his cellphone] Hello?
James Bond: Mr. White? We need to talk.
Mr. White: Who is this?
[a shot rings out shattering White's leg. He drops to the ground in obvious pain and drags himself toward the house. He is stopped at the steps by the feet of a man in a suit. He looks up to see Bond with a cell phone in one hand and an assault weapon in the other]
James Bond: The name's Bond. James Bond.
James Bond: I'm sorry I'm not sorry.
Le Chiffre: [to Bond, naked and tied to a wooden chair inside a steel chamber] Wow. You've taken good care of your body. Such... a waste.
M: [as Solange's dead body is carried away] I would ask you if you could remain emotionally detached, but that's not your problem, is it, Bond?
James Bond: No.
James Bond: [stepping out of the bathroom showing her his dinner jacket] I have a dinner jacket.
Vesper Lynd: There are dinner jackets and dinner jackets; this is the latter. And I need you looking like a man who belongs at that table.
James Bond: [irritated] How?... It's tailored.
Vesper Lynd: I sized you up the moment we met.
Vesper Lynd: [smiling] You know, James, I just want you to know that if all that was left of you was your smile and your little finger, you'd still be more of a man than anyone I've ever met.
James Bond: [sitting in a wheelchair next to her, outside a clinic] That's because you know what I can do with my little finger.
Vesper Lynd: [smiles] I have no idea.
James Bond: But you're aching to find out.
Vesper Lynd: Ten million was wired to your account in Montenegro, with the contingency for five more if I deem it a prudent investment. I suppose you've given some thought to the notion that if you lose, our government will have directly financed terrorism.
[Bond, having been poisoned, is attempting to use a defibrillator on himself while a doctor talks him through the process over the phone, but the defibrillator has come disconnected. Bond passes out and his heart stops. Vesper arrives, reconnects the defibrillator, and uses it to restart Bond's heart. He regains consciousness]
James Bond: [having woken up] You OK?
Vesper Lynd: [confused] Me?
James Bond: Thank you.
Hot Room Doctor: You're welcome. Now get yourself off to a hospital.
James Bond: I will do. As soon as I've won this game.
Vesper Lynd: You're not seriously going back there?
James Bond: I wouldn't dream of it.
Vesper Lynd: [to Bond] This is me in character pissed off because you're losing so damn hard we won't be here past midnight. Oddly enough, my character's feelings mirror my own.
James Bond: [talking privately to Vesper after losing all of his chips] Well, I'm gonna need the other five million to buy back in.
Vesper Lynd: I can't do that, James.
James Bond: Look, I made a mistake. I was impatient, maybe I was arrogant, but I can beat him.
Vesper Lynd: [quietly] I'm sorry.
James Bond: [angrily grabs Vesper's arm] "Sorry?" Sorry! Why don't you try putting that in a sentence, like maybe, "Sorry Le Chiffre's gonna win, continue funding terror and killing innocent people!" That kind of "sorry"?
Vesper Lynd: You lost because of your ego, and that same ego can't take it! That's what this is all about. All you're going to do now is lose more.
James Bond: [mumbling] Well then, you're an idiot.
Vesper Lynd: I'm sorry?
James Bond: I said you're a bloody idiot! Look in my eyes. I can beat this man - you know that.
Vesper Lynd: [quietly] Get your hand off my arm.
Steven Obanno: [after swinging a machete to cut off Valenka's hand, he stops just short of her flesh and looks at her admiringly] Not a word of protest. You should find a new boyfriend.
Le Chiffre: [after striking Bond with a knotted rope inside a steel chamber] You know, I never understood all these elaborate tortures. It's the simplest thing... to cause more pain than a man can possibly endure.
[strikes Bond again, this time harder]
Le Chiffre: And of course, it's not only the immediate agony, but the knowledge... that if you do not yield soon enough... there will be little left to identify you as a man.
[drags up a stool, sits down next to Bond and slaps him on the cheek]
Le Chiffre: The only question remains: will you yield, in time?
Carter: [sees Mollaka in the crowd, watching animals fight] Looks like our man, burn scars on his face.
James Bond: Hmm. I wonder if bomb-makers are insured for things like that.
Mathis: [standing next to Bond on a balcony seeing police find two African assassins dead in the truck of a car] Being dead does not mean one cannot be helpful.
James Bond: [as Solange is kissing her way down Bond's chest] Can I ask you a personal question?
Solange: Now wouldn't seem an appropriate time.
[about Le Chiffre]
James Bond: Do you want a clean kill or do you want to send a message?
James Bond: [upon receiving their alias documents] I'm Mr. Arlington Beech, professional gambler, and you're Miss Stephanie Broadchest...
Vesper Lynd: I am not!
James Bond: You're going to have to trust me on this.
Vesper Lynd: Oh no I don't.
James Bond: [to Carter through an ear piece radio] Stop touching your ear.
Carter: [nervously, can't understand Bond's transmission] Sorry?
James Bond: [raising his voice] Put your hand down!
James Bond: [Vesper Lynd presents her business card] Vesper? I do hope you gave your parents hell for that.
Le Chiffre: Weeping blood comes merely from a derangement of the tear duct, my dear General. Nothing sinister.
[considers his cards and moves his chips forward]
Le Chiffre: All in. I have two pair and you have a 17.4% chance of making your straight.
Vesper Lynd: You can have me - anywhere.
James Bond: I can?
Vesper Lynd: Yeah. Here. There. Anyway you like.
James Bond: Does this mean that you're... warming to me?
Vesper Lynd: Yeah. That's how I would describe it.
James Bond: It's just that not so long ago, I would have described your feelings towards me as, eh, I'm trying to think of a better word than - loathing.
Vesper Lynd: I'm afraid I'm a complicated woman.
James Bond: There is something to be afraid of.
M: [sees Bond sitting by her computer in her apartment] You've got a bloody cheek!
James Bond: Sorry. I'll shoot the camera first next time.
M: Or yourself. You stormed into an Embassy; you violated the only absolutely inviolate rule of international relations, and why? So you could kill a nobody. We wanted to question him, not to kill him! For God's sake! You're supposed to display some kind of judgement.
James Bond: I did. I thought one less bomb maker in the world would be a good thing.
M: Exactly. One bomb maker. We're trying to figure out how an entire network of terrorist groups is financed and you give us one bomb maker. Hardly the big picture, wouldn't you say?
Steven Obanno: Do you believe in God, Mr. Le Chiffre?
Le Chiffre: No. I believe in a reasonable rate of return.
Alex Dimitrios: I'm having a hard time seeing how this is my fault. It's your plan. All I did was get you the man.
Le Chiffre: A man who was under surveillance by the British Secret Service. Which makes me wonder if I can trust you at all.
Alex Dimitrios: Then don't. I couldn't care less. But I do care about my reputation. I have someone else willing to do the job. He just needs the particulars, and payment.
Le Chiffre: [jokingly to Le Chiffre, after telling where to hit him with the knot tied to the end of a thick rope] You are a funny man, Mr. Bond.
M: [to Bond] Arrogance and self-awareness seldom go hand in hand.
James Bond: You can stop pretending. You knew I wouldn't let this drop, didn't you?
M: Well, I knew you were you.
Mathis: I hate to say it, but, the accountants seem to be running MI6 these days. Oh, not that I have anything against accountants. Many of them are lovely people. So, I decided that it was cheaper to supply his deputy with evidence that we were bribing Le Chiffre. Its amazing what you can do with photoshop, these days, isn't it.
M: When they analyzed the stock market after 9/11, the CIA discovered a massive shorting of airline stocks. When the stocks hit bottom on 9/12, somebody made a fortune. The same thing happened this morning with SkyFleet stock, or was supposed to. With their prototype destroyed, the company would be near bankruptcy. Instead, somebody lost over $100 million betting the wrong way.
Le Chiffre: Give our guests five minutes to leave... or throw them overboard.
M: [to James referring to Le Chiffre, during briefing in the Bahamas] Which would explain how he could set up a high stakes poker game at Casino Royale in Montenegro: ten players, ten million dollar buy in, five million dollar rebuy, winner takes all, potentially a hundred and fifty million dollars.
James Bond: Could you do me a favor? I was here for dinner last night and I parked my car next to a very beautiful 1964 Aston Martin - and I'm ashamed to say I nicked the door. You wouldn't happen to know...
Ocean Club Receptionist: Mr. Dimitrios.
James Bond: Right.
Ocean Club Receptionist: If he hasn't noticed, I'm not sure I'd mention it. He isn't the type to take bad news well.
James Bond: Can I give you a lift home?
Solange: [referring to her husband, Alex Dimitrios] That would really send him over the edge. I'm afraid I'm not that cruel.
James Bond: Well, perhaps you're just out of practice.
James Bond: What makes your husband a bad man?
Solange: His nature, I suppose.
James Bond: The nature of his work?
Solange: The mystery, I'm afraid. I'm also afraid you will sleep with me in order to get to him.
James Bond: How afraid?
Solange: Oh, not enough to stop.
Solange: Apparently, he's on the last flight to Miami. So, you have all night to question me.
James Bond: In that case, we're gonna need - some more champagne.
James Bond: [over the phone with room service] Good evening. Can I get a bottle of chilled Bollinger Grande Année and the Beluga caviar?
James Bond: [after checking in the hotel using his real name as opposed to his alias, walking towards to elevator] Look, if Le Chiffre is that well connected, he knows who I am and where the money's coming from. Which means he's decided to play me anyway. So, he's either desperate or he's overly confident. But, either way, that tells me something about him. And all he gets in return is a name he already has.
Vesper Lynd: And now he knows something about you. He knows you're reckless.
James Bond: You want to do what to me?
Vesper Lynd: [Under her breath] You've lost me, completely.
James Bond: [Under his breath] You said you can't wait to get me back to the room, come on.
James Bond: [during briefing in the Bahamas] So you want me to be half-monk, half-hitman.
M: Any thug can kill. I need you to take your ego out of the equation.
James Bond: [talking privately at the bar to Mathis and Vesper referring to Le Chiffre] It was worth it to discover his "tell".
Mathis: What'd you mean "tell"?
James Bond: The twitch he has to hide when he bluffs.
Vesper Lynd: Bluffs? He had the best hand.
James Bond: [explaining to Mathis and Vesper why he deliberately lost a hand to Le Chiffre] He won the hand with the river card. The odds against are twenty-three to one, and he'd know that. When he made his first raise, he had nothing. Winning was blind luck.
M: [to James, in her apartment, after he started a shooting at a African embassy] Go and stick your head in the sand somewhere and think about your future. Because these bastards want your head - and I'm seriously considering feeding you to them.
James Bond: What about a drink at my place?
Solange: Your place? Is it close?
James Bond: Very.
Solange: One drink.
M: She was tortured first. As you'd already killed her husband, she must have been the only one left to question. Did she know anything that could compromise you?
James Bond: No.
M: Not your name? What you were after?
James Bond: No.
M: [to James referring to Le Chiffre] We can't let him win this game. If he loses, he'll have nowhere to run - we'll give him sanctuary in return for everything he knows. I'm putting you in the game: replacing someone who's playing for the syndicate. According to Villiers, you're the best player in the service. Trust me, I wish it wasn't the case.
M: [Briefing James] Dimitrios was a middle man for a man named Le Chiffre, a private banker to the world's terrorists. He invested their money and gave them access to it whenever and wherever they wanted it, and he's also a chess prodigy and a mathematical genius and liked to prove it by playing poker.
Vesper Lynd: So you're telling me its a matter of probability and chance. I was worried there wasn't chance involved.
James Bond: Well, usually the player with the best hand wins.
Vesper Lynd: So, that would be what you call bluffing.
James Bond: You've heard the term. Then you also know in poker you never play your hand. You play the man across from you.
Vesper Lynd: And you're good at reading people?
James Bond: Yes, I am. Which is why I've been able to detect an undercurrent of sarcasm in your voice.
James Bond: You don't think this is a very good plan, do you?
Vesper Lynd: So there is a plan? I got the impression we were risking millions of dollars and hundreds of lives on a game of luck.
Mathis: [to Bond, referring to Vesper] How's our girl? Melted your cold heart yet?
M: [to Bond] She knew you were you.
M: I have to know I can trust you and that you know who to trust. And since I don't know that, I need you out of my sight.
M: [to Bond] Quite the body count you're stacking up.
James Bond: [Bond walks up and kisses Vesper] You taste nice.
Vesper Lynd: Have we dispensed with the covers?
James Bond: No. We dispensed with one that was of no use and created another that is.
James Bond: [Referring to Vesper's necklace] I figured out what that is. It's an Algerian love knot.
Vesper Lynd: Really? I thought it was just something pretty.
James Bond: Oh, no you didn't. Someone gave that to you. He's a very lucky man.
Vesper Lynd: You think I can't take my own advice?
James Bond: I think something is driving you - and I think I'll never find out what that is.
Dealer: [to Bond] check or bet?
James Bond: Check
Dealer: [to Dimitrios] and to you?
Alex Dimitrios: [Referring to the amount his going to bet] five thousand
Dealer: [to Bond] five to call
James Bond: [His turn to act after seeing the river card] check
Alex Dimitrios: [to Dimitrios] check to you sir
Alex Dimitrios: All in... no wait
Alex Dimitrios: [after taking out his check book] twenty thousand
Dealer: Table stakes: I'm sorry sir
Alex Dimitrios: [while showing Bond his car keys] ok, this is on the table, that's my car, want to bet?
Dealer: I'm sorry Mr. Dimitrios
James Bond: [to the dealer, referring to Dimitrios] no, please, give him a chance to win his money back
Dealer: [to Bond and Dimitrios] alright, show me gentlemen
Dealer: [Referring to Dimitrios' hand, pushing the river card forward] three kings
Dealer: [to Dimitrios, referring to Bond's hand, taps the area of the table in front of Bond] aces win
Dealer: [after Bond shows his hand] trip aces
Dealer: [to Dimitrios, referring to Bond's hand, taps the area of the table in front of Bond] aces win
James Bond: [Points to Dimitrios, while pushing the chips from the pot to his side of the table] oh, and the valet ticket
Dealer: [after dealing the turn card] four players
Dealer: [referring to his turn to act] Monsieur Bond?
James Bond: check
Mathis: [whispers to Vesper while they watch] twenty-four million in the pot already
Dealer: four players all check
James Bond: [after the dealer deals the river card] check
Fukutu: [after pushing his chips to the center of the table] all in: six million
Dealer: all in
Dealer: [referring the amount Infante just bet] five million: all in
Dealer: [reminding the players, the current highest amount] bet is six million
Le Chiffre: [after pushing his chips to the center of the table] raise
Dealer: raise, twelve million: heads up
James Bond: [after thinking it over] forty million, five hundred thousand: all in
Dealer: raise, all in
Le Chiffre: [to Bond, amused] well, I think I will call you on that one
Mathis: [whispers to Vesper while they watch] one hundred fifteen million in the pot
Dealer: call. Gentlemen, showdown please
Dealer: [referring to Fukutu's hand] flush: ace king, queen
Dealer: [referring to Infante's hand] full house: eights full of aces
Dealer: [referring to Le Chiffre's hand] higher full house: aces full of sixes
Dealer: [referring to Bond's hand] five and seven of spades: a straight flush, four to the eight, the high hand. Monsieur Bond wins