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Casino Royale (2006)
d. Martin Campbell, 144 minutes
Opening Credits, Title Sequence
The film opened with a black and white action pre title-credits sequence that then led to a black/white, stylized, markedly-different gun-barrel sequence. This was the first time in the Bond series that the gun-barrel wasn’t at the very start of the film. Bond (Craig) was filmed in a white-tiled bathroom, where he abruptly turned and fired, rather than walking into the space. The film then turned slowly to color after the blood washed down, as the title credits appeared.
This was also the first Bond film without images of women in the title sequence.
Main Title Sequence: Designed by Daniel Kleinman
Title Song: ’You Know My Name’ (sung by Chris Cornell)
Starring Daniel Craig, Daud Shah as Fisher and Malcolm Sinclair as Dryden. Full pretitles scene from Casino Royale - Bond Gets His Double O Status; includes. The opening credits of ’Casino Royale’ alone are another warning. There is not one stylized silhouette of a female model, which was the glamour signature in almost all Bond films. Instead, we just have silhouettes of guy shooting each other and bleeding in Technicolor across the screen.
Film Plot Summary
After a black/white MGM logo, the B/W pre-title credits sequence began - the setting was Prague (Czech Republic), where James Bond (Daniel Craig) was introduced as an agent before he was granted a license to kill and only elevated to double-0 status after completing two kills. The first of his kills occurred late at night as corrupt MI6 section chief John Dryden (Malcolm Sinclair) entered his 6th floor office and noticed his opened safe behind a picture. From behind, a seated Bond confronted Dryden and told him he shouldn’t be ’selling secrets’ to an unknown source. When Dryden reached for a gun in his desk drawer, he mentioned: ’Shame. We barely got to know each other,’ but his gun clicked empty - it had been emptied of bullets by Bond. The agent then described how he had already made his first kill - Dryden’s underworld contact Fisher (Daud Shah). Fisher’s death by drowning in a washroom sink and by gunshot was seen in flashback sequences during their hand-to-hand combat (# 1 death, # 1 Bond kill). Dryden was mid-sentence about how easy the second kill would be easier (’Made you feel it, did he? Well, you needn’t worry. The second is..’) when Bond shot him dead and added: ’Yes. Considerably.’ (# 2 death, # 2 Bond kill) [Note: the killing of Fisher in the washroom signaled the start of the gun-barrel sequence.]
The film then opened in Mbale, Uganda in the midst of a civil war and during a torrential rainstorm at a large army camp, where ’freedom-fighting’ terrorist mercenary Steven Obanno (Isaach De Bankole) briefly spoke with international mastermind Mr. White (Jesper Christensen) who had arranged for an introductory meeting before the arrival of scheming financier Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen) (with a bleeding cut over and through his left eye). The villainous Le Chiffre, using a benzedrine inhaler, was there to provide illegal banking services - he promised to keep suitcases full of cash safe for Obanno. After the deal, which Le Chiffre assured was ’no risk,’ he phoned one of his stock market operatives and instructed a bet (with Obanno’s funds) against the Skyfleet company - a short sale with the purchase of put options: ’Short another million shares of Skyfleet stock..Just do it.’ [His evil intent was to bankrupt the Skyfleet company by blowing up their prototype jet-plane, thereby profiting by making millions.]
The next sequence was set in the African-island nation of Madagascar at a crowded local mongoose-cobra fight, where Bond (and a second junior agent Carter (Joseph Millson)) were tracking a scar-faced, freelance terrorist bomb-maker named Mollaka (Sebastien Foucan). Bond’s assignment was to fight the funding of terrorism. When the suspect received a text message (’Ellipsis’), Mollaka became suspicious after Carter kept touching his earpiece and blew their cover, and he made a run for it. During a long, spectacular foot chase sequence through jungle and into an ocean-side construction site, Bond hotly pursued Mollaka - at one point commandeering a large New Holland bulldozer-tractor. As both scaled steel girders high in the sky, three individuals lost their lives (one construction worker was pushed and two police guards were shot by Mollaka (# 3-5 deaths)). Both of them scaled cables on towering cranes and fought precariously before jumping to the ground and free-running through other buildings under construction.
The chase ended at the Nambutu Embassy (Mollaka was an employee there), where security alarms sounded and Bond found himself under-fire and breaching diplomatic protocol. He grabbed Mollaka as a hostage and used him as a human shield, as Mollaka was shot in the leg (number of other deaths unknown). Bond threw his hostage out a second-floor office window into a courtyard, and then, when cornered and surrounded by troops, he surrendered and dropped his weapon, but quickly drew a second gun from his belt, killed Mollaka (# 6 death, # 3 Bond kill), and shot at a gas tank-canister to cause a massive explosion and cover his escape (number of deaths unknown). He fled with Mollaka’s backpack containing a bomb and cell phone (later, he used the text message to trace his next target to the Bahamas).
Le Chiffre’s yacht was moored somewhere in the Bahamas, where his blonde partner Valenka (Ivana Milicevic), in a deep V-necked blue one-piece suit, climbed up a ladder from the water and strolled past his card-game table. The ruthless, calculating villain explained his eye ailment to his gaming opponent: ’Weeping blood comes merely from a derangement of the tear duct..Nothing sinister.’ After winning the game, he was summoned to a computer to read the news regarding an article about Bond’s murder of Mollaka: ’British government agent kills unarmed prisoner.’
In London, England after a parliament meeting, Bond’s superior M (Judi Dench) complained to personal assistant Villiers (Tobias Menzies) about her ’stupid’ agent’s ’deranged’ and ’embarrassing’ recent actions that were caught on the Embassy’s security CCTV, and became front-page news. She regretted his new status: ’I give him double-0 status, and he celebrates by shooting up an embassy.’
Bond removed the memory card from Mollaka’s cell-phone, and with a MI6 computer scanner was able to trace the location of the ’Ellipsis’ call to the Bahamas (Paradise Island, the Ocean Club). When M returned to her penthouse apartment, she found Bond in her living room (he had broken in and was using her computer for decoding), and reprimanded him in person for his ’over-developed trigger finger’ and for invading the foreign embassy (’We wanted to question him, not to kill him!..We’re trying to find out how an entire network of terrorist groups is financed and you give us one bomb-maker’). When he said he knew her real name, she threatened to have him killed if he uttered it. She regretted his premature promotion, although he assured her that his life-expectancy and her mistake would be ’short-lived.’ She cautioned him about being arrogant and therefore not self-aware - he responded: ’So you want me to be half-monk, half hit-man?’ She replied: ’Any thug can kill. I want you to take your ego out of the equation and to judge the situation dispassionately.’ Since she didn’t trust him, she ordered him out of her sight: ’Go and stick your head in the sand somewhere and think about your future.’ Fed up with her agent, she said that she was ’seriously considering feeding’ him to the bad guys. Casino zodiac flash.
The next scene was set in Nassau (the Bahamas), where Bond landed and viewed a luxurious and sleek yacht (Le Chiffre’s) on the water. He drove along the coast in a Ford Mondeo vehicle, using his Sony Ericsson cellphone’s GPS to lead him to the Ocean Club. As he noted security cameras around the facility, he was mistaken for the valet when a guest tossed his Range Rover keys to him. Bond purposely crashed the vehicle in the hotel’s parking lot to cause a security distraction. In the vacated security office, he found a CD backup with video of the exact time of the ’Ellipsis’ call. Now knowing the make of the sender’s car from the video, he registered for a Ocean Club room and asked the pretty blonde receptionist (Christina Cole) to identify the owner of the 1964 Aston Martin whose door he claimed to have nicked. The owner was identified as ’middleman’ associate Alex Dimitrios (Simon Abkarian) who had a house ’just up the beach.’ In the next scene set in front of the Dimitrios beach house, Bond watched from the ocean (emerging in the style of Ursula Andress in Dr. No (1962)) as beautiful Solange Dimitrios (Caterina Murino), wearing a green bikini, made a stunning entrance riding a white horse on the beach. They exchanged momentary sexy glances, as her husband watched from the balcony.
While a guest in a beachfront villa at the Ocean Club, Bond cleverly used M’s username and password and with his computer laptop logged into MI6’s database to look up known associates of Alex Dimitrios. One of them was suspicious banker/accountant Le Chiffre, with activity in Albania, Bosnia, Croatia, Africa, and South America. That evening at the club’s bar-casino, Bond joined a gambling poker table where Dimitrios was playing. When Solange entered, wearing a sexy low-cut red dress, she was reprimanded by her husband for being two hours late, and sat bored at the bar. Bond defeated an overconfident Dimitrios with three Aces (over three Kings) and won the keys to his Aston Martin. As Solange was about to enter the gold-colored vehicle brought by the valet, she realized, mistakenly that Bond was the new owner, and said to herself: ’No wonder he was in such a foul mood.’ He offered her a lift home, but she politely declined. However, Bond suavely convinced her to join him at his ’very’ close place nearby for ’one drink.’ He drove around for a few minutes and returned to the front of the club (’Welcome to my home’). At the same time, her husband was being questioned and scolded by Le Chiffre on his yacht for dealing with bomb terrorist Mollaka - ’under surveillance by the British Secret Service.’ Le Chiffre was concerned about the stock he had invested in, with Obanno’s money, and adamant that Dimitrios not fail in finding a reliable replacement for Mollaka now that he was dead.
Lying on the floor of his villa, Bond passionately kissed the married Dimitrios woman - she said that she was irresistibly attracted to ’bad men’ and to Bond, still knowing that he might sleep with her in order to get information about her husband. When her husband interrupted their conversation with a cellphone call, she learned he would be gone until the next day, leaving on the last flight to Miami that evening. She then informed Bond: ’You have all night to question me.’ He called room service for more champagne, chilled Bollinger, and beluga caviar, as Solange retreated to his bedroom (# 1 tryst).
After his late-night love-making, Bond had enough time to follow after Dimitrios to Miami that same evening - he sped in a taxi to downtown Miami’s Science Center, following Dimitrios inside where there was an exhibit of Body Worlds. Bond watched as Dimitrios left his checked bag token on a stack of gambling chips in one of the exhibits. But then Dimitrios pointed a knife at Bond’s back - 007 quickly spun around and grabbed his wrist, then used a head-fake distraction, punched him, and stabbed Dimitrios to death with his own knife (# 7 death, # 4 Bond kill). He left the body lying in a chair. After noting another recent sent text message to Ellipsis (+12425550199) on Dimitrios’ cellphone, and the missing token and bag, Bond raced to the front entrance. He called the Ellipsis number and spotted Dimitrios’ new target-contact walking away with the bag. By taxi, he trailed the man, identified as Carlos (Claudio Santamaria), to Miami’s International Airport.
Bond saw that Carlos changed into a policeman’s uniform (found in Dimitrios’ bag) in a clothing store’s dressing room, and entered a secure area. He guessed that the Ellipsis phone number was the code needed to enter (E-L-L-I-P-S-I-S), and gained access to the restricted area. At the same time, Carlos set off the emergency sprinkler system, causing mass panic, to allow himself unrestrained entrance to the runway area in a stolen police car. He commandeered a Texron refueling tanker-truck after breaking the driver’s neck (# 8 death), and then attached a small keyring bomb to its undercarriage. He drove toward a Skyfleet S570 prototype jet airplane being unveiled and launched - as Bond chased after him to foil the terrorist plot. Bond jumped atop the tanker from a portable aircraft stairway ramp, and the two struggled against each other, as Bond dangled from the side of the tanker and Carlos drove wildly to try to dislodge him. Bond was almost hit by an oncoming platform truck but he jumped free, then climbed back on - although the tanker dangerously collided with various aircraft vehicles including an elongated bus. At one point as they struggled inside the cab, the tanker was almost struck by an incoming airplane (which aborted its landing). [During the fight, Bond noticed the detonator keyring, unclipped it and attached it to Carlos’ belt loop.] Carlos jumped clear of the tanker just as it was about to ram into the Skyfleet jumbo jet, but Bond prevented impact by crashing into police vehicles, steering it away and coming to a swerving stop at the last second. Bond was arrested by airport personnel, and smugly watched as Carlos detonated the key-ring with his cellphone - and killed himself (# 9 death, # 5 Bond kill).
An Albanian, chess prodigy and ’mathematical genius’ poker player, Le Chiffre - ’a private banker to the world’s terrorists,’ lost $101,206,000 as a result of his foiled plot against Skyfleet, and he hypothesized: ’Someone talked.’ He was desperate to recover Obanno’s (and other creditors’) funds that he had invested - and then lost due to Bond’s intervention. Suspecting that Dimitrios’ wife was somehow involved, Le Chiffre had her tortured for information and then killed. Bond was summoned back to the Bahamas where he came upon the brutally-murdered corpse of Solange, lying in a beachside hammock (# 10 death). M was dismayed with 007: ’Quite the body count you’re stacking up.’ She asked Bond: ’Did she know anything that could compromise you?’ - he said simply, ’No.’ To follow her agent’s movements more closely, M had his fore-arm injected with a microchip implant transmitter-tracking device. M explained how Bond’s next objective was to thwart and frustrate Le Chiffre’s desire to recoup his losses. He had set up a high-stakes poker tournament/game of Hold ’Em at the Casino Royale in Montenegro located in SE Europe (’Ten players, $10 million dollar buy-in, $5 million rebuy. Winner takes all, potentially $150 million’). M ordered Le Chiffre captured alive, explaining that MI6 wanted to force Le Chiffre to seek sanctuary with them, in exchange for information: ’Le Chiffre doesn’t have $100 million to lose..If he loses, he’ll have nowhere to run. We’ll give him sanctuary in return for everything he knows.’
On a train to Montenegro, Bond was paired up with HM Treasury Financial Action Task Force liaison officer Vesper Lynd (Eva Green). She sat across from him and introduced herself: ’I’m the money.’ He looked her up and down: ’Every penny of it.’ She would manage the financial funds he would use to play poker (as a professional gambler) against Le Chiffre - she had wired $10 million into his Montenegro account, and $5 million more would be used as a contingency if deemed ’a prudent investment.’ As they ate dinner together, they wittily bantered back and forth. Bond claimed he was astute at ’reading people’ and ’bluffing’ during a game of luck. He critiqued her as being insecure about her beauty and thus overcompensated by wearing masculine clothing: ’Your beauty’s a problem. You worry you won’t be taken seriously.’ She countered by assessing his psychological profile, believing he disdainfully dressed up, and didn’t ’come from money.’ He had a chip on his shoulder because charity afforded him to go to school, and he was orphaned. She thought he was ’maladjusted’ but refrained from calling him ’a cold-hearted bastard’ but still imagined that he thought of women ’as disposable pleasures rather than meaningful pursuits.’ Although she regarded him as ’charming,’ she affirmed she would keep a close watch on the government’s money and off his ’perfectly-formed arse.’
Their cover story was that Vesper was to masquerade as Bond’s love interest at the Hotel Splendid in a shared two-bedroom suite. He would be Mr. Arlington Beech, a professional gambler, and joked that her name was Miss Stephanie Broadchest. She asked about the sleeping arrangements: ’Am I going to have a problem with you, Bond?’ He answered that since she was single, she needn’t worry: ’No, don’t worry, you’re not my type.’ At the hotel, Bond was given a parcel sent from M containing keys to a sleek, grayish-black Aston Martin DBS V12 parked outside (with glove compartment containing Bond’s Walther P99, defibrillator and poison antidotes). The two met with MI6 ally-contact Rene Mathis (Giancarlo Giannini), who briefed them about Le Chiffre’s arrival a day earlier and his acquaintance with the corrupt chief of police. Mathis had faked documents that would cause the chief of police to soon be arrested for bribery. Before the big game, Bond ordered Vesper to wear a purple dress with plunging neckline so that she would distract the other players. She countered by providing him with a dinner jacket fitted to his size: ’I sized you up the moment we met.’
In the Salon Prive of Casino Royale, Le Chiffre introduced himself to Beech/Bond, knowing his identity. The game was no-limit hold ’em poker, each player with a $10 million buy-in to start (although a further $5 million buy-in could be made by electronic transfer). To start, Bond was required to enter a six-character password for his account by Swiss banker Mr. Mendel (Ludget Pistor). [Bond’s password was V-E-S-P-E-R.] Part-way into the game, Vesper made a grand entrance in her plunging purple gown, but her late entrance backfired and she actually distracted Bond during his betting. When Bond took a break from the game and kissed her (to create a new ’cover’), she said she was ’pissed off’ that he was losing so quickly. Bond explained to Mathis and Vesper that he had figured out Le Chiffre’s tell - ’the twitch he has to hide when he bluffs.’ During an intermission when Le Chiffre left his inhaler behind, Bond inserted a tracking-device ’bug’ into it. In his 4th floor room, Le Chiffre found Valenka on his balcony - she was forced to summon him there, where he was attacked by Ugandan terrorist Steven Obanno who was angered by
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Casino Royale (2006)
d. Martin Campbell, 144 minutes
Opening Credits, Title Sequence
The film opened with a black and white action pre title-credits sequence that then led to a black/white, stylized, markedly-different gun-barrel sequence. This was the first time in the Bond series that the gun-barrel wasn’t at the very start of the film. Bond (Craig) was filmed in a white-tiled bathroom, where he abruptly turned and fired, rather than walking into the space. The film then turned slowly to color after the blood washed down, as the title credits appeared.
This was also the first Bond film without images of women in the title sequence.
Main Title Sequence: Designed by Daniel Kleinman
Title Song: ’You Know My Name’ (sung by Chris Cornell)
Starring Daniel Craig, Daud Shah as Fisher and Malcolm Sinclair as Dryden. Full pretitles scene from Casino Royale - Bond Gets His Double O Status; includes. The opening credits of ’Casino Royale’ alone are another warning. There is not one stylized silhouette of a female model, which was the glamour signature in almost all Bond films. Instead, we just have silhouettes of guy shooting each other and bleeding in Technicolor across the screen.
Film Plot Summary
After a black/white MGM logo, the B/W pre-title credits sequence began - the setting was Prague (Czech Republic), where James Bond (Daniel Craig) was introduced as an agent before he was granted a license to kill and only elevated to double-0 status after completing two kills. The first of his kills occurred late at night as corrupt MI6 section chief John Dryden (Malcolm Sinclair) entered his 6th floor office and noticed his opened safe behind a picture. From behind, a seated Bond confronted Dryden and told him he shouldn’t be ’selling secrets’ to an unknown source. When Dryden reached for a gun in his desk drawer, he mentioned: ’Shame. We barely got to know each other,’ but his gun clicked empty - it had been emptied of bullets by Bond. The agent then described how he had already made his first kill - Dryden’s underworld contact Fisher (Daud Shah). Fisher’s death by drowning in a washroom sink and by gunshot was seen in flashback sequences during their hand-to-hand combat (# 1 death, # 1 Bond kill). Dryden was mid-sentence about how easy the second kill would be easier (’Made you feel it, did he? Well, you needn’t worry. The second is..’) when Bond shot him dead and added: ’Yes. Considerably.’ (# 2 death, # 2 Bond kill) [Note: the killing of Fisher in the washroom signaled the start of the gun-barrel sequence.]
The film then opened in Mbale, Uganda in the midst of a civil war and during a torrential rainstorm at a large army camp, where ’freedom-fighting’ terrorist mercenary Steven Obanno (Isaach De Bankole) briefly spoke with international mastermind Mr. White (Jesper Christensen) who had arranged for an introductory meeting before the arrival of scheming financier Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen) (with a bleeding cut over and through his left eye). The villainous Le Chiffre, using a benzedrine inhaler, was there to provide illegal banking services - he promised to keep suitcases full of cash safe for Obanno. After the deal, which Le Chiffre assured was ’no risk,’ he phoned one of his stock market operatives and instructed a bet (with Obanno’s funds) against the Skyfleet company - a short sale with the purchase of put options: ’Short another million shares of Skyfleet stock..Just do it.’ [His evil intent was to bankrupt the Skyfleet company by blowing up their prototype jet-plane, thereby profiting by making millions.]
The next sequence was set in the African-island nation of Madagascar at a crowded local mongoose-cobra fight, where Bond (and a second junior agent Carter (Joseph Millson)) were tracking a scar-faced, freelance terrorist bomb-maker named Mollaka (Sebastien Foucan). Bond’s assignment was to fight the funding of terrorism. When the suspect received a text message (’Ellipsis’), Mollaka became suspicious after Carter kept touching his earpiece and blew their cover, and he made a run for it. During a long, spectacular foot chase sequence through jungle and into an ocean-side construction site, Bond hotly pursued Mollaka - at one point commandeering a large New Holland bulldozer-tractor. As both scaled steel girders high in the sky, three individuals lost their lives (one construction worker was pushed and two police guards were shot by Mollaka (# 3-5 deaths)). Both of them scaled cables on towering cranes and fought precariously before jumping to the ground and free-running through other buildings under construction.
The chase ended at the Nambutu Embassy (Mollaka was an employee there), where security alarms sounded and Bond found himself under-fire and breaching diplomatic protocol. He grabbed Mollaka as a hostage and used him as a human shield, as Mollaka was shot in the leg (number of other deaths unknown). Bond threw his hostage out a second-floor office window into a courtyard, and then, when cornered and surrounded by troops, he surrendered and dropped his weapon, but quickly drew a second gun from his belt, killed Mollaka (# 6 death, # 3 Bond kill), and shot at a gas tank-canister to cause a massive explosion and cover his escape (number of deaths unknown). He fled with Mollaka’s backpack containing a bomb and cell phone (later, he used the text message to trace his next target to the Bahamas).
Le Chiffre’s yacht was moored somewhere in the Bahamas, where his blonde partner Valenka (Ivana Milicevic), in a deep V-necked blue one-piece suit, climbed up a ladder from the water and strolled past his card-game table. The ruthless, calculating villain explained his eye ailment to his gaming opponent: ’Weeping blood comes merely from a derangement of the tear duct..Nothing sinister.’ After winning the game, he was summoned to a computer to read the news regarding an article about Bond’s murder of Mollaka: ’British government agent kills unarmed prisoner.’
In London, England after a parliament meeting, Bond’s superior M (Judi Dench) complained to personal assistant Villiers (Tobias Menzies) about her ’stupid’ agent’s ’deranged’ and ’embarrassing’ recent actions that were caught on the Embassy’s security CCTV, and became front-page news. She regretted his new status: ’I give him double-0 status, and he celebrates by shooting up an embassy.’
Bond removed the memory card from Mollaka’s cell-phone, and with a MI6 computer scanner was able to trace the location of the ’Ellipsis’ call to the Bahamas (Paradise Island, the Ocean Club). When M returned to her penthouse apartment, she found Bond in her living room (he had broken in and was using her computer for decoding), and reprimanded him in person for his ’over-developed trigger finger’ and for invading the foreign embassy (’We wanted to question him, not to kill him!..We’re trying to find out how an entire network of terrorist groups is financed and you give us one bomb-maker’). When he said he knew her real name, she threatened to have him killed if he uttered it. She regretted his premature promotion, although he assured her that his life-expectancy and her mistake would be ’short-lived.’ She cautioned him about being arrogant and therefore not self-aware - he responded: ’So you want me to be half-monk, half hit-man?’ She replied: ’Any thug can kill. I want you to take your ego out of the equation and to judge the situation dispassionately.’ Since she didn’t trust him, she ordered him out of her sight: ’Go and stick your head in the sand somewhere and think about your future.’ Fed up with her agent, she said that she was ’seriously considering feeding’ him to the bad guys. Casino zodiac flash.
The next scene was set in Nassau (the Bahamas), where Bond landed and viewed a luxurious and sleek yacht (Le Chiffre’s) on the water. He drove along the coast in a Ford Mondeo vehicle, using his Sony Ericsson cellphone’s GPS to lead him to the Ocean Club. As he noted security cameras around the facility, he was mistaken for the valet when a guest tossed his Range Rover keys to him. Bond purposely crashed the vehicle in the hotel’s parking lot to cause a security distraction. In the vacated security office, he found a CD backup with video of the exact time of the ’Ellipsis’ call. Now knowing the make of the sender’s car from the video, he registered for a Ocean Club room and asked the pretty blonde receptionist (Christina Cole) to identify the owner of the 1964 Aston Martin whose door he claimed to have nicked. The owner was identified as ’middleman’ associate Alex Dimitrios (Simon Abkarian) who had a house ’just up the beach.’ In the next scene set in front of the Dimitrios beach house, Bond watched from the ocean (emerging in the style of Ursula Andress in Dr. No (1962)) as beautiful Solange Dimitrios (Caterina Murino), wearing a green bikini, made a stunning entrance riding a white horse on the beach. They exchanged momentary sexy glances, as her husband watched from the balcony.
While a guest in a beachfront villa at the Ocean Club, Bond cleverly used M’s username and password and with his computer laptop logged into MI6’s database to look up known associates of Alex Dimitrios. One of them was suspicious banker/accountant Le Chiffre, with activity in Albania, Bosnia, Croatia, Africa, and South America. That evening at the club’s bar-casino, Bond joined a gambling poker table where Dimitrios was playing. When Solange entered, wearing a sexy low-cut red dress, she was reprimanded by her husband for being two hours late, and sat bored at the bar. Bond defeated an overconfident Dimitrios with three Aces (over three Kings) and won the keys to his Aston Martin. As Solange was about to enter the gold-colored vehicle brought by the valet, she realized, mistakenly that Bond was the new owner, and said to herself: ’No wonder he was in such a foul mood.’ He offered her a lift home, but she politely declined. However, Bond suavely convinced her to join him at his ’very’ close place nearby for ’one drink.’ He drove around for a few minutes and returned to the front of the club (’Welcome to my home’). At the same time, her husband was being questioned and scolded by Le Chiffre on his yacht for dealing with bomb terrorist Mollaka - ’under surveillance by the British Secret Service.’ Le Chiffre was concerned about the stock he had invested in, with Obanno’s money, and adamant that Dimitrios not fail in finding a reliable replacement for Mollaka now that he was dead.
Lying on the floor of his villa, Bond passionately kissed the married Dimitrios woman - she said that she was irresistibly attracted to ’bad men’ and to Bond, still knowing that he might sleep with her in order to get information about her husband. When her husband interrupted their conversation with a cellphone call, she learned he would be gone until the next day, leaving on the last flight to Miami that evening. She then informed Bond: ’You have all night to question me.’ He called room service for more champagne, chilled Bollinger, and beluga caviar, as Solange retreated to his bedroom (# 1 tryst).
After his late-night love-making, Bond had enough time to follow after Dimitrios to Miami that same evening - he sped in a taxi to downtown Miami’s Science Center, following Dimitrios inside where there was an exhibit of Body Worlds. Bond watched as Dimitrios left his checked bag token on a stack of gambling chips in one of the exhibits. But then Dimitrios pointed a knife at Bond’s back - 007 quickly spun around and grabbed his wrist, then used a head-fake distraction, punched him, and stabbed Dimitrios to death with his own knife (# 7 death, # 4 Bond kill). He left the body lying in a chair. After noting another recent sent text message to Ellipsis (+12425550199) on Dimitrios’ cellphone, and the missing token and bag, Bond raced to the front entrance. He called the Ellipsis number and spotted Dimitrios’ new target-contact walking away with the bag. By taxi, he trailed the man, identified as Carlos (Claudio Santamaria), to Miami’s International Airport.
Bond saw that Carlos changed into a policeman’s uniform (found in Dimitrios’ bag) in a clothing store’s dressing room, and entered a secure area. He guessed that the Ellipsis phone number was the code needed to enter (E-L-L-I-P-S-I-S), and gained access to the restricted area. At the same time, Carlos set off the emergency sprinkler system, causing mass panic, to allow himself unrestrained entrance to the runway area in a stolen police car. He commandeered a Texron refueling tanker-truck after breaking the driver’s neck (# 8 death), and then attached a small keyring bomb to its undercarriage. He drove toward a Skyfleet S570 prototype jet airplane being unveiled and launched - as Bond chased after him to foil the terrorist plot. Bond jumped atop the tanker from a portable aircraft stairway ramp, and the two struggled against each other, as Bond dangled from the side of the tanker and Carlos drove wildly to try to dislodge him. Bond was almost hit by an oncoming platform truck but he jumped free, then climbed back on - although the tanker dangerously collided with various aircraft vehicles including an elongated bus. At one point as they struggled inside the cab, the tanker was almost struck by an incoming airplane (which aborted its landing). [During the fight, Bond noticed the detonator keyring, unclipped it and attached it to Carlos’ belt loop.] Carlos jumped clear of the tanker just as it was about to ram into the Skyfleet jumbo jet, but Bond prevented impact by crashing into police vehicles, steering it away and coming to a swerving stop at the last second. Bond was arrested by airport personnel, and smugly watched as Carlos detonated the key-ring with his cellphone - and killed himself (# 9 death, # 5 Bond kill).
An Albanian, chess prodigy and ’mathematical genius’ poker player, Le Chiffre - ’a private banker to the world’s terrorists,’ lost $101,206,000 as a result of his foiled plot against Skyfleet, and he hypothesized: ’Someone talked.’ He was desperate to recover Obanno’s (and other creditors’) funds that he had invested - and then lost due to Bond’s intervention. Suspecting that Dimitrios’ wife was somehow involved, Le Chiffre had her tortured for information and then killed. Bond was summoned back to the Bahamas where he came upon the brutally-murdered corpse of Solange, lying in a beachside hammock (# 10 death). M was dismayed with 007: ’Quite the body count you’re stacking up.’ She asked Bond: ’Did she know anything that could compromise you?’ - he said simply, ’No.’ To follow her agent’s movements more closely, M had his fore-arm injected with a microchip implant transmitter-tracking device. M explained how Bond’s next objective was to thwart and frustrate Le Chiffre’s desire to recoup his losses. He had set up a high-stakes poker tournament/game of Hold ’Em at the Casino Royale in Montenegro located in SE Europe (’Ten players, $10 million dollar buy-in, $5 million rebuy. Winner takes all, potentially $150 million’). M ordered Le Chiffre captured alive, explaining that MI6 wanted to force Le Chiffre to seek sanctuary with them, in exchange for information: ’Le Chiffre doesn’t have $100 million to lose..If he loses, he’ll have nowhere to run. We’ll give him sanctuary in return for everything he knows.’
On a train to Montenegro, Bond was paired up with HM Treasury Financial Action Task Force liaison officer Vesper Lynd (Eva Green). She sat across from him and introduced herself: ’I’m the money.’ He looked her up and down: ’Every penny of it.’ She would manage the financial funds he would use to play poker (as a professional gambler) against Le Chiffre - she had wired $10 million into his Montenegro account, and $5 million more would be used as a contingency if deemed ’a prudent investment.’ As they ate dinner together, they wittily bantered back and forth. Bond claimed he was astute at ’reading people’ and ’bluffing’ during a game of luck. He critiqued her as being insecure about her beauty and thus overcompensated by wearing masculine clothing: ’Your beauty’s a problem. You worry you won’t be taken seriously.’ She countered by assessing his psychological profile, believing he disdainfully dressed up, and didn’t ’come from money.’ He had a chip on his shoulder because charity afforded him to go to school, and he was orphaned. She thought he was ’maladjusted’ but refrained from calling him ’a cold-hearted bastard’ but still imagined that he thought of women ’as disposable pleasures rather than meaningful pursuits.’ Although she regarded him as ’charming,’ she affirmed she would keep a close watch on the government’s money and off his ’perfectly-formed arse.’
Their cover story was that Vesper was to masquerade as Bond’s love interest at the Hotel Splendid in a shared two-bedroom suite. He would be Mr. Arlington Beech, a professional gambler, and joked that her name was Miss Stephanie Broadchest. She asked about the sleeping arrangements: ’Am I going to have a problem with you, Bond?’ He answered that since she was single, she needn’t worry: ’No, don’t worry, you’re not my type.’ At the hotel, Bond was given a parcel sent from M containing keys to a sleek, grayish-black Aston Martin DBS V12 parked outside (with glove compartment containing Bond’s Walther P99, defibrillator and poison antidotes). The two met with MI6 ally-contact Rene Mathis (Giancarlo Giannini), who briefed them about Le Chiffre’s arrival a day earlier and his acquaintance with the corrupt chief of police. Mathis had faked documents that would cause the chief of police to soon be arrested for bribery. Before the big game, Bond ordered Vesper to wear a purple dress with plunging neckline so that she would distract the other players. She countered by providing him with a dinner jacket fitted to his size: ’I sized you up the moment we met.’
In the Salon Prive of Casino Royale, Le Chiffre introduced himself to Beech/Bond, knowing his identity. The game was no-limit hold ’em poker, each player with a $10 million buy-in to start (although a further $5 million buy-in could be made by electronic transfer). To start, Bond was required to enter a six-character password for his account by Swiss banker Mr. Mendel (Ludget Pistor). [Bond’s password was V-E-S-P-E-R.] Part-way into the game, Vesper made a grand entrance in her plunging purple gown, but her late entrance backfired and she actually distracted Bond during his betting. When Bond took a break from the game and kissed her (to create a new ’cover’), she said she was ’pissed off’ that he was losing so quickly. Bond explained to Mathis and Vesper that he had figured out Le Chiffre’s tell - ’the twitch he has to hide when he bluffs.’ During an intermission when Le Chiffre left his inhaler behind, Bond inserted a tracking-device ’bug’ into it. In his 4th floor room, Le Chiffre found Valenka on his balcony - she was forced to summon him there, where he was attacked by Ugandan terrorist Steven Obanno who was angered by
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