Casino Royale Opening Scene Explained

Bond (Daniel Craig) wins the game against Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen). Vesper (Eva Green) gets captured and Bond goes after her but swerves to avoid her on the road and crashes. Le Chiffre tortures him for the account password but Mr. White enters and kills him. Bond blacks out and some time later sees Vesper and Mathis (Giancarlo Giannini) in his hospital room. While recovering, he has Mathis arrested for questioning by MI6. Bond resigns and plans to leave with Vesper but she takes the money out of the account. He chases her to her employers in Venice, kills them all and in the process collapses the building. Vesper drowns in an elevator while Bond tries to get to her. Mr. White escapes with the money. M calls Bond and tells him they need him but that they have run out of leads for Vesper's employers. She informs him that Vesper took the money because she was being blackmailed by some mystery organization and her husband was held captive by them. And the reason why Bond was spared on the night that Le Chiffre was killed was because Vesper made a deal with the organization: Bond's life for the money. Bond looks on her PDA and finds White's number. He finds him, shoots him in the leg and introduces himself... 'Bond. James Bond.'

Craig first debuted as Bond in Casino Royale, which contains a short prelude explaining how Bond gains his '00' title.But the film's depiction of events differs from original Bond author Ian Fleming's explanation. Before 1962's Dr.No hit theaters, Fleming had published ten Bond stories, the first being Casino Royale.By 1962, the books had established a fairly firm backstory for their suave.

1. The opening sequence starts with an exterior establishing shot of an office block and text appears telling us the film is set in Prague. Soon we are inside the building with a full camera shot showing the desk, chairs and single source of light.
2. Casino Royale was the first Bond story to be made into film, and the first instance was, well, sort of ridiculous. I do suggest seeing it, but be ready for a truly ridiculous film, including Woody Allen trying to talk his way out of a firing squad execution, and Orson Welles doing magic tricks at.
3. Casino Royale runs 144 minutes, so 9 minutes have to be trimmed somewhere, and this scene IS a bit drawn-out. We know Bond's going to survive because the game isn't over. We know Bond's going to survive because the game isn't over.

Mojojojo

Revealing mistake: During the scene at the restaurant in Montenegro (actually filmed in the Czech Republic) you see a payphone with a Czech Telecom logo on it (itself a piece of history as these are all now rebranded O2).(01:57:50)

Casino Royale Story Explained

James Bond: Sorry, that last hand nearly killed me.

Trivia: In the film, Bond says to M, 'So you want me to be half-monk, half-hitman'. This is a reference to the character John Ballard (played by Daniel Craig) in the 1998 film 'Elizabeth'.

Question: What was the *exact* recipe for Bond's cocktail in the casino?

Answer:From the novel: 'Three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon peel.'

Captain Defenestrator

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