Film Dossier: Casino Royale
By David Pegram
Title Card:
Production:
- Released: 2006
- Director: Martin Campbell
- Screenplay: Neal Purvis & Robert Wade and Paul Haggis
- Music: David Arnold
Theme Song:
- “You Know My Name” performed by Chris Cornell
Villain:
- LeChiffre (Mads Mikkelsen)
Evil Plot:
To earn back over $100 million lost on the stock market, by winning a high-stakes poker tournament in Montenegro.
Locations:
- Prague
- Bahamas
- Miami
- Montenegro
- Venice
Bond Girls:
- Solange (Caterina Murino)
- Vesper Lynd (Eva Green)
Supporting Cast:
- M (Judi Dench)
- Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright)
- Rene Mathis (Giancarlo Giannini)
- Alex Dimitrios (Simon Abkarian)
- Steven Obanno (Isaach de Bankole)
- Valenka (Ivan Milicevic)
- Mr. White (Jesper Christensen)
Notable Moments:
- Bond accomplishes his first kill in a men’s restroom.
- After chasing a “bomb maker” into an embassy, Bond nearly destroys the entire building, escaping with the bomb maker’s cell phone.
- Bond defeats Dimitrios in a game of poker and wins his Aston Martin DB5 in the process.
- After getting information from Dimitrios’s mistress, Solance, Bond thwarts a terrorist attempt at Miami International Airport.
- On the train to Montenegro, Bond meets Vesper Lynd, who correctly guesses that he is an orphan.
- After Bond and Vesper stumble upon Obanno’s threats to LeChiffre, Bond kills Obanno following a tense fight in the hotel stairwell.
- Bond is poisoned by LeChiffre’s mistress, Valenka, and narrowly escapes death: Vesper arrives in time to administer shock treatment to his heart.
- Bond defeats LeChiffre on the final hand, with a straight flush.
- In an attempt to recover his lost money, LeChiffre kidnaps Bond and tortures him, only to by killed By Mr. White. .
- In Venice, Bond learns that Vesper had stolen the winnings. He follows her, and her handlers, into a condemned building. After a shootout, Vesper commits suicide by drowning.