![]() He has a chance at happiness with Vesper in Venice, but it's not long before this movie goes the tragic romance route of "On Her Majesty's Service." Their relationship is visualized as a sinking house of lies. You've stripped it from me," he says while recovering - we finally understand how the callousness he develops toward women might be grounded in realistic hurt. He has to literally gird his loins against torture at the hands of Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen) and just generally rely on brute force rather than cheesy one-liners.Īfter meeting Vesper and seeing the effect she has on him - "I have no armor left. Emotionally stunted in most other respects, this Bond is more of a "blunt instrument" and a hardened survivor of all kinds of pain. Vesper is also vulnerable: never more so than during the shower of angst, where Bond comforts her after evading a machete in a stairwell fight for the ages. The Film Although the newest Bond story has been made into a film once before (not to mention a forgettable 1954 TV movie), the earlier 'Casino Royale' (featuring Peter Sellers, David Niven, Ursula Andress and Woody Allen all as James Bond/007) was little more than light-hearted tongue-in-cheek farce. At one point, when Bond orders a vodka martini, the bartender asks him, "Shaken or stirred?" Bond knows that we know the answer to that question, so he just says, "Do I look like I give a damn?"
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