Casino Royale Women
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| Release Date (UK) | November 14th, 2006 |
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| Release Date (US) | November 17th, 2006 |
| Director | Martin Campbell |
| Film Number | 21 of 24 |
| Running Time | 144 Minutes |
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- I talked up the 1967 version of Casino Royale so much. I was so darn happy to be away from the official James Bond’s casual misogyny that the idea of a comedy seemed like the best thing in the.
- Casino Royale: Miss Goodthighs: Evelyn (Peter Sellers) meets Miss Goodthighs (Jacqueline Bisset) and as they start to become intimate, they both slip a drug.
- Casino Royale: Insignificant Little Monster: Jimmy (Woody Allen) entertains his hostage, The Detainer (Daliah Lavi), by playing the piano and failing on the.
Elegant dresses, jewels, and stilettos are all de rigueur for a Casino Royale party. Don’t be the guest that shows up in jeans, cotton, or bright prints, you may be asked to leave. Aim for Bond Girl fabulous with long evening dresses, thigh high slits, satin, lace or velvet. Diamonds, real or fake, are encouraged, the bigger the better. Casino Royale (2006) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
| Bond: | [laughing]Now the whole world's gonna know that you died scratching my balls! |
| Le Chiffre: | Oh.. I died? I died? |
| Bond: | Yeah! Because 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, they'll be nowhere else to hide. |
| Le Chiffre: | You changed your shirt, Mr Bond. I hope our little game isn't causing you to perspire. |
| Bond: | A little. But I won't consider myself to be in trouble until I start weeping blood. |
| Vesper Lynd: | It doesn't bother you? Killing all those people? |
| Bond: | Well I wouldn't be very good at my job if it did. |
| Bond: | Stop touching your ear. |
| Carter: | Sorry? |
| Bond: | Put your hand down! |
| Solange: | You like married women, don't you 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? |
| Bond: | Because then they'd be bad. |
| Bond: | I've got a little itch, down there. Would you mind? |
| Bond: | Why is it that people who can't take advice always insist on giving it? |
| Dryden: | How did he die? |
| Bond: | You contact? Not well. |
| Dryden: | Made you feel it, did he? Well, you needn't worry. The second is.. |
| Bond: | [shoots Dryden]Yes... Considerably. |
| Vesper Lynd: | Beautiful. Now, having just met you, I wouldn't go as far as calling you a cold-hearted bastard. |
| 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 your perfectly-formed arse. |
| Bond: | You noticed? |
| Vesper Lynd: | Even accountants have imagination |
| Bond: | Dry Martini. |
| Bartender: | Oui, monsieur. |
| 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: | That's it? Hmm? Anyone want to play poker now? |
| Felix Leiter: | Someone's in a hurry. |
| Felix Leiter: | I should have introduced myself, seeing as we're related. Felix Leiter, a brother from Langley. You should have faith. As long as you keep your head about you, I think you have him. |
| Bond: | Had. Excuse me. |
| Felix Leiter: | You're not buying in? |
| 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. |
| Bond: | What about the winnings? |
| Felix Leiter: | Does it look like we need the money? |
| Steven Obanno: | [after stopping short of cutting Valenka's hand off]Not a word of protest. You should find a new boyfriend. |
| M: | You don't trust anyone, do you? |
| Bond: | No. |
| M: | Then you've learned your lesson. |
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| Vesper Lynd | |
|---|---|
| James Bond character | |
| First appearance | Casino Royale (1953 novel) |
| Last appearance | Casino Royale (2006 film) |
| Created by | Ian Fleming |
| Portrayed by | Ursula Andress (1967 James Bond parody) Eva Green (2006) |
| In-universe information | |
| Gender | Female |
| Occupation | Double agent |
| Affiliation | Novel: Film: |
| Classification | Bond girl/Henchwoman |
Vesper Lynd is a fictional character featured in Ian Fleming's 1953 James Bond novel Casino Royale. She was portrayed by Ursula Andress in the 1967 James Bond parody, which is only slightly based on the novel, and by Eva Green in the 2006 film adaptation.
In the novel, the character explains that she was born 'on a very stormy evening', and that her parents named her 'Vesper', Latin for 'evening'. Fleming created a cocktail recipe in the novel that Bond names after her. The 'Vesper martini' became very popular after the novel's publication, and gave rise to the famous 'shaken, not stirred' catchphrase immortalised in the Bond films. The actual name for the drink (as well as its complete recipe) was mentioned on screen for the first time in the 2006 film adaptation of Casino Royale.[1]
In 1993, journalist Donald McCormick claimed that Fleming based Vesper on the real life of Polish agent Krystyna Skarbek, who was working for Special Operations Executive.[2]
Novel biography[edit]
Vesper works at MI6 headquarters being a personal assistant to Head of section S. She is lent to Bond, much to his irritation, to assist him in his mission to bankrupt Le Chiffre, the paymaster of a SMERSH-controlled trade union. She poses as a radio seller, working with Rene Mathis, and later as Bond's companion to infiltrate the casino in Royale-Les-Eaux, in which Le Chiffre frequently gambles. After Bond takes all of Le Chiffre's money in a high-stakes game of baccarat, Vesper is abducted by Le Chiffre's thugs, who also nab Bond when he tries to rescue her. Both are rescued after Le Chiffre is murdered by a SMERSH agent, but only after Bond has been tortured.
Vesper visits Bond every day in the hospital, and the two grow very close; much to his own surprise, Bond develops genuine feelings for her, and even dreams of leaving the service and marrying her. After he is released from the hospital, they go on a holiday together and eventually become lovers.
Vesper has a terrible secret, however - she is a double agent working for Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) and worked with Bond only because she was ordered to see that he did not escape Le Chiffre. (Her kidnapping was staged to lure Bond into Le Chiffre's clutches.) Before she met Bond, she had been romantically involved with a PolishRAF operative. This man had been captured by SMERSH and revealed information about Vesper under torture. Hence, SMERSH was using this operative to blackmail Vesper into helping them. After Le Chiffre's death, she is initially hopeful that she can have a fresh start with Bond, but she realizes this is impossible when she sees a SMERSH operative with an eye patch, Adolph Gettler, tracking her and Bond's movements. Consumed with guilt and certain that SMERSH will find and kill both of them, she commits suicide, leaving a note admitting her treachery and pledging her love to Bond.
Bond moves at top speed through all the Kübler-Ross model stages of grief following Vesper's death, eventually seeing past his sense of loss the clear implications of her espionage. He renounces her only as 'a spy,' packing her away as a memento in the box room of his life and recalling his professional identity immediately within the present situation. Through to his superiors on the telephone, with quiet emergency he informs them of Vesper's treasonous identity, adding, upon a request for confirmation, 'Yes, dammit, I said 'was.' The bitch is dead now.'
However, Bond's genuine feelings for Vesper never fade. Fleming's tenth novel, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, reveals that Bond makes an annual pilgrimage to Royale-Les-Eaux to visit her grave. In Diamonds Are Forever, Bond skips the song 'La Vie En Rose' in Tiffany Case's hotel room 'because it has memories for him'; this is a song closely associated with Vesper in Casino Royale. In the novel Goldfinger, when Bond has been severely poisoned and believes he is about to enter heaven, he worries about how to introduce Tilly Masterton, who he believes has died along with him, to Vesper.
Film biography[edit]
1967[edit]
In the 1967 version of Casino Royale, Lynd was portrayed by Ursula Andress, who had portrayed another Bond girl, Honey Ryder, in the 1962 film version of Dr. No.[3]
In this version, which bore little resemblance to the novel, Vesper is depicted as a former secret agent who has since become a multi-millionaire with a penchant for wearing ridiculously extravagant outfits at her office ('because if I wore it in the street people might stare'). Bond (played by David Niven), now in the position of M at MI6, uses a discount for her past due taxes to bribe her into becoming another 007 agent, and to recruit baccarat expert Evelyn Tremble (Peter Sellers) into stopping Le Chiffre (played by Orson Welles).
Vesper and Tremble have an affair during which she eliminates an enemy agent sent to seduce Tremble ('Miss Goodthighs'). Ultimately, however, she betrays Tremble to Le Chiffre and SMERSH, declaring to Tremble, 'Never trust a rich spy' before killing him with a machine gun hidden inside a bagpipe. She presumably does this for the same reason she does in the novel, as she remarks that it isn't for money but for love. Though her ultimate fate is not revealed in the film, in the closing credits she is shown as an angel playing a harp, showing her to be one of the 'seven James Bonds at Casino Royale' killed by an atomic explosion.
Eon films[edit]
In the 2006 film version of Casino Royale, Vesper Lynd is a foreign liaison agent from the HM Treasury's Financial Action Task Force assigned to make sure that Bond adequately manages the funds provided by MI6. Vesper is initially skeptical about Bond's ego and at first is unwilling to be his trophy at the hold 'em poker tournament hosted by Le Chiffre. However, she assists Bond when Lord's Resistance Army leader Steven Obanno attacks him, knocking a gun out of Obanno's hand and giving Bond the chance to kill him.
She retreats to the shower afterwards, feeling she has blood on her hands from helping to kill Obanno. Bond sits next to her and kisses the 'blood' off her fingers to provide comfort, and they return to the casino. His kindness does not prevent her from doing her job, however; she refuses to bankroll him after he misreads Le Chiffre at the table and loses his table stakes. Shortly afterwards, Vesper saves Bond's life. Poisoned by Le Chiffre's girlfriend, Valenka, Bond struggles unsuccessfully to connect a key wire to his automatic external defibrillator and enters cardiac arrest, but Vesper arrives in time to connect the wire properly, enabling the machine to revive him.[1][3]
After Bond wins the tournament, Le Chiffre kidnaps Vesper, and Bond gives chase. They fall into Le Chiffre's trap and are tortured by him and his thugs, but are ostensibly saved by Quantum henchman Mr. White, who shoots and kills Le Chiffre for misappropriating the organisation's funds.[4]
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While both are hospitalized to recover, Bond and Vesper fall deeply in love, and Bond plans to resign from the service to be with her. As in the novel, Bond and Vesper go on vacation to Venice, both of them hoping to start a new life. Unknown to Bond, however, Vesper embezzles the tournament winnings and intends to deliver them to a gang of Quantum henchmen. Leading the group is Adolph Gettler, who (like his novel counterpart) has been spying on the two agents since they arrived in Venice, and was spotted by Vesper, much to her visible dismay.
When Bond receives a timely phone call from M and realizes Vesper's scheme, he pursues her as Gettler takes her hostage and throws her in a caged elevator while he and his fellow thugs battle Bond. He eliminates them, including Gettler, but in the process causes the building to flood and start sinking. Vesper resigns herself to death and, after apologizing to James, locks herself in, even as Bond frantically tries opening the elevator. In a final gesture, she kisses Bond's hands as if to clear him of guilt; she begins to run out of air and drowns. Bond finally extricates her and attempts to revive her using CPR, to no avail.
As in the novel, Bond copes with his lover's death by renouncing her, saying 'The job's done and the bitch is dead.' M chastises him, assuming that, when held captive by Le Chiffre, Vesper had cut a deal with her Quantum blackmailers to spare Bond in exchange for the tournament money, pressured by their kidnapping of her boyfriend Yusef. When Bond opens Vesper's mobile phone left in their Venice hotel room, he discovers her note for him with Mr. White's phone number; this enables Bond to track down and confront him at the movie's end.
At the end of the 2008 film Quantum of Solace, Yusef is revealed to be an agent working for Quantum, asked to seduce high-ranking women in the world's intelligence agencies. He is then 'kidnapped' by Quantum, and the women are forced to become double agents in the hope of securing his freedom. This information vindicates Vesper in Bond's eyes, as he realizes she was coerced to embezzle the winnings in Casino Royale. He does not kill Yusef, but leaves him to MI6 and tells M that she was right about Vesper. As he walks away, he drops Vesper's necklace in the snow.[5]
In the 2015 film Spectre, Bond finds a VHS video tape in Mr. White's hotel room in Morocco labelled 'Vesper Lynd Interrogation'. Ernst Stavro Blofeld, whose Spectre organization is the power behind Quantum, taunts Bond by explicitly taking credit for Vesper's death as part of his personal vendetta against him.
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Related character[edit]
The character of Vesper Lynd does not appear in the 1954 television adaptation of Casino Royale. Instead, the character was replaced by a new character named Valerie Mathis, played by Linda Christian, who is depicted as an American. She also betrays Bond (played by Barry Nelson), but comes to his rescue after he is shot by Le Chiffre (played by Peter Lorre). Valerie does not die in this adaptation.
References[edit]
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- ^ abDeMichael, Tom (2012). James Bond FAQ: All That's Left to Know About Everyone's Favorite Superspy. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN978-1-4803-3786-2.
- ^McCormick, Donald (1993). The Life of Ian Fleming. Peter Owen Publishers. p. 151.
- ^ abCawthorne, Nigel (2012). A Brief Guide to James Bond. Little, Brown Book Group. ISBN978-1-84901-829-6.
- ^Pratt, Benjamin (October 2008). Ian Fleming's Seven Deadlier Sins and 007's Moral Compass. Front Edge Publishing. ISBN978-1-934879-12-2.
- ^Newby, Richard (4 December 2019). ''No Time to Die' and Finding Closure for Daniel Craig's Bond'. The Hollywood Reporter.
Casino Royale Women's Dresses
| Preceded by Valerie Mathis | Bond girl (main sidekick) in a non-EON Productions movie 1967 | Succeeded by Domino Petachi |
| Preceded by Giacinta 'Jinx' Johnson | Bond girl (main sidekick) in an EON Productions movie 2006 | Succeeded by Camille Montes |