History Film / CasinoRoyale2006

* NeverTrustATrailer: You see Bond kissing Vesper in the sea in the poster up there? The scene, which also appears in the trailer, is not in the movie.

* AgentsDating: Bond and Vesper break the tension between the AbsurdlyHighStakesGame of Texas Hold 'Em. By the end, he's ready to retire and stay with her. [[spoiler: Turns out she's TheMole]].

** [[spoiler: Mr. White. He finances Le Chiffre and sends assassins to terrorize him, forcing him to desperately focus his attention on defeating Bond in order to pay off his debts. This animosity strokes Bond's ego to the point where he blindly focuses on defeating Le Chiffre. Mr. White, then, puts Vesper (whom he is blackmailing as well, with her fiance) between the two men to mitigate their final confrontation, where Le Chiffre tortures Bond, giving White an opportunity to kill both (but he only kills Le Chiffre because only Bond knows the password to the account, and Vesper refuses to go through with the deal unless Bond is kept alive). This actually leads to White's downfall, after Vesper preempts this and leaves her cell phone with Bond before she kills herself, allowing him to locate White in the final scene]].

* CatSmile: Valenka (Le Chiffre's girlfriend) looks very mischevous when she poison's Bond's drink, thus downplaying her deadly intent.

* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: [[spoiler: In the book, Vesper commits suicide via poison. In the film, she drowns herself]].
* DiesWideOpen: [[spoiler: Vesper drowns, and her eyes stare hauntingly at Bond for a few long seconds before they close.]].
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Mendel at the end. Bond is calling him and demanding to know [[spoiler: where the money is going and who authorized it]] and he just keeps smiling away without any hint that he's noticed there's anything wrong. Usually you'd think something like that would be an automatic alarm that you need to [[spoiler: freeze the transaction ASAP]].

* DropDeadGorgeous: [[spoiler: Vesper Lynd does a SexySoakedShirt scene as a corpse]].
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Vesper, by drowning herself]].

* FramingTheGuiltyParty: Mathis manages to get [[spoiler: Steven Obanno]]'s murder pinned on Le Chiffre's accomplice Leo, sending the terrorist on a one-way trip to the French slam. Nobody cares.

** Right after [[spoiler: White kills Le Chiffre]], in the latter's final shot, [[spoiler: his eye starts bleeding]]. Overlaps somewhat with IronicEcho, when Bond taunts [[spoiler: Le Chiffre earlier in the film, "I won't consider myself to be in trouble until I start weeping blood."]]
** When Bond [[spoiler: sends his resignation email to M]], take a closer look at the names listed onscreen. They include Anne Bennett, Chris [=McBride=], Neil Pinkawa, and David Hicks, all of whom worked on the movie.

-->'''Le Chiffre''': I'll feed you what you seem not to value.

* HistoricalInJoke: When M talks to Bond about the financial loss Le Chiffre has taken as a result of his plot at Miami being foiled, she mentions how the CIA discovered he short-sold large quantities of airline stocks after 9/11, and when the stocks plummeted in the wake of the attacks, someone made a fortune. This really was alleged to have happened in RealLife as people noted seemingly suspicious stock trading the day before 9/11, but a thorough investigation by the [=FBI=] amongst others concluded there was no Al-Qaeda connection.

-->'''Dryden''': How did he die?\\
'''Bond''': Your contact? Not well.\\

'''Dryden''': Made you feel it, did he? Well, you needn't worry. The second is--''[[[KilledMidSentence Bond shoots him in the head]]]''\\
'''Bond''': [[BondOneLiner Yes. Considerably.]]

** Discussed by Vesper; if Bond loses the poker game, there's a chance that the British government might wind up financing terrorism, particularly if Le Chiffre wins. [[spoiler: It turns out that this happens after all when Mr. White ends up recovering the winnings.]]

* PragmaticAdaptation: While obviously more well-known and popular, Texas Hold'Em is also far more of a psychological warfare game than Baccarat.

-->'''Bond''': I thought that one less bomb maker in the world would be a good thing.

* SexSignalsDeath: [[spoiler: Vesper Lynd (drowned) and Solange Dimitrios (strangled)]].

* StupidEvil: Le Chiffre's scheme -- short-sell company stocks, then stage terrorist attacks on those companies to drive them into bankruptcy while he makes a fortune -- has some problems to it. Namely, he finances it by dipping into his clients' money. His heavily armed, very dangerous clients who have no problem killing or torturing people to achieve their goals. Thus, when Bond sabotages his scheme on the Skyfleet plane, Le Chiffre loses $101.2 million in terrorists' money, and is forced to set up a poker tournament at Casino Royale in Montenegro to recover it, a game that is infiltrated by agents from [=MI6=] and the CIA who want to bankrupt Le Chiffre to get him to seek asylum with one of them. And Le Chiffre himself gets attacked and threatened by a pissed-off client who has suddenly found himself out of pocket (and he very deliberately ordered Le Chiffre earlier to not invest his money into high risk ventures). He'd have avoided this whole issue if he simply created a private fund to deal solely with his dirty venture, just in case something goes wrong, one of his schemes is discovered and foiled, and he loses money. He probably wouldn't be able to invest as much, but he would at least avoid making his clients get affected by something they were not involved in. [[spoiler: This is what gets him killed--Mr. White cared less about the money, and more that Le Chiffre couldn't be trusted. It is entirely possible that even if Le Chiffre ''had'' won the tournament, Quantum ''still'' would have killed him for even playing with his clients' money in such a reckless way; Mr. White and his organisation recommended Le Chiffre to his clientele, and his scheme damaged their reputation.]]

* TheseHandsHaveKilled: Vesper Lynd goes through this during her ShowerOfAngst, after she's involved with Bond's confrontation with the African warlords. She didn't actually kill anyone, even indirectly (in fact, the action she's angsting over is technically the act of ''saving Bond's life''), but she still has the symptoms. It's also possible foreshadowing that [[spoiler: she's in league with the bad guys and is feeling some guilt bubbling up]].

-->'''M''': ...which would explain how he could set up a high-stakes poker game at Casino Royale in Montenegro.

-->'''Bond''': Stop touching your ear.\\
'''Carter''': Sorry?!\\
'''Bond''': Put your hand down!

--> '''M''': "Right now, I have a lovely gentleman from the Treasury wondering if you're ever going to deposit the winnings."

* WhamShot: As Bond and Vesper are sailing in Venice, Vesper suddenly spots on the harbour [[spoiler: a sinister-looking man with half-shaded glasses, who gives her a knowing look. She solemnly looks back at him... and then after something blocks him from sight momentarily, he disappears. It's the first clue to the audience that Vesper is more than she seems.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:

* WhyWeAreBummedCommunismFell: "Christ, I miss the UsefulNotes/ColdWar." It's also a MythologyGag, since in Judy Dench's first appearance as M, way back in ''Film/GoldenEye'', while chastising Creator/PierceBrosnan's Bond about his trigger-happy nature, she refers to him as a "relic from the Cold War."

--> '''Bond''': It's ''tailored!''\\
'''Vesper''': I sized you up the moment I met you.

* XanatosGambit: Regardless of whether [[spoiler: Le Chiffre or Bond won, Mr. White was still going to get his money: Le Chiffre was desperate to pay off his debts and save his own skin, and Vesper transferred the funds to White's account]].

* YouHaveFailedMe: [[spoiler: Mr. White shoots Le Chiffre in the face after he failed to get back the money.]]

* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: Le Chiffre has been defeated, Vesper and Bond get together, all is good... [[spoiler: Vesper suddenly steals $120 million to pay for her fiancé's ransom. And dies.]]

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* RuleOfCool: [[spoiler:Bond ultimately wins the card game, against master poker players, not by outplaying them or by some great strategy, but because he gets a straight flush at the exact right moment in the ideal situation, where everyone else stays in because they all happen to have hands that are near impossible to beat (as opposed to folding when they realise Bond probably has a good hand, which would be the typical outcome), which has even more ridiculous odds. The only reason the audience does not question what is nearly mathematically impossible is that Bond getting a straight flush is flippin' cool.]]

** Bond also tips over all of his chips when going all-in; in real life, this is highly annoying for players and dealers alike since it's easier and quicker to mark amounts when players keep their chips in stacks and shoving them in a pile is just a big messy headache. Especially in this case where several side pots would be involved.

* EarpieceConversation: A variant has two British Secret Service agents communicating over earpieces while on a mission. Bond has to remind the younger agent not to put his finger in his ear while using the earpiece, a nervous tic which of course gives the younger agent away and spooks the guy they're tailing.

* TenMinuteRetirement: Bond sends in his resignation, but [[spoiler:the death of Vesper]] makes him reconsider, keeping him at Her Majesty's service.

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Vesper, by drowning herself]]

* Driven to Suicide: [[spoiler: Vesper, by drowning herself]]

** Can anyone say "Two measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet, shaken well over ice until chilled, and served with a thin slice of lemon"?

* FreezeFrameBonus: When Dryden is shot, there's a brief shot of a portrait of him with his family, emphasizing the fact that no matter how you paint him, Bond is a killer.

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Vesper Lynd's mascara ''does'' run when she sits crying in the shower, but oddly, it's not at all affected when [[spoiler:she drowns]].

* ColdBloodedTorture: Le Chiffre uses a knotted rope, a bottomless chair, and some very strategic blows to persuade James Bond to reveal some very vital information. Specifically, that he has an itchy scrotum.

* BilingualBonus: At the end of the embassy shootout, an official tells James "laissez tomber" in unsubtitled French, which translates as "[[PutDownYourGunAndStepAway Drop [it]!]]", but colloquially as "Give up!"

* BilingualBonus: At the end of the embassy shootout, an official tells James "laissez tomber" in unsubtitled French, this phrase in French translates literally to English as "[[PutDownYourGunAndStepAway Let it fall!]]", but colloquially as "Give up!"

* AdaptationalLocationChange: The book is set almost entirely in France. The film sets the prologue in Madagascar and the Caribbean, the main plot in Montenegro, and the climax in Venice.

* AdaptationalLocationChange: The book's ending took place in France. The film's climax takes place in Venice.

* SoulBrotha: Felix Leiter formally introduces himself as "a brotha from [[UsefulNotes/CIA Langley]]" to Bond when he offers to help him get back in the poker game.

* CunningPeoplePlayPoker: The plot of ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'' concerns the newly minted Double-O agent James Bond as he faces off against the devious terrorist financier Le Chiffre in a high stakes poker game. Le Chiffre proves to be a formidable match for Bond as he not only manages to get him knocked out of the tournament briefly, but also manages to have him and love interest Vesper nearly killed several times away from the table.

** The African bomber tries to shoot Bond while on the crane, but he's out of bullets. He throws the pistol at Bond in an act of desperation, but Bond deftly [[CatchAndReturn catches it and throws it back so that this time, it hits Mollaka in the head]]thro.

* InformedAttractiveness:
-->'''Vesper:''' Hello.\\
'''Mathis:''' I suppose I don't have to tell you how beautiful you look. [[LustObject Half the people on that table are still watching you.]]

In the film's [[AdaptationExpansion expanded]] first half, Bond earns his 00- status and tracks down a terrorist financier known only as Le Chiffre. In the second half, adapted from [[Literature/CasinoRoyale Fleming's original novel]], Bond must win a high-stakes game of TabletopGame/{{poker}} against Le Chiffre to bankrupt the criminal and capture him. Along the way, Bond is nearly killed twice, gets tortured by Le Chiffre, and falls in love with the gorgeous accountant in charge of staking him in the game, Vesper Lynd.

Creator/IanFleming had sold the rights to the novel separately from the rest of the series, which is the reason that it took so long for a proper adaptation of it. The film was noted for being DarkerAndEdgier than most of the previous ones, with the fight scenes brutal and bloody, and the story hewing closer to a political thriller about tracking down the cash flow of terrorist organizations than an adventure yarn about a superheroic secret agent saving the world from megalomaniacs using elaborate home bases, {{kill sat}}s and pilfered nuclear weapons. Additionally, ''Casino Royale'' is the first film since ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'' nearly 20 years prior to be based on a ''James Bond'' publication by Ian Fleming.

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