History Film / QuantumOfSolace

** Mr White as well.

* BigBadDuumvirate: Dominic Greene and General Medrano,
* BilingualBonus: Elvis, Dominic's henchman, is first seen [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas speaking to his mother]] on the phone in [[GermanDialects Swiss German]], talking about the hot weather in Haïti. The actor playing him and director Marc Forster are both of Swiss descent, and probably thought it quite an amusing in-joke. There's also Mathis repeatedly telling the taxi driver "Callate", which is Spanish for "Shut up".

* BondGirl: Averted with Camille, the only Bond girl Bond never actually slept with (which, to a certain extent, would seem to take her out of the category in the first place). Deconstructed with Fields, since she's used to show Bond that his cold manipulation of the people around him can actually ruin [[spoiler: or end]] their lives. The Craig Bond movies have never yet played this trope straight.

* ChekhovsGun: Averted. The boathook!

* ContinuityNod: Bond's SMG from the ending of ''Film/CasinoRoyale'' makes an appearance at the end of the pre-credits car chase, Le Chiffre and his operation are namechecked and Bond drops Vesper's necklace (just like she referenced "letting go" in the previous movie) in the snow at the end of the film. As a whole, ''Quantum'' is very dependant on themes and elements of ''Film/CasinoRoyale'', moreso than most of the previous Bond films.

* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: [[spoiler:Bond leaves Dominic Greene]] stranded in the middle of a desert with nothing to drink but a bottle of oil. This is a fitting punishment due to his inflicting the impoverished Bolivians with an artificial drought, combined with how he murdered [[spoiler:Fields by drowning her]] in oil.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Medrano. He just looks like another fat tyrant from BananaRepublic, but he stands his own against Camille.

* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:Mathis]] is killed and his body is left in Bond's trunk for the police to 'find'. In ''Film/CasinoRoyale'' this same method was used to get Le Chiffre's [[TheDragon Dragon]] out of the picture.

* FanDisservice: Near the end, that poor waitress at the hotel. Yes, we ''do'' get a PantyShot that would make Sharon Stone blush, but you can't really feel good about it since she's just come within a hair's breadth of being brutally raped by General Medrano.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:Green]] was found with two bullets in the back of his head. Bond didn't give him a gun. Gasp!

* GreenAesop: The CIA is willing to assist the BigBad in attempts to get oil. The same BigBad tells Quantum that they must take control of Bolivia because they have the worlds most precious resource. [[spoiler: Which is water, not oil.]]

** Which is a historically well placed zinger. For example, in the 1860s Britain funded both sides of the War of the Triple Alliance, which killed 70% of Paraguay's population and left a 4/1 gender ratio due to a deficit of males population and bankrupted Brazil due to all the money they borrowed from Britain. Brazil and Argentina would have split Paraguay as the spoils of defeating them, but Britain wanted it intact... so it could pay back the money it loaned them.

* InstantSeduction: "I can't find the...uhm, the stationary. Come help me look."

* ItsPersonal: Bond's comment to Vesper's boyfriend (while the female intelligence agent is watching): "This man and I have some ''unfinished business''."

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Mr. White]].
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Greene.]] He drank the bottle of oil Bond provided before Quantum executed him.

* MadeOfExplodium: Whatever engineer thought placing pressurized Hydrogen storage tanks into the parking level and suite walls of a [[CollapsingLair hotel]] was a good idea, should probably not be working with volatile substances.

* MercyKill: [[spoiler:Bond prepares to shoot Camille, as they are trapped in the burning hotel with no escape and she is reliving her childhood trauma of having the General burn her house down over her head. Fortunately an escape presents itself before it's too late.]]

* MythologyGag: Bond drinks his martini shaken. It is explicitly ''not'' described as "[[CatchPhrase shaken, not stirred]]". This is also a callback to a similar bit in ''Film/CasinoRoyale''.

* NebulousEvilOrganization: Quantum

* NoNameGiven: The first name of Fields is only given in the closing credits. Thank goodness too.
** Mr. White
* NotHyperbole: Quantum really ''do'' have people everywhere

-->'''Greene:''' You should know something about me and the people I work with. We deal with the left and the right, dictators or liberators. If the current president had been more agreeable, I wouldn't be talking to you. So if you decide not to sign, you'll wake up with your balls in your mouth and your willing replacement standing over you... if you doubt that, then shoot me, take that money and have a good night's sleep.

* RapeAsDrama: Several times, [[spoiler: although in Camille's case, it's against her family, not her.]]

* RelativeButton: Camille's family were murdered by Mendrano

** [[spoiler:Field's]] death to ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''.

* VaporWear: we're not shown what, if anything, Fields is wearing under her coat.

* WastedSong: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg2dXY9TOKA&feature=related This song]] was rejected as the movie's main theme. As if the people who hate "Another Way To Die" weren't already upset...
* WeAreEverywhere: Quantum (see ParanoiaFuel example).
* WhatTheHellHero: M calls Bond out on killing every lead he finds (to the point that he's blamed for the death of a henchman who was killed by TheDragon, not Bond). At the end of the film, Bond finally shows some restraint when he leaves [[spoiler:Vesper's boyfriend]] alive to be interrogated.

* FauxActionGirl: Camille. What does she do in Haiti? Pass out. In dogfight? Bail before Bond. In hotel? It's not her fight. Her only badass scene is her fight with Medrano.

While it is unclear how the film will ultimately be remembered, ''Quantum'' has generally received a shellacking from critics for being ''too'' DarkerAndEdgier: its resemblance to TheBourneSeries was particularly lamented, and many viewers criticized it for discarding too many of the series' signature tropes. [[WordOfGod As it eventually turned out]], most of these issues occurred because the 2007-2008 WritersStrike left the film with more or less [[RealLifeWritesThePlot no script during production]]. This may be the reason it's the shortest film in the series so far, despite directly following the longest one.

While it is unclear how the film will ultimately be remembered, ''Quantum'' has generally received a shellacking from critics for being ''too'' DarkerAndEdgier: its resemblance to TheBourneSeries was particularly lamented, and many viewers criticized it for discarding too many of the series' signature tropes. [[WordOfGod As it eventually turned out]], most of these issues occurred because the 2007-2008 WritersStrike left the film with more or less [[RealLifeWritesThePlot no script during production]].

* * FauxActionGirl: Camille. What does she do in Haiti? Pass out. In dogfight? Bail before Bond. In hotel? It's not her fight. Her only badass scene is her fight with Medrano.

* AxeCrazy: [[spoiler: Dominic Greene becomes one when he fights with Bond. He even has an axe.]]

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Zig-zagged. [[spoiler: Camille]] does have a nasty burn scar from when she was a kid, but it is on her back and thus concealed by clothing for most of the movie. Of course, an ongoing theme of the film is ''psychological'' scars.

* BodyguardBetrayal: Invoked by [[spoiler: Mr. White]].

* ContinuityNod: Bond's SMG from the ending of ''Film/CasinoRoyale'' makes an appearance at the end of the pre-credits car chase, Le Chiffre and his operation are namechecked and Bond drops [[spoiler:Vesper's necklace (just like she referenced "letting go" in the previous movie)]] in the snow at the end of the film. As a whole, ''Quantum'' is very dependant on themes and elements of ''Film/CasinoRoyale'', moreso than most of the previous Bond films.

* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: [[spoiler:Bond leaves Dominic Greene stranded in the middle of a desert with nothing to drink but a bottle of oil. This is a fitting punishment due to Dominic inflicting the impoverished Bolivians with an artificial drought, combined with how he murdered Fields by drowning her in oil.]]

* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:Mathis is killed and his body is left in Bond's trunk for the police to 'find'. In ''Film/CasinoRoyale'' Mathis used this same method to get Le Chiffre's [[TheDragon Dragon]] out of the picture.]]

* TheDragon: [[spoiler:Subverted entirely when the dragon is, according to form, positioned to cover his boss's escape and is promptly killed by an explosion. [[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v215/Bbrown/Elvis3.jpg Poor man's pants get blown clean off him first.]]]]

* DropDeadGorgeous: [[spoiler:Fields is drowned in oil, and her oil-covered body is laid on Bond's bed, a callback to ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'']].

** Double-Subverted (by way of [[InvertedTrope inversion]]) during the climax. In an effort to get away from Bond, one of the [[{{Mook}} mooks]] drives backwards, and ends up-hitting a wall. The car itself doesn't explode - however, the actual building is made of Hydrogen fuel cells, and upon impact, those ''do'' explode, ultimately causing the building to [[CollapsingLair burn down]].

* FauxActionGirl: Camille. What does she do in Haiti? Pass out. In dogfight? Bail before Bond. In hotel? It's not her fight. Her only badass scene is her fight with Medrano.

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: [[spoiler: Subverted at the end, much to M's surprise.]]

* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Greene. He drank the bottle of oil Bond provided before Quantum executed him.]]

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Partially averted: [[spoiler: Camille]] does have a nasty burn scar from when she was a kid, but it is on her back and thus concealed by clothing for most of the movie. Of course, an ongoing theme of the film is ''psychological'' scars.

* BodyguardBetrayal

* HeWhoFightsMonsters

* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Greene]]. He [[spoiler:drank the bottle of oil Bond provided]] before Quantum executed him.

** Interestingly, the evil plot from the movie is less evil than the real-life one, as the intended price hike is less than the one that really happened.

* MadeOfExplodium: Whatever engineer thought placing pressurized Hydrogen storage tanks into the parking level and suite walls of a hotel was a good idea, should probably not be working with volatile substances.

* CollapsingLair: [[spoiler:The hotel]]. It's a Bond movie, what would you expect?

** Green as well. He looks like a another sleazy con-man, and he stands his own against ''Bond''.

* FanDisservice: [[spoiler: Near the end, that poor waitress at the hotel. Yes, we ''do'' get a PantyShot that would make Sharon Stone blush, but you can't really feel good about it since she's just come within a hair's breadth of being brutally raped by General Medrano]].

* GirlOfTheWeek: Deliberately done differently. [[spoiler:It's clear to both Bond, Fields, and the audience that she's just a quick lay, and all Camille gives Bond is a quick peck before (apparently) leaving him forever.]]

* HeyItsThatGuy: [[{{Castle}} Kate Beckett]] shows up at the end.

The 22nd ''Film/JamesBond'' film. The title is from a 1960 Fleming short story (which might be summarized best as, "James Bond attends a very boring dinner party with people he doesn't like and nothing happens,") and means "a small degree of comfort". The story follows on from ''Film/CasinoRoyale'', making it a true sequel among James Bond movies [[hottip:*:the first that actually continues directly from the previous film, not just having recurring characters like [[BigBad Blofeld]] or [[TheDragon Jaws]]]]. Bond, out for revenge following the death of Vesper Lynd, uncovers a plot by [[TheSyndicate Quantum]], the shadowy organization to which the first film's BigBad belonged. A Quantum operative named [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Dominic Greene]] is engineering the overthrow of the Bolivian government, and it's up to Bond to find out why. Along the way he's helped by the mysterious Camille, who's got some [[Main/{{Revenge}} unfinished business]] with one of Quantum's clients.

The 22nd ''Film/JamesBond'' film. The title is from a 1960 Fleming short story (which might be summarized best as, "James Bond attends a very boring dinner party with people he doesn't like and nothing happens,") and means "a small degree of comfort". The story follows on from ''Film/CasinoRoyale'', making it a rare true sequel among James Bond movies. Bond, out for revenge following the death of Vesper Lynd, uncovers a plot by [[TheSyndicate Quantum]], the shadowy organization to which the first film's BigBad belonged. A Quantum operative named [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Dominic Greene]] is engineering the overthrow of the Bolivian government, and it's up to Bond to find out why. Along the way he's helped by the mysterious Camille, who's got some [[Main/{{Revenge}} unfinished business]] with one of Quantum's clients.

* BookEnds: A rare inversion. CasinoRoyale's last pre-epilogue scene with Le Chiffre sees Bond tied to a chair. Quantum of Solace's first post-opening scene sees Bond and M interrogating Mr. White while he is tied to a chair.

** In the opening car chase, Bond blasts the bad guys with an SMG that was never seen in the movie prior to his using it... but it ''was'' seen rather prominently in the final moments of ''CasinoRoyale''.

* ContinuityNod: Bond's SMG from the ending of ''CasinoRoyale'' makes an appearance at the end of the pre-credits car chase, Le Chiffre and his operation are namechecked and Bond drops [[spoiler:Vesper's necklace (just like she referenced "letting go" in the previous movie)]] in the snow at the end of the film. As a whole, ''Quantum'' is very dependant on themes and elements of ''CasinoRoyale'', moreso than most of the previous Bond films.

* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:Mathis is killed and his body is left in Bond's trunk for the police to 'find'. In ''CasinoRoyale'' Mathis used this same method to get Le Chiffre's [[TheDragon Dragon]] out of the picture.]]

* MythologyGag: Bond drinks his martini shaken. It is explicitly ''not'' described as "[[CatchPhrase shaken, not stirred]]". This is also a callback to a similar bit in CasinoRoyale.

** Interestingly, the evil plot from the movie is less evil than the real-life one, as the intended price hike is less than the one that really happened

* ShoutOut: [[spoiler:Field's death to ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'']].
** [[spoiler: [[AViewToAKill AxCrazy French villain attacking Bond with an axe?]] Check]].
* SlidingScaleOfCynicismVersusIdealism: [[spoiler:Way out on the cynical end; both the British and American governments are happy to let the coup take place as long as they get their oil, and Bond and Camille are both motivated to stop Greene for revenge rather than any higher ideals.]]
* [[spoiler:SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: Bye, Mathis.]]

* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler: Poor Vesper. Her boyfriend was a Quantum agent who was using her to get information, then faked his own kidnapping to force her to betray her country.]]

While it is unclear how the film will ultimately be remembered, ''Quantum'' has generally received a shellacking from critics for being ''too'' DarkerAndEdgier: its resemblance to TheBourneSeries was particularly lamented, and many viewers criticized it for discarding ''too many'' of the series' classic tropes. [[WordOfGod As it eventually turned out]], most of these issues occurred because the 2007-2008 WritersStrike left the film with more or less [[RealLifeWritesThePlot no script during production]].

While it is unclear how the film will ultimately be remembered, ''Quantum'' has generally received a shellacking from critics for being ''too'' DarkerAndEdgier: its resemblance to TheBourneSeries was particularly lamented, and many viewers criticized it for discarding too many of the ''Bond'' tropes. [[WordOfGod As it eventually turned out]], most of these issues occurred because the 2007-2008 WritersStrike left the film with more or less [[RealLifeWritesThePlot no script during production]].

While it is unclear how the film will ultimately be remembered, ''Quantum'' has generally received a shellacking from critics for being ''too'' DarkerAndEdgier: its resemblance of TheBourneSeries was particularly lamented, and many viewers criticized it for discarding too many of the ''Bond'' tropes. [[WordOfGod As it eventually turned out]], most of these issues occurred because the 2007-2008 WritersStrike left the film with more or less [[RealLifeWritesThePlot no script during production]].

While it is still too early to see how it will ultimately be remembered, the film received a shellacking from critics for being ''too'' DarkerAndEdgier: its resemblance of TheBourneSeries was particularly lamented, and many viewers criticized it for discarding too many of the "Bond" tropes.

The 22nd ''Film/JamesBond'' film. The title is from a 1960 Fleming short story (which might be summarized best as, "James Bond attends a very boring dinner party with people he doesn't like and nothing happens,") and means "[[AntiquatedLinguistics a small degree of comfort]]". The story follows on from ''Film/CasinoRoyale'', making it a rare true sequel among James Bond movies. Bond, out for revenge following the death of Vesper Lynd, uncovers a plot by [[TheSyndicate Quantum]], the shadowy organization to which the first film's BigBad belonged. A Quantum operative named [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Dominic Greene]] is engineering the overthrow of the Bolivian government, and it's up to Bond to find out why. Along the way he's helped by the mysterious Camille, who's got some [[Main/{{Revenge}} unfinished business]] with one of Quantum's clients.

The 22nd JamesBond film. The title is from a 1960 Fleming short story (which might be summarized best as, "James Bond attends a very boring dinner party with people he doesn't like and nothing happens,") and means "[[AntiquatedLinguistics a small degree of comfort]]". The story follows on from ''CasinoRoyale'', making it a rare true sequel among James Bond movies. Bond, out for revenge following the death of Vesper Lynd, uncovers a plot by [[TheSyndicate Quantum]], the shadowy organization to which the first film's BigBad belonged. A Quantum operative named [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Dominic Greene]] is engineering the overthrow of the Bolivian government, and it's up to Bond to find out why. Along the way he's helped by the mysterious Camille, who's got some [[Main/{{Revenge}} unfinished business]] with one of Quantum's clients.

* DropDeadGorgeous: [[spoiler:Fields is drowned in oil, and her oil-covered body is laid on Bond's bed, a callback to ''{{Goldfinger}}'']].

** [[spoiler:Fields' death is a homage to that of Jill Masterson in ''{{Goldfinger}}''.]] There's also a few others, like the villain grabbing an article of Bond's clothes to avoid a deadly fall.

* ShoutOut: [[spoiler:Field's death to ''{{Goldfinger}}'']].

* TragicKeepsake: Vesper's necklace, discarded at the end of the film. This is a touching callback to ''CasinoRoyale'', where Vesper takes off the necklace because (as she put it) sometimes you have to let the past go.
* TwoDecadesBehind: See also entry in ''CasinoRoyale''. Lillet stopped making Kina Lillet in 1986, but it is mentioned by name ''yet again'' in this movie as Bond is boozing it up on "Vespers" in the plane.