History Film / QuantumOfSolace

** At the party for the upcoming Tierra Project in Bolivia, Mathis is betrayed by his friend Carlos, ([[CorruptCop the chief-of-police secretly on Quantum's payroll]]). At some point after conversing with Fields and some other guests, Carlos lures Mathis to the parking lot and has him beaten near-death by his officers. He then shoves Mathis into the trunk of Bond's car and later has his officers shoot Mathis to death, ''all'' so they can pin his death on Bond.

* TheMole: M's bodyguard, who reveals himself to be working for Quantum during Mr. White's interrogation. For the rest of the film, M is paranoid about who she trusts with information because of what happened. Later on, Bond comments that the Canadian intelligence agent has a leak in her department before telling her to leave.

* RealityIsUnrealistic: The Greene's plot, depriving the Bolivian people of water, and then selling it back to them, [[{{Narm}} seemed silly to some]] when it was released.

* ShoutOut: The opera house sequence is deliberately edited to resemble a similar sequence in Creator/AlfredHitchcock's ''Film/TheManWhoKnewTooMuch''.

* DeconstructedTrope: As per tradition, this film's (secondary) Bond girl, Agent Fields, does have a humorous PunnyName--but she [[EmbarrassingFirstName refuses to tell Bond what it is]] because [[RealityEnsues even]] ''[[RealityEnsues she]]'' [[RealityEnsues finds it ridiculous]]. [[spoiler: As we learn in the credits, it's [[Music/TheBeatles "Strawberry"]].]]

* WeHaveWaysOfMakingYouTalk: See the quote from TortureAlwaysWorks.

* FamousLastWords:
** "She would have done anything for you. Forgive her. Forgive yourself." Rene Mathis
** "This time, you will burn!" General Medrano

* UnfortunateNames: Fields. Strawberry Fields.

* FauxActionGirl: Camille. She is supposed to be an ActionGirl, because she dares shoot Bond, doesn't sleep with him, and has a fistfight with Medrano in the climax. In truth, she doesn't do anything. In fact, she's more of TheLoad to Bond. The night Bond is arrested in the hotel, she bails out from him again, claiming that it isn't her fight. She doesn't show up during the bar shoot-out either.

** When M tells Bond that Vesper kept a lock of her lovers hair in her apartment, Bond seems surprised, saying she didn't strike him as the sentimental type. M replies "Well we never really know anyone, do we?" [[spoiler: Only minutes later, her own bodyguard is revealed to be a Quantum infiltrator, and injures her before leading bond on a chase through Siena]].

* ExtremeGraphicalRepresentation: The MI6 facility is equipped with gigantic multitouch screens on every surface, thus enabling it to completely replicate the functionality of...folders, noticeboards and sheets of paper.

** The CIA is willing to look the other way for a bit of oil. Guess what flavor it is?
** Felix Leiter is a bit closer to the other flavor, although he doesn't really do anything about what his Boss is doing until late in the movie (but you can tell he's pissed).

* ElevatorActionSequence: We get to see what happens when an unarmed, beaten-up Bond enters an elevator with three elite British agents carrying guns.

* IllTakeThatAsACompliment: After realizing that the U.S. are of the boorish flavor of {{Eagleland}} this time around (willing to look the other way for a bit of oil), he makes a quip to Leiter about the U.S.'s interventionism. Leiter responds considering it a compliment, which is a historically well-placed zinger, given Britain's status as a world superpower before the U.S. took its place, and that the end of Britain's role as a superpower was in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Crisis a botched attempt at interventionism for oil.]]

* ArtisticLicenceArt: The montage of the sequences at the opera house alternates between Bond's action scene and scenes from the ''Theatre/{{Tosca}}'''s performance happening in the building at the same time. The latter scenes don't follow the opera's actual chronology but are put together in an anachronistic order intended to reflect the parallel action scene.

* ActionizedSequel: The film is shorter than ''Casino Royale'' and packs more action, including a high octane CarChase right at the start. And most of the action was filmed with JitterCam.

* 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 world's most precious resource. [[spoiler:Which is water, not oil.]] Actually a bit of a SubvertedTrope, as Quantum's plot essentially seems to be "faking" the effects of ClimateChange so [[MeaningfulName Mr. Greene's pseudo-nonprofit, Greene Planet,]] can gain control of the world's water supply.

* ArtisticLicenseArt: The montage of the sequences at the opera house alternates between Bond's action scene and scenes from the ''Theatre/{{Tosca}}'''s performance happening in the building at the same time. The latter scenes don't follow the opera's actual chronology but are put together in an anachronistic order intended to reflect the parallel action scene.

* ColorfulThemeNaming: Mr. White's employer is a certain Dominic Greene, and one of Greene's subordinates is a Mr. Slate.

* {{Expy}}: Quantum, along with their color-designated code names [[BlatantLies are in no way like SPECTRE]] and their respective number designated code names. Now seems to be {{retcon}}ned into a bit of {{foreshadowing}} of sorts, as of ''Film/{{Spectre}}''.

* 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 world's most precious resource. [[spoiler:Which is water, not oil.]]
** Actually a bit of a SubvertedTrope, as Quantum's plot essentially seems to be "faking" the effects of GlobalWarming so [[MeaningfulName Mr. Greene's pseudo-nonprofit, Greene Planet,]] can gain control of the world's water supply.

''Quantum of Solace'' is the twenty-second ''Film/JamesBond'' film, the second to star Creator/DanielCraig. It was directed by Creator/MarcForster and released on October 31, 2008. Music/JackWhite and Music/AliciaKeys performed the TitleThemeTune, "Another Way to Die".

* RealityIsUnrealistic: The Greene's plot, depriving the Bolivian people of water, and then selling it back to them, [[{{Narm}} seemed silly to some]] when it was released. In 2016, it was determined that local the government of Flint, Michigan, deliberately allowed their water supply to become toxic, which led thousands of locals to suffer serious ailments such as lead poisoning. Then there's the U.S. federal government withholding water and supplies from its territory Puerto Rico after it was ravaged by Hurricane Maria in 2017, or having its states bid against each other for UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic relief supplies in 2020, or... Let's just say it's TruthInTelevision worldwide.

* BaitAndSwitchGunshot: Subverted when [[spoiler: Camille shoot Medrano.]] The scene makes it obvious who has the gun and who doesn't, but we just hear the gunshot from Bond's perspective, and both him and Greene are conviced that [[spoiler: she]] was the one who was shot.

* ConventionSchmonvention: The climactic fight in a hotel that's burning down. None of the combatants have any trouble breathing, talking, seeing, or fighting. Bond even runs through flames to rescue Camille, who's having a PTSD episode, and then the two of them run through a burning, collapsing wall. No one gets burned.

* BanannaRepublic: Averted. The film portrays Haiti and Bolivia as highly unstable and corrupt countries that tend to fall under dictatorships every so often.

* IllTakeThatAsACompliment: After realizing that the U.S. are of the boorish flavor of {{Eagleland}} this time around (willing to look the other way for a bit of oil), he makes a quip to Leiter about the U.S.'s interventionism. Leiter responds considering it a compliment, which is a historically well-placed zinger, given Britain's status as a world superpower before the U.S. took its place.

* AxCrazy: Dominic Greene when he fights with Bond. Bonus point for fighting with an ''[[AnAxeToGrind actual axe]]''.

* CollapsingLair: A hotel. It's a Bond movie, what would you expect?
* ContinuityNod: Bond's SMG from the ending of ''Film/{{Casino Royale|2006}}'' makes an appearance at the end of the pre-credits car chase, Le Chiffre and his operation are namedropped, and Bond drops Vesper's necklace (just like she referenced "letting go" in the previous film) in the snow at the end of the film. As a whole, ''Quantum'' is very dependant on themes and elements of ''Film/{{Casino Royale|2006}}'', moreso than any other previous Bond film.
* 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]].
* ConvectionSchmonvection: Present in the climactic battle.

*** 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 the previous film. [[note]]Speaking of that, look up TwoDecadesBehind on Casino Royale; it's pretty hard to find Kina Lillet ''or'' high-proof Gordon's Gin to make a Vesper cocktail in the 21st century.[[/note]]