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Written in front: The analysis of Casino Royale contains serious spoilers, readers are advised to choose to watch carefully.
The third act begins, which is the most exciting part of the movie and the longest part. The third act will be fully analyzed in two parts.
Back at the beach club, Bond found out that the beautiful wife who had previously flirted with intelligence was tortured to death, and his eyes showed guilt. M came and introduced us to a wave of Alex Dimitrios and Le Chiffre's relationship, as analyzed above, and injected a tracker in Bond's arm.
After a major loss, Le Chiffre's life was at stake and the Ugandan veteran had to get his money back, so organized a high-stakes high-reward game at:
In view of Le Chiffre's tense situation, M believes that if she wants to control him, she must let him lose the game and have nowhere to pay back the money, and then MI6 will come forward to protect him in exchange for everything she knows behind it.
So M is going to send Bond to Gamble, not because of the depth of his involvement in the project, but because, according to M's personal assistant Villiers, Bond is the best gambler in the Secret Service:
Then the camera comes to arguably the most tit for tat and most memorable train sequence:
Here Bond will meet a woman who is destined to be unforgettable all his life - Vesper Lynd.
This dialogue scene first started with an extremely uncommon way of greeting:
Vesper's official job is H.M. (Her Majesty's) Treasury, the International Liaison Officer of the Financial Action Task Force of the British Treasury, and his trip is responsible for supervising and assisting Bond to use government property to successfully complete the task.
Vesper said that the government provided 10 million for Bond to gamble and squander during this trip, and she can use another 5 million depending on the situation. Therefore, the heroine of this movie can be said to be very different from the previous femme fatale Bond girls. She is really the money.
Then the two began to break the ice. Bond showed the other side of his reliability, uttering a wise saying “At the poker table, you are not playing the cards, you are playing the person sitting across from you.”
What Bond said dispelled some of Vesper's concerns about his ability to participate in the gambling game, and then the style of painting turned to the psychological analysis of each other. At first, Bond still judged each other with the same cynical attitude towards other women, but this time, he met a master, and one of the lines can be said to hit Bond's life, the details are as follows:
“By the cut of your suit you've been to Oxford or something and actually think that's how people wear it and you put it on with such disdain so I'm guessing you're not from the rich class and your friends from school never let you forget this feeling. This means that the grace of your being able to attend that school came from the charity of others, so you always have a chip on your shoulders. As for your first analysis, I thought of the orphan, but I think it is your true projection.” ——Vesper
It can be said that everything Vesper said was right! It is very consistent with Bond's life experience introduced in the later ‘Skyfall’ (2012) and ‘Spectre’ (2015).
In the end, Bond yelled helplessly, and could only express his admiration in three words:
Skewered. One sympathizes. ——Bond
After getting out of the car, Vesper and Bond were still arguing on the way to the hotel, and finally Bond joked that Vesper was not his type. "Is it because I'm smart?", she asked sarcastically. "Because you're single," he replied coldly.
In fact, Bond seems to be in love with wives, and the above-mentioned ridicule is a typical duplicity. Because Vesper is eventually found out to have a boyfriend, for which she becomes his double agent, and Bond inevitably falls in love with her before he finds out.
P.S. It is revealed at the beginning of ‘Quantum of Solace’ (2008) that Vesper was unaware of her kidnapped boyfriend Yusef Kabira (Simon Kassianides) from the very beginning as a Quantum Agent, and his kidnapping was staged by Quantum to force Vesper to become a double agent. But that's all for later.
The screen turns back, and the Bond couple (identity concealment needs) come to meet their contact person in Montenegro-Rene Mathis Rene Mathis. This is a character in the original novel, and will continue to appear in ‘Quantum of Solace’ in the future.
The line of Mathis has also become the classic line of the 007 series that Bond said at the end. This movie gave this line a foreshadowing.
Mathis very lightly got rid of the local police chief who had a close relationship with Le Chiffre, and gave Bond a big opening gift.
Then, Bond returned to the hotel, ready to start the gamble. Bond and Vesper took this opportunity to choose clothes for each other, and their relationship heated up.
They came to Casino Royale, as expected, Le Chiffre already knew the identity of Bond's trip, just as Bond expected, it seemed that he was going to fight to the death.
Before the start of the game, a Swiss banker who kept the money in the game introduced the rules: There are 11 people in the game, and each person deposits 10 million US dollars first, and later can wire another 5 million US dollars according to the situation. The winner takes all, so that the guaranteed winner can earn $110 million, which will almost make up all of Le Chiffre's losses.
Everyone needs to enter a password on the custodian's security suitcase, and finally the winner can use the password entered by the winner to transfer the proceeds to any account in the world. Bond was the first to step forward to enter the password because the letters of the name were arranged first. At this time, an interesting thing happened:
But when playing here, the actor Daniel Craig made a mistake. The password entered should be VESPER (837737), but instead he entered 836547...
The first half of the gamble begins.
Le Chiffre showed great coercion on the table, as if everything was like picking something out of a pocket. Even though Bond lost the card, he still peeped out the mystery:
Bond deliberately called the bartender to mix a glass of his own difficult wine, which attracted everyone to scramble for a drink, and made fun of Le Chiffre.
The drink was taken from the original novel, and Bond later named it Vesper. It consists of three parts of the world's number one selling Gordon's gin (Gordon is Bond's choice), one part of vodka (Bond's preferred grain vodka (Absolut)) and half of a Kina Lillet aperitif. Shake the ingredients over ice until cold, put them in a cocktail glass, and serve with a slice of lemon peel as a decoration, which is extremely elegant and noble.
Then Bond went to the bar, told Vesper and Mathis what he had found (the bluff of Le Chiffre), and finally borrowed a tiny bug from Mathis, and used it as a cover to sneak the device into Le Chiffre's inhalation at halftime break.
But Le Chiffre encountered a major crisis, and Uganda people came to him to ask for money.
Bond eavesdropped on the situation and went upstairs to check, but was discovered by the two black men. In desperation, he helped Le Chiffre solve his major crisis with Vesper who failed to evacuate.
The second half of the gamble begins.
By the time the game ended that day, another 4 hours had passed. Bond hurried back to the room to check Vesper's situation, only to find that she was already wet and cold in the shower. As a civil servant, Vesper just witnessed a brutal death not long ago, and what follows is a very loving scene:
Bond put Vesper in his arms, and the two warmed up again (p.s. The original script arranged an erotic hint of both wearing underwear, but Daniel Craig thought it was obviously inappropriate, so he persuaded the director to replace it with his thought. These two people fell in love with each other at that moment. this scene just took one shot and all the people was satisfied with it.)
Early the next morning, Bond went to the balcony of Mathis to check the disposition of the corpses of the two Ugandan veterans. Our old oily Mathis taught Bond another lesson.
We can see that Mathis dialed the phone casually, one of Le Chiffre's right-hand men was taken away by the police again, giving Bond a big “gift” again.
The gamble started the next day, and there were only 9 players left at the table.
As the stakes increased, Le Chiffre began to show signs of bluff (bluffing, that is, his own cards are not good, and he pretends to be strong and raises to force others not to follow). At this time, Bond has a good hand of cards (A, K), combined with the cards, he has a great hope of winning.
However, there are dangers everywhere, and Bond's meeting will encounter the greatest danger in the movie. The next article will bring you the second half of the third act.
Also, I hope you enjoyed the analysis of Casino Royale, the reviews of the same movie are as below:
The In-depth Movie Analyze of Casino Royale (the 1st act, 1/5)
The In-depth Movie Analyze of Casino Royale (the 2nd act, 2/5)
The In-depth Movie Analyze of Casino Royale (the 3rd act part2, 4/5)
The In-depth Movie Analyze of Casino Royale (the 4th act and the epilog, 5/5)
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