How Did 'Casino Royale' Start the Best 007 Era? The In-depth Analyze of 'Casino Royale' (4/5)

Written in front: The analysis of Casino Royale contains serious spoilers, readers are advised to choose to watch carefully.

This article is followed by the analysis on the third act, let’s continue the adventure of Casino Royale:

Bond's A and K can be combined with the cards to play a full house.

The two sides bet anxiously, and finally came to the critical moment, both Bond and Le Chiffre choose all-in! But what is unexpected is that Le Chiffre has a J and hit a straight flush (J, J, J, J), beating Bond's three belts and two gourds, and Bond is out.

P.S. In fact, there is already a problem here. Bond only said to Vesper and Mathis that he saw Le Chiffre’s bluff, so here is: whether Le Chiffre predicted Bond’s prediction; or Le Chiffre knew Bond with the help of an undercover agent, so it made Bond predict Le Chiffre was bluffing; or Le Chiffre guided Bond to predict him, thus Le Chiffre could predict Bond’s predict... Everyone can make a bold guess. (So Texas is really a psychological warfare)

Anyway, Bond failed again...his ego cost the HM Treasury lost a lot, not to mention a fledgling relationship with Vesper. So Vesper refused to provide him with an additional $5 million wire transfer based on his current situation (in fact, she wanted him to stop quickly and not obstruct Le Chiffre).

At a loss and extremely angry, Bond returned to the hall, watched Le Chiffre proudly pass the crowd, got angry for a while, picked up a table knife and prepared to kill the bastard!

This person's name is Felix Leiter Felix Leiter, from Langley, USA. People who have watched ‘Mission: Impossible’ (1996) know that this person must be an agent of the CIA (the headquarters of the CIA is in Langley, Virginia, and he will also be in ‘No Time to Die’ (2021) and ‘Quantum of Solace’ (2008).

Felix Leiter said their interests were aligned and they both aimed at Le Chiffre. But he is not good at gambling, and he can't last long, so he is going to bet on Bond and let Bond use his money to play for him, the condition is:

As for money:

The game begins again!

Bond pulled out all the stops this time, quickly leveling his small chips with Le Chiffre again.

At this time, Le Chiffre also began to play tricks, pouring poison into Bond's wine through his blonde girlfriend, trying to poison Bond.

And Bond was indeed caught in the trap, the poisoned alcohol made his heart beat faster, Bond immediately got up and ran to the Aston Martin luxury car with rescue equipment after being poisoned, and rushed to the rescue in time with the guidance of the logistics staff at the headquarters and Vesper. With the help he received, Bond survived the crisis. (Although it was thrilling...)

The camera cuts back to the gambling table. Felix Leiter was also finished by Le Chiffre. Fortunately, Bond came back with a face full of sarcasm. After so many twists and turns, the final decisive battle finally kicked off!

The big blind came to $1 million, and there were only 4 people on the stage. It was another round of familiar final betting battle.

Following the all-in of the two small supporting roles, Bond and Le Chiffre looked at each other for a while and said that they also went all-in. At this time, Le Chiffre quietly looked at his cards:

The cards were A and 6, he can combine five cards on the table to play a full house.

So Le Chiffre happily moved all-in.

There are 105 million chips on the table at this time, if Le Chiffre wins the game and can just fill in the previous hole and make a small profit, it can explain why he is so excited.

The exciting moment came, first a Japanese made a five-card flush, then another man played a full house, Le Chiffre confidently overwhelmed his with his own cards, and it was Bond's turn.

As expected, Bond's card played straight flush.

In fact, seeing the five public cards on the table, Bond’s hole cards have already won, because apart from the 5 and 7 of spades, there is no other card that can make a straight flush, and no one’s cards can beat Bond’s.

In short, Le Chiffre lost, blood began to ooze from the corner of his eyes, and he left the table angrily.

Felix Leiter congratulated Bond and said he was going to get Le Chiffre back to Langley, so Bond and Vesper went to dinner happily.

At the dinner table, Vesper glanced at his phone, turned his head solemnly and said:

Then Bond officially named the wine he used to mock Le Chiffre as Vesper, and he didn't notice the abnormality in Vesper's tone.

Bond then says he sees what the necklace Vesper is wearing:

But Vesper explains that she only wears the thing because it looks good... and is mercilessly impaled by Bond:

Then Vesper began to ask Bond why he didn't get out of the body and stop killing in order to change the subject in a hurry. Obviously not wanting to be turned away, Bond responded:

The brief silence was broken by Vesper's phone ringing, saying that Mathis needed to see her, before congratulating Bond again as she walked out of the restaurant.

Since this is a question-and-answer article, we may need to emphasize a certain question here: Did Mathis betray the organization and cause Vesper to be arrested later?

We can see that the entire conversation Vesper has been full of thoughts since receiving the text message on the mobile phone, combined with the omniscient perspective mentioned earlier (P.S. at the beginning of "Quantum of Solace" (2008) revealed that Vesper did not know her kidnapped boyfriend Yusef until she died Kabira Yusuf Kabila (Simon Kassianides) had her as a Quantum agent from the start, and his kidnapping was staged by Quantum to force Vesper to become a double agent. It’s another story.), it can be concluded that all of Vesper’s mentions of Mathis are a cover, and the reality is that she will be forced to start some kind of action to force Bond to spit out the money he just won.

And our poor Bond got caught... He and the American agent Felix Leiter met and reached an agreement by chance on the stairs. How did Mathis, a British native, know this?

Sure enough, he rushed out of the hotel and found that Vesper was tied to a car. Bond got into the Aston Martin again, chased after him, and then overturned the car.

(The villain puts the Vesper beauty in the middle of the road, so bad!)

This stunt broke a world record that year: The Aston Martin DBS car rollover stunt broke the world record for the most number of blaster-assisted vehicle rollovers. Originally, the race-spec DBS meant that a standard ramp would not be enough to roll the car, so the effects team was asked to install an aerodynamic cannon behind the driver's seat, which prompted the car to complete seven full rolls. This stunt officially entered the Guinness Book of World Records on November 5, 2006. (You can count it if you are interested...)

Then Le Chiffre said a very instructive sentence to Bond:

Whether Mathis is a traitor or not, let's not pursue it for the time being.

After that, Bond was taken to pump his balls obediently, and it became a classic scene of the hero's suffering.

Le Chiffre apparently wanted Bond as the winner's password, so that the money could be transferred smoothly to any account in the world.

Vesper owns the account, Bond has the password, so they are inseparable

But our Bond was able to hold on， even said “It was a little itchy.” and then said with a happy face:

Just when Bond was dying, Mr. White arrived in time, not to save Bond, but to kill the Quantum Organization. The transaction between the Ugandan veteran iron and Le Chiffre in the opening title was introduced by Mr. White, and there must be more than one transaction. As the private banker of the black organization, Le Chiffre obviously wasted the last chance given by the organization when he lost the bet, just as Mr. White said:

Then Le Chiffre fell to the ground in response to the gunfire, sure enough, he would be remembered tickling our hero's balls before he died.

End of the third act.

The next article brings you the final act of Casino Royale movie analysis. Also, I hope you enjoyed the analysis, the reviews of the same movie are as below:

The In-depth Movie Analyze of Casino Royale (the 2nd act, 1/5)

The In-depth Movie Analyze of Casino Royale (the 3rd act part1, 2/5)

The In-depth Movie Analyze of Casino Royale (the 3rd act part2, 3/5)

The In-depth Movie Analyze of Casino Royale (the 4th act and the epilog, 5/5)