Plot
James Bond goes on his first ever mission as a 00. Le Chiffre is a banker to the world's terrorists. He is participating in a poker game at Montenegro, where he must win back his money, in order to stay safe among the terrorist market. The boss of MI6, known simply as M sends Bond, along with Vesper Lynd to attend this game and prevent Le Chiffre from winning. Bond, using help from Felix Leiter, Mathis and having Vesper pose as his wife, enters the most important poker game in his already dangerous career. But if Bond defeats Le Chiffre, will he and Vesper Lynd remain safe?
Keywords: 2000s, adultery, africa, airplane, airport, altered-version-of-studio-logo, animated-credits, arch-villain, army, assassin
Everyone has a past. Every legend has a beginning. On November 17th, discover how James...became Bond.
The new Bond. Living for Love. Dying for Thrills.
A Whisper of Love. A Whisper of Hate.
James Bond in Montenegro
The Pawn. The Con. The Bond.
Daniel Craig is James Bond
The bitch is dead.
Daniel Craig is James Bond 007
Daniel Craig is James Bond. Deal with it.
Always Bet On Bond
Vesper Lynd: James, I want you to know that if all that was left of you was your smile and your little finger, you'd still be more of a man than any I've known.::James Bond: That's because you know what I can do with my little finger.
James Bond: You want to do what to me!::Vesper Lynd: You've lost me.::James Bond: You just said you can't wait to get me back up to the room. Let's go.
James Bond: [Bond has just won Dimitrios's car in a game of poker] Oh, and the valet ticket.
Le Chiffre: You are funny man, Mr. Bond.
James Bond: So you want me to be half-monk, half-hitman.::M: Any thug can kill. I need you to take your ego out of the equation.
M: You've got a bloody cheek!::James Bond: Sorry. I'll shoot the camera first next time.::M: Or yourself. You stormed into an Embassy. You violated the only absolutely inviolate rule of international relations, and why? So you could kill a nobody. We wanted to question him, not to kill him! For God's sake! You're supposed to display some kind of judgement.::James Bond: I did. I thought one less bomb maker in the world would be a good thing.::M: Exactly. One bomb maker. We're trying to figure out how an entire network of terrorist groups is financed and you give us one bomb maker. Hardly the big picture, wouldn't you say?
Vesper Lynd: It doesn't bother you? Killing all those people?::James Bond: Well I wouldn't be very good at my job if it did.
James Bond: I have a dinner jacket.::Vesper Lynd: There are dinner jackets and dinner jackets; this is the latter. And I need you looking like a man who belongs at that table.::James Bond: How?... It's tailored.::Vesper Lynd: I sized you up the moment we met.
James Bond: I've got a little itch, down there. Would you mind?
M: Arrogance and self-awareness seldom go hand in hand.
Plot
After the death of M, Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH and Le Chiffre, Bond thinks up the ultimate plan. That every agent will be named James Bond. One of the Bonds, whose real name is Evelyn Tremble is sent to take on Le Chiffre in a game of baccarat, but all the Bonds get more than they can handle, especially when the ultimate villain turns out to be Bonds nephew, Jimmy Bond.
Keywords: 1960s, afternoon-tea, american-accent, animated-credits, animated-title-sequence, applause, aquarium, arch-villain, assignment, auction
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Polo: [struggling up the stairs] My battery needs recharging.::Mata Bond: Maybe your head needs examining.::Polo: No, I had that examined last week.
Piper: Are you Richard Burton?::Evelyn Tremble: No, I'm Peter O'Toole!::Piper: Then you're the greatest man that ever BREATHED.
[in a building that is about to explode]::Cooper: What's the strategy, sir?::Sir James: Get out of the bloody place before it blows up!
Frau Hoffner: Hmmm, it is little Otto. He was one of your mother's lovers. We often find him lying around.::Mata Bond: Is he dead?::Frau Hoffner: Hard to tell. He always looked like that.
Jimmy Bond: You can't shoot me! I have a very low threshold of death. My doctor says I can't have bullets enter my body at any time.
[in front of 10 Downing Street]::Mata Bond: I bet Mummy would've taken me in!::Sir James: Mummy took everyone in.
Mata Bond: [upon seeing Mata Hari's bedroom] Hey, what an enormous bed!::Polo: The German army was very large in those days.
Sir James: I remember your chap Lenin very well. First class organizer. Second class mind.
Sir James: It's depressing that the words "secret agent" have become synonymous with "sex maniac."
Sir James: The whole world believes that you were eaten by a shark, Miss Lynd.::Vesper Lynd: That was no shark. That was my personal submarine. But enough of this polite conversation. What is the purpose of your visit?
Le Chiffre (French pronunciation: [lə ʃifʁ], The Cypher or The Number) is a fictional character and the main antagonist in Ian Fleming's James Bond novel Casino Royale. On screen Le Chiffre has been portrayed by Peter Lorre in the 1954 television adaptation of the novel for CBS's Climax! television series, by Orson Welles in the 1967 spoof of the novel and Bond film series, and by Mads Mikkelsen in the 2006 film version of Fleming's novel.
Fleming based the character on occultist Aleister Crowley.
Le Chiffre, alias "Die Nummer", "Mr. Number", "Herr Ziffer", "Ochiu Spart" (Romanian for "Smashed Eye") and other translations of "The Number" or "The Cipher" in various languages, is the paymaster of the "Syndicat des Ouvriers d'Alsace" (French for "Alsatian Workmen's Union"), a SMERSH-controlled trade union.
He is first encountered as an inmate of the Dachau displaced persons camp in the US zone of Germany in June 1945 and transferred to Alsace-Lorraine and Strasbourg three months later on a stateless passport. There he adopts the name Le Chiffre because as he claims, he is "only a number on a passport". Not much else is really known about Le Chiffre's background or where he comes from, except for educated guesses based on his description:
Mads Dittmann Mikkelsen (help·info) (born 22 November 1965) is a Danish actor. In May 2012, he won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival for his role in the film The Hunt.
Mikkelsen was born in the Østerbro area of Copenhagen, the son of Bente Christiansen and Henning Mikkelsen, a cab driver. He is the brother of actor Lars Mikkelsen. After attending Århus Theatre School, he made his film debut in the movie Pusher. He has starred in popular Danish movies such as Flickering Lights (Danish: Blinkende lygter), The Green Butchers (Danish: De grønne slagtere), Adam's Apples (Danish: Adams æbler), Valhalla Rising, his film debut Pusher, and Pusher II. Mikkelsen's longest running role was as a policeman in the Danish television series Unit One (Danish: Rejseholdet). He also starred as Tristan in the Jerry Bruckheimer production of King Arthur, as well as playing the villain Le Chiffre in the 2006 James Bond film, Casino Royale. Also in 2006 he took the lead role in the Oscar nominated After the Wedding (Danish: Efter brylluppet).