He has a chance at happiness with Vesper in Venice, but it's not long before this movie goes the tragic romance route of 'On Her Majesty's Service.' Their relationship is visualized as a sinking house of lies. You've stripped it from me,' he says while recovering - we finally understand how the callousness he develops toward women might be grounded in realistic hurt. He has to literally gird his loins against torture at the hands of Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen) and just generally rely on brute force rather than cheesy one-liners.Īfter meeting Vesper and seeing the effect she has on him - 'I have no armor left. Emotionally stunted in most other respects, this Bond is more of a 'blunt instrument' and a hardened survivor of all kinds of pain. The film opens with Bond as a new 007, finally earning his license to kill and taking on a grand assignment: playing in a high-stakes poker game against Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen), a terrorist. Vesper is also vulnerable: never more so than during the shower of angst, where Bond comforts her after evading a machete in a stairwell fight for the ages.

At one point, when Bond orders a vodka martini, the bartender asks him, 'Shaken or stirred?' Bond knows that we know the answer to that question, so he just says, 'Do I look like I give a damn?'

Casino royale first bond movie