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wel the realtionship with vesper had more to it than any of the past few films. i bought that bond was really in love with her after all they went through. they have alot in common also. both there parents are dead. for vesper her dad was a gambler and shot her mother and himself and that plays into a the whole poker game and bond's character. for the titles everytime the guy goes you know my name you see a picture a craig, never seen any with him in a uniform but they got some from the earlier sequence and they fade into red. they really went with the blood theme and they got the red diamonds from the playing cards and there are alot of card imagery and a gmbling and highroller feel and guns and bullets. felix appears at the start of the poker game, you don't find out who he really is until the part which you can see in the trailer where bond goes for Le Chiffre with a knief in the casino and right before he can get to him felix pops and tells him something like "bad last hand , i'm felix leiter form langly" or something like that
there's no white dots or gunbarrel at the very beginning you first see it at the end of the scene. it alomst the same one from the first trailer. i think think white you mention has to be le Chiffres boss. they never say his name. that's another gripe i got about the movie. aside from the main characters they don't never say the names of alot of the villains. he's not blofeld that's for sure but he seems like a very mysterious guy. maybe the sequel will reveal more about who he really is but he is sorta taken care of by bond. the pre-titles is shorter than the last 2, maybe around 8 mins i would say give or take. there's no music and it's in black and white and the criket and bathroom stuff is edited into the scen in the offcie that is shown in the trailer. the fight is brutal. for a while it's equal but then bond winds up totally kicking the guy's
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. the torture is brutal but you don't see much of what's going on if they did it would X lol. you see a quick shot of bond's
. this bald henchmen strips bond naked by cutting off his clothes. le chiffre uses this swatter looking stick to hit bonds privates. it's painful to watch and craig really sells that he's being tortured. he also gets his face smashed up as the scene continues and they Le Chiffre kicks him over backwards. i don't want to reveal the rest. and last but not least crag's delivery of "bond, james bond". it's dead on IMO and with everything eles going on it's the best delivery after Connery in Dr. no.
It's kinda violent. there's blood spilled in several scens but nothing that is overly gory but it feels very brutal to watch at times when some people get shot or stabbed. and there is sex later on the movie. it's good stuff but you don't see any real nudity in the sex scene but there one bit where bond and vesper are swimming naked in the sea but you the shagowed outline from underwater. as for swearing i heard
a few time and there is the where bond says "bitch" but other than that not to much swearing.
he doesn't a have a bomb starpped to his chest if that's what you mean. he uses a cop uniform to get onto the airport runway and he steals a tanker truck and intends to crash it into this jetliner so that's where i got the suicide part from. you can see that bit in the trailer with the shot of under the tanker as it crashes through the baracade of poilce suv's trying to keep the tanker from the jet. as i said one gripe is they don't name some of the villains so i don;t know who plays him but he does kinda look mid-eastern. he has a light brown skin and curly dark hair. maybe that's what they were aming for
Die another day IMO was FAR from great. not as bad as say Batman and robin but close to it. maybe batman forver would be a better comparison. i use batman as a anology because it best describes how different in tone Casino royale is to "DAD". DAD is overly campy and while they got that whole north korean threat as part of the plot all the cgi, ivisable cars and villain's weapon were way too far-feched and chessy. that stuff may have worked in the 60's and 70's but not in this day an age. same thing with Batman and robin. it was way to far-fechted, campy and chessy. that film and DAD were like self parodies of there once great franchises. if you want see another DAD then don't go see Casino Royale because it's nowhere near DAD which is a good thing in my book.
as for the music, yes i only heard the full bond theme that we all know and love at the very end but trust me you won't be dissapointed. it's they used the main theme song from the credit as the main theme in the film. the music is moslty ocrhestra although i herad a little bit of techno hear and there it's nothing like say world is not engough or DAD. at the very end you get to hear the bond theme and the famous "names bond, james bond". the wall are going to come down i swear it just screams THIS IS *beep* JAMES BOND!!!. it's kinda like the end crdits for the world id not enough. you hear duh duh da, duh duh da, duh duh da duh da, and the dum de de de dum dum etc. it just like bond theme at the end of world not enough but this one sounds way more epic and blaring with the brass and guitar. IMO this best ending to any bond film. it makes one feel kinda sad it's over.
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