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[dinovelvet]

When we first see Dominic Greene, he is sitting at a table, rubber-stamping what looks like a piece of ticker tape. So...what is this?

[danielcraigisjamesbond007]

Is that some type of payment? He was going to give it to Camille?...

[MkB]

When we first see Dominic Greene, he is sitting at a table, rubber-stamping what looks like a piece of ticker tape. So...what is this?

Ah! I've been asking myself the same question.
I ended up thinking he was actually just rubber-stamping a piece of tape, like a lazy secretary sharpening uselessly pens to kill time (while waiting for Medrano in his case).

Is that some type of payment? He was going to give it to Camille?...

Maybe a sort of payment, but not for Camille, for at this point he thought she was dead.

[Royal Dalton]

It's the paper roll from an adding machine. Greene was probably doing his accounts, got a bit bored, and started mucking about with the rubber stamp.

[Sir James Molony]

Yes, I agree -- he's playing with the rubber stamp.

It's another interesting thing that Mathieu Amalric and/or Marc Forster did with the Greene character. He is seen doing "normal" human things throughout the movie. I was quite amused to see him casually eating an apple when arriving at the eco hotel -- I can't ever remember a Bond villain (or perhaps anyone in a Bond film) doing such a thing!

[# 11]

It's quite funny because Greene states "I'm busy." when Camille rrives.

[MkB]

Yes, I agree -- he's playing with the rubber stamp.

It's another interesting thing that Mathieu Amalric and/or Marc Forster did with the Greene character. He is seen doing "normal" human things throughout the movie. I was quite amused to see him casually eating an apple when arriving at the eco hotel -- I can't ever remember a Bond villain (or perhaps anyone in a Bond film) doing such a thing!

That's true. Casually eating a fruit is usually more of a Bond thing.

[dinovelvet]

It's quite funny because Greene states "I'm busy." when Camille rrives.

Yeah I noticed that! Although the idea of a villain just "mucking about" in his spare time while waiting for Medrano to arrive is funny, looking at the scene again its apparent that Greene has stamped the paper about 50 times already, so I wonder if this scene is supposed to suggest that he has an obsessive/compulsive disorder...?

[Mr. Blofeld]

It's quite funny because Greene states "I'm busy." when Camille rrives.

Yeah I noticed that! Although the idea of a villain just "mucking about" in his spare time while waiting for Medrano to arrive is funny, looking at the scene again its apparent that Greene has stamped the paper about 50 times already, so I wonder if this scene is supposed to suggest that he has an obsessive/compulsive disorder...?

Perhaps this was Take 51?

[DaveBond21]

Is that some type of payment? He was going to give it to Camille?...

Have you seen the movie? Did you miss the point of alot of it???

[Blofeld's Cat]

Greene was a stamp collector.

[ElFenomeno]

He should take some lessons from Zorin from AVTAK. that scene where he's shooting all those people in that flooded mine with a machine gun is brilliant.pure evil.
Moneypenny alone would have been enough to capture Greene. don't understand why they send Bond on such a routine assignement.

[Tybre]

He should take some lessons from Zorin from AVTAK. that scene where he's shooting all those people in that flooded mine with a machine gun is brilliant.pure evil.
Moneypenny alone would have been enough to capture Greene. don't understand why they send Bond on such a routine assignement.

Maybe Bond was bored and mucking about with the stamps as well

[MrDraco]

Greene is looking at the information Camille tried to buy off one of his 'best geologists' LOL who knows...

The thing that gets me is "How did the machine gun land in bond's car." at the beginning....

[Jose]

The thing that gets me is "How did the machine gun land in bond's car." at the beginning....

I thought it was the same gun Bond used at the end of Casino Royale to shoot Mr. White in the knee, with the silencer removed.

[Tybre]

The thing that gets me is "How did the machine gun land in bond's car." at the beginning....

I thought it was the same gun Bond used at the end of Casino Royale to shoot Mr. White in the knee, with the silencer removed.

Certainly makes sense. You're not going to bring along a UMP to kidnap the enemy and then leave it behind knowing full well his lackeys will likely come after you. You bring it along for insurance.

[Harry Fawkes]

'It's the same gun Bond used at the end of Casino Royale to shoot Mr. White in the knee, with the silencer removed'


Yup, I most certainly agree there


Harry

[volante]

OK, first things first, it is the gun Bond uses to shoot Mr. White at the end of CR (QOS is a continuation)
Secondly, I have no idea what Greene is doing, I just accepted that he was filling in time.
HOWEVER, at that point in time he does not think Camille is dead, but he does know that Slate is dead (Coz he is in the water out back)
The real question is how did Slate's body get there. After all Camille drives directly to the dock after attempting to shoot Bond (thinking he is going to kill her)
So, how did they get the body from the hotel and dump it in the water so quickly - and why?

Discuss

[MkB]

HOWEVER, at that point in time he does not think Camille is dead, but he does know that Slate is dead (Coz he is in the water out back)
The real question is how did Slate's body get there. After all Camille drives directly to the dock after attempting to shoot Bond (thinking he is going to kill her)
So, how did they get the body from the hotel and dump it in the water so quickly - and why?

Discuss

But it's not Slate at all! It's the actual geologist, the one wo tried to betray Greene, was killed by Greene's men, then replaced with Slate, a henchman and hitman in charge of getting rid of Camille, who had proved to be too curious.
Slate's body is still in the hotel.

[MajorB]

I agree. What I don't get is, if Greene's men could so casually kill the geologist and dump his body in the water right by Greene's warehouse (or whatever that place was), why did they need to bring Slate to Haiti and pay him a ton of money to kill Camille? Why not just have Greene's men kill her too? (Aside from the fact that there'd be no trail for Bond to follow to Greene so there could be a movie, of course!)

[jamie00007]

Slate was already in Haiti. He had a bank account there (which is how Bond traced him) so presumably spent a lot of time there. Maybe Slate killed the geologist.

[volante]

The story tells us Slate just arrived in Haiti, and is staying in the hotel.
The briefcase was delivered to that hotel, and Camille picks up Bond (because he has the briefcase or because she thinks he is the Geologist??)outside the hotel.

So if we assume Slate killed the Geologist, and was waiting for Camille to go to the hotel?

[Zorin Industries]

I thought he was forging fake paperwork for his contact, Mr Risico....? It's written on one of his sheets.

[byline]

Slate was already in Haiti. He had a bank account there (which is how Bond traced him) so presumably spent a lot of time there. Maybe Slate killed the geologist.

True, but he had only just arrived there. Remember, they had him arriving in Haiti via Heathrow, so ostensibly we are lead to believe that he had met with Mitchell to pay him off before heading to Haiti.

My take on why they did what they did was that the geologist was murdered separately to get information from him, then kill him but without Camille knowing it. Slate was to pose as the geologist (whom she had never seen, just talked with on the phone) and probably interrogate her in a similar manner before killing her.

[MajorB]

Slate was already in Haiti. He had a bank account there (which is how Bond traced him) so presumably spent a lot of time there. Maybe Slate killed the geologist.

True, but he had only just arrived there. Remember, they had him arriving in Haiti via Heathrow, so ostensibly we are lead to believe that he had met with Mitchell to pay him off before heading to Haiti.

My take on why they did what they did was that the geologist was murdered separately to get information from him, then kill him but without Camille knowing it. Slate was to pose as the geologist (whom she had never seen, just talked with on the phone) and probably interrogate her in a similar manner before killing her.

That would make sense, although it's hard to imagine how far the interrogation would get once he handed her the blank report. Ultimately, I think it's just one of those Bond story points, of which there have been many over the years, that doesn't hold up if you explore the logic too far.