AJB live commentary on CASINO ROYALE 06

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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    MGW cameo!
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    Music “Dinner Jackets”
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Giannini is perfect casting as Fleming's Mathis. It's a shame that the character was messed around with in CR/QOS rather than being left as a straight ally, as in Fleming.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,421Quartermasters
    Dinner Jackets - definitely one of my favourite cues. Hints of the Vesper theme, plus a cunning hint at the Bond vamp.
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    I‘ve never understood his issue with a tailored tuxedo
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    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    Music “Dinner Jackets”

    Love how Arnold introduces some embryonic Bond theme elements (circa 67/69)
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    Shady Tree wrote:
    Giannini is perfect casting as Fleming's Mathis. It's a shame that the character was messed around with in CR/QOS rather than being left as a straight ally, as in Fleming.

    :# true
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    Hello Felix!
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,421Quartermasters
    Shady Tree wrote:
    Barbel wrote:
    Music “Dinner Jackets”

    Love how Arnold introduces some embryonic Bond theme elements (circa 67/69)

    I've never quite put the link to 67/69 Bond theme together in my head - but you are so right.
  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,816MI6 Agent
    Machine that goes “quirp” the printer sized encrypter.

    The costuming in these scenes is amazing. All opulent materials precision tailoring...

    And Vesper’s purple dress is inspired....
    This is Thunderbird 2, how can I be of assistance?
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    I love the moment when Bond allows Le Chiffre to call him out on his true identity... the knowing smile exchanged between them
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    Tsai Chin from YOLT at the table.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,334MI6 Agent
    I know next to nothing about poker, but I still find the scene very suspenceful. that's how well directed it is.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    Music “The Tell”
  • JTMJTM Posts: 3,027MI6 Agent
    Just saw Mr Mendel last night in X-Men: First Class...as a nazi hiding out in Argentina who gets a whopping great knife stabbed through his hand by Magneto.
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,421Quartermasters
    A podcast well worth listening to: 'I Was There Too' with Carlos Leal - Tournament director in Casino Royale.
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    Didn‘t Campbell do some very good episodes of the Professionals?
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.

    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,421Quartermasters
    JTM wrote:
    Just saw Mr Mendel last night in X-Men: First Class...as a nazi hiding out in Argentina who gets a whopping great knife stabbed through his hand by Magneto.

    A great scene. Fassbender in very Bond-like in the early scenes of First Class. And I loved that they used the music from that scene in the trailers for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy in 2011.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    Tsai Chin from YOLT at the table.

    She's in different parts of the movie but with no lines. I somehow keep wanting her to offer some "very best duck!"
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Number24 wrote:
    I know next to nothing about poker, but I still find the scene very suspenceful. that's how well directed it is.

    Also, the croupier provides a helpful commentary.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    Shady Tree wrote:
    I somehow keep wanting her to offer some "very best duck!"

    Tastes nothing like caviar, I'm told.
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    If anybody mentioned the parcours scene to be the best Bond action scene ever: here comes the staircase fight!
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.

    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,816MI6 Agent
    The stairwell fight is amazing..... but this is where Bond makes a very bloddy mess.
    The Moore era is a thing of the past here.....
    This is Thunderbird 2, how can I be of assistance?
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    Music “Stairwell Fight”
  • JTMJTM Posts: 3,027MI6 Agent
    Bond arming up in the lift while remaining calm and composed is a great part.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    This violent interlude between card table scenes lets off a lot of steam after all that suspense.

    Victimisation of LeChiffre's gf is something of a theme up till her implied demise later on.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,421Quartermasters
    Gymkata wrote:
    Golrush007 wrote:
    JTM wrote:
    Just saw Mr Mendel last night in X-Men: First Class...as a nazi hiding out in Argentina who gets a whopping great knife stabbed through his hand by Magneto.

    A great scene. Fassbender in very Bond-like in the early scenes of First Class. And I loved that they used the music from that scene in the trailers for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy in 2011.

    I would have very much enjoyed a full movie of Magneto: Nazi Hunter.

    And I would very much have liked a nice series of films with Fassbender as Bond...alas, not going to happen.
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    No, better!
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.

    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Higgins wrote:
    If anybody mentioned the parcours scene to be the best Bond action scene ever: here comes the staircase fight!

    Stairwell setting reminds me of the elevator fight in DAF, which is less intense but still quite violent.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    Cumbria Crystal!
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    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
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