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After the conceptual bloat of the late Pierce Brosnan films, the coming of Daniel Craig was supposed to be a return to basics: a post-bubble austerity program for a franchise struggling with its longstanding reliance on subprime special effects and gimmicks.

Finally, the Casino Royale script is here for all you fans of the Daniel Craig James Bond movie. This puppy is a transcript that was painstakingly transcribed using the screenplay and/or viewings of the movie to get the dialogue. Dec 04, 2020 It is the opening scene in Craig’s first go-round as Bond that stands out the most. The opening was as stripped-down as the new, back-to-basics Bond was. The short scene doesn’t feature any wild pyrotechnics, outrageous stunts, or the like. A scene of torture, where Bond is sadistically beaten with a knotted rope. It is very heavily implied that the target is his genitals, and we hear very disturbing shouts of pain. At the end of the sequence, the main antagonist threatens to cut off his genitals but is interrupted by another assassin. Nov 23, 2020 Sure, if you were actually playing No Limit Texas Hold ‘Em, you wouldn’t be calling all of this action out. But when a movie like Casino Royale dedicates quite a bit of screen time to such an. Nov 29, 2018 Here are all Casino Royale movie locations in the Bahamas, Czech Republic, Italy and the UK: BAHAMAS. The intense opening scene at the construction site was not filmed in Madagascar – but at Coral Harbor in the southeast of Bahamian main island New Providence.

And the intro sequence here is extremely basic. Gone are the massive action set-pieces, the mind-boggling stunts, the beautiful women, the cars, the gadgets. Instead, we watch, in flashback, the story of how Bond first earned his “00” status — his license to kill.

Casino Royale Opening Scene

But what it lacks in flash, it makes up for in film-school artsiness. The whole sequence — in which a crooked MI6 station chief arrives at his Prague office to find Bond waiting for him — is shot in hi-contrast black and white, with Hitchcockian camera angles and stark, shallow-focus closeups. It’s quite beautiful, really. But we didn’t come here for a master class in building cinematic tension; we want to see Bond kick some ass. Which he does, satisfyingly, in a flashback-within-the-flashback—but again, it’s a stripped down fight scene, two guys going mano a mano in a dingy restroom.

The intro manages the nice trick of highlighting that this is not only a new Bond movie but that this is a new Bond, one we haven’t seen before. Pierce Brosnan’s 007 had a family motto, while Roger Moore’s drank espresso and had an exclusive bootmaker. This Bond, however, seems to have no such upper-class pretensions. He’s a cold-eyed killer: tougher, meaner and a lot more rough around the edges.

GRADE: B

Casino Royale Opening Scene

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