Casino Royale

Canq)bell, Martin director. 2006. Casino Royale. MGM. 

Fleming, Ian. 1953. Casino Royale. New York Penguin Books. 

Fleming, Ian. 2007, 2006, 2002, 2000. Casino Royale. Ashland, OR Blackstone Audiobooks. Read by Simon Vance and Robert Whitfield Available as lor 4 contact discs, 4 cassettes or audio download. 

Casino Royale. Solon, OH Playaway Digital Audio. Read by Simon Vance Available as 1 MP3 Disc, released as a Playaway digital device. 

Casino Royale. Englewood Cliffs, NJ Media Books. Read by Robert Whitfield Available as 5 compact discs. 

Casino Royale. London Penguin. Read by Rufus Sewell Available as 3 compact discs. 

Casino Royale. Bath, UK BBC Audiobooks. Read by David Rintoul Available as 4 compact discs. 

Campbell, Martin, director. 2006 Casino Royale. MGM/United Artists. 

These songs are united by theme as well as by circumstance, in that none of the vocal versions were heard on their films opening credits. They instead occurred as mood setters while the films plots unfolded. From Russia with Love was made before Goldfinger, and thus had fewer of the familiar Bond conventions in place, We Have All the Time in the World was from the sole George Lazeirby vehicle. On Her Majesty s Secret Service (1969), and The Look of Love was from the non-canon Casino Royale (1967). 

The line And I will replace you seems like a meta-textual acknowledgment of Daniel Craig s status as the sixth official James Bond. Considering how Timothy Dalton was used as a seat warmer until Pierce Brosnan became available, then Brosnan was dropped for the Casino Royale reboot, this line seems more like a warning from the studio if the movie s box-office were to fail. (MI6.co.uk 2010)... 

Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace and is an apt metaphor for Bond s masculinity. He is never quite sure of it, never quite in control. 

Bond s masculinity has always been rooted in his prowess with women and his ability to accomplish his mission, both of which are called into question in Casino Royale. Bond never consummates his relationship and it is the attack on Le Chiffre, not 007 s own actions that first allows him to get close to Vesper. They have sex for the first time at her insti tion, an act that may or may not be motivated by true desire. 

While Vesper is an intrinsic part of the expression of Bond s masculinity, M as played by Judi Dench, is a direct threat, one he must resolve before the film ends. M s role in the previous films, even in the Brosnan era, has not been problemitized, as it has been in Casino Royale. 

Much as in Dr. No, the initial exchange between 007 and M in Casino Royale is about the dissemination of informatioa However, before the conversation begins, M must clearly define that she is not the M that Bond knows. When she offers him a drink, he volunteers that the previous M kept a bottle of cognac. 007 has obviously been in the position to share a drink with his superior before, and he uses this in an attempt to assert his... 

Moneypenny is absent from the universe altogether—a point that is further reinforced by a man appearing as M s assistant in Quantum of Solace. Moneypenny is termed Britain s last line of defense in On Her Majesty s Secret Service, and while the comment is flip, the moment she is erased fi om the Bond universe in Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace, 007 is breaking into M s home and stealing her passwords. She is a gatekeeper, and without her, Bond has one less restriction placed on him. 

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