Movies - How Casino Royale was a return to form for 007

The 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale was the return of James Bond in a big style. For years the 007 films hadn't taken themselves seriously and while folks still rushed to see them lots of cinema going public preferred something more heavy.

Pierce Brosnan had been chosen to play James Bond in the 1980s while at the height of his fame in the TV detective series Remington Steel. However , though he signed for a James Bond movie the producer of the TV show made a decision to commission another series of the well-liked show and he wasn't able to play Bond.

A few years later that situation modified; Timothy Dalton had been and gone as James Bond and legal battles had kept 007 of the big-screen for a considerable number of years. Brosnan was again signed and this time debuted in Goldeneye.

While he used to be a popular James Bond, his films weren't as heavy as many Bond fans hoped and Die Another Day, which coincided with 40 years of James Bond, reached the limit for many with an Aston Martin that might turn invisible. It stretched peoples incredulity just too far.

Casino Royale was a return in some ways to the earlier films. Having said that , it contained much more action than had appeared in the book, which was the first James Bond film.

Part of the film version of Casino Royale closely followed the book. The location was changed and the set-up to the Casino was different. And the game was changed too , with Texas Hold'em replacing baccarat.

Lots of the first hour contained nonstop action, which was totally absent from the book and took Bond to locations that Ian Fleming actually had not thought of when writing his first book.

The end of the film is definitely impressed by the book, although quite different too. Vesper Lynd, Bond’s love interest in book and film, in which she wears an Algerian Love Knot, turns out to be a double agent. Nonetheless while in the book her suicide is sort of unambiguous as she's taking an overdose of sleeping pills and leaves suicide note explaining precisely why she's taken her life, the film isn’t so clear. And while the book ends with Bond tersely telling HQ “the bitch is dead now”, while he uses similar words the ending isn’t quite as vicious.

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