In the original novel, the thing Bond did with the check, was absolutely clever, but in the film, they did a dull digital transaction for the money. Because of modernization, they had to turn one of the very best parts of the novel into a dull farce. Luckily there are Sean Connery’s Bond-films for that, but Casino Royale would have deserved the same treatment that defined James Bond, the agent of the era of cold war. There are no surprises for today’s audience, but if they’d have come back in time, it would have been magic, especially for younger audience. I believe that they could have safely come back to 1950’s with the new Bond. There are cellphones, laptops, modern cars and everything that don’t fit to the scene. Secondly, Casino Royale happened in the early 1950’s, when Bond was about 30 years old.

Dench is a great actor, but they couldn’t have used her for Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, or Spectre. If Dench had a contract of making seven Bond-films, they could have let her rest for the first films by Craig, and then got her back, when the story goes back to the later days of Bond. According to Fleming, the first M was male, and Judi Dench’s M didn’t came out before Bond was already at the age of retirement, at his late sixties and early seventies. Judi Dench as M was among the first things that didn’t fit in the film. First, from the rest parts, the screenplay wasn’t enough faithful to the original novel. The rest parts in the film were problematic, even difficult to stand. But sadly, those things were the only good things about the film. The screenplay for the film is basically very good: it follows the original novel pretty faithfully, especially in the middle part of the film. Other actors were also chosen well: Eva Green (Vesper Lynd) and Mads Mikkelsen (Le Chiffre) were great, too. Craig was cool, and he was almost as good as Sean Connery. Daniel Craig, despite of having a lighter tinted hair than other, earlier Bonds, was definitely great choice: he took Bond to the roots: the character was now darker and colder, just like Timothy Dalton portrayed him already in the 1980’s, but also complex.

But, in 2006, they finally did it: Casino Royale, the film that introduces 007, Bond, James Bond. What they did then exactly, was to go straight to Spectre, with introducing one of it’s members, Dr. EON didn’t do Casino Royale in the 1962, which would have been a great idea to do by then. After three Bond-films, those after GoldenEye, starring Pierce Brosnan, it was a good idea to start over, with a new Bond, Daniel Craig.

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