“The name’s Bond, James Bond” The final scene of Casino Royale shows Daniel Craig as a fully formed James Bond wearing a three-piece suit as he says the famous words, “The name’s Bond, James Bond”. This three-piece suit demonstrates that Bond is now the more suave, confident and mature character from the previous twenty films. Le Chiffre adds $12M, raising the pot to $47M. A count of Bond's chips shows that he has $26M in $1M blue chips, 7 twenty-chip stacks of $100,000 chips, and 1 $500,000 chip, making his total $40,500,000. When he goes all in, that raises the pot to $87.5M. That means Le Chiffre needs to add $28.5M to match Bond's raise. Le Chiffre is the main antagonist of Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel, Casino Royale, the 1954 television adaptation, and the 1967 film of the same name.He is also a major antagonist in the James Bond film series, being the main antagonist in the 2006 film Casino Royale, and a posthumous antagonist in Quantum of Solace and Spectre.His alias is French for 'The Cipher' or 'The Number'.

Casino Royale remains one of the best James Bond movies to date. Not only did the film introduce Daniel Craig's interpretation of 007 – a more serious take on a character who had slowly become a punchline thanks to Austin Powers – but also shot Mads Mikkelsen into the Hollywood handbook of actors who play great villains.

However, one of Mikkelsen's standout scenes in Casino Royale was almost cut from the movie entirely – the torture scene, which he describes as 'actually on the cutting table for a while'. Speaking to Total Film for the new issue of the magazine (headlined by The Suicide Squad), the actor detailed his time on the James Bond movie. Here's a snippet of what Mikkelsen said, with the full Q&A in the magazine.

However when he loses he kidnaps Vesper and tortures Bond in order to get the $115 million. White from Quantum intervenes in the torture, it is explained by M near the end of the film that Vesper made a further deal at that time. White spared Bond, she would retrieve the password for the account from him and then steal the money.

Total Film: Casino Royale turned out great, but at the time you were making it, was there a lot of pressure? It was a new actor as Bond, and a reinvention of the franchise.

It was a double thing. We were aware that this was new. This was a radical, different thing that we’ve not seen before. And Bond has always gone one way or another way, depending on which actor and which decade, right? The ’80s was very different than the ’60s, and so forth. But it might have come to a point where your invisible cars were getting a little too superhero-like. They wanted it a little more rough. We knew that it was a great script. So in those terms, we felt we were on to something that might be great. At the same time, I was new, but they were not talking about the new villain; they were talking about the new Bond. So all the pressure was on Daniel [Craig]. I cannot imagine what he was going through, because it’s like the crown jewels of England. James Bond – everyone has an opinion. Every single day on his way to work, he read a headline saying he sucks; his nose was wrong; he was blond. He was being bombarded with all that crap before they had seen one single scene, which is an indicator of how important Bond is, but also how insane it is sometimes. So his pressure must have been insane. But he handled it. And most importantly, he showed them, didn’t he? And they all came crawling back, saying, 'I’m so sorry.' Yeah, he was great. It was probably nerve-wracking, but it was a great film. I think he’s the best Bond ever.

How was it filming that torture scene between the two of you?

[laughs] Oh, it was great for me. It was a long day for Daniel. That’s basically him screaming for eight hours. But we had a great time. It was actually on the cutting table for a while, in and out, because it was a little radical for Bond. But it was such a great scene, so luckily it was back in. It was so funny, because we both came from this indie world of filmmaking. None of us had done anything of this size before. And the director, Martin Campbell, gave us some leverage. Me and Daniel just took off. We had so many ideas. At a certain point, he just had to say, 'Guys, guys. Come back. This is a Bond film.' [laughs ] We left the Bond universe for a while there. But the scene was great, and Martin was right. There was a fine balance.

Mikkelsen can next be seen in UK cinemas in Riders of Justice, opening this Summer, and the Oscar-winning movie Another Round, opening on June 25 and available now on VOD in the US. For the full Mikkelsen interview – plus a whole lot more – grab a copy of the new issue of Total Film magazine when it hits shelves (and digital newsstands) on Friday, April 30. Check out the new (super-size fold-out) covers, as revealed by The Suicide Squad director James Gunn…

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odiousgambit

Just watched “Casino Royale” - 2006. I’m not too much into James Bond movies anymore, but in this case I decided it was time to check out the poker scenes; somebody [BBB?] here said recently Fleming himself wanted to portray gambling accurately, and I don’t think the movies have necessarily stuck to that.
So how did the 2006 movie do with Poker as the game where Bond bests the villain? [a change from baccarat in the book] An early short poker scene, which introduces us to the villain Le Chiffre’s poker predilection, does not show the hand. That leaves five hands to see, but of those two are incompletely shown.
couldn't stand it, so redid this with the community cards actually shown - thanks to Wizard for poker analyzer enabling me to do this easily
with other edits; if the community was mixed suits, I made no attempt to be accurate on suits

edited to show community cards. If it was mixed suits, I made no attempt to be accurate.
The winner take all poker game takes place at this ‘Casino Royale’ in Montenegro [apparently there has been one built with that name since the movie came out?]. I was able to record it, thus freeze and review the action and dialogue, and I think without slowing it down like that you might miss much of the poker dynamics. The 10 players, who put up multi-millions to play, will play Texas Hold-em.
First you see Bond lose the first hand to ‘guess who’. The dealer flops the 5,8,9 of hearts; on the turn, it’s the 9 of clubs, and for the river another heart, the 2.
Thus the hand has an immediate shot, at the flop, for a straight flush, or of course the lower versions [any poker player would know someone surely has a flush], and we can see the hand later develops with chances for trips and full house. Le Chiffre was dealt 2,2 offsuit, gets into a showdown with Bond, and wins with a full house, 22299. Bond does not show his cards, nor attempt to muck them, which prompted me to look this up, see link. The dealer should have made Bond turn those cards over. This was the only thing shown in poker that the movie had wrong that I saw, however.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Showdown_%28poker%29
Bond leaves the table and has a conversation with his team, which is impressed that their nemesis had such a good hand, but Bond scoffs. He notes that Le Chiffre was bluffing, he says, since he caught a 2 on the last card. But he says he has picked up a Tell; when Le C was on the come with his two pair, Bond saw a tic developing with the man’s blind eye; Le C he notes then presses against his temple, which seems to stop this involuntary twitch. Bond can just look for the finger pressing the temple and imagines beating him now.
Bond rejoins the game - we get the sense a lot of poker gets played. Soon we have a scene where there is a big showdown in which both of these players go all-in. We don’t see a check-raise scenario, but something close. The flop is JKA mixed suits, the turn a J, the river, a K, and there are three players.
Until this point the betting evidently has been small, but now Bond , with the first-to-speak player checking to him, opens with a large bet. Le C raises [driving out player X, now it’s j

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