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And I'm talking about a film adaptation of the novel that's in touch with the source material, not that In Like Flint-resembling space extravaganza (which I love, before I misinterpret myself).
What a joke. Or is it?
I need to read the script again as I've got lost.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=sW9eKpbJXUk&t=17s
A story with a humorous climax.
You can hear it right here:
@ossyjack I don't think it's entirely explained in the film. I believe Bond senses Mathis wouldn't have a reason to call Vesper at that time, and that triggers his suspicions. When he goes outside he's running after Vesper.
At four o'clock Bond was about to call for the bill when the maître d'hôtel appeared at their table and inquired for Miss Lynd. He handed her a note which she took and read hastily.
'Oh, it's only Mathis,' she said. 'He says would I come to the entrance hall. He's got a message for you. Perhaps he's not in evening clothes or something. I won't be a minute. Then perhaps we could go home.'
She gave him a strained smile. 'I'm afraid I don't feel very good company this evening. It's been rather a nerve-racking day. I'm so sorry.'
Bond made a perfunctory reply and rose, pushing back the table. 'I'll get the bill,' he said, and watched her take the few steps to the entrance.
He sat down and lit a cigarette. He felt flat. He suddenly realized that he was tired. The stuffiness of the room hit him as it had hit him in the Casino in the early hours of the previous day. He called for the bill and took a last mouthful of champagne. It tasted bitter, as the first glass too many always does. He would have liked to have seen Mathis's cheerful face and heard his news, perhaps even a word of congratulation.
Suddenly the note to Vesper seemed odd to him. It was not the way Mathis would do things. He would have asked them both to join him at the bar of the Casino or he would have joined them in the night club, whatever his clothes. They would have laughed together and Mathis would have been excited. He had much to tell Bond, more than Bond had to tell him. The arrest of the Bulgarian, who had probably talked some more; the chase after the man with the stick; Le Chiffre's movements when he left the Casino.
Bond shook himself. He hastily paid the bill, not waiting for the change. He pushed back his table and walked quickly through the entrance without acknowledging the good nights of the maître d'hôtel and the doorman.
He hurried through the gaming room and looked carefully up and down the long entrance hall. He cursed and quickened his step. There were only one or two officials and two or three men and women in evening clothes getting their things at the vestiaire.
No Vesper. No Mathis.
He was almost running. He got to the entrance and looked along the steps to left and right down and amongst the few remaining cars.
The commissionaire came towards him.
'A taxi, monsieur?'
Bond waved him aside and started down the steps, his eyes staring into the shadows, the night air cold on his sweating temples.
He was half way down when he heard a faint cry, then the slam of a door way to the right. With a harsh growl and stutter from the exhaust a beetle browed Citroën shot out of the shadows into the light of the moon, its front wheel drive dry skidding through the loose pebbles of the forecourt.
Its tail rocked on its soft springs as if a violent struggle was taking place on the back seat.
With a snarl it raced out to the wide entrance gate in a spray of gravel. A small black object shot out of an open rear window and thudded into a flower bed. There was a scream of tortured rubber as the tyres caught the boulevard in a harsh left handed turn, the deafening echo of a Citroën's exhaust in second gear, a crash into top, then a swiftly diminishing crackle as the car hared off between the shops on the main street towards the coast road.
Bond knew he would find Vesper's evening bag among the flowers.
He ran back with it across the gravel to the brightly lit steps and scrabbled through its contents while the commissionaire hovered round him.
The crumpled note was there amongst the usual feminine baggage.
Can you come out to the entrance hall for a moment?
I have news for your companion.
RENÉ MATHIS
CHAPTER 15 - BLACK HARE AND GREY HOUND
It was the crudest possible forgery.
Bond leapt for the Bentley, blessing the impulse which had made him drive it over after dinner. With the choke full out, the engine answered at once to the starter and the roar drowned the faltering words of the commissionaire who jumped aside as the rear wheels whipped gravel at his piped trouser legs.
Suddenly the note to Vesper seemed odd to him. It was not the way Mathis would do things. He would have asked them both to join him at the bar of the Casino or he would have joined them in the night club, whatever his clothes.
does indeed explain a lot, which is never conveyed with any great satisfaction in the final film.
Wow that does indeed explain it,i forgot about that..they needed to clarify that more in the film.
Agreed. I questioned this for years because of how they fail to truly sell it in the film. All we get is a "Mathis..." before Bond storms off and nothing more.
I always thought, Bond had thought at that point it was Mathis who had spiked his drink, and it was Bond taking a drink that made him think it may have been Mathis who spiked him, and that Vesper could be in trouble. Bond may have also thought Mathis told Le Chiffre that Bond found out his "Tell", after Bond tell's Mathis what Le Chiffre's tell is, and Le Chiffre's then appears to feign the tell which costs Bond the treasuries money.
Vesper receives the text and tells Bond "it's Mathis the CIA have picked up Le Chiffre" Vesper then says it's Mathis he needs me.
I had assumed at this point, that it took a minute for it to register with Bond 'If the CIA had Le Chiffre, why would Mathis need Vesper' = Mathis poisoned me, = Mathis is going to use Vesper to still get the money for Le Chiffre.
Don't quote me on it!
In all seriousness, that does make a bit of sense. I just always stop myself in that scene and try and play it all out to make proper sense of it before Bond takes off. Was simply one of those moments that always managed to confuse me.
I agree, it left too much to the imagination and trying to think back for the reason why, while still trying to pay attention to what is going on.
I say we stick with Flemings writing of course,unless someone wants to email EON for an explanation ? ;)
You will receive a Solicitors letter in reply.
Sad isn't it ?
yes, I will never forget that story, very sad and stupid from whoever made that call.
Bond reacts as he did in the Fleming book.
Le Chiffre plants the seed of distrust with his Your Friend Mathis comment. It's meant to aid his interrogation of Bond. But it outlives the villain and is resolved in the next film that just like the book, Mathis is as pure as newfallen snow.
Just because it's different from Fleming doesn't make it bad. It's good storytelling on screen for me.
Well, either he was after Mathis, or he assumed Le Chiffre's men put Mathis down and took over his channel.
Aha so it's in the canon. I thought it was a comic book or something. Thanks! I like it more now
Yes, they are awful, but my question is who is S. Roberts? Writer of The James Bond Theme's lyrics?
He is here too: https://www.raresoulman.co.uk/233409-the-james-bond-theme-double-o-seven-summer-vacation.html
Don't know about the music at the start - just generic cheesy nonsense really.
However I'm curious about the gun falling out of something at the 0:45 mark. Is that in the final film?