How difficult can it be to make a good poker scene in a movie? According to James Bond director Martin Campbell the ‘Casino Royale’ remake poker showdown was as elaborate as any stunt 007 was involved in!
Casino Royale 2006 22.Quantum Of Solace 2008 23. Skyfall 2012 24.James Bond 24 25. James Bond 25 Not included in Bondserie or EON Productions Casino Royale 1954 Casino Royale 1967 Never Say Never Again 1983 Producer Albert 'Cubby'Broccoli Harry Saltzman Barbara Broccoli Michael G,Wilson.
The 2006 movie grossed a monster $606million at the box office, with Daniel Craig’s ‘Bond’ and Mads Mikkelsen’s blood-eyed villain ‘Le Chiffre’ involved in the highest stake poker game of all time.
For poker fans, of course, seeing their beloved game depicted on the big screen is almost always more ‘miss’ than ‘hit’, so how did director Campbell manage to produce such an intense facsimile of a real highstakes game?
“What you realize is, it’s not just the card games — it’s the stakes. It’s also two guys eye-fucking one another, basically. That was the secret,” explained to Polygon.com.
With No Limit Hold’em replacing the Baccarat Chemin de Fer of the Ian Fleming book version, and the 1967 movie version…
…the cast and crew had to be taught the game basically from scratch to ensure everything from continuity to poker tells would come across as realistically as possible.
Not an easy task for poker consultant Tom Sambrook, the 2002 winner of the European Championships explaining:
“I’d just basically tell them what the absolute bare minimum was that they needed to know to look like they had been playing this game.”
Sambrook also admits to making a bit of money on the side, taking the actors for their ‘per diem’ in hastily-arranged games in the studios.
The Englishman, who finished ahead of Hendon Mobster Barny Boatman and EPT legend John Duthie to win his title, explained:
“We’d be playing games constantly between takes,” adding cheekily, “I saw it as their privilege to learn by paying me this money.”
Director Campbell somehow pulled together all the elements of the game in an almost believable series of poker scenes, mixed in with the usual action-packed adventures of a typical Bond movie.
He believes the 30 minutes of gameplay that made the final cut, showing three massive hands, was critical to the success of the film, admitting:
“It was the thing I sweated on more than anything else.”
After discovering Le Chiffre’s ‘tell’, Bond has to survive two assassination attempts in his bid to end the villain’s hopes of winning the $130million poker game.
“From a dramatic point of view, each of the card games has a good climax,” says Campbell, and if the final scene still grates with some poker fans, there is a reason.
The four-way all-in sees Le Chiffre’s full house lose to Bond’s straight flush, with most fans expecting a Royal Flush to win the day for the movie hero.
“He wins with an inconspicuous straight flush, rather than the royal flush,” Sambrook says, adding to Director Campbell’s vision of a “new Bond” , a less flashy, more believable hero.
Check out the finale yourself!
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EON Productions movies 1. DrNo 1962 2. From Russia With Love 1963 3. Goldfinger 1964 4. Thunderball 1965 5. You Only Live Twice 1967 6. On Her Majesty`s Secret Service 1969 7. Diamonds AreForever 1971 8. Live And Let Die 1973 9. The Man With The Golden Gun 1974 10.The Spy Who Loved Me 11.Moonraker 1979 12.For Your Eyes Only 1981 13.Octopussy 1983 14.A View To A Kill 1985 15.The Living Daylights1987 16.Licence To Kill 1989 17.Goldeneye 1995 18.Tomorrow Never Dies1997 19.The World Is Not Enough 1999 20.Die Another Day 2002 21.Casino Royale 2006 22.Quantum Of Solace 2008 23. Skyfall 2012 24.James Bond 24 25. James Bond 25 Not included in Bondserie or EON Productions Casino Royale 1954 Casino Royale 1967 Never Say Never Again 1983 Producer Writers to all Bond books James Bond actors Allias MI6 Bondgirls Ian Flemings Books Casino Royale (1953) Courtesy of: Robert collection Ian Fleming, the father of James BondIan Fleming was born in 1908. He was a British writer who wrote books about an English spy called James Bond with the codename 007. James Bond ActorsThere’s been five actors playing Mr Bond more than one time: James BondJames Bond works for the British government and gets his missions from them.
| First Edition 1953 Ian Fleming James Bond Casino Royale Dominic winter book auctions in Gloucestershire. The 1953 book, which sold for £4,000 more than expected, was the top lot ata sale at which Live and Let Die - the second Bond novel - went for £6,600. First attempt: 'Scent and smoke and sweat hit the tastebuds with an acid thwack at three o'clock in the morning' Second try: 'Scent and smoke and sweat can suddenlycombine together and hit the taste buds with an acid shock at three o'clock inthe morning' Finally (and satisfied): 'The scent and smoke and sweatof a casino are nauseating at three in the morning'. So began Casino Royale, the first adventure of James Bond, completed in March 1952 and published the following year. Ian Fleming was 43. Although he had experience of journalism, this was his first attempt at a book. He sent it to his friend, the poet William Plomer, who in turn recommended it to Jonathan Cape, publishers. 4,750 copies were sold within a month, reviews were favourable, and a British cultural hero was born. Live and Let Die followed the next year, 1954, Moonraker in 1955, and thereafter a Bond title a year was published until Ian Fleming's death in 1964. Fleming maintained his job at the Sunday Times, where he was foreign manager. He would ask the foreign correspondents, such as Anthony Terry in Berlin, for help with details about, for example, trains or local geography. He contributed a chapter on 'Foreign News' to the Kemsley Manual of Journalism. From 1953 - 6 he wrote the Atticus column in the Sunday Times, writing about a range of obscure incidents and interesting facts and mild gossip. Keeping true to his promise made at the end of the war, he did return to Jamaica, and he built a modest bungalow in a beautiful position on the North shore. He named it Goldeneye. Somehow he persuaded his employers to allow him 2 months a year off to go to Jamaica, and so it was there, in January and February every year from 1952, that he wrote his novels.
CASINO ROYALE 1953, one of the James Bond first editions Published by Jonathan Cape in London in 1953, with the essential 'First Published 1953' to the inner page, with no later titles stated, this is not the book club edition, not the US edition and not a later printing - this is the first printing of the James Bond adventure. First Edition 1953 Ian Fleming James Bond Casino Royale Only LONDON Ian Fleming's 'CASINO ROYALE 1953' published byJonanthan Cape, London 1953.CASINO ROYALE 1953 Ian Fleming's James Bond Titles James Bond, the Author |
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The 1953 book, which sold for £4,000 more than expected, was the top lot ata sale at which Live and Let Die - the second Bond novel - went for £6,600. First attempt: 'Scent and smoke and sweat hit the tastebuds with an acid thwack at three o'clock in the morning' Second try: 'Scent and smoke and sweat can suddenlycombine together and hit the taste buds with an acid shock at three o'clock inthe morning' Finally (and satisfied): 'The scent and smoke and sweatof a casino are nauseating at three in the morning'. So began Casino Royale, the first adventure of James Bond, completed in March 1952 and published the following year. Ian Fleming was 43. Although he had experience of journalism, this was his first attempt at a book. He sent it to his friend, the poet William Plomer, who in turn recommended it to Jonathan Cape, publishers. 4,750 copies were sold within a month, reviews were favourable, and a British cultural hero was born. Live and Let Die followed the next year, 1954, Moonraker in 1955, and thereafter a Bond title a year was published until Ian Fleming's death in 1964. Fleming maintained his job at the Sunday Times, where he was foreign manager. He would ask the foreign correspondents, such as Anthony Terry in Berlin, for help with details about, for example, trains or local geography. He contributed a chapter on 'Foreign News' to the Kemsley Manual of Journalism. From 1953 - 6 he wrote the Atticus column in the Sunday Times, writing about a range of obscure incidents and interesting facts and mild gossip. Keeping true to his promise made at the end of the war, he did return to Jamaica, and he built a modest bungalow in a beautiful position on the North shore. He named it Goldeneye. Somehow he persuaded his employers to allow him 2 months a year off to go to Jamaica, and so it was there, in January and February every year from 1952, that he wrote his novels.
His fifth novel, From Russia with Love, published in 1957, is generally recognised as a turning point in Fleming's literary career. With its authoritative glimpse of Soviet espionage, and showing a more rounded James Bond, as well as being immensely exciting, it found favour with readers and with critics. The villainess, Rosa Klebb, is gloriously described
| Fleming only saw two Bond films – Dr No and From Russia with Love. He had seen some of the filming of Goldfinger in 1964. Two books were published posthumously, making 14 Bond titles in all. In addi of travel pieces that he had written for the Sunday Times; and The Diamond Smugglers was an account of the diamond trade. See Thrilling Cities with an introduction by Jan Morris (2009) and The Diamond Smugglers with an introduction by Fergus Fleming (2009) The Bond novels and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang have remained in print ever since and have sold all over the world. Fleming has proved to be a master storyteller with a clear, elegant, writing style and strong descriptive powers, particularly when writing of lands and cities, and of cars and trains. Though often mocked in its day, his way of writing has proved extraordinarily influential. tion Fleming wrote two non-fiction books: Thrilling Cities was a collection In a piece that he wrote in 1962 entitled How to Write a Thriller, he wrote ‘There is only one recipe for a best seller. You have to get the reader to turn over the page.’ This he achieved. He was one of the first writers to mention makes of watches, types of carburettor, marques of champagne, and he did so mainly because he saw no point in not doing so. His impact on thriller writing cannot be overstated. Sales of the books rose steadily, but with Dr No, the critics turned and accused Ian of sadism and snobbery. At the same time others were beginning to recognise what an extraordinary talent he had, and Raymond Chandler, for one, urged him to try his hand at something more ambitious. This, he claimed, he had no desire to do, being content to keep within his entertaining formula. |
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