Switching to vibrant color, Campbell and Meheux treat us to the brisk globe-hopping - Uganda, Madagascar, London, the Bahamas - that has always made the series so much fun. Immediately following the credits sequence, the movie proper begins. I think this is because Casino Royale is fashioned as an 'origins' tale, with each episode serving as a building block in the (re-)shaping of this protagonist, a character who - as the opening credits allude - we know and yet don't know very well at all.Īct I expands on this premise, introducing us to most of the supporting players in the film, not least of which the Bond Villain. Not so with this film, which is instead broken down into segments, with the main thrust of the plot subtly shifting with each new segment.' This is something that I don't like in some movies, that I shouldn't like in this one, and yet it works like gangbusters. Responding to the first installment, Ed Howard made the perceptive observation that a distinguishing characteristic of Casino Royale is its modular structure: 'Most Bond films.have a single plot throughline that drives the film, and all the action proceeds in a straightforward manner from the initial premise.

Back to Bond! After a brief hiatus, welcome to Part III of our series.

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