![]() Unlike the Ian Fleming conception of Vesper Lynd as a 1950s type of woman, conservative and modest, the character played by Eva Green in the 2006 film introduced us to a self-confident girl, who challenges James Bond with her business-like coldness and takes a big disliking at his arrogance: “There’s not enough space for you and your ego,” she tells him after boarding the empty hotel elevator right after the agent blows his cover name. ![]() She’s the HM Treasury officer delivering the money to bet against Le Chiffre. Throughout the mission, a woman appears: Vesper Lynd. Their bosses will terminate him if he loses. The mission seems simple: Bond, known for his gambler abilities, must bet against him and clean him out. The man has been playing with this client’s funds and aims to recover the amount he lost in one of the phases of the poker tournament. James Bond, code number 007 recently promoted to the 00 section, is assigned to beat one Le Chiffre –banker of the world’s greatest terrorists– on a poker table. The love story that defines Casino Royale is the romance between James Bond and Vesper Lynd. And throughout the 2006 film adaptation directed by Martin Campbell, the hero played by Daniel Craig for the first time faces strong currents of love and hate. ![]() Not in vain, one of the novel’s chapters (and the book’s tagline) was titled “A whisper of love, a whisper of hate”. ![]()
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