I'm not gonna say this is a review because it isn't too in-depth, more just a smattering of thoughts about the book Casino Royale and how it relates to the film
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Re: WAS THAT SO HARD?epplegacksFebruary 29 2008, 13:24:26 UTC
Amber and I were talking about the poker vs. baccarat and she mentioned with world series of poker how it would be more appealing atm and to me it was an amazing opportunity to make baccarat into a huge game. If memory serves fleming does an excellent job at explaining the game as it's happening. It means that the filmmakers read the cliffs notes version of the book some assistant made up for them and just assumed no one would or could understand so they made it poker instead. I agree the direction was excellent, but it would've been similarly excellent had the game been baccarat, it would've been truer to bond, and it once the concept was explained in one of the biggest grossing movies of the year I think you'd see baccarat catch on. They didn't even try, and that's what's frustrating.
They had to expend effort making the woman not simply an object of Bond's affection, but could bring some of that effort into the card game the whole fucking story centers around. To people who never read the book or didn't love the mystique of Bond it doesn't much matter, but I was sitting there watching it and Poker seemed WRONG compared to all the Bond I had consumed up until that point, and reading this book we find out it was.
It's like if bond goes up to the bar and instead of a dry martini, shaken not stirred, he up and orders a Heineken.
They had to expend effort making the woman not simply an object of Bond's affection, but could bring some of that effort into the card game the whole fucking story centers around. To people who never read the book or didn't love the mystique of Bond it doesn't much matter, but I was sitting there watching it and Poker seemed WRONG compared to all the Bond I had consumed up until that point, and reading this book we find out it was.
It's like if bond goes up to the bar and instead of a dry martini, shaken not stirred, he up and orders a Heineken.
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