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What was I watching?

posted 8 years ago by mlspaur
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Since Casino Royale is my favorite Bond flick since Goldfinger, I've watched it at least a half dozen times. Yesterday, I'm watching the poker game with Le Chiffre when something happens I've never seen before. A blonde puts poison in Bond's martini. He rushes to his car to his first aid kit that contains a number of specific injectors and a defibrillator. And there's this whole five- or six-minute scene of him desperately trying to save his own life, with Vesper finally doing the job.

I've never seen that happen before. Was I watching an extended cut, a director's cut?

It did explain one thing to me, though. At the finale of the poker game, Bond want's to celebrate and Vesper say, "You almost died an hour ago." That line never made sense...until now.

[–] chet19 8 years ago

No, scene was in every cut I've seen. DVD, Blu-Ray, HBO, and even in the theaters. I think maybe you just missed it all those times?

[–] mlspaur 8 years ago

I must be getting old.

[–] chet19 8 years ago

Are you in the U.S. Maybe foreign versions had to be shorter for some reason.

I always remember that scene, because I wondered why Bond didn't ask for help. Instead of running out alone to give himself a defibulator, why not grab Vesper and the other dude on his way out. Oh well.

[–] mlspaur 8 years ago

I live in the US and I first saw the movie on Netflix. All of the other times on TV (premium channels - no ads). And I thought I knew the movie by heart. But the whole block of scenes starting with the blonde dumping something into Bond's drink, to the line, "That last hand nearly killed me," was completely new to me.

Talk about "selective amnesia."

[–] mariakelly-04164 8 years ago

I have that scene. It's in the DVD I bought at Big Lots, of all places.

Do you believe in God Mr. LeChiffe?

No. I believe in a reasonable rate of return.

[–] millsey72 (10284) 3 years ago

Because you watched it on cable TV so they edit out scenes to make way for additional commercials

[–] HellFire (561) 2 months ago

It's been in every version I've seen. One of the best scenes in it. I can't imagine the film without it.