![]() Mikkelsen's brilliant Le Chiffre forces Bond to confront not a pantomime baddie, but the terror of emasculation: the infamous ball-torturing scene, and the equally violent homoerotic tension, all pile onto the central psychological conflict at the poker table (replacing the gadget-laden submarine). But Bond's triumph- onscreen, in the critical response, and at the box office- doesn't come from ploughing brutishly through these fantastical obstacles it's in breaking with his image as a self-deluding relic of a bygone era. ![]() Assigned to bankrupt terrorist villain Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen) at a poker game, Bond bed-hops between beautiful women entangled with money and power, particularly Vesper Lynd (Eva Green), and of course, ultimately prevails in his mission. Destroying certainties of character draws fresh mystery from familiar elements.
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