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*Actors In Casino RoyaleVesper LyndJames Bond characterFirst appearanceCasino Royale (1953 novel)Last appearanceCasino Royale (2006 film)Created byIan FlemingPortrayed byUrsula Andress (1967 James Bond parody)Eva Green (2006)In-universe informationGenderFemaleOccupationDouble agentAffiliationNovel:
Film:ClassificationBond girl/Henchwoman
Jag is a minor antagonist and SMERSH agent in the 1967 spy spoof on the James Bond film ’Casino Royale’. Although this agent was uncredited in the screenplay of the film, she has since been credited on IMDB, the Cinemorgue Wiki site, and some other James Bond websites, as being played by the late French actress Mireille Darc (1938-2017). In the film, we see Sir James Bond (David Niven) leaving. Directed by Val Guest, Ken Hughes, John Huston. With David Niven, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, Orson Welles. In an early spy spoof, aging Sir James Bond comes out of retirement to take on SMERSH.
Vesper Lynd is a fictional character featured in Ian Fleming’s 1953 James Bond novel Casino Royale. She was portrayed by Ursula Andress in the 1967 James Bond parody, which is only slightly based on the novel, and by Eva Green in the 2006 film adaptation.
In the novel, the character explains that she was born ’on a very stormy evening’, and that her parents named her ’Vesper’, Latin for ’evening’. Fleming created a cocktail recipe in the novel that Bond names after her. The ’Vesper martini’ became very popular after the novel’s publication, and gave rise to the famous ’shaken, not stirred’ catchphrase immortalised in the Bond films. The actual name for the drink (as well as its complete recipe) was mentioned on screen for the first time in the 2006 film adaptation of Casino Royale.[1]
In 1993, journalist Donald McCormick claimed that Fleming based Vesper on the real life of Polish agent Krystyna Skarbek, who was working for Special Operations Executive.[2]Novel biography[edit]
Vesper works at MI6 headquarters being a personal assistant to Head of section S. She is lent to Bond, much to his irritation, to assist him in his mission to bankrupt Le Chiffre, the paymaster of a SMERSH-controlled trade union. She poses as a radio seller, working with Rene Mathis, and later as Bond’s companion to infiltrate the casino in Royale-Les-Eaux, in which Le Chiffre frequently gambles. After Bond takes all of Le Chiffre’s money in a high-stakes game of baccarat, Vesper is abducted by Le Chiffre’s thugs, who also nab Bond when he tries to rescue her. Both are rescued after Le Chiffre is murdered by a SMERSH agent, but only after Bond has been tortured.
Vesper visits Bond every day in the hospital, and the two grow very close; much to his own surprise, Bond develops genuine feelings for her, and even dreams of leaving the service and marrying her. After he is released from the hospital, they go on a holiday together and eventually become lovers.
Vesper has a terrible secret, however - she is a double agent working for Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) and worked with Bond only because she was ordered to see that he did not escape Le Chiffre. (Her kidnapping was staged to lure Bond into Le Chiffre’s clutches.) Before she met Bond, she had been romantically involved with a PolishRAF operative. This man had been captured by SMERSH and revealed information about Vesper under torture. Hence, SMERSH was using this operative to blackmail Vesper into helping them. After Le Chiffre’s death, she is initially hopeful that she can have a fresh start with Bond, but she realizes this is impossible when she sees a SMERSH operative with an eye patch, Adolph Gettler, tracking her and Bond’s movements. Consumed with guilt and certain that SMERSH will find and kill both of them, she commits suicide, leaving a note admitting her treachery and pledging her love to Bond.
Bond moves at top speed through all the Kübler-Ross model stages of grief following Vesper’s death, eventually seeing past his sense of loss the clear implications of her espionage. He renounces her only as ’a spy,’ packing her away as a memento in the box room of his life and recalling his professional identity immediately within the present situation. Through to his superiors on the telephone, with quiet emergency he informs them of Vesper’s treasonous identity, adding, upon a request for confirmation, ’Yes, dammit, I said ’was.’ The bitch is dead now.’
However, Bond’s genuine feelings for Vesper never fade. Fleming’s tenth novel, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, reveals that Bond makes an annual pilgrimage to Royale-Les-Eaux to visit her grave. In Diamonds Are Forever, Bond skips the song ’La Vie En Rose’ in Tiffany Case’s hotel room ’because it has memories for him’; this is a song closely associated with Vesper in Casino Royale. In the novel Goldfinger, when Bond has been severely poisoned and believes he is about to enter heaven, he worries about how to introduce Tilly Masterton, who he believes has died along with him, to Vesper.Film biography[edit]1967[edit]
In the 1967 version of Casino Royale, Lynd was portrayed by Ursula Andress, who had portrayed another Bond girl, Honey Ryder, in the 1962 film version of Dr. No.[3]
In this version, which bore little resemblance to the novel, Vesper is depicted as a former secret agent who has since become a multi-millionaire with a penchant for wearing ridiculously extravagant outfits at her office (’because if I wore it in the street people might stare’). Bond (played by David Niven), now in the position of M at MI6, uses a discount for her past due taxes to bribe her into becoming another 007 agent, and to recruit baccarat expert Evelyn Tremble (Peter Sellers) into stopping Le Chiffre (played by Orson Welles).
Vesper and Tremble have an affair during which she eliminates an enemy agent sent to seduce Tremble (’Miss Goodthighs’). Ultimately, however, she betrays Tremble to Le Chiffre and SMERSH, declaring to Tremble, ’Never trust a rich spy’ before killing him with a machine gun hidden inside a bagpipe. She presumably does this for the same reason she does in the novel, as she remarks that it isn’t for money but for love. Though her ultimate fate is not revealed in the film, in the closing credits she is shown as an angel playing a harp, showing her to be one of the ’seven James Bonds at Casino Royale’ killed by an atomic explosion.Eon films[edit]
In the 2006 film version of Casino Royale, Vesper Lynd is a foreign liaison agent from the HM Treasury’s Financial Action Task Force assigned to make sure that Bond adequately manages the funds provided by MI6. Vesper is initially skeptical about Bond’s ego and at first is unwilling to be his trophy at the hold ’em poker tournament hosted by Le Chiffre. However, she assists Bond when Lord’s Resistance Army leader Steven Obanno attacks him, knocking a gun out of Obanno’s hand and giving Bond the chance to kill him.
She retreats to the shower afterwards, feeling she has blood on her hands from helping to kill Obanno. Bond sits next to her and kisses the ’blood’ off her fingers to provide comfort, and they return to the casino. His kindness does not prevent her from doing her job, however; she refuses to bankroll him after he misreads Le Chiffre at the table and loses his table stakes. Shortly afterwards, Vesper saves Bond’s life. Poisoned by Le Chiffre’s girlfriend, Valenka, Bond struggles unsuccessfully to connect a key wire to his automatic external defibrillator and enters cardiac arrest, but Vesper arrives in time to connect the wire properly, enabling the machine to revive him.[1][3]
After Bond wins the tournament, Le Chiffre kidnaps Vesper, and Bond gives chase. They fall into Le Chiffre’s trap and are tortured by him and his thugs, but are ostensibly saved by Quantum henchman Mr. White, who shoots and kills Le Chiffre for misappropriating the organisation’s funds.[4]
While both are hospitalized to recover, Bond and Vesper fall deeply in love, and Bond plans to resign from the service to be with her. As in the novel, Bond and Vesper go on vacation to Venice, both of them hoping to start a new life. Unknown to Bond, however, Vesper embezzles the tournament winnings and intends to deliver them to a gang of Quantum henchmen. Leading the group is Adolph Gettler, who (like his novel counterpart) has been spying on the two agents since they arrived in Venice, and was spotted by Vesper, much to her visible dismay.
When Bond receives a timely phone call from M and realizes Vesper’s scheme, he pursues her as Gettler takes her hostage and throws her in a caged elevator while he and his fellow thugs battle Bond. He eliminates them, including Gettler, but in the process causes the building to flood and start sinking. Vesper resigns herself to death and, after apologizing to James, locks herself in, even as Bond frantically tries opening the elevator. In a final gesture, she kisses Bond’s hands as if to clear him of guilt; she begins to run out of air and drowns. Bond finally extricates her and attempts to revive her using CPR, to no avail.
As in the novel, Bond copes with his lover’s death by renouncing her, saying ’The job’s done and the bitch is dead.’ M chastises him, assuming that, when held captive by Le Chiffre, Vesper had cut a deal with her Quantum blackmailers to spare Bond in exchange for the tournament money, pressured by their kidnapping of her boyfriend Yusef. When Bond opens Vesper’s mobile phone left in their Venice hotel room, he discovers her note for him with Mr. White’s phone number; this enables Bond to track down and confront him at the movie’s end.
At the end of the 2008 film Quantum of Solace, Yusef is revealed to be an agent working for Quantum, asked to seduce high-ranking women in the world’s intelligence agencies. He is then ’kidnapped’ by Quantum, and the women are forced to become double agents in the hope of securing his freedom. This information vindicates Vesper in Bond’s eyes, as he realizes she was coerced to embezzle the winnings in Casino Royale. He does not kill Yusef, but leaves him to MI6 and tells M that she was right about Vesper. As he walks away, he drops Vesper’s necklace in the snow.[5]
In the 2015 film Spectre, Bond finds a VHS video tape in Mr. White’s hotel room in Morocco labelled ’Vesper Lynd Interrogation’. Ernst Stavro Blofeld, whose Spectre organization is the power behind Quantum, taunts Bond by explicitly taking credit for Vesper’s death as part of his personal vendetta against him.Related character[edit]
The character of Vesper Lynd does not appear in the 1954 television adaptation of Casino Royale. Instead, the character was replaced by a new character named Valerie Mathis, played by Linda Christian, who is depicted as an American. She also betrays Bond (played by Barry Nelson), but comes to his rescue after he is shot by Le Chiffre (played by Peter Lorre). Valerie does not die in this adaptation.References[edit]
*^ abDeMichael, Tom (2012). James Bond FAQ: All That’s Left to Know About Everyone’s Favorite Superspy. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN978-1-4803-3786-2.
*^McCormick, Donald (1993). The Life of Ian Fleming. Peter Owen Publishers. p. 151.
*^ abCawthorne, Nigel (2012). A Brief Guide to James Bond. Little, Brown Book Group. ISBN978-1-84901-829-6.
*^Pratt, Benjamin (October 2008). Ian Fleming’s Seven Deadlier Sins and 007’s Moral Compass. Front Edge Publishing. ISBN978-1-934879-12-2.
*^Newby, Richard (4 December 2019). ’’No Time to Die’ and Finding Closure for Daniel Craig’s Bond’. The Hollywood Reporter.
Preceded byValerie MathisBond girl (main sidekick) in a non-EON Productions movie1967Succeeded byDomino PetachiPreceded byGiacinta ’Jinx’ JohnsonBond girl (main sidekick) in an EON Productions movie2006Succeeded byCamille MontesRetrieved from ’https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vesper_Lynd&oldid=997066803’By Noah Berlatsky
“You think of women as disposable pleasures, rather than meaningful pursuits,” Vesper Lynd tells James Bond in Casino Royale (2006).
Vesper, played by Eva Green, is describing the character of James Bond, the person. But she could as easily be discussing the ethos of the franchise. For decades, women in Bond films have become a brand: “Bond girls.” They’re sexy, they’re seduceable, they aid Bond—and sometimes (as with Honor Blackman’s Pussy Galore) they do all three. But whatever they’re function, Bond girls exist for Bond and the (presumed) male viewer, never for themselves.
As the world flocks to theaters for the latest (and presumably last) installment of the Daniel Craig Bond this weekend, it’s worth taking a moment to remember the Craig-era Bond girl who almost broke the mold.
Vesper Lynd was different. She knew that Bond expected his women to be “disposable pleasures,” but she wasn’t going to play along. Casino Royale, Craig’s first Bond outing, is a fairly typical film in the series until Vesper shows up. Eva Green, not Craig, is what truly makes the film catch fire.
Their first encounter on a train replaces the typically corny, smug Bond one-liners with screwball-comedy levels of dexterous banter. You really need to see the scene to experience the power of these two beautiful people engaged in grand-master level flirting, but even on the page their dialogue is joyously sharp.
VL: So as charming as you are, Mr. Bond, I will be keeping my eye on our government’s money—and off your perfectly-formed arse.
JB: You noticed?
VL: Even accountants have imagination. How was your lamb?
JB: Skewered! One sympathizes.
VL: Good evening, Mr. Bond.
JB: Good evening, Ms. Lynd.
The reason the relationship is able to sparkle isn’t just that the two are colleagues (a trope going back at least to Agent Triple X, played at the time by Barbara Bach, in The Spy Who Loved Me). Rather, this relationship is different because Vesper is presented as being interesting—here is a woman as glamorous, as fascinating, as quick, and as in control as Bond is.
Whenever Bond tries to turn Vesper into a Bond girl, she turns it around on him. For instance, when Bond presents her with breath-taking dress to wear, and she responds by giving him a perfectly tailored suit. She’s there to dress up for him, but he’s also there to dress up for her. Vesper is not a disposable pleasure. Her perspective matters—and it matters so much that she becomes the objectifier as much as the objectified.Bond girls exist for Bond and the (presumed) male viewer, never for themselves.
Sadly, such female independence cannot last. Vesper ultimately betrays Bond (though trying to save him) and is punished for it. With her death, she ceases to be a person in her own right, and becomes a motivation for Bond’s brooding, angst and violence in the sequel Quantum of Solace.
Death begetting bloody retribution is hardly an original move. In 1969‘s On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, the murder of Bond’s lover provides our hero with a similar opportunity for personal revenge at the beginning of the follow-up, Diamonds Are Forever (1971).
When not being used as an excuse for revenge, assorted Bond girls have also been offed in order to show the ruthlessness of this or that villain. From Jill Masterton’s (Shirley Eaton) infamous death by gold paint in 1964 to Miss Fields’ (Gemma Arterton) demise after being covered in oil in 2006, dead female bodies have been as important to the Bond mystique as live ones.
No woman is free from the Bond girl curse—in 2012’s Skyfall, even Judi Dench’s M was transformed into tragic Bond backstory via convenient assassination.
The depressing thing about Vesper Lynd’s character is she proved there is another way. Bond could be sexy, exciting, fun, and suspenseful with a non-interchangeable leading lady, someone whose personality mattered as much as her dress size.
In fact, it’s quite possible that the Bond franchise would be even sexier, and generally better, with a real, honest-to-goodness female lead. Casino Royale has Bond fall in love with Vesper and decide to retire; he can only funciton as a killer if he’s a loner, supposedly. But earlier in the film, he and Vesper seem to work perfectly well together, whether she’s teaching him the wonders of dinner attire or (literally) jump starting his heart to prevent him going into cardiac arrest.It’s quite possible that the Bond franchise would be even sexier, and generally better, with a real, honest-to-goodness female lead.
It’s not so hard to imagine an alternate series of Daniel Craig-led Bonds, in which Eva Green stayed on as the love interest, and the series explored the Nick and Nora possibilities of stylish flirtation and teamwork, rather than the same old landscape of monotonous, broody vengeance.
Not sold on a domesticated Bond? What if, Vesper had instead become a colleague or even a supervisor, refusing to sleep with Bond—or sleeping with him once and then breaking it off. James Bond doesn’t seem like the type to shy away from some extra sexual friction.
Unfortunately, the filmmakers, and presumably the financial backers, lack that flexibility and vision. Casino Royale has since proven to be a one off. Bond has gone back to being Bond. Eve Moneypenny (Naomi Harris) flirts with him in Skyfall and Spectre, but is clearly a subordinate. Madeleine Swann (Léa Seydoux) in Spectre is checks the boxes under “strong female character” with an air of bland obligation.Casino Royale Women Outfit
In an Esquire interview ahead of Spectre, Craig mused that he hoped his version of the character was “not as sexist and misogynistic” as earlier versions. He pointed out that “the world has changed.” And there’s no doubt that at least the Craig iteration is more contemporary than the Connery rape fantasies, or Moore’s smug lechery.Actors In Casino Royale
The Craig films have offered perhaps the best female roles in the series. But they’ve also demonstrated that when a woman becomes too interesting or too central in a James Bond film, she, like all her predecessors before her, still has to die.
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*Casino Royale Women Outfit
*Actors In Casino RoyaleVesper LyndJames Bond characterFirst appearanceCasino Royale (1953 novel)Last appearanceCasino Royale (2006 film)Created byIan FlemingPortrayed byUrsula Andress (1967 James Bond parody)Eva Green (2006)In-universe informationGenderFemaleOccupationDouble agentAffiliationNovel:
Film:ClassificationBond girl/Henchwoman
Jag is a minor antagonist and SMERSH agent in the 1967 spy spoof on the James Bond film ’Casino Royale’. Although this agent was uncredited in the screenplay of the film, she has since been credited on IMDB, the Cinemorgue Wiki site, and some other James Bond websites, as being played by the late French actress Mireille Darc (1938-2017). In the film, we see Sir James Bond (David Niven) leaving. Directed by Val Guest, Ken Hughes, John Huston. With David Niven, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, Orson Welles. In an early spy spoof, aging Sir James Bond comes out of retirement to take on SMERSH.
Vesper Lynd is a fictional character featured in Ian Fleming’s 1953 James Bond novel Casino Royale. She was portrayed by Ursula Andress in the 1967 James Bond parody, which is only slightly based on the novel, and by Eva Green in the 2006 film adaptation.
In the novel, the character explains that she was born ’on a very stormy evening’, and that her parents named her ’Vesper’, Latin for ’evening’. Fleming created a cocktail recipe in the novel that Bond names after her. The ’Vesper martini’ became very popular after the novel’s publication, and gave rise to the famous ’shaken, not stirred’ catchphrase immortalised in the Bond films. The actual name for the drink (as well as its complete recipe) was mentioned on screen for the first time in the 2006 film adaptation of Casino Royale.[1]
In 1993, journalist Donald McCormick claimed that Fleming based Vesper on the real life of Polish agent Krystyna Skarbek, who was working for Special Operations Executive.[2]Novel biography[edit]
Vesper works at MI6 headquarters being a personal assistant to Head of section S. She is lent to Bond, much to his irritation, to assist him in his mission to bankrupt Le Chiffre, the paymaster of a SMERSH-controlled trade union. She poses as a radio seller, working with Rene Mathis, and later as Bond’s companion to infiltrate the casino in Royale-Les-Eaux, in which Le Chiffre frequently gambles. After Bond takes all of Le Chiffre’s money in a high-stakes game of baccarat, Vesper is abducted by Le Chiffre’s thugs, who also nab Bond when he tries to rescue her. Both are rescued after Le Chiffre is murdered by a SMERSH agent, but only after Bond has been tortured.
Vesper visits Bond every day in the hospital, and the two grow very close; much to his own surprise, Bond develops genuine feelings for her, and even dreams of leaving the service and marrying her. After he is released from the hospital, they go on a holiday together and eventually become lovers.
Vesper has a terrible secret, however - she is a double agent working for Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) and worked with Bond only because she was ordered to see that he did not escape Le Chiffre. (Her kidnapping was staged to lure Bond into Le Chiffre’s clutches.) Before she met Bond, she had been romantically involved with a PolishRAF operative. This man had been captured by SMERSH and revealed information about Vesper under torture. Hence, SMERSH was using this operative to blackmail Vesper into helping them. After Le Chiffre’s death, she is initially hopeful that she can have a fresh start with Bond, but she realizes this is impossible when she sees a SMERSH operative with an eye patch, Adolph Gettler, tracking her and Bond’s movements. Consumed with guilt and certain that SMERSH will find and kill both of them, she commits suicide, leaving a note admitting her treachery and pledging her love to Bond.
Bond moves at top speed through all the Kübler-Ross model stages of grief following Vesper’s death, eventually seeing past his sense of loss the clear implications of her espionage. He renounces her only as ’a spy,’ packing her away as a memento in the box room of his life and recalling his professional identity immediately within the present situation. Through to his superiors on the telephone, with quiet emergency he informs them of Vesper’s treasonous identity, adding, upon a request for confirmation, ’Yes, dammit, I said ’was.’ The bitch is dead now.’
However, Bond’s genuine feelings for Vesper never fade. Fleming’s tenth novel, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, reveals that Bond makes an annual pilgrimage to Royale-Les-Eaux to visit her grave. In Diamonds Are Forever, Bond skips the song ’La Vie En Rose’ in Tiffany Case’s hotel room ’because it has memories for him’; this is a song closely associated with Vesper in Casino Royale. In the novel Goldfinger, when Bond has been severely poisoned and believes he is about to enter heaven, he worries about how to introduce Tilly Masterton, who he believes has died along with him, to Vesper.Film biography[edit]1967[edit]
In the 1967 version of Casino Royale, Lynd was portrayed by Ursula Andress, who had portrayed another Bond girl, Honey Ryder, in the 1962 film version of Dr. No.[3]
In this version, which bore little resemblance to the novel, Vesper is depicted as a former secret agent who has since become a multi-millionaire with a penchant for wearing ridiculously extravagant outfits at her office (’because if I wore it in the street people might stare’). Bond (played by David Niven), now in the position of M at MI6, uses a discount for her past due taxes to bribe her into becoming another 007 agent, and to recruit baccarat expert Evelyn Tremble (Peter Sellers) into stopping Le Chiffre (played by Orson Welles).
Vesper and Tremble have an affair during which she eliminates an enemy agent sent to seduce Tremble (’Miss Goodthighs’). Ultimately, however, she betrays Tremble to Le Chiffre and SMERSH, declaring to Tremble, ’Never trust a rich spy’ before killing him with a machine gun hidden inside a bagpipe. She presumably does this for the same reason she does in the novel, as she remarks that it isn’t for money but for love. Though her ultimate fate is not revealed in the film, in the closing credits she is shown as an angel playing a harp, showing her to be one of the ’seven James Bonds at Casino Royale’ killed by an atomic explosion.Eon films[edit]
In the 2006 film version of Casino Royale, Vesper Lynd is a foreign liaison agent from the HM Treasury’s Financial Action Task Force assigned to make sure that Bond adequately manages the funds provided by MI6. Vesper is initially skeptical about Bond’s ego and at first is unwilling to be his trophy at the hold ’em poker tournament hosted by Le Chiffre. However, she assists Bond when Lord’s Resistance Army leader Steven Obanno attacks him, knocking a gun out of Obanno’s hand and giving Bond the chance to kill him.
She retreats to the shower afterwards, feeling she has blood on her hands from helping to kill Obanno. Bond sits next to her and kisses the ’blood’ off her fingers to provide comfort, and they return to the casino. His kindness does not prevent her from doing her job, however; she refuses to bankroll him after he misreads Le Chiffre at the table and loses his table stakes. Shortly afterwards, Vesper saves Bond’s life. Poisoned by Le Chiffre’s girlfriend, Valenka, Bond struggles unsuccessfully to connect a key wire to his automatic external defibrillator and enters cardiac arrest, but Vesper arrives in time to connect the wire properly, enabling the machine to revive him.[1][3]
After Bond wins the tournament, Le Chiffre kidnaps Vesper, and Bond gives chase. They fall into Le Chiffre’s trap and are tortured by him and his thugs, but are ostensibly saved by Quantum henchman Mr. White, who shoots and kills Le Chiffre for misappropriating the organisation’s funds.[4]
While both are hospitalized to recover, Bond and Vesper fall deeply in love, and Bond plans to resign from the service to be with her. As in the novel, Bond and Vesper go on vacation to Venice, both of them hoping to start a new life. Unknown to Bond, however, Vesper embezzles the tournament winnings and intends to deliver them to a gang of Quantum henchmen. Leading the group is Adolph Gettler, who (like his novel counterpart) has been spying on the two agents since they arrived in Venice, and was spotted by Vesper, much to her visible dismay.
When Bond receives a timely phone call from M and realizes Vesper’s scheme, he pursues her as Gettler takes her hostage and throws her in a caged elevator while he and his fellow thugs battle Bond. He eliminates them, including Gettler, but in the process causes the building to flood and start sinking. Vesper resigns herself to death and, after apologizing to James, locks herself in, even as Bond frantically tries opening the elevator. In a final gesture, she kisses Bond’s hands as if to clear him of guilt; she begins to run out of air and drowns. Bond finally extricates her and attempts to revive her using CPR, to no avail.
As in the novel, Bond copes with his lover’s death by renouncing her, saying ’The job’s done and the bitch is dead.’ M chastises him, assuming that, when held captive by Le Chiffre, Vesper had cut a deal with her Quantum blackmailers to spare Bond in exchange for the tournament money, pressured by their kidnapping of her boyfriend Yusef. When Bond opens Vesper’s mobile phone left in their Venice hotel room, he discovers her note for him with Mr. White’s phone number; this enables Bond to track down and confront him at the movie’s end.
At the end of the 2008 film Quantum of Solace, Yusef is revealed to be an agent working for Quantum, asked to seduce high-ranking women in the world’s intelligence agencies. He is then ’kidnapped’ by Quantum, and the women are forced to become double agents in the hope of securing his freedom. This information vindicates Vesper in Bond’s eyes, as he realizes she was coerced to embezzle the winnings in Casino Royale. He does not kill Yusef, but leaves him to MI6 and tells M that she was right about Vesper. As he walks away, he drops Vesper’s necklace in the snow.[5]
In the 2015 film Spectre, Bond finds a VHS video tape in Mr. White’s hotel room in Morocco labelled ’Vesper Lynd Interrogation’. Ernst Stavro Blofeld, whose Spectre organization is the power behind Quantum, taunts Bond by explicitly taking credit for Vesper’s death as part of his personal vendetta against him.Related character[edit]
The character of Vesper Lynd does not appear in the 1954 television adaptation of Casino Royale. Instead, the character was replaced by a new character named Valerie Mathis, played by Linda Christian, who is depicted as an American. She also betrays Bond (played by Barry Nelson), but comes to his rescue after he is shot by Le Chiffre (played by Peter Lorre). Valerie does not die in this adaptation.References[edit]
*^ abDeMichael, Tom (2012). James Bond FAQ: All That’s Left to Know About Everyone’s Favorite Superspy. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN978-1-4803-3786-2.
*^McCormick, Donald (1993). The Life of Ian Fleming. Peter Owen Publishers. p. 151.
*^ abCawthorne, Nigel (2012). A Brief Guide to James Bond. Little, Brown Book Group. ISBN978-1-84901-829-6.
*^Pratt, Benjamin (October 2008). Ian Fleming’s Seven Deadlier Sins and 007’s Moral Compass. Front Edge Publishing. ISBN978-1-934879-12-2.
*^Newby, Richard (4 December 2019). ’’No Time to Die’ and Finding Closure for Daniel Craig’s Bond’. The Hollywood Reporter.
Preceded byValerie MathisBond girl (main sidekick) in a non-EON Productions movie1967Succeeded byDomino PetachiPreceded byGiacinta ’Jinx’ JohnsonBond girl (main sidekick) in an EON Productions movie2006Succeeded byCamille MontesRetrieved from ’https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vesper_Lynd&oldid=997066803’By Noah Berlatsky
“You think of women as disposable pleasures, rather than meaningful pursuits,” Vesper Lynd tells James Bond in Casino Royale (2006).
Vesper, played by Eva Green, is describing the character of James Bond, the person. But she could as easily be discussing the ethos of the franchise. For decades, women in Bond films have become a brand: “Bond girls.” They’re sexy, they’re seduceable, they aid Bond—and sometimes (as with Honor Blackman’s Pussy Galore) they do all three. But whatever they’re function, Bond girls exist for Bond and the (presumed) male viewer, never for themselves.
As the world flocks to theaters for the latest (and presumably last) installment of the Daniel Craig Bond this weekend, it’s worth taking a moment to remember the Craig-era Bond girl who almost broke the mold.
Vesper Lynd was different. She knew that Bond expected his women to be “disposable pleasures,” but she wasn’t going to play along. Casino Royale, Craig’s first Bond outing, is a fairly typical film in the series until Vesper shows up. Eva Green, not Craig, is what truly makes the film catch fire.
Their first encounter on a train replaces the typically corny, smug Bond one-liners with screwball-comedy levels of dexterous banter. You really need to see the scene to experience the power of these two beautiful people engaged in grand-master level flirting, but even on the page their dialogue is joyously sharp.
VL: So as charming as you are, Mr. Bond, I will be keeping my eye on our government’s money—and off your perfectly-formed arse.
JB: You noticed?
VL: Even accountants have imagination. How was your lamb?
JB: Skewered! One sympathizes.
VL: Good evening, Mr. Bond.
JB: Good evening, Ms. Lynd.
The reason the relationship is able to sparkle isn’t just that the two are colleagues (a trope going back at least to Agent Triple X, played at the time by Barbara Bach, in The Spy Who Loved Me). Rather, this relationship is different because Vesper is presented as being interesting—here is a woman as glamorous, as fascinating, as quick, and as in control as Bond is.
Whenever Bond tries to turn Vesper into a Bond girl, she turns it around on him. For instance, when Bond presents her with breath-taking dress to wear, and she responds by giving him a perfectly tailored suit. She’s there to dress up for him, but he’s also there to dress up for her. Vesper is not a disposable pleasure. Her perspective matters—and it matters so much that she becomes the objectifier as much as the objectified.Bond girls exist for Bond and the (presumed) male viewer, never for themselves.
Sadly, such female independence cannot last. Vesper ultimately betrays Bond (though trying to save him) and is punished for it. With her death, she ceases to be a person in her own right, and becomes a motivation for Bond’s brooding, angst and violence in the sequel Quantum of Solace.
Death begetting bloody retribution is hardly an original move. In 1969‘s On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, the murder of Bond’s lover provides our hero with a similar opportunity for personal revenge at the beginning of the follow-up, Diamonds Are Forever (1971).
When not being used as an excuse for revenge, assorted Bond girls have also been offed in order to show the ruthlessness of this or that villain. From Jill Masterton’s (Shirley Eaton) infamous death by gold paint in 1964 to Miss Fields’ (Gemma Arterton) demise after being covered in oil in 2006, dead female bodies have been as important to the Bond mystique as live ones.
No woman is free from the Bond girl curse—in 2012’s Skyfall, even Judi Dench’s M was transformed into tragic Bond backstory via convenient assassination.
The depressing thing about Vesper Lynd’s character is she proved there is another way. Bond could be sexy, exciting, fun, and suspenseful with a non-interchangeable leading lady, someone whose personality mattered as much as her dress size.
In fact, it’s quite possible that the Bond franchise would be even sexier, and generally better, with a real, honest-to-goodness female lead. Casino Royale has Bond fall in love with Vesper and decide to retire; he can only funciton as a killer if he’s a loner, supposedly. But earlier in the film, he and Vesper seem to work perfectly well together, whether she’s teaching him the wonders of dinner attire or (literally) jump starting his heart to prevent him going into cardiac arrest.It’s quite possible that the Bond franchise would be even sexier, and generally better, with a real, honest-to-goodness female lead.
It’s not so hard to imagine an alternate series of Daniel Craig-led Bonds, in which Eva Green stayed on as the love interest, and the series explored the Nick and Nora possibilities of stylish flirtation and teamwork, rather than the same old landscape of monotonous, broody vengeance.
Not sold on a domesticated Bond? What if, Vesper had instead become a colleague or even a supervisor, refusing to sleep with Bond—or sleeping with him once and then breaking it off. James Bond doesn’t seem like the type to shy away from some extra sexual friction.
Unfortunately, the filmmakers, and presumably the financial backers, lack that flexibility and vision. Casino Royale has since proven to be a one off. Bond has gone back to being Bond. Eve Moneypenny (Naomi Harris) flirts with him in Skyfall and Spectre, but is clearly a subordinate. Madeleine Swann (Léa Seydoux) in Spectre is checks the boxes under “strong female character” with an air of bland obligation.Casino Royale Women Outfit
In an Esquire interview ahead of Spectre, Craig mused that he hoped his version of the character was “not as sexist and misogynistic” as earlier versions. He pointed out that “the world has changed.” And there’s no doubt that at least the Craig iteration is more contemporary than the Connery rape fantasies, or Moore’s smug lechery.Actors In Casino Royale
The Craig films have offered perhaps the best female roles in the series. But they’ve also demonstrated that when a woman becomes too interesting or too central in a James Bond film, she, like all her predecessors before her, still has to die.
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