Casino Royale (2006)

Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his winnings to establish his financial grip on the terrorist market. M sends Bond--on his maiden mission as a 00 Agent--to attend this game and prevent Le Chiffre from winning. With the help of Vesper Lynd and Felix Leiter, Bond enters the most important poker game in his already dangerous career. (Via TMDB ↗)

(d) Martin Campbell

(w) Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Paul Haggis, Ian Fleming

adventure · action · thriller

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☰Read the script: Casino Royale (2006) —(w) Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Paul Haggis, Ian Fleming

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DZ-108: Analyzes physical subtlety in a shoulder-lean scene, demonstrating how minimal staging conveys emotional trust and relationship development between…

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DZ-108: The Emotional Event with Judith Weston

How and why should every scene have an emotional event?

AI✦Analyses the shoulder-lean moment between Bond and Vesper to demonstrate how physical subtlety can convey emotional intimacy and character trust without dialogue, using minimal staging to signal a relationship shift.✦

⏱ 1h 37m

Character · Scenes · Structure | 31 MAR 2024

Listen to understand why a scene's power lives in what shifts between characters, not what happens to them.

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Films: Oppenheimer (2023) , Casino Royale (2006) , Past Lives (2023)

Character: Subtext , Relationships , Tactics , Character Motivation , Writing for Actors

Scenes: Status , Scene Structure , Dramatic Irony

Structure: Emotional Event

"You don't need it. You could just have her leaning on his shoulder, and that says everything about the emotional event. They have come closer, but I do think what it is that Bond has actually offered her that allows her to be closer to him is his complete absence of judgment of her."

— chas | DZ-108: The Emotional Event with Judith Weston