He is first encountered as an inmate of the Dachau displaced persons camp in the US zone of Allied-occupied Germany in June 1945, where he displayed (possibly simulated) mutism and amnesia. Number', 'Herr Ziffer' and other translations of 'The Number', 'The Numeral', 'The Figure', 'The Cipher', or 'The Code' in various languages, is the paymaster of the 'Syndicat des Ouvriers d'Alsace' (French for 'Alsatian Workmen's Union'), a SMERSH-controlled trade union.

White.įleming based the character on occultist Aleister Crowley. On screen Le Chiffre has been portrayed by Peter Lorre in the 1954 television adaptation of the novel for CBS's Climax! anthology television series, by Orson Welles in the 1967 spoof of the novel and Bond film series, and by Mads Mikkelsen in the 2006 film version of Fleming's novel where he is one of two main antagonists, the other being Mr. I enjoyed the fact that the James Bond books get to the plot and don’t waste pages on describing a tree.Le Chiffre ( French:, 'The Cypher' or 'The Digit') is a fictional character and the main antagonist of Ian Fleming's 1953 novel, Casino Royale. That is because the movie creates a stunning setting that the book does not do because the book is short.

Produced by Martin Campbell, the movie went on to be a blockbuster hit.Ĭompare that to the novel which is brilliant in its own right but lacks the detail of the movie. The acting, script, and auro the movie gave was unlike anything else. Like many people, when I hear or read Casino Royale, I think of the iconic movie with Daniel Craig. Can Bond stop Le Chiffre from winning and will he be able to survive against Le Chiffre’s cunning? Commentary It is more than just a game and a lot of moving parts behind the scenes. The game gets intense fast and Bonds doesn’t realize what he signed up for. Other countries are also participating in this game of baccarat in order to stop Le Chiffre including the United States and the French. Bond is assigned a female companion named Vesper Lynd who is the personal assistant to the Head of Section S of the Soviet Union.

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