"The Real Casino Royale" (2006)
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- Опубликовано: 6 апр 2015
- An excellent BBC documentary on the creation of James Bond in Ian Fleming's first novel, "Casino Royale" (1953).
"As a new film version of the book Casino Royale opens in cinemas around the world, Andrew Graham Dixon explores the crucial moments in Ian Fleming's life which inspired him to create James Bond. The documentary combines previously unseen archive footage of Fleming with dramatised readings from the novel and follows Graham Dixon on a mission to uncover the real stories behind Casino Royale. He interviews friends and family of the author and those involved in the film, including the new 007 Daniel Craig." 
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What an absolutely great documentary. The BBC used to be so good.
Wonderful documentary and a must-watch for any bond/Fleming fan
One of the best Bond documentaries I've seen - it gives a very in-depth, very personal viewpoint of how Ian Fleming lived his life and how his own individualism and approach to life shaped his creation of the world's greatest spy - excellent!
For anyone interested in Fleming I highly recommend The Life Of Ian Fleming by John Pearson, one of the most complete and readable biographies I've ever encountered. I'm re-reading it right now for the third time.
Thanks for the tip. I'll rush out to buy a copy. One can't get read too many books.
Thank you, I was just thinking I'd like to read a good biography of the man and here I see your comment. :)
Ian Fleming was actually issued a Colt 1908, .25 in WWII. He kept it after the war and it is listed in his estate. Serial number 257024 . See COLT FORUM for details.
The gun is listed as a Browning .25 , however the serial number does not match a Browning. I does match a Colt made in 1920. However Flemings gun could have been a FN, made in Belgium with an identical serial number as the Colt .25 ...
Fantastic documentary in the life and career of Ian Fleming. Thank you.
Flemming uses adjectives like I've never heard before. Very good writer and what a life.
The greatest doco on Bond/Fleming EVER
Definitely going into my favourites list
And 2008 BBC docu by Joanna Lumley
Pop-culture mavens, Bondians, etc., absorb this:
This is PURE GOLD.
Advisory:
This is as much about Fleming as it is about his creation; if you're open to the possibility that his real life could be as fascinatingly riveting as Bond's fictional one (it is), you will love this.
A special treat:
At 14:17 you get to see the very first Bond-on-film, made for American television, and with two casting surprises, one of them HUGE, when you realize by whom the very first on-screen Bond Villain was played...
Both him and Orson Welles were excellent casting I thought.
I have the full tv show on dvd. Aparently it was shot live on air on US tv
This Is Fantastic Programme About Ian Fleming,
At this same Casino Ian Fleming is talking about in Lisbon was a double agent by the name of Dusko Popov. He is the one who was gambling and beating the Germans for their money. James Bond is an amalgamation of a number of people I think but the sophisticated parts of him I believe come from Dusko Popov. He spoke numerous languages....was a ladies man and operated for British Intelligence during WWII and after. He actually gave J. Edgar Hoover and the Americans information about Pearl Harbour before it happened. They either ignored it or allowed it to happen much like many people think of 911. He was a double agent during WWII supposedly working for German Intelligence but actually working for Mi5.
James Bond Pearl Harbor happened 8 yrs after Hoover left office, the US fleet was at San Diego.
@@millardwashington6216 Hoover was Director of the FBI from 1935 - 1972. Pearl Harbour happened in 1941. Not sure what office you are talking about?
@@jamesbond4633 I do believe there is more than one Hoover in the US history books. One with the first name Herbert.
@@cjjojo8985 Ahh ok. I put in J. Edgar Hoover in my original post to clarify.
My bad
Just finished reading the novel, so good timing that I found this video. Very interesting. Thanks!
One of the few EON films that takes the actual story from the book - hallelujah !!!!
Thoroughly an in depth and enjoyable documentary well narrated and interesting.
Great upload, thank you!
all Bond's were excellent, but sir roger my fav, and Daniel Craig the best depiction of what Bond is supposed to be like
in hi school every summer or so i was excited to read the new james bond book.
they gave me hope for the future::::adventures ahead.
@Spanish John yep, moved to Hollywood and became a groupie for rock gods for a year. TOTALLY GROOVY summer of 69 .. manson murders omg...
Absolutely stunning video.❤️
Vesper Lynd was based on Countess Krystana Skarbek who he allegedly had an affair with. I tried to get a plaque put up via EH at the hotel where the Countess lived throughout WW II and the 1950's and where she was eventually murdered, but sadly it wasn't to be!
well thought out ... bravo!
That was really enjoyable, I find myself wishing there was more, what a fascinating life. I wonder what he'd think if he could see just much longevity and success his character has achieved all these years later. I'll bet he'd be surprised Bond was still going strong 67 years later and counting. It would also be interesting to see what he might think if he could see Craig's Bond today, I'll bet he'd be very happy with the current Bond, James Bond.
13:00 I laughed with surprise when he said Deauville. As a Canadian air force military brat living in Paris from '56 to '60 (S.H.A.P.E. HQ), we camped on weekends on the Normandy shoreline at Deauville, and Trouville, and Cabourg. Small world indeed.
i've been looking forward to it
"You only live twice Mr. Bond."
"And you'll only live once Blofeld."
Very good documentary. It mentions how bothered Brits were by the decline of British power and influence. I think this was manifested most strongly in You Only Live Twice, in which the Brits show resentment towards America for viewing Asia as under their sphere of influence, not Britain's. Tiger Tanaka doesn't hesitate to point out the decline of the British Empire to Bond. Bond replies defensively that it was a Brit who had conquered Everest, and Brits were still winning Olympic medals. Fleming didn't think much of the CIA, Felix Leiter notwithstanding.
Very well done.
Great video. Why not do more documentaries like this on other Bond novels by Fleming?
On Her Majesty` s Secret Service - and this one: Casino Royale (2006) are for me the best Bond films.. BTW thanks for this documentary.. very interesting & entertaining
OHMSS...such Beautiful film!
you should see the original!! from the fifties ... i think it's here on youtube
OHMSS and Casino Royale are my favorite novels by far.
Excellent viewing..
August 12, 2019 is the 55th anniversary of British author/naval officer Ian Fleming ( 1908 - 1964 ) creator of the James bond novels
Visited all the Ian Fleming sites, Belgravia London, obelisk grave at St James church in Sevenhampton, southwest of Highworth, his house on the beach of St Margaret bay at Kent coast and the Royal St George club near Sandwich...
It just occurred to me that Bonds first antagonist is “The Number” and Bond himself is known to his government by a number. Likely not a coincidence.
Great work! Thank heavens the film adaptation steered away from the American Jimmy Bond idea!
The Bond theme song never gets old!!
Good doco. I started on Bond, James Bond that is, in my early teens back in the seventies. 1970's that is. Casino Royale is my favorite Bond book. I loved Ian's prose, the description of how baccarat is played. Read that book a couple dozen times over the years. It was a big disappointment that no one had made a serious Casino Royale until the recent Craig version, which is a pretty good movie. The earlier Niven version was a comedy, and a good one, just not a take of the book at all.
When I walked out of the theater after watching Casino Royale I said to myself "I can't believe I just saw an actor playing Bond that moved Rodger Moore into 3rd place".
Back when the bbc made decent documentaries with the publics money
In the 1954 TV adaptation, the guy playing Leiter looks and sounds far more like Fleming's Bond than the actor playing Bond.
And the incident in the book in which the two youngest loves working for the Soviets or killed when the camera case with the explosive and it goes off was based on a true incident that Fleming was aware of. I’m surprised no documentary ever mentions this but one of the early books about Fleming and the bond books talks all about it. Sorry about the run-on sentence chaps!
An idol of my generation , I had all the books and a model of a Walther PKK. The origin of all his stories where based on real people and situation of ww2. And .... I also had been in the Lisbon casino as a tourist many years later
Walther PPK perhaps?
As a teenager I adored James Bond. Read all the books. Put together a plastic model of the Aston Martin. It even had an ejector seat.
Fleming introduced many new innovative cultural firsts:
1. Fleming used to report in the situation while happening rather than about the situation: beginning of Gonzo Journalism which Hunter Thompson lifted.
2. Flemings careful attention to "brands" like Bentley, Ritz Carlton, Ronson lighters, Dior dresses, was the beginning of brand positioning in art.
3. Flemmings casual sexual escapades and misogyny surrounded by gadgets was inspiration for Hefner and Playboy magazine.
He was at the forefront of a cultural sexual revolution.
Fleming is a bad boy in his times
He is James bond !!!
Visited the Casino Estoril on a couple of occasions... the atmosphere was perfect for the actual movie. I wonder why they didn’t use it?
How I wish I could go back to 2006
Interesting!
Deauville, the name of the Hotel next to the Fontainebleau on Miami Beach. (where the BeaTles played)
Dam he died so young, imagine the many more Bond novels he would've created :-(
I wonder if Fleming would have kept writing Bond stories because of overwhelming fan demand. A similar sort of thing happened with Sherlock Holmes
According to his letters, Fleming intended The Man With the Golden Gun to be the very last Bond novel. He was extremely ill at the time and in a depressed state, but felt he owed the public one last book. If he was in better health, I suspect that like Conan Doyle he would have returned to Bond after a break. Before his final illness he wanted to visit the Panama Canal, so it's likely the next Bond novel would have taken place there.
I. Amanatullah what was he depressed about?
His marriage was collapsing, along with his health, and the money and fame delivered by James Bond seemed increasingly hollow.
Its ian fleming real story of his back side stories as an agent
nice movies to watch.
I just finished reading this book. Amazing. 13 more to go....
+vodka martini I read the audio books - more enjoyable!
+IAN PAYNE How does one read with ones ears?
+itube0047 Use what's above yours and think about it! There's always one, isn't there?
+itube0047 ....how about eat with ones eyes...yeah it doesnt make much sense
IAN PAYNE I would call it listen
One of my favorite fictional characters of all time💯
Brilliant
Actually, the gambling incident was based on a true story involving Dusko Popov, the real life spy on whom the JB character was based.
Bond was based on Merlin Minshall.
@@MOOSEDOWNUNDER Popov was MI6's TOP agent in WW2 & coincidentally many incidents in his under cover life EXACTLY match those of JB's character and he worked directly with IF.
Bond was an amalgam of several men that Fleming worked during his counter espionage headquarters during WW2. Fleming had the rank of Commander at the time
This is good.
I found reading Casino Royal back then as a book rather creepy, someone describing how drowning feels like...
Christine Granville seems to have been one hell of a woman. Fleming certainly had good taste! Polish countess.
The Guy Knew How to live.
Interesting that they use some of the soundtrack from the 'spoof' movie in this!
+D.E.B. B Well, it is a great soundtrack. More memorable than any of the recent Bond soundtracks, to be honest. Like John Barry, Burt Bacharach is a giant in his field.
If this interests you I can recommend “The Outsider”, Frederick Forsyth’s memoir.
Fleming's interviewer sounds like the American Bond writer Richard Maibaum.
He had lots of girlfriends because he was not serious about them. Don't give them everything, and they love you.
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WTF you talkin' about Willis?
"He" never existed and had no girlfriends.
True. If you simp, you lose.
He didn't expect to live long.
"most famous fictional character of all time" other than Santa Claus, Dracula. Mickey mouse, Mario, Sherlock Holmes, Robin Hood, Superman....
I'm not sure if James Bond even cracks the top 20 of this list
For the record: I would rank James Bond at fifth in "most famous fictional human British males":
1 - King Arthur (and Merlin, limiting it to one per fictional universe)
2 - Robin Hood
3 - Sherlock Holmes (plus Watson/Moriarty)
4 - Macbeth
5 - James Bond
6 - Harry Potter
7 - Dr. Jekyll
14 - Ali G
The inspiration for Casino Royal came from his stay at the Palacio in Estoril the casino Estoril was next door I have stayed many times over the last 30 years
does anyone realize that the physical description and partial background description are based on Fleming best friend David Niven who was a Lt Col in the British Army WW2 as well as a Hollywood actor and member of the aristocracy,
There have been at least 2 Casino Royale, one in the mid sixties, the other in 2006, with Daniel Craig.
Who on earth out that deafening background music in?
I have a tape of Ian Fleming and Raymond Chandler comparing their characters.
Somewhere.
An incident related by one of the pioneer quants who gambled looks a lot like when Bond was poisoned. The house it would appear drugged Edward Thorp as he had figured a way to tip the odds in his favour. The incident is retold in Scott Patterson's book The Quants.
Isn't there also an old card stunt where marked cards are seen through tinted lenses?
What is the piece of music in the background at 12:30?
I believe that's from the Michael Mann film "Heat". The music is played near the end of the film (and possibly elsewhere) after the final confrontation between De Niro's and Pacino's characters.
Before the war Ian Flemming gambled at the casino In Deippe. When he planned the Deippe raid he knew perfectly what was in store.
and the raid fail miserably !!
This documentary has a 1990s feel to it
There is a good documentary about the great Bond creator narrated by Joanna Lumley. Doing it in her own charming way it is also well worth watching :)
Could someone please tell me the song being played at 27:05 , thanks
That's "The Look of Love", composed by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, and originally popularized by English pop singer Dusty Springfield, although many other vocal & instrumental artists have covered the song over the years. It was part of the original 1967 "Casino Royale" soundtrack.
I walked those steps and fell down, in the rain )))
They keep playing the theme from thunderball.....
Check out - "Becoming Bond " - a 5 part TV thing on UK TV - very good - well done...
51:31 Isn't this music from Gattaca?
Yes it is. Thank you, I've been going nuts trying to place it and came here to the comments hoping someone would mention it. I can resume my life now. 😎
I find strange to hear ''Thunderball theme song'' in thiis video about ''Casino Royal''!
You'd have perfered "You know my name" from the late Casino Royal? Thunderball describes the character and has the James Bond's theme as a leitmotiv. Also it has something a bit of a vintage feeling which suits well to this travel in time.
@@remoraexocet Yeah,exactly! The Chris Cornell one certainly wasn't a bad song, but the Thunderball theme as well as the unused Shirley Bassey one that appears in the film as an instrumental have always been the most Bondesque pieces of music in my opinion. Perfect for transporting one back to the Connery era (the only one endorsed by Fleming himself).
Why not, Thunderball was a great song and a fantastic movie
Barry Nelson - 1954 James Bond in Casino Royale.
17:36 not true. Baccarat is absolutely widely played in Casinos all around Macau 🇲🇴 these days. A lot of fun!
Richard Wattis was in the spoof movie!
+IAN PAYNE cms.walsall.gov.uk/news/new_look_at_walsall_screen_star.htm
Excellent documentary. It certainly lends a lot of insight into Fleming and his incredible creation, James Bond.
It is too bad the recent Casino Royale had Bond playing such a pedestrian game as poker. It robbed him of his sophistication and panache. Another problem is that Fleming was probably a conservative and the modern Bond films impose a Leftist ideology which does not fit the character at all. It doesn’t embrace his worldview as expressed in the novels.
Enjoyed this documentary thoroughly.
I agree with you about poker, a game Bond never played in the books or other films. Fleming was something of a Tory-Libertarian (though in a letter he once oddly described Bond's politics as "left of centre"). The only Bond film that seemed definitely left-wing to me was Quantum of Solace, whose screenwriter was a le Carre fan. The rest of the modern Bonds seem politically middle-of-the-road to me (and I am "left of centre" myself).
In my estimation, Quantum of Solace is the singular worst Bond film ever. There has been a decided turn in the more recent Bond films which veers away from the authentic voice of the novels. It has become an attack on the very psyche of the James Bond character which has been turned into an outmoded killing machine. All the comments from characters around Bond are critical and demeaning of his persona.
You cannot escape that Bond is a knight of the realm, defending Queen and country. Although in the novels, particularly Casino Royale, Bond has moments where he questions his role, he ultimately believes in his mission. A Leftist is at war with the system, wanting to overthrow everything and aligned with enemy forces intent on destruction of the realm.
@@iamanatullah That's very interesting
I wonder why the game described in the novel is hardly played anymore ?
+IAN PAYNE Baccarat is still frequently played in casinos, even American ones (as I've seen in Lake Tahoe and Vegas). It was changed to poker in the Craig film because poker was trendy at the time. I think that was a mistake, since baccarat is a much easier game to follow and explain to viewers.
+I. Amanatullah I once played Baccarat at a Casino and didn't realise what I was playing. I didn't know the rules and I couldn't understand why I was losing.
+I. Amanatullah Not only was/is it trendy, but the "Texas Hold-Em" type of poker used in the movie lends itself to movies and TV use than baccarat; it was used to great dramatic effect on the final hand as each person looked to have the top hand upon each reveal.
+Jeff Gorham I'm afraid the great dramatic effect was only felt by poker fans. Baccarat by contrast could be easily explained in less than a minute of screen time, thereby involving the entire audience, and would have produced a greater dramatic effect when Bond is cleaned out, as well as when he wins. Fleming's original card game is one of the greatest gambling scenes in fiction and could have been easily translated to film, which makes the film's choice of poker (a game Bond has never played in the books or any of the previous films) doubly regrettable.
+I. Amanatullah I think also, Michael G. Wilson the producer, was an avid player of Texas Hold-Em and that's why it was chosen.
What to know...
Fleming sounds similar to Michael Redgrave when he speaks.
You READ Casino Royale ?
That is not normal.
14:30 - They should have cast those two the other way around...
Yes the American Jimmy Bond character was ridiculous
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So, I grew up watching the Bond movies. They begin just before I was born but I've seen all of them more than once each.
For my money, Daniel Craig plays the best Bond. I like the fact that he gets bashed up, that there are consequences to his bravado, that there is a human under the dinner jacket. But in many ways Craig's Bond is an utterly separate character from Connery's take on the role. Connery IS the classic Bond: cool, suave, and a professional womanizer. But Craig portrays Bond closer to how Fleming wrote him.
As Vesper put it in 'Casino', a 'maladjusted man who gives little thought to sacrificing others for Queen and Country. You know, former SAS types with easy smiles and expensive watches...'
Kinda agree, Timothy Dalton was close as well, but he didn't had the charisma.
However, lets see how the final Craig movie will be, according some rumors even James Bond now gets cockholded and the feminists agenda is destroying that franchise as well.
Get woke; go broke continues....
See #6 again.
@@stevecage385 Lazenby's heartbreak scene was great, but he still tried to play it Connery-suave. I think Craig puts an entirely different spin on the character.
here here . agreed
la maquina de escriir que se ve en este video don de ian fleming, escribio en su casa de veano en jamaica, goldeneyer. es una maquina portatil inglesa maquina escribir inglesa triumph TENGO EN MI COLECCION BONDIANA/FLEMING una igual...del mismo colores abajo beinge y arriba un poco mas clar...
Orson Wells is the man
Look Like You had to be Mr Atlas to Keep the Car on the Road.
You know my name.
If the word "real" in the title is to be believed then the only one we should be hearing from is Fleming. Actors who haven't done shit with their lives except read from a script are all sizzle *NO STEAK* .
Curious if Fleming was "taken out" as he was saying too much.
Ferrari called the big Bentley . The fastest lorry on the road.
He looks like David Lynch
Ian Fleming Had To Have Lived A
Life Simular To James Bond 007
To Write About Him And The
Second World War Was A Perfect
Time In His Incredible Life To Write About A Legend. Right!
Good film and story ("Casino Royale") but I couldn't stand the torture scene.
That's not David Niven!
What relation is Chris Lee to Fleming ?
+IAN PAYNE Christopher Lee was Fleming's step-cousin.
CLOSE THEN
"Chris"? Come on now..
I'd read he did it to recover from being married.
There is a new documentary on where the real person James Bond Character was based on, as well as other aspects of his life: ruclips.net/video/roAKodJ3TuM/видео.html
The problem with the Daniel Craig Casino Royale movie was that they changed the game from Baccarat to poker which only served to ruin the story, especially for folks who have read the book.