20 Easter Eggs You Somehow Missed In Quantum Of Solace
"I told you what you wanted to know about Quantum". This list tells you even more!
Quantum of Solace, the 2008 sequel to Casino Royale (2006) starring Daniel Craig as James Bond, Double-0 Seven still attracts mixed reviews. Some viewers believe that it is a fantastic sequel to Craig's debut as Bond, whilst most despise the film. However, both camps generally tend to agree that the frenetic editing of the film is one of the areas that let it down significantly, so much so that there are plenty of moments in the film that can very easily be missed in it.
Readers who have seen the film will, of course, remember the rather tacked on reference to the demise of Shirley Eaton's Jill Masterson in 1964's Goldfinger that appears around three-quarters of the way through the film and a lot has also been made of Paul Ritter's Guy Haines having been named after Farley Granger's character from Strangers on a Train (1951). Although there are other, far more subtle Easter eggs woven into the film, not unlike those that featured in the 2002 James Bond outing, Die Another Day.
This list explores 20 of the more effective film references that feature in the 22nd official James Bond film.
20. This Is Business
Fans often debate the Bond Girl status of Olga Kurylenko's Camille Montes Rivero, as she barely even falls for the charms of Daniel Craig's James Bond.
As Craig himself noted, it would have been unrealistic for Bond to sleep with virtually every woman he meets in this film as he is trying to avenge the death of his lover, Eva Green's Vesper Lynd; indeed, he only seduces Gemma Arterton's Strawberry Fields to avoid being forced to return to London.
Likewise, Camille only sleeps with Mathieu Amalric's Dominic Greene so that she can get closer to the man who murdered her family: General Medrano (Joaquín Cosio). Even though Bond and Camille joke about using sex to accomplish their mission objectives, they do not sleep together and their relationship gradually develops into one of mutual respect.
This is similar to the working relationship that Sean Connery's James Bond had with Japanese Secret Service operative, Kissy Suzuki (Mie Hama) in 1967's You Only Live Twice. Kissy repeatedly rebuffed Bond's advances and, despite briefly falling into his arms on the slopes of a volcano, she only really caved in to his charms in a rubber dinghy at the end of the mission.
The fact that Camille shares a brief kiss with Bond at the end of the film and they then immediately go their separate ways helps to demonstrate the mutual respect that they have for each other in perhaps the most adult of all of Bond's onscreen relationships.