20 Easter Eggs You Somehow Missed In Quantum Of Solace

6. Dominic "Gustav Graves" Greene

Quantum Of Solace Easter Eggs
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In Die Another Day (2002), there are hints that Toby Stephens's Sir Gustav Graves is a green billionaire, devoted to cleaning up the world using the fortune that he has accumulated from supposedly mining diamonds in Iceland.

These references were far more explicit in that film's original screenplay, particularly in a scene where Graves appeared in a pre-recorded welcome message to introduce guests at his ice palace to his lavish living quarters: a veritable jungle built around his Icelandic diamond mine. This sequence was cut from the film, but appeared in Raymond Benson's novelisation of the film.

In Quantum of Solace, Dominic Greene also ostensibly operates as an environmentally friendly philanthropist, even holding a party in La Paz, Bolivia to encourage potential donators to sign up to his worthy cause: a system of eco-parks that is secretly a front for a terrorist organisation, Quantum.

Greene's environmental message (however dishonest he may be) is far more pronounced than Graves's was in the final version of Die Another Day. It should also be noted that the composer on both films, David Arnold devised a theme for Greene that is musically very similar to that he wrote for Graves in Die Another Day.

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