nothing sinister,' all the while conveying about as sinister a tone as possible. The character later appeared in the 2008 video game Quantum of Solace, which. The villain was based on the literary character who first appeared in the 1953 Ian Fleming novel Casino Royale and was portrayed by German actor Richard Sammel in its 2006 James Bond film adaptation of the same name. As Le Chiffre says in the film, 'Weeping blood comes merely from a derangement of the tear duct. Allow me.Bond Adolph Gettler was a fictional operative of the criminal organization Quantum.
One element that definitely wasn't in Fleming's novel, however, was the villain's scarred eye and ability to cry tears of blood. In both the novel and the film, however, Le Chiffre lands himself in hot water after losing a sizable amount of his clients' money, forcing him to hold a high-stakes poker game (baccarat in the novel) where he has a chance of winning back the lost cash. In the book, Le Chiffre runs finances for various Soviet projects and activities, but was reimagined for the 2006 movie, becoming a 'private banker for the world's terrorists,' as Judi Dench's M puts it. Of course, not everything from the novel made it into the film, but for the most part, 'Royale' was about as faithful to a Fleming book as a Bond movie had ever been, right down to the antagonist, Le Chiffre, played by Mads Mikkelsen. The first Bond book in the series, 'Royale' was actually the 21st Bond movie, and saw longtime 007 producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Rather than a SMERSH assassin killing Le Chiffre, 1954’s Casino Royale has Barry Nelson’s James Bond take out the villain himself.
