Casino Royale themes in the book and film

The book and the film themes focus on greed, corruption and control or power and these two themes goes hand- in-hand in the movie and the book. With greed we see how quickly you can lose the money that you gain over gambling, just as the saying “easy coming, easy go.” And we see a Le Chiffre winning the money at the beginning, then Bond wins it over and Vesper steals the money that Bond won from him and the Secret Service Company by being a spy for the Russians. Greed in this story also goes along with killing and corruption that characters like Bond and Le Chiffre commit in order to gain power and win in the money at stakes. The message from the plot is that the money that you gain fast it, you can also lose it easily and fast.  And you can only own that money for a short term because everyone else wants it; you also have fight for it constantly to protect yourself from your enemies. This easy money also comes with a short life as we see most of the people die a lot and early just because the people that are involved in the game are all fighting to win and paying revenge.

Casino Royale also focuses a little bit on betrayal which I think also is part of being greedy. For example in the plot we  see Vesper betraying both Bond and the Secret Service company she was working for by not transforming the money that Bond won in gambling to the company they work for. At the beginning of the movie, we also see Dimitrios being betrayed by his wife who revealed his travelling plans to Miami to Bond.

Overall, the book and the movie have the same themes even though the movie has added some scenes at the beginning. The changes that were made helped with developing some of the characters and their storylines. The changes in the book and the film are a result of the time differences and lifestyles of the different times when the book was written and the movie was created.