Bond’s attire and actions conform to the demands of the scene rather than being staged for the sequence itself. As a result, the blank background is replaced with a white-tiled wall inside the bathroom in which the scene takes place. Bond, now framed inside the grooved gun barrel, spins around to outshoot the assassin with a fatal round.īond’s first kill in Casino Royale marks the first time James Bond's gun barrel is incorporated into the film’s plot instead of serving as a standalone sequence. As he stops to pick up his gun off the floor, his victim recovers and raises a gun of his own to shoot Bond in the back.
During a black-and-white flashback, Bond commits what he believes to be his first kill on his way to becoming a Double-O agent. The 21st James Bond film, Casino Royale, starts with a cold open rather than the blinking white circle, opting instead to incorporate the gun barrel sequence into the movie’s plot.
