In Casino Royale, we get a rare drink order from Daniel Craig’s Bond when he ditches the standard vodka martini for a Caribbean rum called Mount Gay. There’s nothing too flashy about the order aside from it not being a martini, and you can almost miss his drink order, it’s so quick. I guess the casual atmosphere called for a more toned down drink rather than going all out with a vodka martini, shaken not stirred?
For a long time, I also missed a small piece of dialogue that follows immediately after the order. At roughly the 32:32 mark, Bond addresses the portly man who earlier mistook him for a valet and handed over his car keys. What sounds like a throwaway remark is actually the German colloquial “nabend,” a shortened form of “guten Abend,” meaning “good evening”/”evening” as Bond has clearly clocked the man as German. His reaction is humorous, as the man pauses, does a double take, and breaks into a pleased, surprised smile, in a wonderfully Bondian moment.

