There aren’t many lines from Casino Royale that linger the way quotes from earlier Bond movies do, and this one nearly qualifies. It carries clear echoes of Auric Goldfinger’s famous “No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die,” but ultimately falls short.
Le Chiffre delivers the line while torturing James Bond with his crude rope and chair device. The problem is that the brutality and graphic imagery dominate the scene and overshadows the dialogue. I distinctly remember the movie theater audience gasping at the shocking torture method, and laughing at Bond’s joke about his “balls,” but Le Chiffre’s quotes kind of get lost in the sauce.
It’s a shame really, because in a simpler or more tame scene, this line might have stood out as an all-time memorable villain quote.
