It is implied by M that he profited from the September 11 terrorist attacks. He works for a mysterious group called Quantum, and finances terrorist groups by buying company stocks with his client's money and forcing stock market shifts through terrorist acts. In the 2006 film, Le Chiffre is Albanian by birth (though officially stateless), and his one notable physical feature was a defective tear duct, which causes him to cry blood. In the novel, he is the paymaster of a French trade union secretly controlled by the Soviet agency SMERSH. Ian Fleming based the character on Aleister Crowley. His alias is French for 'The Cipher' or 'The Number'. Le Chiffre is the main antagonist of Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel, Casino Royale, and all of its adaptations. ~ Le Chiffre's most famous quote as he tortures James Bond. The only question remains: will you yield, in time? And of course, it's not only the immediate agony, but the knowledge that if you do not yield soon enough, there will be little left to identify you as a man. It's the simplest thing to cause more pain than a man can possibly endure. Le Chiffre's Jaguar XJR from the same generation and Ms slightly older X350 Jaguar XJ in Spectre will be presented on different pages.You know, I never understood all these elaborate tortures. Several others are parked in the background nearly everywhere in the Bahamas and Montenegro scenes, as Jaguar provided many vehicles for the film. A grey one is damaged on the parking lot, while another black one hits Bond after he gets poisoned. There are actually a lot of these cars seen in this movie, but it is not confirmed if these are XJ8 models, too. His badly faked Italian licence plate reads '7843 BB'.

White uses this Jaguar when arriving at his lakeside estate in Italy. White in the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale is a brand new 2006 only model, as it has the updated side profile of the 2006 model year, although it is not a 2007 facelift model. Although the XJ family exists since 1968, the designation 'XJ8' for eight cylinder models was first introduced with the X350's predecessor, the X308, which debuted in late 1997.įor the 2010 model year, the new X351 was introduced. It is a member of the Jaguar XJ family, belonging to the X350 generation, which was built between 20. The Jaguar XJ8 is a Full-size luxury car built by British manufacturer Jaguar.

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