In contrast, Blomkvist is completely powerless.
After all, Le Chiffre threatens that when he is done, there will be “little left to identify Bond as a man.” Bond even mocks the absurdity of the torture, boasting, “Now, the whole world’s gonna know that you died scratching my balls!”Įven incapacitated, Bond is in some control of the situation. However, even in Casino Royale, the torture is tied to Bond’s masculinity. The sequence does invite comparisons to the torture scene in Casino Royale, where Bond is stripped naked and threatened with castration by the villainous Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen).
