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Solange (James Bond)
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Solange Dimitrios is a fictional character from Ian Fleming
's James Bond
short story "007 in New York".
The name "Solange Dimitrios" was then used in the 2006 adaptation of Casino Royale
for the character played by Caterina Murino
. In the film, Solange is the sad and lonely wife of Alex Dimitrios, an accomplice of leading antagonist Le Chiffre.
Bond also fantasizes about meeting a girl that he would call "Solange" in the short story "From a View to a Kill".
. She is the estranged and lonely wife of antagonist Alex Dimitrios who is an enemy to Bond in Miami as he is working with Le Chiffre
.
Solange, wife of terrorist middleman Alex Dimitrios, inadvertently provides James Bond with information that allows him to stop a bomber destroying a Skyfleet prototype aircraft at Miami airport. Solange lives the life of luxury with her husband. Nevertheless, she feels that she has wasted her chance of true happiness by getting involved with the wrong men. Aware that her husband is a bad man, she knows little about how he makes his money. She has long since become weary of his bad temper and his coldness. After riding her horse along the beach front, she notices Bond emerging from the sea and is instantly attracted to him.
That evening, Solange arrives at a poker game where her husband plays against Bond. Losing, Dimitrios reacts coldly to his wife's affection. Bond soundly defeats her husband, even winning his car, a superb Aston Martin DB5. When Solange mistakenly gets into the Aston Martin, Bond invites her for a drink. Sensing a spark of humanity long absent from her life, she accepts, despite realising that Bond may be using her to get closer to her husband. At Bond's hotel room, Bond and Solange's passion is interrupted by a telephone call by Dimitrios, who tells Solange that he is flying to Miami that night. Unaware to Solange, who heads to the bathroom, Bond makes a quick exit to pursue him. When the bomb plot goes awry, Le Chiffre suspects that Solange (due to being the only other person still alive) leaked information. He has his men torture and kill her, leaving her wrapped in a hammock to be found by Bond and his boss M.
After Bond meets and purchases a dress for accountant Vesper Lynd
, he asks her to enter in a certain way so that the other players at the table will focus more on her than their own cards. This is how Solange entered at the casino in the Bahamas which struck Bond like a thunderbolt. Vesper fails to act out Bond's plan as he requests her to, and suffers more through distraction by her than his opponents do.
Ian Fleming
Ian Lancaster Fleming was a British author, journalist and Naval Intelligence Officer.Fleming is best known for creating the fictional British spy James Bond and for a series of twelve novels and nine short stories about the character, one of the biggest-selling series of fictional books of...
's James Bond
James Bond
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
short story "007 in New York".
The name "Solange Dimitrios" was then used in the 2006 adaptation of Casino Royale
Casino Royale (2006 film)
Casino Royale is the twenty-first film in the James Bond film series and the first to star Daniel Craig as fictional MI6 agent James Bond...
for the character played by Caterina Murino
Caterina Murino
-Biography:She was born in Cagliari, Sardinia, and initially wanted to be a doctor, but switched career paths to pageantry after twice failing the medical school entrance exams. She came fourth in the 1996 Miss Italy contest...
. In the film, Solange is the sad and lonely wife of Alex Dimitrios, an accomplice of leading antagonist Le Chiffre.
Short story biography
Due to its brief length, the original "007 in New York" short story reveals next to nothing about Solange's background, other than her relationship with Bond.Bond also fantasizes about meeting a girl that he would call "Solange" in the short story "From a View to a Kill".
Film biography
Solange Dimitrios is the first Bond girl in the 2006 film adaptation Casino RoyaleCasino Royale (2006 film)
Casino Royale is the twenty-first film in the James Bond film series and the first to star Daniel Craig as fictional MI6 agent James Bond...
. She is the estranged and lonely wife of antagonist Alex Dimitrios who is an enemy to Bond in Miami as he is working with Le Chiffre
Le Chiffre
Le Chiffre is a fictional character and the main antagonist in Ian Fleming's James Bond novel Casino Royale. On screen Le Chiffre has been portrayed by Peter Lorre in the 1954 television adaptation of the novel for CBS's Climax! television series, by Orson Welles in the 1967 spoof of the novel and...
.
Solange, wife of terrorist middleman Alex Dimitrios, inadvertently provides James Bond with information that allows him to stop a bomber destroying a Skyfleet prototype aircraft at Miami airport. Solange lives the life of luxury with her husband. Nevertheless, she feels that she has wasted her chance of true happiness by getting involved with the wrong men. Aware that her husband is a bad man, she knows little about how he makes his money. She has long since become weary of his bad temper and his coldness. After riding her horse along the beach front, she notices Bond emerging from the sea and is instantly attracted to him.
That evening, Solange arrives at a poker game where her husband plays against Bond. Losing, Dimitrios reacts coldly to his wife's affection. Bond soundly defeats her husband, even winning his car, a superb Aston Martin DB5. When Solange mistakenly gets into the Aston Martin, Bond invites her for a drink. Sensing a spark of humanity long absent from her life, she accepts, despite realising that Bond may be using her to get closer to her husband. At Bond's hotel room, Bond and Solange's passion is interrupted by a telephone call by Dimitrios, who tells Solange that he is flying to Miami that night. Unaware to Solange, who heads to the bathroom, Bond makes a quick exit to pursue him. When the bomb plot goes awry, Le Chiffre suspects that Solange (due to being the only other person still alive) leaked information. He has his men torture and kill her, leaving her wrapped in a hammock to be found by Bond and his boss M.
After Bond meets and purchases a dress for accountant Vesper Lynd
Vesper Lynd
Vesper Lynd is a fictional character featured in Ian Fleming's James Bond novel Casino Royale. The name is a pun on "West Berlin". It has been claimed that Fleming based Lynd on the real life Special Operations Executive agent Christine Granville. In the 1967 film of Casino Royale, she is played by...
, he asks her to enter in a certain way so that the other players at the table will focus more on her than their own cards. This is how Solange entered at the casino in the Bahamas which struck Bond like a thunderbolt. Vesper fails to act out Bond's plan as he requests her to, and suffers more through distraction by her than his opponents do.