Quantum Of Solace
There have been a number of comments in the media regarding the title for the next James Bond film, and not understanding its meaning. However, it seems to be rather lazy journalism because the answer can be found in a collection of James Bond short stories.
Quantum of Solace is the title of a story published in For Your Eyes Only in which James Bond plays a very small part. Bond is attending a dinner party hosted by the Governor for The Bahamas at the end of a week in Nassau before leaving for Miami, in which he feels completely out of place. Once the other guests have left, Bond and the Governor and make small talk to pass the hour or so before Bond feels he can also depart. When he makes a remark about wanting to marry an air hostess, the Governor proceeds to tell a story that he says Bond may find interesting.
Quantum of Solace is one of the all time best of the James Bond films in that it refreshingly takes some chances by breaking away from the usually staid political mold of the James Bond universe and virtually apologizes in some places for MI6 and CIA working with villains and carrying out villainous deeds and explains some of the distasteful. Quantum of Solace is one of the all time best of the James Bond films in that it refreshingly takes some chances by breaking away from the usually staid political mold of the James Bond universe and virtually apologizes in some places for MI6 and CIA working with villains and carrying out villainous deeds and explains some of the distasteful business of these agencies as a necessity of statecraft. Quantum of Solace is one of the all time best of the James Bond films in that it refreshingly takes some chances by breaking away from the usually staid political mold of the James Bond universe and virtually apologizes in some places for MI6 and CIA working with villains and carrying out villainous deeds and explains some of the distasteful.
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The Governor’s story is about a man who meets and marries an air hostess after meeting her on a flight. However, after a posting to Bermuda their marriage began to unravel and when he finally leaves his wife, he makes sure he does everything possible to destroy her life. The story ends with the Governor telling Bond that a relationship “can survive anything so long as some kind of basic humanity exists between the two people” and that all kinds of obstacles can be overcome in a relationship, but not “the death of common humanity in one of the partners”.
He rather pretentiously calls this the “Quantum of Solace” – or as Bond explains it – “the amount of comfort… When the other person not only makes you feel insecure but actually seems to want to destroy you, it’s obviously the end. The Quantum of Solace stands at zero.”
- Bond infiltrates Quantum's meeting at the opera, stealing one of the member's earpieces, and listens in on their conversation which concerns their sinister business dealings around the world. Bond, announcing that Quantum should probably 'find a more secure place to meet', tricks them all into standing up to leave so he can take photos of them.
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The Governor then reveals that the wife had been one of the dinner party guests.
Quantum of Solace was first published in 1960 and seems to be a comment on the state of Ian Fleming’s marriage at the time, although according to Andrew Lycett’s excellent biography of Fleming, it was based on a true story he’d heard in Jamaica.
Since the film will be picking up an hour after Casino Royale ends, in which the love of 007’s life is not only dead but revealed to be a traitor, make your own conclusions as to what the title means.
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