Of course, there was no end to the names he was called. This was the 70's, when the fashion for boys' shorts was brief, and we always knew when there had been some slippage when we heard screams from the adjacent girls' hockey field. It wasn't easy for him to take part in sports, but he did his best. School life was particularly hellish for him. Even everyday activities such as walking could prove difficult, while sitting down could be deadly. Unfortunately one of his gonads was tucked up nicely, while the other hung halfway towards kneesville.

Whenever I see the torture scene in CR, I'm reminded of my old school friend Tom who was born with an imbalance. It is possible to bounce back from a lifetime of pain and trauma in the testicle area.

Yet a writer can only use such extreme force on characters he's bound to kill off anyway and Faber's victim only survives seconds after giving the information.Įdited by Trident, 29 October 2007 - 04:22 PM. Extremely brutal, sickening and effective. To make him talk he stabs one eye of his adversary, threatening to take the second if he doesn't talk right away. Faber captures the guy and has only a few moments to interrogate him. His Faber realizes he's being followed by a former neighbour of his. While a frightningly horrible torture most explicitly described in the book (especially for the times), it still comes only second place IMHO to the one Ken Follet describes in 'Eye of the Needle': The film of course didn't show that amount of time Bond spent in agony. But after several weeks of painful reconvalescence he's fully functional again.

Granted, Bond's sexual abillity after this treatment is highly questionable even for Bond himself, at least in the book. It was aimed at inflicting as much pain as possible without killing. The torture wasn't aimed at severing any parts of anatomy as 'le passage de mandoline', the original torture of agents in Algeria during WWII that gave Fleming the idea for Bond's torture in 'Casino Royale'. You'd be surprised what people actually (and sometimes unfortunately ) can endure. I'm sure most men would probably be somewhat inadequate after that thrashing, yet Bond retains his prowess throughout the rest of the film series (assuming CR takes place before Dr No).Īnd had it been Vesper (Eva Green) strapped naked in a bottomless chair and tortured in that way instead, I bet her ability to make babies would've been severely impaired. In CR, with all that beating during the torture scene involving Le Chiffre, how did Bond manage to survive and remain fully functional? That must've hurt.

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