What James Bonds Quantum of Solace Title Really Means

What James Bond’s Quantum of Solace Title Really Means

The title of Daniel Craig’s second James Bond movie was widely ridiculed but it has a deeper meaning derived from an Ian Fleming 007 short story.

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What James Bonds Quantum of Solace Title Really Means

Quantum of Solace is one of the strangest James Bond titles and the film doesn’t explain it, but it has a deeper significance derived from the themes found in the original short story by 007’s creator, Ian Fleming. Directed by Marc Forster, Quantum of Solace was released in 2008 and it was Daniel Craig’s second outing as James Bond. The film also starred Olga Kurylenko and Gemma Arterton as Bond Girls Camille Montes and Strawberry Fields, respectively, Mathieu Amalric as the villainous Dominic Greene, and Judi Dench as M. Quantum of Solace also introduced the criminal organization called Quantum into the Craig 007 canon.

The film is a direct continuation of Casino Royale, which begins with James Bond on the run after wounding and capturing Mr. White (Jesper Christensen), an agent of Quantum. After Mr. White escapes, revealing that Quantum has a double agent within MI6, Bond follows the trail to Bolivia, where he discovers Dominic Greene involved in an insidious land deal with the Bolivian government. Greene is also an agent of Quantum, and Bond teams up with Camille to stop his scheme. But it’s the final moments of the film that truly tie into the film’s unusual title: 007, who is still coping with the betrayal of his dead love, Vesper Lynd (Eva Green), finds her ex-lover, Yusef Kabira (Simon Kassianides), in Kazan, Russia. Yusef is another Quantum agent who seduces women with valuable connections – like Vesper. Bond tells Kabria’s latest target, a Canadian intelligence agent named Corrine Veneau (Stana Katic), who Yusef really is, sparing her Vesper’s fate. As MI6 arrests Kabria, Bond leaves behind Vesper’s necklace in the snow, along with his grief and anger over her.

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The Quantum of Solace film doesn’t adapt any of the details from Ian Fleming’s short story, which was published in Cosmopolitan in 1959 before being included in a collection of short stories titled For Your Eyes Only in 1960. In Fleming’s tale, a bored James Bond is at a dinner party in Nassau and is regaled with a tragic tale by the governor. It involves a British government employee named Phillip Masters who fell in love with and married a stewardess named Rhonda Llewellyn. After moving to Nassau, Rhonda begins an open affair with a golf pro. The humiliated Masters suffers a nervous breakdown and is sent by the government to London to recuperate. When Phillip returns, he privately ends their marriage and even divides their home in half. In public, Masters and Rhonda still posed as a happy couple but in private, he never spoke to her or treated her with any humanity. Finally, Masters left Nassau, leaving Rhonda behind destitute. However, Rhonda was saved; she married a wealthy Canadian and, it turns out, she was a guest at the dinner party that Bond attended. 007 found the story more interesting than the mission he had just completed.

The point of the short story, as the governor explained to 007, is that “When the “Quantum of Solace” drops to zero, humanity and consideration of one human for another is gone and the relationship is finished.” The true meaning of “Quantum of Solace” relates the minimum amount of compassion and decency a human can show for another. In the story, Masters was so wounded by his wife’s callous infidelity, he responded with pure inhumanity towards Rhonda before severing all ties with her completely and leaving her with nothing (as he felt she did to him). But it was the mercy shown by her second husband, the wealthy Canadian, that saved her.

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This ties back to James Bond and Vesper Lynd; 007 opened himself up to Vesper in a way he never did before to anyone, but she betrayed him in Casino Royale. But in Quantum of Solace, Bond learned that Vesper herself was being used by Yusef and by Quantum, which diffused his loathing for Vesper and made him realize she was a victim as well. Saving the Canadian agent (a nod to the man who rescued Rhonda), was Bond’s way of saving Vesper after the fact. By the end of the film, the Quantum of Solace Bond felt for Vesper had been replaced by forgiveness. He left behind her necklace – symbolically leaving Vesper behind as well – and Bond moved on with his life. Quantum of Solace was widely ridiculed when it was announced as the title of Daniel Craig’s second James Bond film but it has an interesting meaning once its context is fully understood.

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