Snakes on Film

Nitpicking Snakes’ Appearances in Movies and on Television

Casino Royale

Year: 2006
Format: Movie
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Categories: Holy Crap, It’s Real!, My Snake Will Kill You Now, Mr. Bond
Posted on January 27, 2009

Casino Royale

The Madagascar portion of Casino Royale opens with a crowd betting on a staged cobra-vs.-mongoose fight. Trouble is, there are no cobras in Madagascar — and such staged fights are more an Indian thing, anyway. The snake itself is hard for me to identify, since I’m not a cobra specialist, but my best guess is that it’s an Indian Cobra (Naja naja). In any event, nice to see the snake win, for a change.

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Animation and Animatronics Computer graphics and animatronic puppets do what real snakes can’t. (10)
Biological Impossibilities What this film shows, snakes just can’t do. (9)
Children’s Programming Brought to you by the letter S. (3)
Help! It’s Harmless! Harmless snakes used as stand-ins for their deadly counterparts. (9)
Holy Crap, It’s Real! I can’t believe they used the real thing. (7)
It Came from IKEA Your giant toy snake is utterly realistic. (3)
It’s Just a Cartoon Snakes can’t talk. But you know what? Neither can any other animal. (1)
It’s Just a Snake, Dr. Jones Indiana Jones is a big pussy. (5)
My Snake Will Kill You Now, Mr. Bond Snakes can’t stand bad acting. That’s why they’re always trying to kill Roger Moore. (4)
No Freudian Implications Here, No Sir Sometimes a snake is just a snake. Not here, though. (2)
Old World, New World What are South American snakes doing in medieval Europe? (5)
Pet Store Stand-ins You’ve seen it on the big screen, now buy it at the local pet store. (10)
Snakesploitation Movies Giant snakes, gratuitous nudity. Ain’t life grand? (3)

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