Le Chiffre's real name - Jean Duran?

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Le Chiffre's real name - Jean Duran?

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  • richmenstoysrichmenstoys GermanyPosts: 1,482MI6 Agent
    is your real name Denis? :))
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  • Dirty PunkerDirty Punker ...Your Eyes Only, darling."Posts: 2,587MI6 Agent
    An Albanian with a name more suited for a Frenchman?

    What's next, Blofeld is Bond's brother?
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  • JB007fanJB007fan Posts: 16MI6 Agent
    edited March 2018
    Sorry, what? Who's Denis?
    richmenstoys wrote:
    is your real name Denis? :))
  • JB007fanJB007fan Posts: 16MI6 Agent
    Wikipedia: "Le Chiffre is the main villain of the official 2006 James Bond film, Casino Royale, portrayed by Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen. Believed by MI6 to be Albanian and officially stateless, Le Chiffre is a financier of international terrorism. M implies that Le Chiffre conspired with al-Qaeda in orchestrating 9/11, or at least deliberately profiteering from the attacks by short selling large quantities of airline stocks beforehand. In the video game version of Quantum of Solace, it is said that his birth name is "Jean Duran", in the MI6 mission briefings."
    Dirty Punker wrote:
    An Albanian with a name more suited for a Frenchman?

    What's next, Blofeld is Bond's brother?
  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 9,329MI6 Agent
    I heard his real name was Duran Duran but he later changed it by deed poll to Le Chiffre, for obvious enough reasons. :D
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  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 9,329MI6 Agent
    JB007fan wrote:
    Sorry, what? Who's Denis?
    richmenstoys wrote:
    is your real name Denis? :))

    He was Margaret Thatcher's husband. You may have seen him briefly at the end of FYEO (1981).
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • walther p99walther p99 NJPosts: 3,416MI6 Agent
    richmenstoys wrote:
    is your real name Denis? :))
    I thought the same thing :))
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  • richmenstoysrichmenstoys GermanyPosts: 1,482MI6 Agent
    :)) :)) :)) -{
    walther p99 wrote:
    richmenstoys wrote:
    is your real name Denis? :))
    I thought the same thing :))
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  • caractacus pottscaractacus potts Orbital communicator, level 10Posts: 4,167MI6 Agent
    Some here do accept the video games as canonical.
    I just go by the books, and in the beginning M reads a dossier which states
    ...Monsieur Le Chiffre (alias 'The Number', 'Herr Nummer', 'Herr Ziffer', etc.)...
    Maybe Le is short for something, like Leonard or Lester. or Lesley. He probably got teased for having a girl's name, so he shortened it to Le as an affectation, to make it sound more hip-hop, like "whussup Le Chiffre bro, where's them brothel moneys youse owes us?"
  • JB007fanJB007fan Posts: 16MI6 Agent
    :s ?:) :#
    richmenstoys wrote:
    :)) :)) :)) -{
    walther p99 wrote:
    richmenstoys wrote:
    is your real name Denis? :))
    I thought the same thing :))
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    caractacus potts wrote:
    Maybe Le is short for something, like Leonard or Lester. or Lesley. He probably got teased for having a girl's name, so he shortened it to Le as an affectation, to make it sound more hip-hop, like "whussup Le Chiffre bro, where's them brothel moneys youse owes us?"

    My french is rusty, but "Le" means "The" and "Chiffre" means "Number" in french, so I doubt that the "Le" in the name is an abbrevation like you guess ;)
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  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 9,329MI6 Agent
    Higgins wrote:
    caractacus potts wrote:
    Maybe Le is short for something, like Leonard or Lester. or Lesley. He probably got teased for having a girl's name, so he shortened it to Le as an affectation, to make it sound more hip-hop, like "whussup Le Chiffre bro, where's them brothel moneys youse owes us?"

    My french is rusty, but "Le" means "The" and "Chiffre" means "Number" in french, so I doubt that the "Le" in the name is an abbrevation like you guess ;)

    Exactly, Higgins, and your French is fine my friend. If the OP really wants to know the origins of Le Chiffre as a name might I politely suggest that he look to the 1953 source novel, upon which the 2006 film version was based, which contains a Dossier for the destruction of M. Le Chiffre.
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • Dirty PunkerDirty Punker ...Your Eyes Only, darling."Posts: 2,587MI6 Agent
    Silhouette Man wrote:
    Higgins wrote:
    caractacus potts wrote:
    Maybe Le is short for something, like Leonard or Lester. or Lesley. He probably got teased for having a girl's name, so he shortened it to Le as an affectation, to make it sound more hip-hop, like "whussup Le Chiffre bro, where's them brothel moneys youse owes us?"

    My french is rusty, but "Le" means "The" and "Chiffre" means "Number" in french, so I doubt that the "Le" in the name is an abbrevation like you guess ;)

    Exactly, Higgins, and your French is fine my friend. If the OP really wants to know the origins of Le Chiffre as a name might I politely suggest that he look to the 1953 source novel, upon which the 2006 film version was based, which contains a Dossier for the destruction of M. Le Chiffre.
    And... in brief (if I remember correctly), he's just a cypher, a number on a passport.
    Name never revealed.
    a reasonable rate of return
  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 9,329MI6 Agent
    Dirty Punker wrote:
    Silhouette Man wrote:
    Higgins wrote:

    My french is rusty, but "Le" means "The" and "Chiffre" means "Number" in french, so I doubt that the "Le" in the name is an abbrevation like you guess ;)

    Exactly, Higgins, and your French is fine my friend. If the OP really wants to know the origins of Le Chiffre as a name might I politely suggest that he look to the 1953 source novel, upon which the 2006 film version was based, which contains a Dossier for the destruction of M. Le Chiffre.
    And... in brief (if I remember correctly), he's just a cypher, a number on a passport.
    Name never revealed.

    Correct, he was a displaced person after WWII and claiming that he had amnesia, couldn't remember his name but took on the name Le Chiffre as he was only a number on a passport.
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
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