 SPOILER: Third consecutive James Bond movie in the series where  James Bond is tortured. In _World Is Not Enough, The (1999)_ (qv),  he was tortured in a chair with tightening screws. The previous Bond  movie _Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)_ (qv) featured chakra torture  devices but Bond was not actually tortured. In  _Die Another Day (2002)_ (qv) he was tortured during the opening  scenes whilst in a Korean prison and in this film he is tortured by  Le Chiffre adapted from the classic sequence in the original  Ian Fleming (I) (qv) novel where Le Chiffre tortures Bond by  striking his testicles with a carpet beater. In the film Le Chiffre  uses a knotted rope.