Macau was handed back to China in 1999, and was the last remaining European colony in China. At first it was administered by the Portuguese under Chinese authority but in 1887 they established it as a colony under the Portuguese empire. The Portuguese settled in Macau in the mid 16th century and rented it from the Chinese empire as a trading port.

The real skyline of Macau and one of the three bridges that connects the Macau peninsula with Taipa On both occasions Bond is also visiting a floating casino. In both films Bond is following the lead of an assassin to Macau, the first of course being Scaramanga and now Patrice in Skyfall. For decades Macau has been heavily dependent on the casino business and the revenue is higher than the revenue from entire Las Vegas.Ĭelebrating the 50th anniversary of Bond on the big screen, Skyfall is filled with references from Bond's past, and the location of Macau is undoubtedly a reference to The man with the golden gun, in which Bond visits the then Portuguese colony for the first time. Like Hong Kong, Macau is a Special Administrative Region of China, but until 1999 it was a Portuguese colony and gambling was made legal under Portuguese rule. This portrayal as an old Chinese city is highly inaccurate since Macau in reality is Asia's response to Las Vegas with grand casinos and neon lights. In the establishing shot over Macau and in the following scenes the filmmakers make it look like something from the time of the opium war. Bond goes to the casino in Macau to cash the chip, hoping to come across Severine's employer. The case has supposedly been handed to Patrice by Severine at the Shanghai airport, but this scene was cut from the finished film. This is the payment for the murder he has committed in Shanghai just before Bond throws him out the window.

After killing him off in Shanghai, Bond finds a casino chip in Patrice's case, from the Floating Dragon Casino in Macau.

In Skyfall, Bond follows the lead from Patrice (our Swedish pride Ola Rapace) to China.

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