Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric)
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Dominic Greene played by Mathieu Amalric
Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France on 25th October 1965
Starred In Quantum of Solace (2008)
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After killing Edmund Slate in Haiti, Bond is told to get into the car of Camille Montes, who thinks he is Slate. After some identity confusion, and dealing with the Haitian Motorbike Rider, Bond tracks Camille to her meeting with Greene.
Greene meets with General Medrano where they discuss a deal to overthrow the Bolivian government and make the General president. In return Greene only wants the ownership rights of a small piece of land in the desert. Thinking that Greene is looking for oil, and knowing that others have looked and not found any, he agrees. After the failure of Slate to kill Camille, Greene hands her over to the General to 'sweeten' their deal, with the proviso that when he has finished with her, she is dropped over the side.
Greene and his second in command Elvis board a private jet on route to Austria, where he meets with CIA agents Gregg Beam and Felix Leiter. He arranges with Beam a deal where they get oil found in the Bolivian desert in exchange for not interfering with a planned coup to overthrow the government. Like General Medrano, Beam thinks this is a good deal and agrees.
Upon arrival in Austria, Greene attends a performance of Tosca. This acts as a meeting point for a number of Quantum agents, including Mr White who had escaped from M and Bonds custody earlier. Bond tracks Greene to the performance, and disables a Quantum agent to gain the earpiece the other members are using to communicate. After making Quantum aware of his presence, a number of them foolishly stand up and leave, attracting attention to themselves, and allowing Bond to identify them. Greene is not impressed, and leaves Bond to deal with other agents as he makes a quick exit.
Later in the film Greene is seen hosting an fund raising party for his ecological business. However Camille shows up again and after disclosing some rather damaging information about Greene's activities to some influential guests, she manages to cost him a number of large donations. Greene takes her to one side and since she has been drinking, attempts to push her off a balcony, knowing that it would look like she slipped. However Bond manages to enter and save Camille once again. As they walk down the stairs, Greene sends Elvis to follow them, but Strawberry Fields manages to trip up Elvis, sending him tumbling down the stairs allowing Bond and Camille to leave.
When Bond and Camille eventually arrive back at their hotel after checking out Greene’s Tierra Project in the desert, Bond finds Strawberry Fields dead on his bed, covered in oil and within her stomach, courtesy of Greene. With intelligence as to where he is finalising his deal from Felix Leiter, Bond and Camille head out to the Hotel Perla de las Dunas to intercept them.
Greene arrives at the hotel and pays off the double-crossing colonel of police. Before finishing his deal with General Medrano, he signs ownership of the worthless piece of desert to Greene. It is only then that he reveals his true agenda all along. The General gets a shock when Greene tells him that he now controls 60% of the Bolivian water supply and forces him to sign a new, much more expensive agreement with his company. Initially he refuses to sign, but after Greene tells him what happened to the previous president who refused, the General very reluctantly signs.
Bond manages to gain access to the hotel and kills the Colonel, which starts off a chain reaction with the facilities hydrogen storage tanks. As Bond nears Greene’s position, he hears the gunshots and tells Elvis to stand his ground and take Bond out. The exploding tanks then tear through the room, incinerating Elvis, barely missing a fleeing Greene. Bond makes pursuit, and the pair then fight on the gangways of the hotel as it explodes around them.
Eventually Bond manages to gain the upper hand and holds Greene suspended by the hair over the flames below. When they hear a gunshot, Greene delights in telling Bond that the General has killed Camille. Dropping Greene, Bond makes his way to the Generals quarters, pleased to see that it was in fact Camille who shot the General, getting her revenge. As they leave the hotel, they capture an injured Greene making his escape. Bond leaves him in the middle of the desert, with just a can of motor oil for company. Later M tells Bond that Greene was found in the middle of the desert with engine oil in his stomach and two bullets in his skull.
About
Dominic Greene is a senior member of the Quantum organisation who runs the Greene Planet group. A supposed ecological company buying up areas of land for conservation and ecological preservation, Greene Planet is actually just a front for various criminal activities, transactions and creating political instability. His services have already been employed in Haiti, when a new locally elected priest decided to raise the minimum wage. This angered the corporations using the cheap workforce to make running shoes and clothes, and so Greene was brought in facilitate a more suitable replacement.
A cunning and devious man, Greene is easily able to manipulate anyone and any situation, such as General Medrano, Gregg Beam, Camille and even his cousin Elvis to an extent. Apart from the occasional show of anger to Camille in Haiti and later when Bond infiltrates the Quantum meeting, he is a cool, calm and collected character who is always stylishly dressed.
Greene does have issues however, and doesn't like friends talking about him behind his back. He tells Camille that when he was 15 he had a crush on one of his mothers piano students. Overhearing her saying nasty comments about her, he took an iron to her. He has no distinguishing marks of any kind, allowing his character to symbolise the hidden evils in current society. §
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