Hugo DraxLeeds, United Kingdom.Posts: 210MI6 Agent
All films contain mistakes I know. But here are three I found from OP, FYEO and TB. I apologise if these mistakes have already been detected and posted in this thread.
OP- When Miss Magda wakes up after her night with Bond it is dawn outside but when Bond looks at his watch it says 10.12am. Maybe the sun rises at this time in somewhere like Alaska in winter but not in India.
FYEO- When Bond presents his report to the Defence Minister the latter replies "I don't follow" when Bond points out that the man he saw paying Gonzalez gives them a lead. Is the Minister slow or something?
TB- When Blofeld's voice is heard on tape he says a container will be dropped at latitude N20 longitude E60 in the Mergui Archepalego off the coast of Burma (Myanmar). But the stated reference point is nowhere near the Mergui Archepalego or Burma (Myanmar)
I noticed a rather silly oversight in Licence To Kill recently. It occurs in the Pre-Title Sequence when Bond has hooked up the Helicopter cable to the tail of Sanchez's aircraft.
Once Bond has tied the cable to the plane, the more distant shot with the Stunt man quite clearly shows the plane dropping to a vertical position, forcing "Bond" to grip onto the side.
However, when scene shoots into a close up of Timothy Dalton and obviously a mock up of the plane, it is almost completly horizontal with Dalton standing quite freely on top of it.
Quoting Dortmunder:Octopussy- When Bond is riding in the back of Carina’s truck and the driver of the other truck looks at her, and when it shows a shot of Carina, the driver is wearing a helmet and has no beard, but when the camera shoots back at the driver from head on, he is wearing a hat and has a beard.
Dunno if it's a mistake or not, but Bond clearly says "Gracias, Carina" but she has been credited ever since as Bianca.
Doh! Just to correct one of my own, and anyone else who reckons Bond mentions the OP PTS girl's name as Carina...
He actually says "Gracias, querida!" which means "Thank you, dear!" in Spanish.
Quoting Tracy:
-Hercules: a) if it's supposed to be a Russian plane, then why are the switches labeled in English?
b) it moves too slowly to actually take off
c) switches between a 2 propeller and 4 propeller plane
I could be mistaken but I'm sure the switches are labelled in English and Cyrillic. But as English is the international language of the air (except in France, but we won't go there ) all signs must be in English as well as in local languages. Similarly Air Traffic Control chatter will all be in English no matter where in the world.
However, the Hercules does not move too slowly to take off, it is a Short Take Off and Landing transport aircraft, reknowned for it's excellent performance on short airstrips (during development it landed and took off unaided from a US aircraft carrier).
The aerial fight between Bond and Necros wasn't filmed on a Hercules though. The Herc is 4 engined, the aircraft used in that sequence was a twin-engined Alenia G222.
I'll go back to wearing my anorak and eating jam butties now.
Goldeneye: General Ourumov empties Bond's PPK after shooting Defense Minister Mishkin, but doesn't empty the round in the chamber before throwing the gun back to Bond.
I rewatched GF yesterday and I noticed the following.
When Bond is chasing Tilly Masterson's Ford Mustang in Switzerland you can alternatively see outside views of the cars and closeup shots of Bond driving.
In the outside shots you can see that both cars are driving alongside a ravine. In the closeup shots you can see through the right window that Bond has a railway line on his right. This is the railway line by which both cars stop at the end of the sequence, and you don't see it in the previous outside shots.
I don't know hom many times I watched GF before but it's the first time I noticed this.
Might have been said before...
NSNA:
At Palmyra, when the guard goes into bond's cell and finds the bars cut and bent out of place, and bond gone, his AK variant is pretty much useless.
There's no magazine.
Quoting Tiger:
In The Man With the Golden Gun when J.W. Peppers wife wants to buy one of those cute little elephants, Pepper reply's by saying, "Elephants! Thems Democrats Maybel." An elephant is the symbol of the republican party, while the donkey is the symbol of the democratic party.
That is untrue..I watched it last night w/ captions on he says "Elephants We is Democrats Mabel"....not thems democrats...JW and his wife were Democrats!
In LTK: At the end of the bar-room brawl, Pam Bouvier fires a shotgun into the wall. It makes a perfect circle. But shotguns fire little metal pebbles called buckshot, which spread out for maximum wounding effect. Therefore, I don't think a shotgun would make a perfect circle when fired.
Quoting bobfagent 004:
In LTK: At the end of the bar-room brawl, Pam Bouvier fires a shotgun into the wall. It makes a perfect circle. But shotguns fire little metal pebbles called buckshot, which spread out for maximum wounding effect. Therefore, I don't think a shotgun would make a perfect circle when fired.
I don't know if this is a mistake. My knowledge into weapons isn't that extensive (far from it), but I think that it depends on what you load the shotgun with. You could load it with 'buckshot', but also I think that you could load it with a single piece of ammunition that shoots out. I could be wrong though.
Quoting Dortmunder: Quoting bobfagent 004:
In LTK: At the end of the bar-room brawl, Pam Bouvier fires a shotgun into the wall. It makes a perfect circle. But shotguns fire little metal pebbles called buckshot, which spread out for maximum wounding effect. Therefore, I don't think a shotgun would make a perfect circle when fired.
I don't know if this is a mistake. My knowledge into weapons isn't that extensive (far from it), but I think that it depends on what you load the shotgun with. You could load it with 'buckshot', but also I think that you could load it with a single piece of ammunition that shoots out. I could be wrong though.
YOLT :
After the car chase ("Just a drop in the ocean") Bond talks with Tanaka via the on-board TV in the back of the car while they are driving to Kobe.
During the shots of Bond looking back, you can see the road is turning twice (first to the left and then to the right if my memory serves me well) but Aki is not turning the wheel, she stays completely still.
In Goldeneye, M says that the Soviets do not have the technology to build the satellite. However, the Americans did something similar in the 70's, so why couldn't the Ruskies do it in the 80's? And she even pronounced Soviet wrong.
Scanned 'Mistakes' & 'Bond Blooper' threads but didn't find this one...so is it? Am I missing something obvious?
FRWL - Red Grant is gonna set up the killing of Bond & the Russian Agent on the train as a lovers tiff with the authorities finding a letter on JB. It is mean't to look like Bond kills the girl and then commits suicide to save face...but Grant gets angry and says he will kill him slowly 'the first bullet won't kill you, not even the second or third' etc. Our hero would have to be a really bad shot to take 4 bullets to kill himself in fact, surely it would be less embarrassing to be the star of a Anglo-Russian Adult Movie. You could of had a link on this site?
Quoting Beerjim:
FRWL - Red Grant is gonna set up the killing of Bond & the Russian Agent on the train as a lovers tiff with the authorities finding a letter on JB. It is mean't to look like Bond kills the girl and then commits suicide to save face...but Grant gets angry and says he will kill him slowly 'the first bullet won't kill you, not even the second or third' etc. Our hero would have to be a really bad shot to take 4 bullets to kill himself in fact, surely it would be less embarrassing to be the star of a Anglo-Russian Adult Movie. You could of had a link on this site?
I never thought of that... Together with Shady Tree's observation of characterization fault, this is the second mistake in this classic sequence...
Quoting Cables:
In Moonraker when Bond flies to Rio, the flight number has the code of BA and when he lands it is clearly marked Air France.
That might not be a gaffe. Remember that flights often have multiple flight numbers depending on which carrier has booked the ticket ... even so, it would have been simpler just to have the an Air France flight number!
In LALD, when Bond is steering the out-of-control car on the New York expressway, you can see him pass a red Chevy, which already has dents to its sides . . . obviously the car was already used in a previous run-through of this stunt.
At the beginning of Goldeneye, Bond makes a spectacular bungee jump off a dam. Yet at the end of the PTS, the dam is nowhere to be seen because they are on top of a mountain.
Quoting Jarrah White:
In From Russa With Love, Tatiana said Bond's eyes were brown, but everybody can notice that Pierce's Brosnan's are blue.
Also, Tiger kept going on about Bond's hairy chest in You Only Live Twice, but in TMWTGG, Bond's has no hair on his chest!.
Obviously, these are two different actors playing Bond - the line was written for the current star...
Connery with brown eyes and hair - Brosnan with blue eyes, and Moore with no hair!
This isn't a mistake per say, but it is an insult to audience intelligence...
In TWINE, as Bond and Elektra are being pursued on the slopes by the para-hawks, Bond adroitly slices one of the attack vehicle's parachutes with his ski. Promptly the engine begins to sputter and spurt as if Bond had done severe damage to the actual ski-mobile.
Comments
DN- 14
FRWL- 10
GF- 14
TB- 12
YOLT- 10
OHMSS- 4
DAF- 6
LALD- 8
TMWTGG- 12
TSWLM- 8
MR- 8
FYEO- 15
OP- 4
AVTAK- 11
TLD- 13
LTK- 5
GE- 20
TND- 25
TWINE- 26
DAD- 19
TOTAL- 274
Wow! That is a lot of mistakes!!
OP- When Miss Magda wakes up after her night with Bond it is dawn outside but when Bond looks at his watch it says 10.12am. Maybe the sun rises at this time in somewhere like Alaska in winter but not in India.
FYEO- When Bond presents his report to the Defence Minister the latter replies "I don't follow" when Bond points out that the man he saw paying Gonzalez gives them a lead. Is the Minister slow or something?
TB- When Blofeld's voice is heard on tape he says a container will be dropped at latitude N20 longitude E60 in the Mergui Archepalego off the coast of Burma (Myanmar). But the stated reference point is nowhere near the Mergui Archepalego or Burma (Myanmar)
Once Bond has tied the cable to the plane, the more distant shot with the Stunt man quite clearly shows the plane dropping to a vertical position, forcing "Bond" to grip onto the side.
However, when scene shoots into a close up of Timothy Dalton and obviously a mock up of the plane, it is almost completly horizontal with Dalton standing quite freely on top of it.
You forgot NSNA. (And don't give me that "unofficial" crap. It IS a Bond movie!!!!!!!!!)
Doh! Just to correct one of my own, and anyone else who reckons Bond mentions the OP PTS girl's name as Carina...
He actually says "Gracias, querida!" which means "Thank you, dear!" in Spanish.
I could be mistaken but I'm sure the switches are labelled in English and Cyrillic. But as English is the international language of the air (except in France, but we won't go there
However, the Hercules does not move too slowly to take off,
The aerial fight between Bond and Necros wasn't filmed on a Hercules though. The Herc is 4 engined, the aircraft used in that sequence was a twin-engined Alenia G222.
I'll go back to wearing my anorak and eating jam butties now.
But surely Goldfinger, with his red hair, isn't able to get a sun tan?
Roger Moore 1927-2017
Not to me it isn't. In that case, i forgot Casino Royale as well.
I rewatched GF yesterday and I noticed the following.
When Bond is chasing Tilly Masterson's Ford Mustang in Switzerland you can alternatively see outside views of the cars and closeup shots of Bond driving.
In the outside shots you can see that both cars are driving alongside a ravine. In the closeup shots you can see through the right window that Bond has a railway line on his right. This is the railway line by which both cars stop at the end of the sequence, and you don't see it in the previous outside shots.
I don't know hom many times I watched GF before but it's the first time I noticed this.
Did anyone notice it before ?
Thanks.
OP: James Bond will return in From A View To A Kill.
NSNA:
At Palmyra, when the guard goes into bond's cell and finds the bars cut and bent out of place, and bond gone, his AK variant is pretty much useless.
There's no magazine.
In the PTS, the gangster "mannequin" blinks after its arms are shot off, and then the Bond mannequin is seen swaying gently.
That is untrue..I watched it last night w/ captions on he says "Elephants We is Democrats Mabel"....not thems democrats...JW and his wife were Democrats!
I don't know if this is a mistake. My knowledge into weapons isn't that extensive (far from it), but I think that it depends on what you load the shotgun with. You could load it with 'buckshot', but also I think that you could load it with a single piece of ammunition that shoots out. I could be wrong though.
I never thought of that.
After the car chase ("Just a drop in the ocean") Bond talks with Tanaka via the on-board TV in the back of the car while they are driving to Kobe.
During the shots of Bond looking back, you can see the road is turning twice (first to the left and then to the right if my memory serves me well) but Aki is not turning the wheel, she stays completely still.
FRWL - Red Grant is gonna set up the killing of Bond & the Russian Agent on the train as a lovers tiff with the authorities finding a letter on JB. It is mean't to look like Bond kills the girl and then commits suicide to save face...but Grant gets angry and says he will kill him slowly 'the first bullet won't kill you, not even the second or third' etc. Our hero would have to be a really bad shot to take 4 bullets to kill himself in fact, surely it would be less embarrassing to be the star of a Anglo-Russian Adult Movie. You could of had a link on this site?
I never thought of that... Together with Shady Tree's observation of characterization fault, this is the second mistake in this classic sequence...
That might not be a gaffe. Remember that flights often have multiple flight numbers depending on which carrier has booked the ticket ... even so, it would have been simpler just to have the an Air France flight number!
Obviously, these are two different actors playing Bond - the line was written for the current star...
Connery with brown eyes and hair - Brosnan with blue eyes, and Moore with no hair!
In TWINE, as Bond and Elektra are being pursued on the slopes by the para-hawks, Bond adroitly slices one of the attack vehicle's parachutes with his ski. Promptly the engine begins to sputter and spurt as if Bond had done severe damage to the actual ski-mobile.