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When Bond takes the 'belt' off his tux, in order to get the concealed rope, there is a scratching sound, as velcro ripping. But the belt is not closed with velcro. We can see metal clamps when the belt lies on the ground and Bond removes the rope. See more...

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LTK has never been officially released in its original cut because it was too violent and the producers wanted to avoid an R rating. Only the Dutch Laser Disc contains the complete uncut scenes which are: 1.Felix Leitner falls into the shark pool: The shark bites his leg off. 2.At the decompression chamber: Milton's head really explodes. 3.Dario is shredded into pieces: Even more blood and flesh is spread around and some pieces even fall onto the camera. 4.Sánchez death: Sánchez gets on fire, walks two steps screaming and then falls on his knees. See more...

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Licence to Kill (1989) - 13 corrections

Directed by John Glen, starring Desmond Llewelyn, Robert Davi, Timothy Dalton (add more)

Genres: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller

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Robert Davi and Grand L. Bush, who play Sanchez and Hawkins respectively, both starred as FBI Agents in "Die Hard". [Why is this trivia? It's only part of the actors' filmography.]
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'Licence To Kill' was originally titled "Licence Revoked". (You can see on the DVD Special Features a copy of the script with this title). The title was changed at the insistence of MGM, who claimed American audiences would not understand what the word "revoked" meant(.) [This is a little hard to swallow. Do you have a cite for this claim? Renaming movies is done regularly. The first American Pie movie, for example, was originally entitled East Great Falls High.]
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Pam's shotgun is powerful enough to blow a huge hole in a solid wooden wall from three meters away. That's going to give Pam a nasty shock, because a shotgun puts the same energy into the recoil that it does into its projectiles. If it's powerful enough to punch a hole in a wall big enough for her and Bond to climb through, then she is going to be flung violently backwards across the bar. [Wrong. From Wikipedia: "Although the momentum possessed by a bullet as it leaves the muzzle of a gun is indeed equal to the recoil momentum of the gun (neglecting the momentum possessed by gas molecules and particles also leaving the muzzle), the kinetic energy of the bullet is many times greater than the recoil energy of the gun. For example, a bullet fired from an M16 rifle has approximately 1300 foot-pounds of kinetic energy as it leaves the muzzle, but the recoil energy of the gun is less than 5 foot-pounds. The reason mechanical energy is not conserved is because much more of the chemical energy released during powder combustion is transferred to the bullet than is transferred to the gun."]
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When Sanchez whips Lupe for her little affair, he does it vertically. But when Bond is on the Wavekrest, the red marks on her back are now horizontal. [The whipping is done off camera. Sanchez lays Lupe down, then the camera zooms in on his face as he starts to bring the whip down on her. Impossible to tell from this how the marks are going to be oriented on her back.]
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David Hedison is the only actor to play Felix Leiter twice. The first time was in Live And Let Die (the eighth official Bond film.) [Jeffery Wright plays Felix Leiter in both "Casino Royale" and "Quantum of Solace".]
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When Bond removes the CD from the back of the picture frame in the house it's a standard sized CD. When he places the CD in the computer it's a mini CD. [No it isn't. It never changes size.]
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When Bond is captured in Isthmus City, he gets a bloody cut under his left ear, which heals overnight without a trace. [The cut is not under his ear, but on the side of his head (under his hair) where he is struck unconscious. When he falls unconscious, no cut can be seen on his face, which makes sense as Bond is unlikely to fall unconscious from a strike in the face.]
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James Bond receives a lighter off his friend Felix. Then we see a close up of the lighter. At that point take a look below the lighter and you can see the brown lighter case just behind it. Then at the end of the film you will see the lighter case again when Bond shows it to Sanchez, and he didn't even fetch it out of his pocket. The close ups of the lighter are the same in both the start and the end of the film. [A shot of Bond pulling the lighter out of his pocket is included on the Ultimate Edition 2-disc DVD release, just after Sanchez' line "You could have had everything." It was probably just cut out of some broadcasts of the film.]
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In the prologue, when Bond has angled Sanchez' plane, the helicopter is flying rather low over the wedding scene, the people on the ground and on the helicopter are waving to each other, so they are close enough to see one another. Then, in the next shot, Bond and Felix are jumping out of the helicopter for skydiving, obviously from high elevation. [It's the next shot, not the same shot. There's no indication of time passed between shots, so the helicopter climbed in altitude.]
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At the airport Bond puts his ticket into his right hand inside pocket, but when he later produces them at the check in desk he takes it out of the left pocket. [That's not the ticket he takes out of his left pocket - it is his passport.]
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When 007 is swimming and he takes the diver's mask and oxygen, he puts the mask on underwater. His mask should be full of water, but instead it's only around his nose. In the next shot, there's no water at all. [It is possible to get water out of a mask while submerged. Most modern masks have a oneway valve on the bottom of the mask so that when you blow air out of your nose it forces the water out of the valve.]
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Near the beginning, Felix is savaged by a shark and his wife is murdered, but near the end he seems too happy. Perhaps he wanted his wife dead. [People DO laugh and smile when some time passes after a loved one's death (especially when the person responsible is dead).]
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Licence to Kill was the first Bond movie to be completely devoid of anything written by Ian Fleming. By the time the Bond producers came to film this movie, all the Ian Fleming stories had been used up, one way or another. [This is actually incorrect. I've read every word Ian Fleming wrote, and this film does indeed use a portion of one of the texts. The piece actually comes from the book, Live and Let Die. Granted, the Roger Moore film version of Live and Let Die does indeed use many parts of the book, including the villian, scenes in Harlem in NYC, etc., but there is a scene in Florida where Bond is on assignment with Felix Leiter. The two of them are staying in hotel. Bond investigates an aquarium warehouse (just like in LTK) and he comes back to the hotel to find Leiter eaten half alive. Most of his motivation for the remainder of the novel is revenge.]
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