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Live and Let Die (1973) - 20 corrections

Directed by Guy Hamilton, starring Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, Roger Moore (add more)

Genres: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller

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In the scene when Kananga is slashing Bond's arm, it appears that there is blood on the knife and Kananga is just 'painting' it on Bond's arm. [There appears to be no blood on the knife at all when he is making his first cut; after that the appearence of blood on the knife is the blood from the initial cut(s).]
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With the exception of the Cadillac pimpmobile in the beginning of the film, everyone, in all the locations of this film, drives a 1973 Chevrolet. In the taxi scene in New York, the entire highway is all full size 1973 Chevrolets, and the same thing goes on in the Louisiana scenes. In the airport scene there is one of each 1973 model - Nova, Malibu, Impala and a pickup. Chevrolet too-obviously paid for the product-placement advertising. [This is incorrect. Although a vast majority of the cars appearing in the film are 1973 Chevrolets, let's not forget the 1971 Checker Marathon Taxicab in New York (ironically enough, surrounded by 1973 Chevrolet taxis.), Kananga's diplomatic car (a 1971 Cadillac Fleetwood 60 Special) in New York, the aforementioned Pimpmobile (in actuality a fiberglass shell of a Cadillac El Dorado placed on a Chevrolet Corvette chassis.the conversion, known as a "Corvorado", was done by a man named Les Dunham, who did six more of the vehicles for other films), the 1963 Chevrolet Impala that Bond and Rosie Carver drive to the spot where the secret agent was killed, the 1961 Ford Econoline van that Bond's out-of-control '73 Chevy crashes into, the 1969 and 1972 Ford Galaxies used as New Orleans police cars, and the 1968 BMC Mini Moke that Bond and Rosie drive around in all played relatively significant roles. I'm leaving out the 1927 Mack AB Oyster Truck since it was obviously placed there for comedic value and little else as well as the AEC Regent III double-decker bus, of which GM had no comparable product.]
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In the scene at the United Nations where the speaker is making a presentation, I think he is speaking in Hungarian. As far as I know, Hungarian is not one of the official languages (French, Spanish, English, Russian, Chinese) used in the United Nations. [Anyone can address the United Nations in any language they like. It will then be translated into all of the "official" languages, of which delegates are required to speak, understand, read and write at least one.]
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In the gun barrel sequence at the start of the movie, when Roger Moore shoots, he misses the camera. This same mistake appears also in The Man with the Golden Gun. [That's because he's not aiming for the gun barrel (the location of the camera); he's aiming for the man holding the gun.]
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After James steals Billy Bob's speedboat, a black gunsel drives to a bridge to intercept him. When he arrives, a very large plume of black smoke, having nothing to do with the plot, can be seen in the distance. When J.W Pepper arrives seconds later, the smoke is nowhere to be seen. [The smoke is from the opium processing plant that Bond just blew up, an essential element of the plot. When Pepper pulls up they shift camera angles and you don't see the smoke.]
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When Kananga and James Bond fall into the water at the end, why wasn't Bond attacked by any of the sharks? He had that cut on his arm so he would have been very appealling to them, reguardless of whether he was too busy fighting Kananga to be eaten. [He dispenses with Kananga and exits the water before the sharks can reach him.]
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As Sheriff Pepper stops his car in front of Adam's by the river, a piece of equipment falls out from under his car. [Vehicular malfunction, not a movie mistake.]
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Where did Bond get a full deck of 'The Lovers'? I've never seen a place where you could buy a full deck of the same card. And it is even the exact same type of cards as the ones Solitaire uses. Tarot cards comes in a lot of different types. [Yes, but most stores buy in bulk, and therefore have loads of exactly similar decks on the shelves. Bond could simply buy several decks of tarot cards at the same store, remove the Lovers card from each deck and put together a stack of identical cards. Expensive, but it's not like Bond could not afford it.]
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When James kills the snake in his bathroom with the flame from his cigar and the aerosol, the carpet doesn't appear even singed. [Carpet? In a bathroom? They're tiles - not terribly flammable, really.]
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The guy with the mechanical arm points at a bunch of alligators and identifies them as crocodiles. [It is a character mistake.]
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Leiter, who is observing Kananga, tells Bond that Kananga's leaving the UN, "probably heading back to his embassy". As an experienced CIA officer, Leiter should know that foreign nations maintain their embassies in this country in Washington, DC, not in New York City. They may have consulates elsewhere in the country, but not embassies. Countries do indeed send separate ambassadors to the UN, but they don't establish separate embassies for them. [He could have been headed to the airport, to fly down to Washington, where his embassy is located.]
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When Whisper delivers the Champagne Bond signs for it and goes back into the bathroom leaving the light on, yet when he returns to the room after killing the snake the light is off. ['Mrs. Bond' turned the light off when she entered the room.]
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In the roadblock scene at Miller's Bridge where Bond and the villain have just got through the roadblock with their boats, Sheriff J.W. Pepper arrives at the bridge. A policeman says, "Yes sir, Captain. I understand. But I don't know where we're gonna find a boat fast enough to catch'em." During this scene at the bottom of the screen, you can see the yellow microphone recording the actor. [The yellow object is simply part of the police car's speeding equipment. Some police cars in the 60's had a yellow tracking equipment or a radio system.]
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Kananga warns Solitaire about the price of losing her virginity, saying that he'd do to her what he did to her mother and her mother before her. Jane Seymour was 22 when the film was released. If we assume that the ages of their characters are supposed to be around their actual ages, and if we assume that Solitaire's mother conceived at 18, that would mean that her grandmother was being used by Kananga 40 years ago. Yaphet Kotto was 36 at the movie's release - even if we assume Kananga supposed to be older than Kotto's age, the math is off by at least 25-30 years, he must have been at least 20-25 to have amassed enough power and/or land to need someone like Solitaire to protect it. [Some women have children at a very early age. Solitaire's mother might have been only 15 when she had her child. We also don't know Solitaire's age for sure, and if we are to assume that she's about 22 we might just as well assume that she is 17. That would mean that her mother was born just over 30 years ago. If we then assume that Kananga is in his 50ies, kept younger looking by voodoo magic, he might easily have controlled Solitaire's grandmother. Furthermore, maybe Kananga's father controlled Solitaire's grandmother.]
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James Bond's watch does not have a cutting element to it, only a magnetic element, yet it does a very good job cutting through the rope when they've about to be eaten by a shark [To cut through the rope Bond activates the watch and it starts spinning like a mini buzzsaw.]
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During the final fight on the train, the window is smashed. Following the death of the man with the prosthetic arm, Bond closes the window and the glass is intact. [The compartment contains two windows, Bond doesn't close the smashed window.]
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During the voodoo ceremony where the man is killed, the 'snake bite' that kills him leaves no marks on him. [He is not supposed to have been bitten by the snake as voodoo is reliant on a victims belief that the ceremony is a threat to them. Therefore Baines fear of being poisoned by a snake bite overpowers him and he probably has a heart attack as a result. Notice that the snakes mouth is never open at any point in the sequence, so it could not have bitten him anyway.]
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In the scene, Bond has broken into Solitaire's room and sits behind her desk, playing with her cards. Solitaire enters the room, they have a brief conversation, Bond stands up and walks to her - straight through the fairly big table. [We can see that the table opens in two parts and Solitaire can walk through the table (00:45:16). So, later, when Bond walks through the big table it's because that table can open.]
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The backs of Solitaire's tarot deck are a pattern made up of the 007 and gun symbol. [That's not a mistake, that was a deliberate little nod to Bond's number.]
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Quarrel, the motorboat captain who took Bond and the bikini-clad double agent out to Kananga's place was killed in "Dr. No". We clearly saw him incinerated by the flame-thrower tank before Bond and Ursula Andress were taken into custody by Dr. No's men. [He actually gets introduced as "Quarrel Junior"]
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