Corrected entry: Near the start where Bond is trying to evade the missile in his mini jet plane, the sound becomes the distinctive discordant scream of a diving propeller driven plane (think World War II dive bomber), rather than the whistle of a jet engine it should have.
Octopussy (1983)
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Directed by: John Glen
Starring: Desmond Llewelyn, Roger Moore, Lois Maxwell, Louis Jourdan, Maud Adams, Robert Brown, Kristina Wayborn
Factual error: In the balloon scene, it seems like Q can circle around and land on a spot where he flew past previously. A balloon can only fly in the direction of the wind.
M: Remember, 007, you're on your own.
James Bond: Well, thank you, sir. That's a great comfort.
More trivia for Octopussy
Question: How did Bond win the game of backgammon, with Kamal Khan, when he didn't get all his chips off the board? Even the two sixes he rolled wouldn't have done it.
Answer: Bond (taking over for the Major) had 1 piece on point 2, 1 piece on point 3, and 2 pieces on point 6. Rolling doubles in Backgammon means you get to make 4 moves instead of just 2, so he was able to remove all 4 pieces. If you have a piece on point 2, you don't have to roll a 2 to remove it. Anything higher than a 2 can be used to remove the piece. Kahn even says Bond has to roll a double 6 in order to win, which he does.
Answer: Not knowing anything about backgammon so this is perhaps wrong. But I thought that Bond didn't win. And the fact that he produced the Faberge egg is what ended the game. (I'm more than likely wrong tho).
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Correction: The "distinctive discordant scream" is the airflow over the wings, not the sound of the engine. Some low-speed jets make this sound, and the Arco Starjet Bond is flying is one of them.
Specifically, the mistake is likely referring to the moment where Bond starts to dive towards the hangar. Here we do indeed hear the distinctive, and oft-used, stock sound of a propeller-driven Stuka dive bomber from World War II. Several other Bond movies use it as well.
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