DEvans

11th May 2005

Octopussy (1983)

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.

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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