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Trivia: Bond's watch in this movie is the Hamilton Pulsar P2 2900, which was invented in 1970. This is actually the world's very first digital watch and was the mark of the future.

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Trivia: While this was Moore's first appearance in an official Bond film, this was actually the second time Roger Moore played the character of Bond. In 1964, he appeared on the 7-minute sketch show Mainly Millicent. Here, Bond was played as a bit more of a parody version of the character Moore would later play in an official manner.

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Trivia: In an attempt to differentiate Roger Moore's take on Bond from Connery, they changed a few things about his character in this film. Notably, he orders bourbon with no ice instead of the famous martini shaken not stirred, and he also smokes cigars instead of cigarettes, as well as not wearing a hat in the opening gun barrel sequence.

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Trivia: Shane Rimmer, known for small roles across the Bond series, actually contributed to Live and Let Die in an uncredited way. He dubbed a line for the doomed agent Hamilton in the New Orleans pre-title sequence. Hamilton was played by Robert Dix, son of silent film star Richard Dix. Roger Moore, a fan of Dix's father through his mother, personally helped Robert land the part.

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Factual error: At the climax, Baron Samedi falls into a coffin crawling with snakes, which promptly bite him to death. But a closer look shows they're mostly harmless species—boas, pythons, racers, and green tree snakes. None of these are venomous; boas and pythons kill by constriction, and the others are basically harmless. The scene tries to sell a terrifying venomous death, but the reality is he just got dropped into a reptile house full of non-killers. (01:47:34)

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Factual error: At the opening voodoo ritual, a large green snake is used to kill a man. The species is visually identifiable as a Green Tree Python, a non-venomous constrictor from New Guinea and northern Australia. It would never be found in the Caribbean, where the film is set, and despite being shown as lethal with a bite, in reality, it can't deliver venom. At worst, it could constrict small prey, not instantly kill a human. (00:04:15 - 00:04:55)

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Deliberate mistake: The snake that "attacks" Bond in the bathroom can be visually identified as a mere kingsnake. Apparently just a black kingsnake or a California kingsnake. It is in no way venomous or dangerous but is presented in the film as such. This was done to keep Roger Moore safe by using a tame non-venomous snake. However, this breed is easily identifiable, being a kingsnake and safe, a harmless constrictor. (00:32:35 - 00:34:35)

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Plot hole: After Bond defeats both Whisper and Kananga, all the other red-shirt henchmen that were in the room with them seem to have disappeared. When Bond came down into that room with Solitaire, and several times during the scene down there, Kanenga's men were seen all over the room in various locations. Yet after Bond beats the two main baddies, the other guys have all gone and are not attacking Bond. (01:55:15)

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Revealing mistake: There are two different shots of two red explosives being placed on the ground next to a bamboo stalk, with the explosives being in a different position in each shot. However, you can see that it is the exact same location filmed for both explosives: the same stalk, the same leaves, and the same dirt pattern. They just stuck a bomb in the same spot and filmed it twice to make it look like two different bombs placed. (01:43:45)

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Continuity mistake: While Bond is in the boat chase, after his boat engine gets shot, he beaches it into a grassy area. The men in the boat chasing him slide up on the bank all the way into a swimming pool and Bond gets out of his boat to go steal a different one. As the henchmen's boat comes to a stop in the pool, you can see them start to stand up and point their guns towards Bond. Then the shot changes to Bond driving off in his new boat and past them, and they are again starting to stand up to point guns. (01:31:20)

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