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Goofs/Mistakes in the Bond Movies

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  • StirredNotShakenStirredNotShaken Toronto
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    StirredNotShaken wrote: »
    In Dr. No, when Bond grapples with Quarrel and Pussfeller just before his first meeting with Felix Leiter, Pussfeller suddenly turns into a white guy in the shot where Bond tosses him over his shoulder. Hilariously bad 60s stuntman work.

    Surprised nobody else reacted to this one. It's very, VERY egregious.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Didn t he just turn white with terror?
  • BMW_with_missilesBMW_with_missiles All the usual refinements.
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    I had assumed it was an effect of radiation exposure.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Damn, I've somehow never caught Pussfeller turning into White Pussfeller. The only comparable scene that comes to mind is Bond grappling with a large black man in LALD, only for him to turn the lights off and it's suddenly Rosie Carver.
  • GerardGerard
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    My favourite is still at the end of OHMSS, when Bond forgot that he was driving in continental Europe. Note that at that moment, he had other things on his mind, being about to go on his honeymoon, but still...
  • BennyBenny Shaken not stirredAdministrator, Moderator
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    Gerard wrote: »
    My favourite is still at the end of OHMSS, when Bond forgot that he was driving in continental Europe. Note that at that moment, he had other things on his mind, being about to go on his honeymoon, but still...

    Wow, good catch. In all the years I've watched Majesty's, I've never picked that one out.

  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
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    Yep, it's most pronounced when that vintage car passes the Aston on the right-hand side. However, Bond's stopping on the left-hand side of the road is not so unusual. Nice vista, out in the sun (the right-hand side is in the shade), hardly any traffic - not really a problem (no matter if legal).
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    Plus Blofeld is obviously driving with a neck brace, making any sort of safe
    Turning impossible ! Simply bad driving all round.
  • StirredNotShakenStirredNotShaken Toronto
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    Thunderpussy wrote: »
    Plus Blofeld is obviously driving with a neck brace, making any sort of safe
    Turning impossible ! Simply bad driving all round.

    No mention of the machinegun fire? That's not exactly courteous road conduct!
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    I think that's allowed in parts of Manchester. :D
  • TijgerTijger
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    FYEO in the underwater scene by the St George, they are using a Helium/Oxygen mix - but no squeaky voices!
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Tijger wrote: »
    FYEO in the underwater scene by the St George, they are using a Helium/Oxygen mix - but no squeaky voices!

    Perhaps it was through some sort of de-scrambler so they could understand one another, on the off chance that anything dangerous occurred (which it did). What always bugs me about that scene is how Bond notes they need to save their oxygen and speak only when necessary, just for him to point out irrelevant nonsense and speak to himself aloud mere moments later.
  • barryt007barryt007
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    Bond to Tatania in FRWL : "Once when I was with M in Tokyo we had an interesting experience."

    Henderson to Bond in YOLT : "You've never been to Japan before have you ?"
    Bond to Henderson "No,never"
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Maybe Tokyo was the name of a gay nightclub.
  • barryt007barryt007
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    Well M did look flustered....
  • QuantumOrganizationQuantumOrganization We have people everywhere
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    Ooh mr.Bond
  • barryt007barryt007
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    Just keeping the British 'Bend' up Sir !!
  • QuantumOrganizationQuantumOrganization We have people everywhere
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    Cheeky
  • thenoisydrumthenoisydrum
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    StirredNotShaken wrote: »
    StirredNotShaken wrote: »
    In Dr. No, when Bond grapples with Quarrel and Pussfeller just before his first meeting with Felix Leiter, Pussfeller suddenly turns into a white guy in the shot where Bond tosses him over his shoulder. Hilariously bad 60s stuntman work.

    Surprised nobody else reacted to this one. It's very, VERY egregious.

    Can't believe I never noticed this when I was a kid. I'm going to blame it on VHS.........

  • cwl007cwl007 England
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    Just rewatched the extras on DAF surrounding the 2 wheel alley way goof. Now as much as I don't lose sleep over this it has frustrated me over the years because I'm a big fan of car chases/stunts.
    The reason given as to why the mistake occurred was because the stunt as shot originally was done correctly car wise but the pavements on the exit were full of people, rendering it unusable. Two reasons why this annoys me. 1, they knew the reshot footage was wrong and still chose to use it and 2, the whole bloody sequence is full of crowds of people stood on pavements , the whole sequence!! Grrr.
  • vzokvzok
    edited March 2017 Posts: 4,044
    cwl007 wrote: »
    Just rewatched the extras on DAF surrounding the 2 wheel alley way goof. Now as much as I don't lose sleep over this it has frustrated me over the years because I'm a big fan of car chases/stunts.
    The reason given as to why the mistake occurred was because the stunt as shot originally was done correctly car wise but the pavements on the exit were full of people, rendering it unusable. Two reasons why this annoys me. 1, they knew the reshot footage was wrong and still chose to use it and 2, the whole bloody sequence is full of crowds of people stood on pavements , the whole sequence!! Grrr.

    It would have been so easy to fix even after the reshoot mistake.

    Show the car going on 2 wheels.
    Flip the image of the car exiting (as reshot), but cut away quick before you can see it is reversed.
    Put in an insert studio shot of Connery looking smug and driving off.
  • TokolosheTokoloshe Under your bed
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    There's a corrected version here:



    The editing in DAF is shockingly bad all the way through.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    Cool :)
  • cwl007cwl007 England
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    Absolutely agree. We saw the car go INTO the alley, at that point we didn't know what the exit looked like, so build the bloody thing at pinewood or some such place. Just the alley exit, camera facing the wall with a red mustang coming out, drop the car down, cut to the shot we have in the film of it driving away on all 4 wheels. It can't have been that hard, anyway must stop on this, can't turn the clock back and it's upsetting me too much.
  • JakeDisseltJakeDisselt
    edited September 2018 Posts: 64
    I was rewatching Tomorrow Never Dies the other day and I noticed something I've never seen before which I believe is a goof.

    In the scene when Bond gets in the shootout at the printing press in Hamburg there's a scene where he leaps from one platform to the next and if you watch (or listen, rather-with headphones) carefully his PPK goes off midfall. I saw that once and was never able to unsee it.

    You can see it at @0:35 here



    Also I'm not sure if this counts as a goof but it's always bothered me how in Casino Royale, Bond receives the DB5 as a personal vehicle after winning it in a poker game but in Skyfall it's outfitted with machine guns and in SPECTRE, Q even quips 'I thought I said to bring it back in one piece, not to bring back one piece.' Why would he care if it's Bond's personal vehicle. It's so weird because in Skyfall, which is also directed by Sam Mendes, Bond even says 'The problem with company cars is that they have trackers', implying that the car is in fact, his. Also, who the hell was Bond going to, to get that vehicle serviced by if not Q Branch!? Maybe the old Q was super chill with 007 and pimped out his rides on the low. Maybe he was discovered and fired by M and that's why Ben Whishaw is 'your new Quartermaster'. I bet it was Andrew Garfield.
  • ResurrectionResurrection Kolkata, India
    edited September 2018 Posts: 2,541
    Recently I was watching OHMSS when Tracy father's henchmen we're taking bond to car from the hotel bond says "perhaps we can have a foursome" if you look closely his lips weren't moving.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    @JakeDisselt, actually, if you look very, very closely, you can see that in mid-air, Bond pulls the PPK out again and fires at the man rushing alongside him. That's why he's already holding it as soon as he lands on his back on the platform below. Keep an eye out and you can even see the muzzle fire a split second before the shot switches.
  • JakeDisseltJakeDisselt
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    I was
    Creasy47 wrote: »
    @JakeDisselt, actually, if you look very, very closely, you can see that in mid-air, Bond pulls the PPK out again and fires at the man rushing alongside him. That's why he's already holding it as soon as he lands on his back on the platform below. Keep an eye out and you can even see the muzzle fire a split second before the shot switches.

    I'm sorry that was a misfire lol. If he fired at that guy running alongside him it was shot in a way where it looked like a misfire or it just careless of Bond, which I doubt.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    I do suppose he could've actually squeezed onto the trigger as he jumped, but given the angle of the PPK and the area the bad guy is coming from, I always figured he was firing off a shot at him - kind of like how Bond takes a qfastuick, mid-air shot at Mitchell during the QoS chase, despite being in the middle of a jump and not hitting him.
  • BMW_with_missilesBMW_with_missiles All the usual refinements.
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    JakeDisselt wrote: »
    Also I'm not sure if this counts as a goof but it's always bothered me how in Casino Royale, Bond receives the DB5 as a personal vehicle after winning it in a poker game but in Skyfall it's outfitted with machine guns and in SPECTRE, Q even quips 'I thought I said to bring it back in one piece, not to bring back one piece.' Why would he care if it's Bond's personal vehicle. It's so weird because in Skyfall, which is also directed by Sam Mendes, Bond even says 'The problem with company cars is that they have trackers', implying that the car is in fact, his. Also, who the hell was Bond going to, to get that vehicle serviced by if not Q Branch!? Maybe the old Q was super chill with 007 and pimped out his rides on the low. Maybe he was discovered and fired by M and that's why Ben Whishaw is 'your new Quartermaster'. I bet it was Andrew Garfield.

    Another issue is that in CR the DB5 is left hand drive but in SF it’s right hand drive. I’m not sure these are even intended to be the same car.
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