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Live and Let Die: Film – Goofups
  1. Incorrectly regarded as a goofup: Quarrel was killed in Dr No (1962), which is why Bond refers to “Quarrel Junior.”
  2. Continuity: When 007 is heading toward the “roadblock” of boats under the bridge seconds before he busts through there are state troopers on the boats waiting for him, when Bond crashes through though there are people in street clothes on the boats and one in a yellow shirt who fall into the water.
  3. Continuity: In the fight scene on the train, Tee-Hee breaks the window. But at the end, after Bond throws him out and raises the window, the glass is intact again (there’s a reflection of light in it).
  4. Continuity: After Whisper shoots Bond’s driver with the side-view mirror dart, Bond takes the wheel from the back seat. We see and hear the rear-view mirror on Bond’s car get broken off. In the next shot of the car head-on, after Bond swerves by the Blue Cadillac, the rear-view mirror is intact.
  5. Continuity: When bond makes M a cup of coffee the coffee grinder is alternately empty/full between shots.
  6. Crew or equipment visible: The whole crew and spectators are reflected in the cab’s window when Bond leaves the Voodoo shop.
  7. Crew or equipment visible: The wake from one of the camera boats is visible in one of the boat chase scenes.
  8. Continuity: While Bond is in the taxi cab, asking the driver to go uptown (into Harlem), we see a hill through the rear window. In the next shot, the land is flat.
  9. Continuity: In the opening scene, the voodoo priest is carrying a green snake with the snake’s mouth agape, and he is holding it about 15cm from the head when the scene is on the priest. However, on the close-ups of the man tied to the stake, the priest is holding the snake right behind the head, as one might do with a poisonous snake.
  10. Revealing mistake: Visible ramp built onto steps of building in NYC when taxicab goes up steps and then onto trash cans.
  11. Continuity: At the voodoo ritual, Bond shoots the man with the snake but a few scenes later he can be seen standing in the background.
  12. Crew or equipment visible: Crew member reflection against window just before Bond throws Tee-Hee off the train.
  13. Factual error: In the U.N., the U.K. is shown seated next to Honduras, but countries are actually seated in alphabetical order.
  14. Revealing mistake: When Tee Hee bends the barrel of Bond’s Walther PPK, a close-up reveals that the gun barrel has been pre-cut.
  15. Continuity: When Tee Hee is feeding the alligators, his wrist moves on the prosthetic arm. Later, in the train fight, his whole arm is revealed when his sleeve rips, and the arm has no wrist joint.
  16. Continuity: During the boat chase, a shot of James’ second boat (gold, inboard motor) is mixed in with the first boat (orange, outboard motor).
  17. Continuity: When Bond is en route to NY and his driver is killed the car swerves into the left lane. The next shot shows Bond telling the driver to “take it easy”, but the scenery behind Bond (through back window of the car) still shows them as being in the center lane.
  18. Continuity: The first time we see Kananga’s limousine parked outside the Fillet of Soul restaurant in Harlem, the driver’s side window is rolled down. In the second shot of it, the window is rolled up.
  19. Continuity: When James Bond gives Mrs Bell her “flying” lesson, the wings are torn off the plane. Yet when he asks her “Same time tomorrow?”, the reaction shot of Mrs Bell shows an intact left wing.
  20. Geographical error: There are alligators and crocodiles living together in the Louisiana Bayou. Only alligators live in the fresh water of the Bayou. The only place in the world where alligators and crocodiles meet in the wild is in the Everglades of Florida, where salt and fresh water meet in estuaries.
  21. Continuity: In the motor boat chase, damage on the hull of the black police boat disappears and reappears between shots.
  22. Revealing mistake: When Bond is seated in his chair, two metal cuffs snap down on his wrists. However, the left cuff has failed to connect to the other side of the chair, as would be necessary to constrain Bond’s left arm.
  23. Continuity: When Bond fans out the tarot cards and tells Solitaire to pick one, the deck is perfectly fanned and there appear to be at least fifty cards in the deck, however as she takes a card, the deck in Bond’s hand is now haphazardly arranged and there clearly aren’t more than fifteen or twenty cards.
  24. Factual error: Rosie Carver pulls a revolver on Quarrel Jr., who then points out that she couldn’t have shot him anyhow because the safety catch was still on. Revolvers do not have safety catches.
  25. Miscellaneous: The yellow and green snake in the intro that bites the man who dies right after is a Boa Canin, a constrictor snake, with no fangs and no venom.
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