Die Another Day: Film – Goofups- Revealing mistake: When Bond gets away across the lake in the jet-powered ice racer, the cable pulling it along is clearly visible in the overhead shot.
- Continuity: When the Aston Martin is flipped, its wing mirror housing is smashed off (and a piece of it flicks away), but the car has intact wing mirrors in all the subsequent shots inside the Ice Palace.
- Revealing mistake: When Graves holds Bond captive, and reveals that Bond has again been betrayed, a henchman can be seen behind Graves holding a G36 assault rifle. There is no magazine loaded into the weapon.
- Continuity: A metal strut in the broken aircraft window repeatedly disappears and reappears between shots.
- Continuity: Bond inspects his sword twice in rapid succession (unnaturally so) before the fencing match.
- Crew or equipment visible: Reflected in Miranda’s sunglasses during the initial demonstration of the Icarus satellite.
- Continuity: Following the Icarus demonstration, there is a woman wearing a fur coat standing behind Bond who is not wearing sunglasses. In a subsequent wide shot, she removes her glasses along with other members of the audience.
- Continuity: The zip on Jinx’s catsuit moves up and down between shots during the laser sequence.
- Continuity: Bond’s hands are shackled while arriving at the prisoner transfer, but they are unshackled as he gets off the truck.
- Crew or equipment visible: A boat is visible in the lower right corner of the screen filming the three surfers in the opening sequence.
- Revealing mistake: When Jinx is pressing buttons in the airplane cockpit, the lights next to the buttons are going out before she presses them.
- Factual error: Some of the supposedly native North Koreans speak Korean with terrible accents.
- Factual error: Zao is not a Korean name, it is Chinese. Although many Koreans do have Chinese names, written with Chinese characters, and although Zao is one of them, the Koreans have no “z” sound in their own language and pronounce the name as “Jo” or “Cho”.
- Geographical error: Korea, whether North or South, does not have surfable beaches.
- Continuity: The level of the drink Bond and Jinx share.
- Factual error: The camouflage uniforms of North Korean Soldiers are actually South Korean civilian reservist uniforms.
- Revealing mistake: Wheel tracks from earlier takes visible early in the ice-lake car chase.
- Miscellaneous: There is a poster advertising the latest model Philishave electric shaver in the supposedly long-abandoned Vauxhall Cross tube station.
- Incorrectly regarded as a goofup: While in Cuba, Bond pulls the plug on the surveillance camera facing the hidden door. The wire he unplugs is only the zoom control and the iris control for the lens Without this wire the lens will protect itself by closing. The camera will still work, but the image will be completely black (closed lens).
- Geographical error: Bond and Zao are swapped in the middle of a thick evergreen forest. Panmunjom, the only point along the DMZ where one can walk between North and South Korea, is grassy fields and hills.
- Miscellaneous: When Bond orders the Mojito in Cuba, they make it with golden rum, but when the drink is handed to him, it has been (correctly) made with white rum.
- Factual error: The Icelandic car number plates shown in the film do not have the correct typeface (they used the same typeface as on British number plates).
- Continuity: Jinx is cut on her torso during the sword fight on the plane. Yet, moments later, when she is with Bond in the Korean hut fiddling with diamonds in her belly, the cut is gone and she is scar-less.
- Audio/visual unsynchronised: When Bond is talking to M in the subway there is a shot over Bond’s shoulder that shows his mouth moving when he is not speaking.
- Continuity: When Jinx comes out of the water, she is wet (obviously). However, when we see her again just a couple of seconds later, she is dry.
- Continuity: The cheque that Jinx gives to Dr Alvarez is different to the one seen a few shots later. The handwriting is different and the surname has changed from Johnson to Jordan.
- Continuity: When Bond lands after surfing the huge pressure wave, the clouds behind him multiply between shots from a few to a sky-full.
- Crew or equipment visible: The camera is reflected in the back of the Aston Martin in two different shots when Bond carries Jinx out of the car after saving her.
- Continuity: When Bond escapes from Graves’ lair by running down the outside of the dome, the stuntman appears to be wearing sunglasses, while Brosnan, in the shots immediately before and after the stunt, is not.
- Revealing mistake: When Bond escapes and jumps from the boat, his hands are clearly visible at the bottom of the screen after he rebounds from the trampoline.
- Continuity: When Bond is watching the Icarus demonstration, the woman behind him is not wearing sunglasses. In the next shot she is removing a pair of sunglasses.
- Continuity: After the Icarus demonstration, a blond henchman walks up to the laptop to close it with a black haired henchman to his left. After the close up of Bond, we see that the two henchmen have switched places.
- Crew or equipment visible: Crew members, almost lined up, are reflected in Bond’s binoculars at the beach bar as he looks out to sea. (These are not extras at the beach bar, as subsequent shots reveal only a couple of sparsely populated tables within the vicinity.)
- Continuity: Jinx starts to cut into a whole green fig in bed. In the next shot she is slicing a half of a guava in two once more (creating two quarters of the original whole).
- Crew or equipment visible: Lighting equipment is reflected in the land-speed-record car before Bond pitches it over the ice cliff. Suspended vertically on the ice cliff, the camera and the back soundstage wall are visible, likewise reflected in its screen.
- Continuity: Bond’s shadow as he rides the ice wave jumps about inconsistently on the water’s surface.
- Revealing mistake: The chandelier misses Zao, landing in the water well in front of him.
- Continuity: During the ice car chase, the rear bumper of Bonds Vanquish is plain silver but, entering the Ice Palace two black strips appear on the bumper and stay for the whole Ice Palace section.
- Continuity: The large plane that Graves uses to escape is an Anotnov 124, this plane has a solid nose that lifts up to allow loading front and back, when they go inside to the front of the plane it has changed into a IL-76.
- Revealing mistake: After the demonstration of Icarus, the control box is taken inside and the doors open before he manages to swipe his card through the reader.
- Audio/visual unsynchronised: At the very end, the night shot of Vauxhall Bridge and MI6 Headquarters has a 2002 built Wright Gemini double deck bus passing in the foreground, the dubbed bus sound however is clearly that of a early 1960s-built Routemaster bus.
- Incorrectly regarded as a goofup: Bond places the ticket for the Alvarez Clinic in his inner right pocket, only to remove it later from his inner left pocket. This is a deliberate reference to a similar error in a previous Bond film, Licence to Kill (1989).
- Audio/visual unsynchronised: When Bond first appears on the platform of the abandoned underground station, the door of the stairwell leading down can be heard to slam shut behind him. Wider shots of the platform show that there was, in fact, no door, and that Bond simply appeared on the platform without entering via any door whatsoever.
- Continuity: When Bond and Jinx get on the Antonov 124 Jinx’s gun is a polished chromed Beretta 92. When Miranda disarms Jinx in the cockpit, the gun has become a matte black Beretta 92.
- Continuity: When Bond is flirting with Jinx after she emerges from the sea, his cigar is in/out of his mouth between shots.
- Factual error: The throwing knives that Jinx uses are actually Tekna diving knives. Although they look cool, the holes in the handles causes them to tumble when thrown, and they are totally unsuited for throwing blades.
- Factual error: During the hovercraft scene in North Korea, Bond shoots the land-mines and they eject into the air before exploding. Though this is correct, the mines were shown exploding close to head height whereas in reality the mines would explode a waist level or lower so as to cause the most crippling injuries to soldiers.
- Geographical error: The ice-fields and glaciers of Iceland are in the center of the country, not near the coast, where it is barren and rocky.
- Factual error: When Jinx is in the cockpit of the plane, the cockpit is actually that of the An-225 Myria, not the An-124 fuselage/Il-76 nose plane used in the film. This is evident because of the six power levers. The plane in the film only has four engines.
- Geographical error: After escaping from the Royal Navy cruiser and swimming to the shores of Hong Kong, Bond arrives on the Kowloon side of Hong Kong (the background shows Hong Kong Island). However, there is no Yacht Club on Kowloon, only on Hong Kong Island.
- Continuity: When Bond leaps through the window at the clinic he takes a grape from the fruit bowl. When he goes through the door of the room he can be seen chewing and then putting another grape in his mouth and eating that one. However he only picked up one grape and therefore can’t have been eating anything originally, despite his mouth moving.
- Continuity: When Bond arrives at the ice palace the valet gets into his car, but never takes it away, and is not in the car in the next shot of the car.
- Factual error: Bond only discovers that Miranda emptied his gun when he tries to shoot her the next day. It is unlikely that an experienced agent like 007 wouldn’t have noticed that the Walther P99 was significantly lighter.
- Audio/visual unsynchronised: When Bond is caught by a guard outside Grave’s quarters at the Icelandic compound after the Icarus presentation, the guard (oddly) talks to Bond in German, asking him what he’d be doing there and telling him to put his hands up and to turn around. Apart from that, the guard’s lips movements do not correspond at all to the German lines that are heard. In fact, he doesn’t seem to say anything at all.
- Audio/visual unsynchronised: While inspecting a borrowed Smith & Wesson revolver in Cuba, Bond opens the cylinder and spins it, resulting in a “ZZZZZZ” of rapid clicks. S&W revolvers make no noise when the cylinder is open and spun in this manner.
- Factual error: The cruising speed of the Antonov 124 is approximately 500mph, which equates to nearly 1 mile every 6 seconds. It is very unlikely that cars dumped several seconds apart would land within a couple of hundred yards of each other.
- Continuity: Upon leaving the clinic, Bond has four diamonds. He then gives five to M.
- Geographical error: A water-buffalo witnesses the cars crashing into the rice paddy, supposedly in Korea, where no water-buffaloes live (water-buffaloes are creatures of the tropics; Korea has roughly the latitude and climate of New England.)
- Continuity: When Colonel Moon is shooting the helicopter a soldier next to him is holding his weapon up, but in one shot it is down and he raises it.
- Continuity: In the scene where bond is “surfing” using the parachute and trunk covering (from the jet powered car), as he reaches the big ice berg which he airs off, he pulls the parachute towards him and his hands are below his waist. In the next shot his hands are above his head
- Continuity: Bond’s glass shattering ring changes hands and sometimes is non-existent throughout the film.
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