Man with the Golden Gun, The: Film – Goofups- Incorrectly regarded as a goofup: It is said during the duel that the Golden Gun can fire only one bullet, yet at the beginning of the film Scaramanga shoots the fingers off of the Bond dummy using multiple bullets. That’s because he’s using his dead opponent’s gun.
- Crew or equipment visible: In the fight in the belly dancer’s dressing room, when a thug falls against a mirror.
- Revealing mistake: Right before the man is hit with the chair in the belly dancer’s dressing room, we can see the pad on his back to absorb the impact.
- Factual error: Absolute zero cannot be “maintained” since it has never been “reached”. Even if that was permissible in the film, it wouldn’t require a man’s body temperature to raise it, as the temperature of the surrounding air would already have done the trick.
- Revealing mistake: When we first meet the two karate schoolgirls in the back of the car, the audio track simply repeats three times the following two sentences in Thai (spoken presumably by the two girls): “How are you?” and “That’s what I think”.
- Continuity: When the sea plane is flying to the island it has a float on each wing, but when landing on the beach it has one missing.
- Continuity: When Bond arrives to Scaramanga’s island in the Republic RC-3 Seabee amphibious airplane, the left wing float disappears and reappears between shots.
- Factual error: When the ballistics expert examines the bullet, he declares it to be “4.2 mm,” which would be .169″, slightly less than the .172″ of “17 caliber” weapons. He also declares the mass to be 20.53 grams (316 grains). Even though 23 carat gold is somewhat denser (1.67:1) than the lead alloy used in modern arms, this is still almost thirteen times as massive as the largest 17 caliber bullets manufactured (25 grains). It would look more like a thick needle than a bullet, being nearly two and three quarters inches in length and would be nearly impossible to stabilize.
- Geographical error: Bond gets into a boat after leaving the Bottom’s Up nightclub and asked to be taken to the Kowloon side of Hong Kong harbour. The Bottom’s Up club is on Kowloon side yet he has got into the boat from Hong Kong Island side.
- Audio/visual unsynchronised: At several points, including the opening scene, silenced weapons are heard to fire like unsilenced weapons.
- Geographical error: Hai Fat’s home is supposedly in Bangkok, but it’s located high on a lush hillside. There are no such hills in the vicinity of Bangkok.
- Crew or equipment visible: When Bond gets ready for the jump over the water in the car, a light along with the light guy on a ladder is seen in the car window.
- Continuity: When Nick Nack is throwing wine bottles at Bond, they all appear empty, even the unopened ones.
- Crew or equipment visible: A crewmember is visible in the large mirror as Bond walks across bathroom in the hotel to hand Maud Adams her robe.
- Factual error: The liner Queen Elizabeth sank in the Hong Kong harbor in 1972, not 1971.
- Continuity: The statue of Bond in Scaramanga’s funhouse changes position of the left hand in various shots.
- Audio/visual unsynchronised: When Scaramanga shoots the fingers off the statue/dummy of Bond, only three shots are heard, and Scaramanga can only be seen to fire three times, but all four fingers are shot off. In addition, only two fingers are seen shot off in the view from behind the statue/dummy before the angle changes, but a third finger is already missing after cutting to a close-up of the hand, before the fourth finger is then shot off.
- Crew or equipment visible: The crew is reflected in the shiny surface on the top of the motorboat engine when Bond is keeping the martial arts students at a distance with the whirring propeller.
- Revealing mistake: The long boat motorboat is already broken before Bond ploughs through it in his short one.
- Miscellaneous: In the establishing shot of Hai Fat’s hillside house, patches of light dart about on the ornate arch/frontage. This is from hand-held reflective panels, held by crew members out of sight (off the bottom corners of the image), who are trying to give the booklet guards some light/contrast on their faces.
- Continuity: When Bond is chasing Scaramanga through the streets of Bangkok, there is a scene in which they pass a cab driver in a 1955 Plymouth sedan. When the cab driver runs off the road and rolls his car over, it has changed to a 1955 Cheverolet Bel-Air.
- Crew or equipment visible: During the fight in Beruit a mirror shows a camera man and someone standing over the camera.
- Geographical error: The flying car is supposedly found “200 miles west of Bangkok”, which would put it somewhere off the coast of Burma. Also, the island they are head for is said to be about eight hours’ sail from Hong Kong, at least 1,000 miles from Bangkok in the other direction.
- Revealing mistake: During the opening sequence of the film when the hired gangster assassin is walking through the maze, there is a moment when several gangster mannequins pop out and shoot. During the exchange of fire the Al Capone mannequin blinks several times.
- Continuity: During the dinner with Goodnight in the Thai restaurant they are served Phuyuck wine. During the conversation the condensation on the glasses disappears and reappears between shots.
- Continuity: The tilted angle of the Queen Elizabeth as seen from the outside is different than from the inside.
- Revealing mistake: On the Chinese junk, Knickknack throws several wine bottles at Bond, who shatters them with a chair leg. The bottles are supposedly full, as their foils are intact, but when they shatter, there is no liquid in them.
- Factual error: An accessory nipple can not be found between the “normal” ones. It would actually appear at some place along the “milk line” which runs in a straight line parallel to the body axis like on any other mammal (e.g. dogs, etc.).
- Error made by character/s (possibly deliberate errors by filmmaker): Bond is served a bottle of wine labeled “Phuyuck” and pronounces it “Foo-yuck”. He should know that Thai words transliterated with “ph” are pronounced with an aspirated “p” sound: “p’oo-yuck” (making the names of the islands Phuket and Phi-Phi respectively less and more giggle-inducing).
- Audio/visual unsynchronised: Just before Bond stuffs Knick Knack into the suitcase on the junk. You hear his muffled voice saying “Hey, what are you doing? Let me out” even though he isn’t in the case yet and you can clearly see his mouth and he’s not speaking.
- Factual error: On the map that is produced to show the location of Scaramanga’s island, the islands in the archipelago are clearly marked out as ‘Ko’, meaning ‘island’ in Thai. This correlates with the real location of the island that was used in the film, but does not correlate with the film’s pretense of the islands being near Hong Kong.
- Continuity: When Bond arrives on Scaramanga’s island, Scaramanga shoots the cork off the bottle of champagne on a platter that Nic Nac is holding. Champagne shoots up out of the bottle neck, partially filling the adjacent glass and wetting Nic Nac’s hair. After the next cut, the glass is empty and Nic Nac’s hair is dry.
- Continuity: In M’s office it is said that a bullet was sent for the attention of 007. The bullet was sent together with a letter addressed to 007. Scaramanga’s fingerprints were on this letter as this was confirmed by the CIA. A few seconds later it is said that no one has ever seen Scaramango in person. How can the prints be indentified if nobody has seen the man before?
- Error made by character/s (possibly deliberate errors by filmmaker): When Goodnight accidentally backs into the Master Override switch, the label on the switch is misspelled as “Master Overide”.
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