Octopussy: Film – Goofups- Incorrectly regarded as a goofup: Bond kills the first twin, Mischa, and hides him in a cannon. While the border guards search a cannon, it’s a duplicate.
- Revealing mistake: The tiger head that roars out of the jungle at Bond during the hunt is a rather obvious, immobile stuffed head.
- Revealing mistake: When Gobinda is fighting Bond on the outside of the plane toward the end, his jacket opens up to reveal the stuntman’s parachute underneath, just as he falls from the plane.
- Geographical error: After the Octopussy Circus train leaves East Germany and enters West Germany, the train passes through a tunnel entrance festooned by an East German-style propaganda banner.
- Revealing mistake: When Bond and Vijay are trying to escape from Gobinda, Bond is fighting an assassin and flips him over, landing on the bed of nails. The nails are clearly made of rubber, as they bend around the assassin’s body.
- Audio/visual unsynchronised: Immediately after Bond deactivates the bomb at the circus, Octopussy asks Magda where Kamal was going. Magda’s reply is “Back to India” but her mouth says something different.
- Continuity: Bond blows out the front two tires when he fires his machine gun into the tires of the military transport he had just escaped from. When that transport veers off into a small shed, both front tires are still clearly inflated.
- Revealing mistake: As the Acrostar jet is flying thru the hanger, you can see that it has been mounted on a pole and is being pushed through the scene.
- Revealing mistake: After James has the guards distracted thoroughly by his accomplice and pulls their ripcords, the two guards are pulled from the truck by a visible line.
- Continuity: When Bond is taking off in the jet in the beginning sequence, the jet’s wheels are down as it lifts off over the cars in the roadway. In the next shot, the jet flies over the heads of the vehicle occupants, and the wheels are up.
- Continuity: When Bond blows the tires out on the military transport, one of the guards flies out of the truck into the hay bales, yet when the transport is fully at rest, the guard is back in the truck.
- Factual error: In the Backgammon scene Kamal Khan says Bond can only win with double sixes. In one shot, Bond has 2 pieces outside the last section, and in the scene after Bond rolls the double sixes and is declared the winner, he clearly picks up 3 game pieces, both facts making it impossible for Bond to have been the winner.
- Continuity: During the jitney chase at the beginning of the film, Vijay is fighting with the tennis racket out of the left-hand side of the vehicle in the close-ups and out of the right side in the wide shots.
- Continuity: By the end of the film, after having escaped from Kamal’s plane, Bond is holding Octopussy with his left hand, preventing her from falling off the cliff. In this scene the position of his right arm significantly changes between shots, once being strung-out and away from his body, then suddenly being very close to his body.
- Geographical error: It is said that Karl-Marx-Stadt is east of Berlin. Karl-Marx-Stadt was the name of the city of Chemnitz between 1953 and 1990, which is situated slightly south-west of Berlin.
- Factual error: A shot of a sign which says “National Art Repository” in both English and Russian has the Russian word for “art” misspelled: the fourth letter should be the Russian “u” not the Russian “ch.” The two letters do look alike, which suggests that the text was likely copied out of a dictionary erroneously.
- Continuity: When Bond and M driving through West-Berlin towards Checkpoint Charlie, they pass the same place at Kurfürstendamm several times, heading in the opposite direction to Checkpoint Charlie.
- Continuity: Near the end when Gobinda is sent outside the airplane to get Bond, he opens the door and it apparently blows off the plane. Later when Bond and Octopussy jump from the plane it is back on the door frame.
- Factual error: When Bond is on the airplane he scoots back and moves the elevator down with his feet for just a moment, then scoots back forward again. In the film this puts the airplane in an uncontrollable dive and crashes. In reality there would be no loss of control.
- Revealing mistake: During a close-up of the car-on-railroad stunt, the car has proper flanged railroad wheels rather than shot up and skinned up automobile wheels (albeit dressed up to resemble the original wheels).
- Error made by character/s (possibly deliberate errors by filmmaker): Octopussy claims that her father was a leading expert in ‘octopi’. This is incorrect as the plural should be octopuses. The Greek ending is not “us” but “pous” (foot) thus the plural being octopodes on the Greek model. The same applies to the word ‘chorus’ (pl. not ‘chori’ but ‘choruses’).
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