Even the best make mistakes. But when you're trying to save the world, a mistake could cost Bond his life, and more importantly, all our lives! Fortunately, there is
someone behind the camera to yell "Cut!" and save Bond (and the world) from horrible embarrassment. But sometimes, that person goes into the back room for a couple
shaken martinis, so we end up with some often slip-ups making it into the final release of the films.
Here you'll find some of Bond's most subtle mistakes—from
Dr. No to
Quantum of Solace. We need careful eyes to help find the places where Bond and the production staff have miscued. If you know of any Bond slip-ups, click the
EasyEdit button above and add your favorite bloopers!
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- When James lights his cigarette and Sylvia asks to raise the stakes, he first has removed the cigarette from his mouth and placed his hand on the shoe, but when he says "I have no objection," he is just taking it out of his mouth. The camera cuts to his back, and his hand is back on the shoe.
- In M's office you can clearly see a boom light reflecting off a painting above the mantlepiece.
- When Bond in his hotel room for the first time, there are two bottles on the table, a clear one and a green one. When he re-enters the room and checks his traps, the green bottle has disappeared.
- When Bond knocks on Miss Taro's door, all the shutters on the door are at the same angle. As Bond steps in, one of the shutters has changed it's position.
- When Miss Taro gives Bond her apartment address, she states : '
239 Magenta Drive'.
Later, when Bond calls for a taxi, he gives the address
'2171 Magenta Drive'.
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- In the fight scene between Grant and Bond, Bond lets a kick fly with his right foot, which magically turns into his left as the scene cuts.
- Bond is in the bathroom of his hotel suite, he opens the bathtub tap to have a bath. He's then disturbed by a noise, which turns out to be Tatiana Romanova entering his bed. However, he never turns off the tap, so where did all the water go?
- In the scene with Blofeld talking to Klebb and Kronsteen at the end, the SPECTRE master's ring appears first on the right hand, then on the left and then on the right again.
- When Bond and Tatiana are leaving the flower truck to go to the boat, Bond tells her to cast the rope off. She says "All right" but her lips never move.
- When Bond, Kerim and Tatiana have located their train compartments they step inside. When coming inside a white handkerchief appears in Bond's breast pocket and disappears again when he steps outside to talk to Kerim.
- When Klebb first arrives on SPECTRE Island by helicopter, the dialogue for the entire sequence has been redubbed; however, watch everyone's lips! After Klebb says "Where is he now?", Morzeny's henchman says "At the lake", but his lips actually say "At the pool". A few seconds later, Klebb says "Take me to the lake", but again, her lips actually say "Take me to the pool". Morzeny then points and says "Through the training area",
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- When Bond steps out onto the sun deck behind Jill Masterson, he reaches down and turns off the transmitter that is in front of Jill. But when she turns around and says "Who are you?" Bond is only just walking out onto the deck.
- Can't seem to sit still? When Bond discovers the gold-covered Jill Masterson, she can't seem to decide what to do with her right foot. The right foot alternates between the same position and one where the foot is lying flat on top of the bed and pointed to the right.
- Don't like the attire? When Bond is chasing Tilly Masterson in his Aston Martin and starts using his gadgets, a dark sleeve can be seen opening the arm rest where the console is hidden. However, Bond is wearing a light-brown suit.
- "Auric Enterprises" can be seen written on the side of the Goldfinger's jet, near the cockpit, when it's on the ground. Yet, in the previous scenes where it is airborne, there are no letters on the side of the plane at all! Odd..............
- Now, one can truly know that we catch everything here at LTK! When Oddjob's car is pulling up to the junkyard after killing Mr. Soto, note the position of the shadow cast the car. The shadow is directly beneath the car, suggesting mid-day. The next shot, with Oddjob leaving the car, from further back now shows the shadow to be casting well to the left of the car, suggesting late afternoon! Could this be the amount of time it took the mechanics to remove the engine as pointed out in the fault above?
- When Bond is ducking from Oddjob's lethal hat in Fort Knox you can see the hat landing somewhere on the bars that cover the gold bullion. Later on, when Bond frees himself from the handcuffs, the hat is in the corner of the walkway.
- Although they've been cleaned up for the HD release, the wires holding the Goldfinger's plummeting plane could clearly be seen.
- If you've watched "Mythbusters" you know that shooting a bullet-hole through a plane's windows at high altitude will not cause a heavy-set man to careen through the plane and be sucked out the window. Looks cool, though. Blame Fleming.
- It should be pointed out that gold is a SOFT metal, so it is not advantageous to stack it--the weight of the top bars would crush the ones on the bottom.
- On top of that (no pun intended), the car containing the "pressed" Mr. Solo, also contains the gold in the boot (as Goldfinger points out). All of that weight should have crushed the truck that Oddjob uses to bring the car back to Auric Stud.
- The most obvious blooper--Bond says "Three more ticks and Mr. Goldfinger would have hit the jack-pot." But the counter reads "007." Harry Saltzman inserted the "007" freeze-frame to provide an added joke.
- It should be pointed out that, in the Pre-Credit Sequence, even though covered by a wet-suit, Bond's tuxedo would still be soaking wet.
- You can't crush a golf-ball.
- That Odd-job can say "Ah-ah" means that he's technically not a mute.
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- Count Lippe's towel around his neck during his steambath changes color from white to blue.
- When he finds Major Derval's body and unwraps his face, Bond has short sleeves. However, if you look at his arms in the close-ups when he unwraps Major Derval's face, he has long sleeves.
- Bond and Leiter are watching Largo's villa and they are looking at his shark collection. In this scene, Bond's parting switches from the left, to the right side of his head.
- In the end fight, Largo's captain's hat is knocked off. But when you see him attacking Bond a second time his hat is still on and gets knocked off again.
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| | - For being a Secret Organization, the Japanese SS sure uses some "un-secret" methods—like using an electro-magnet-equipped helicopter to dump a bunch of bad-guys into Japan Harbor, only a few hundred feet from shore! What did the papers say: "Secret service dumps another car in the ocean! Pictures on page six"
- Explain to me again why they have to actually pretend to kill James Bond and have a funeral at sea...with Bond as the body...to fool his enemies?
- When Bond opens the door to enter the sumo games, the sign says "beauty parlor" in Japanese.
- Scene disaster! During the Russian space launch you can see palm trees in the right foreground. Palm trees in Russia? Only at Pinewood Studios!
- When Bond and Kissy are sitting in the rubber boat at the end of the film, Bond has hair on his chest; however, previously in the movie this was shaven off to make him look more Japanese.
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| | - A small-time smuggler like Tiffany Case knows who "James Bond" is? So much for being a "secret" agent!
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- Gold is a very unreliable material to make bullets out of.
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