Trivia: Desmond Llewelyn originally proposed playing Q in this film as the ultimate fanboy of James Bond, eager to show off all the gadgets he whipped up and gush about the honour of someone as cool as Bond getting to use them. Albert Broccoli responded, "No, Bond is the guy who constantly loses and destroys all the equipment you give him. You don't look up to him, you think he's annoying as hell!" Llewelyn agreed that was probably a better take, and thus was born the iconic Bond/Q animosity.
Goldfinger (1964)
1 trivia entry since 27 Dec '24, 15:28
Directed by: Guy Hamilton
Starring: Sean Connery, Desmond Llewelyn, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, Shirley Eaton, Honor Blackman, Gert Fröbe
Continuity mistake: In the first shots of the golf course, you see Goldfinger's Rolls parked to the far left of the main building, with Bond's car in the lot in the background. When the scene changes to the inside of the clubhouse store, the Rolls is now very close to the front of the store. At the end of the golf game, the Rolls is back to the left of the main building, and as the camera pans back, you can see that the store is to the far right of the main building.
James Bond: Do you expect me to talk, Goldfinger?
Goldfinger: No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!
Question: Q demonstrated the switches for the left and right front-wing machine guns - why is the "right" control on the left and vise versa?
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Chosen answer: They're not. Q was just indicating to Bond that these were the wing machine guns, he wasn't stating which was which.