Corrected entry: In the scene in the walk-in cooler at Kahn's palace you don't see any breath - neither from Bond nor from the two guys picking up the bodies.
Jacob La Cour
16th Sep 2007
Octopussy (1983)
17th Sep 2007
Octopussy (1983)
Corrected entry: When the clown falls into the water in Berlin, and floats down river, it is obviously a dummy - check the strangely wrinkled forehead.
Correction: The strangely wrinkled forehead is actually the latex from the clown wig 009 is wearing.
24th Feb 2009
Octopussy (1983)
Corrected entry: What did the jewellery smuggling and the fake jewels have to do with the A-bomb? It wasn't payment to Kamal for services rendered, since the jewelry was transferred to General Orlov's car while Gobinda was watching. Kamal and Orlov could easily have placed a bomb in the circus without the jewelry-story.
Correction: Kamal and Orlov are using Octopussy's circus to smuggle the bomb into the air base. The circus is one of her many legitimate business ventures used to circumvent customs and border security as she smuggles jewels. She thinks she has been working with Kamal and Orlov to sell Russian jewels on the black market. Orlov steals the jewels and replaces them with fakes created by Kamal, and gives the real ones to Octopussy to smuggle out of Soviet territory. 009 discovered this and stole the Faberge egg, probably thinking Orlov was using the funds to secretly finance a covert Soviet operation. The jewels exchanged for the bomb were a necessary ruse because Octopussy wasn't really a bad guy who would go along with a plot to kill thousands in a nuclear explosion. So Orlov and Kamal had to make her think she was smuggling jewels so she wouldn't think anything was wrong. As Orlov explains when he takes delivery of the fake jewels, Kamal was to gain the real ones as payment after the bomb exploded. Orlov had to take the jewels with him after switching them out for the bomb because Kamal had to continue on with the train, and letting Orlov hold onto them was easier than Kamal having to smuggle them across the border into Western Europe and then hold onto them as he escaped, and then smuggle them back to India (presumably it's easier for Orlov to smuggle them back to India through Soviet controlled Afghanistan). But seeing Bond on the train, Orlov felt the need to warn his accomplices, which is why he made a break for the border.
16th Sep 2007
Octopussy (1983)
Corrected entry: There is no way Bond has time to switch the Faberge eggs. You can see his fingers the whole way below the booklet. His finger position does not change. It is impossible that he opened his fingers and grabbed the other egg in that motion. (00:21:50)
Correction: I have re-watched this scene dozens of times; in the fraction of a second that his hand is behind the booklet a person with good sleight-of-hand skills could drop one egg and pick up another. Not very likely that he could have made the switch and positioned his hand on the fake egg exactly as it was on the real egg, but not impossible.
12th Sep 2008
Octopussy (1983)
Corrected entry: Kamal says, "The egg has been recovered" to Octopussy. And then, "You should be pleased." She replies, "I'm not pleased; it was stolen in the first place." Well, Kamal just brought the original egg back - but it was the fake that was stolen.
Correction: She's pissed that her security wasn't good enough to prevent it from being stolen, real or fake.
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Correction: It isn't supposed to be a refrigerated room in the modern sense, but a cold room in the traditional sense: a thick-walled chamber in the basement that keeps relatively cool even in the hot summer. If you look closely, there isn't any ice or frost anywhere. Also it was probably meant as a butcher shop first and as a cold room only second: When Gobinda checks in because he finds the door open, cleavers, bone saws and knives can be hanging on the wall. As for why Bond has his collar turned up: when attuned to a hot climate, even the 15°C of a naturally cool room would seem quite cold.
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