When 007 pushes Jaws outside the train, he breaks the window, but it is intact in the following shot. It's broken again a little bit later. See more...
The villain in "The Spy Who Loved Me" was supposed to be "Blofeld", but legal wrangles with Kevin McClory forced screenwriter Christopher Wood to remove any reference to the character or S.P.E.C.T.R.E. at the last moment. See more...
Directed by Lewis Gilbert, starring Barbara Bach, Bernard Lee, Curd Jürgens, Desmond Llewelyn, Lois Maxwell, Richard Kiel, Roger Moore (add more)
Genres: Action, Adventure, Thriller
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When Stromberg's secretary is eaten by the shark, the video picture shown on Stromberg's screen is very close to her, however she is in the middle of the pool. Where is that automatic underwater camera placed? [Zoom lens.]
Corrected by BocaDavie
After the two missiles blow up the submarines, and then there is the scene with the nuclear explosion, you can see a palm tree at the bottom of the screen. The "globe map" shows the subs in the middle of the ocean. [Actually, it shows them on either sides of the ocean as they prepare for the missile launch. The westernmost sub may have been close enough to the Carribean to be seen from a small island.]
Corrected by BocaDavie
How can the transparent course map showing the tracking of the Ranger, which (apparently) has been sent by Stromberg's secretary, have exactly the same proportions as the secret course computer on the British naval base? It couldn't have been stolen from that computer - at the base - since Stromberg only had a submarine tracking system - not a hacking satellite. [It could be a coincidence that the two course maps are approximately the same size, or, more likely, the Ministry or Defense received the course plot and enlarged it to fit the screen in the Naval Control Room.]
At the beginning of the movie, when 007 attempts the ski jump off the cliff in the Austrian mountains, dropping his skis and displaying the Union Jack on his parachute, you can see a beaten path on the mountain before the cliff. This suggests that either other people have been stupid enough to jump off that cliff, that the jump had been attempted before the actual shot was taken, or that the path was beaten down so that Rick Sylvester (the stuntman) could glide off of the cliff with ease. Whatever the reason, I don't think movie-goers were supposed to see that. [There are a number of reasons the path could be there. Some skiers may have skied to the edge to look over then carried on; some may have been jumping off with parachutes as Bond did, in the late '70's version of extreme sports. You frequently see skiers skiing out of bounds on the mountains.]
At the end of the movie when James Bond and the Russian major climb into the escape sub soaking wet, they sit on a round bed covered with a white comforter. When the Russian major leans over to hug James, you can see a red stain on the white comforter where she had been sitting. Most likely this is from her red dress being wet, but it looks really bad, if you know what I mean. [Where's the mistake? As you said it could be red dye from her clothes. What it looks like is irrelevant.]
At the end of the film Stromberg shoots at Bond under the table with a speargun-type weapon that shoots most likely a spear with an explodable tip through a long tube. When Bond shoots Stromberg through the tube with his hand gun, he hits him with two shots to the body but wouldn't the bullets most likely ricochet off the speargun rather than hit him? [Not necessarily. A speargun does not have a firing mechanism at the back of a firing chamber to block the bullets. Unlikely for the bullets to not ricochet, but not impossible.]
Very early in the film, Soviet KGB agent Triple-X's combo communicator/music box plays Lara's Theme from the film version of "Doctor Zhivago". This is unlikely, since at that time Doctor Zhivago was still banned within the Soviet Union. [Unlikely but not impossible. Many banned items where available on the black market or to officials with connections. Also, just because the film was banned doesn't mean the piece of instrumental music was banned.]
The electricity from a common light bulb would hardly be enough to shock someone, even if applied directly to Jaw's teeth, especially if the bulb is broken taking away the vacuum with which an electric current could carry most ideally. Besides, Jaw's natural teeth would not be able to conduct the electricity from his metal teeth that well anyway. [May I suggest that the poster applies the "electricity from a common light bulb" to his teeth if he or she is so sure. The purpose of the vacuum in a bulb is prevent oxygen from coming in contact with the element. With the glass broken, the element would very quickly burn up giving the electrical current nowhere to go except Jaws' teeth. Agreed they would be poor conductors but electrical shocks that close to the brain can be pretty disruptive even at low voltage / current.]
When, near the beginning of the film, Bond puts the transparency on the screen, the lines match up almost perfectly. Then a few seconds later when we see the screen in the background, the tracks don't line up. [There is a layer of thickness, probably glass between the overlay and the displayed image. The overlay lines up perfectly when looking at it dead on. The later shot we are looking at the screen at an angle, thus can see the distance between the line of the overlay and the lines on the display. The lines still line up, just not from the second perspective.]
The stick shift on the Lotus Esprit doubles as a joystick for the torpedo guidance system. If this were a true analog control it would be nearly impossible to shift gears unless the entire transmission on the car was electronic. On the other hand, if it was a conventional mechanical gearbox, the gates for each gear would interfere with precise control of the guidance system. [The Lotus Esprit's shifter/joystick changes operations when the car switches from car to sub. Plus there's a wire that runs down the center of the shifter that makes that change.]
When they dunk the white Lotus Esprit from the pier, the Russian major [Barbara Bach] is visibly startled at the concept of hitting the water with the car, but a few moments later she skilfully discharges a mine to destroy the pursuing mini-sub and boasts that she stole the blueprints for the car two years earlier. Wouldn't she know not to worry about the water if she had seen plans detailing that the car is really a submarine? [Doesn't mean she's ever seen it in operation, let alone been in the thing as it hurtles towards water at high speed. It's the difference between knowing something intellectually and feeling confident in that knowledge through experience. Emotionally, she's still in a normal car until she remembers.]
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