Call Me Picky...

Smoke_13

I just noticed something on the CR DVD.

It's not a big deal and it in no way affects how much I love this movie. But I noticed that when Bond is asked to enter his password at the Casino he pressed the number 5. The lettters on 5 are "jkl" yet the password was "vesper"

Just an odd occurrence, no big deal. My question to the group is has anyone noticed any other occcurrences of the like now that we have a chance to pause and scrutinize and stare at a DVD?

Hardyboy

Explanation 1: It's a Swiss touchpad. They know watches, not computers.

Explanation 2: Bond's dyslexic, and so is Vesper, since she can enter the correct password.

Explanation 3: Bond can't count--remember, he miscalculated how much time was left on the bomb in Goldfinger, when it clearly said 007 seconds remained.

Nightshooter

I noticed this in the theater, as well. It is the one thing about CR that truly annoys me. X-(

words

Geez, how come you guys even notice these things. I must be incredibly unobservant!

Gassy Man

I noticed it, too. If it helps, imagine him gesturing to more keys than he's really touching, kind of like I do at the ATM or when using a phone card so anybody watching me can't quite figure out what I have entered.

cosmo_kramer

Explanation 4: The last two keys bond presses are 4 (GHI) and 7 (for the R). Maybe he thought her name was spelled Vespir or Vesphr. Then after realizing he made such a dumb mistake, he calls the bank soon after and corrects the error. He didn't tell Le Chiffre the password because he didn't want to give away the money, he just didn't want to look incompetent.

JennyFlexFan

Or...

Never mind, my lips are sealed!

Nightshooter

JennyFlexFan wrote:

Or...

Never mind, my lips are sealed!

Perhaps if the Beach Boys was playing in the background you wouldn't have noticed.

zebond

Nightshooter wrote:

JennyFlexFan wrote:

Or...

Never mind, my lips are sealed!

Perhaps if the Beach Boys was playing in the background you wouldn't have noticed.

Ohhh, harsh

JennyFlexFan

Nightshooter wrote:

JennyFlexFan wrote:

Or...

Never mind, my lips are sealed!

Perhaps if the Beach Boys was playing in the background you wouldn't have noticed.

Ha ha ha, well I've already said that is a weak point in the-movie-I-cannot-mention-by-penalty-of-Hardyboy .

highhopes

Unfortunately, there's no wiggle room on this one. Definitely a blooper. And I believe he hits two, no just one, bad key.

What strikes me is how bizarre it is for a blooper. I can't figure how it could have happened. I'm sure Craig can spell "Vesper." And the scene wasn't so acting-intensive that Craig was concentrating on something else and made a mistake. You just punch in the name as you would in real life. So I'm wondering if they didn't by any chance do it on purpose? So as not to give away that Bond was using Vesper's name as a password? -- although the smile as he enters it hints at it. But then why even show the hand punching in the letters at all? And of course, anyone watching the keys so closely to know he was spelling "Vesper" might notice he hit the wrong keys when the password is revealed. It's really a puzzling screw up because it makes no sense.

But like many, if not most, people, I didn't notice until someone pointed it out.

Napoleon Plural

highhopes wrote:

Unfortunately, there's no wiggle room on this one. Definitely a blooper. And I believe he hits two, no just one, bad key.

?:) Is that really you highhopes?

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Jimbo Bond 007

Man you guys are eagle eyed!

I never even notcied that one, just checked out the DVD for myself and sure enough, there it is.

darenhat

Another thing I noticed, but I need to review the film is that the 'dummy' the stunt team used to lay in front of the Aston Martin during the roll sequence is actually lying in the opposite direction that Eva Green is in the close-up.

s96024

darenhat wrote:

Another thing I noticed, but I need to review the film is that the 'dummy' the stunt team used to lay in front of the Aston Martin during the roll sequence is actually lying in the opposite direction that Eva Green is in the close-up.

It's the same. It's just where the camera goes from behind the car to infront of teh car it seems like its swapped but its just the change in camera angles.

darenhat

I'm not so sure...I seem to recall Vesper's head pointing into the road. But as I was watching the documentary, they layed the dummy with her feet pointing into the road. Again, I need to review the film to be certain.

Red Indian

I've got another one: Bond's tan. He has a good day's worth of sunburn when he is gambling in the Bahamas, but when he arrives in Miami it's gone! When he returns to to the Bahamas his tan is back!

s96024

darenhat wrote:

I'm not so sure...I seem to recall Vesper's head pointing into the road. But as I was watching the documentary, they layed the dummy with her feet pointing into the road. Again, I need to review the film to be certain.

I went threw it slowmo and she is facing the same way in all shots.

s96024

Red Indian wrote:

I've got another one: Bond's tan. He has a good day's worth of sunburn when he is gambling in the Bahamas, but when he arrives in Miami it's gone! When he returns to to the Bahamas his tan is back!

Jeez I would never notice something like that.

Red Indian

"Jeez I would never notice something like that."

I guess that's what happens when you see it four times in the theatre! Plus the fact that I bought the DVD last week and I'm probably going on three or four viewings! IMO the more character and plot-driven the films - the more I can watch them!

s96024

I have watched the rock probably going on a hundred times and still never tire of it. I still doubt I'd notice something like that. Maybe I just have poor concentration.