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I’ve an error in the “Jane Seymour” link: it points to a “Jane Seymour” that obviously isn’t the actress who played on 007 film. I’ll fix this removing the link. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by MaGioZal ( talk • contribs) .
Technically, lumping all of the black characters under the heading of African American is wrong, since many of them are residents of a carribean island nation, and not of the U.S. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 216.110.0.30 ( talk • contribs) .
why does it say "San Monique" is one of the film locations? "San Monique" does not exist. i can't edit the entry, as i do not know where the area depicted in the film as san monique is, but could someone sort that out? -- 172.201.249.209 13:17, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
When James Bond gets breakfast at the hotel room, he recieves a tarot card that warns him that Rosie Carver, (Gloria Henry), can not be trusted. She is taking a shower when he gets the food. It has never been explained who put the tarot card on the menu warning James Bond. Could you please metion this in your article on the movie, as it bothers a lot of people who have seen the film. The question was asked at www.imdb.com and the response was, nobody knows who sent it. 204.80.61.10 17:16, 13 April 2006 (UTC)Bennett Turk
A recent edit to this page suggests that the next appearance of adult language in a Bond film was A View to a Kill. It's my least favorite Bond so I've only seen it a few times, but I have no recollection of there being any off-color language in that film. Can anyone cite and example? If not, then we should revert back to saying Licence to Kill was the next Bond film to use naughty words. 23skidoo 17:49, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
On the St. Petersburg, FL Wikipedia page under the 'Trivia' subtitle, it mentions "About one-third of Ian Fleming's James Bond novel, Live and Let Die, is set in St. Petersburg." However, there is no mention of St. Petersburg being a shooting location on the 'Live and Let Die' page.....can someone clear this up? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 65.202.80.98 ( talk • contribs) .
Agreed Warpfactor 23:07, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
I'm willing to split off the soundtrack section into its own article, unless anyone else wants to do it. - Wayne Miller 20:34, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
The article says this book is controversial due to its depiction of black people. I read this article before I read the book and given what is written here, I went in expecting some sort of awful depiction of black people and African-Americans in particular. Instead, I found almost the opposite. The book has many good things to say about black people; far more than I've noted in most present-day books much less books written in the fifties. Sure, the book uses phrases and states things in a manner that would not be considered harmless in today's PC-mad world but at the end of the day for a book written by a stuffy old Etonian man in the 1950's this book is so progressive it's shocking. Fair enough, most of the bad guys are black, but a discussion at the beginning of the book claims this is a rarity (whether or not that is true). In the book, M and Felix Leiter speak admirably of progress African-Americans has made in fields such as medicine, science and the law, while Bond is content to spend half the book lustfully ogling black women. Of course, the book does refer to black people as negroes, as was common then and it also does have a chapter called "Nigger Heaven" (like many of Fleming's chapters in books, the chapter is named after a statement in a discussion within) but the reference is to Harlem as described in the (also, seemingly non-racist, though I have not read it) book of the same name. Was(is) this book honestly controversial? I can find no justification. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Zoso Jade ( talk • contribs) .
I notice that this page uses the official figure of 90-odd million for worldwide admissions. I think it should be noted that this figure has been disputed, since it is anomalous to the overall box-office trend for the series at that time and it has been speculated (I would have to dig for a citation) that somebody got the definitions of "international" and "worldwide" mixed up, artificially inflating the box office by adding the US gross to the worldwide, instead of the international gross.
I was wondering what the best way to approach this was. Maybe a footnote in the stat box referring to another section? ce performance? Nick xylas 20:17, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
In the section on "Release and reception," there is an unsourced statement that "Universal Exports gave the film a 004 out of a 007." Is this a joke? Universal Exports is of course the "front" organization that James Bond works for. Is there such an organization that gives ratings for Bond movies? I wouldn't have been suspicious, had it not been for the lack of any citation and the bad grammar ("a" instead of "an"). But this statement appears to have been there for some time, so I was hesitant to remove it. David Kessler 09:04, 9 August 2010 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.44.52.149 ( talk)
Maybe it's just me, but I'd like to see a photo of Roger Moore specifically included in this article, seeing as it was the first movie in which he played the Bond role. John Carter 18:13, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
I agree. I'd do it if I could work out how... Callum J. Stewart 13:49, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
I've seen plenty of GM vehicles in this movie, so it seems like a sort of advertisement for GM. 72.209.43.166 ( talk) 04:42, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
Kinda ironic that Bond is without gadgets as the Supernatural is featured prominently in this Bond film. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 156.34.187.81 ( talk) 04:56, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
Robert Wagner was approached by Albert Brocolli to replace Sean Connery as James Bond. He declined saying that James Bond had to be an Englishman and that he was 'too American'. He also suggested Roger Moore, who was a good friend of his, for the part. He relates this story in his memoirs 'Pieces of my heart' thate came out in 2008. This story is attributed to Clint Eastwood in the present article, but it looks like there has been a confusion ? (or did they have the exact same reaction to the role proposal? that seems weird) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.174.158.179 ( talk) 08:02, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
Many of these old Bond movies seem to have utterly pointless re-edits in the "new" remastered versions. The remastering is initially most obvious in the music but Live and Let Die has a re-edit that seems uttely pointless. In the original version Bond parks the decapitated London Double-decker bus at the end of the pier and escapes with Solitaire onto the boat that Quarrel Jr. has waiting. As they leave in the boat the weight of the bus collapses the pier and the whole lot sinks into the sea. In the remastered version the boat leaves the pier but the next edit cuts to aboard the boat and you do not see the pier collapse with the bus. This edit serves no function other than to irritate those who remember the original version. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.148.43.107 ( talk) 23:46, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
No comment on the article. Just wanted to express my condolences on the death of George Martin SonOfThornhill ( talk) 15:21, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
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I can see the appeal to audience and I do not doubt it works as a merchandising tie-in, but what is the in-universe explanation for Solitaire tarotting with 007-themed cards? 2A01:CB0C:CD:D800:EC01:F663:A26C:B216 ( talk) 14:22, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
So, if you actually watch this movie, you'll notice that every black character is somehow involved with Mr. Big. Yet somehow, You Only Live Twice is the "racist Bond movie." At least that You Only Live Twice had Asian characters that wanted to legitimately help 007, and openly stated that they wanted to help him. Even the one black character that tried to help James was working with Mr. Big. Yet this movie is not considered racist. 2600:8805:3A00:E200:9D83:2842:7C9F:CE81 ( talk) 21:53, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
Live and Let Die was released during the height of the blaxploitation era, and many blaxploitation archetypes and clichés are depicted in the film, including derogatory racial epithets ("honky"), black gangsters, and pimpmobiles.DonQuixote ( talk) 22:22, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
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I’ve an error in the “Jane Seymour” link: it points to a “Jane Seymour” that obviously isn’t the actress who played on 007 film. I’ll fix this removing the link. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by MaGioZal ( talk • contribs) .
Technically, lumping all of the black characters under the heading of African American is wrong, since many of them are residents of a carribean island nation, and not of the U.S. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 216.110.0.30 ( talk • contribs) .
why does it say "San Monique" is one of the film locations? "San Monique" does not exist. i can't edit the entry, as i do not know where the area depicted in the film as san monique is, but could someone sort that out? -- 172.201.249.209 13:17, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
When James Bond gets breakfast at the hotel room, he recieves a tarot card that warns him that Rosie Carver, (Gloria Henry), can not be trusted. She is taking a shower when he gets the food. It has never been explained who put the tarot card on the menu warning James Bond. Could you please metion this in your article on the movie, as it bothers a lot of people who have seen the film. The question was asked at www.imdb.com and the response was, nobody knows who sent it. 204.80.61.10 17:16, 13 April 2006 (UTC)Bennett Turk
A recent edit to this page suggests that the next appearance of adult language in a Bond film was A View to a Kill. It's my least favorite Bond so I've only seen it a few times, but I have no recollection of there being any off-color language in that film. Can anyone cite and example? If not, then we should revert back to saying Licence to Kill was the next Bond film to use naughty words. 23skidoo 17:49, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
On the St. Petersburg, FL Wikipedia page under the 'Trivia' subtitle, it mentions "About one-third of Ian Fleming's James Bond novel, Live and Let Die, is set in St. Petersburg." However, there is no mention of St. Petersburg being a shooting location on the 'Live and Let Die' page.....can someone clear this up? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 65.202.80.98 ( talk • contribs) .
Agreed Warpfactor 23:07, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
I'm willing to split off the soundtrack section into its own article, unless anyone else wants to do it. - Wayne Miller 20:34, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
The article says this book is controversial due to its depiction of black people. I read this article before I read the book and given what is written here, I went in expecting some sort of awful depiction of black people and African-Americans in particular. Instead, I found almost the opposite. The book has many good things to say about black people; far more than I've noted in most present-day books much less books written in the fifties. Sure, the book uses phrases and states things in a manner that would not be considered harmless in today's PC-mad world but at the end of the day for a book written by a stuffy old Etonian man in the 1950's this book is so progressive it's shocking. Fair enough, most of the bad guys are black, but a discussion at the beginning of the book claims this is a rarity (whether or not that is true). In the book, M and Felix Leiter speak admirably of progress African-Americans has made in fields such as medicine, science and the law, while Bond is content to spend half the book lustfully ogling black women. Of course, the book does refer to black people as negroes, as was common then and it also does have a chapter called "Nigger Heaven" (like many of Fleming's chapters in books, the chapter is named after a statement in a discussion within) but the reference is to Harlem as described in the (also, seemingly non-racist, though I have not read it) book of the same name. Was(is) this book honestly controversial? I can find no justification. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Zoso Jade ( talk • contribs) .
I notice that this page uses the official figure of 90-odd million for worldwide admissions. I think it should be noted that this figure has been disputed, since it is anomalous to the overall box-office trend for the series at that time and it has been speculated (I would have to dig for a citation) that somebody got the definitions of "international" and "worldwide" mixed up, artificially inflating the box office by adding the US gross to the worldwide, instead of the international gross.
I was wondering what the best way to approach this was. Maybe a footnote in the stat box referring to another section? ce performance? Nick xylas 20:17, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
In the section on "Release and reception," there is an unsourced statement that "Universal Exports gave the film a 004 out of a 007." Is this a joke? Universal Exports is of course the "front" organization that James Bond works for. Is there such an organization that gives ratings for Bond movies? I wouldn't have been suspicious, had it not been for the lack of any citation and the bad grammar ("a" instead of "an"). But this statement appears to have been there for some time, so I was hesitant to remove it. David Kessler 09:04, 9 August 2010 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.44.52.149 ( talk)
Maybe it's just me, but I'd like to see a photo of Roger Moore specifically included in this article, seeing as it was the first movie in which he played the Bond role. John Carter 18:13, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
I agree. I'd do it if I could work out how... Callum J. Stewart 13:49, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
I've seen plenty of GM vehicles in this movie, so it seems like a sort of advertisement for GM. 72.209.43.166 ( talk) 04:42, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
Kinda ironic that Bond is without gadgets as the Supernatural is featured prominently in this Bond film. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 156.34.187.81 ( talk) 04:56, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
Robert Wagner was approached by Albert Brocolli to replace Sean Connery as James Bond. He declined saying that James Bond had to be an Englishman and that he was 'too American'. He also suggested Roger Moore, who was a good friend of his, for the part. He relates this story in his memoirs 'Pieces of my heart' thate came out in 2008. This story is attributed to Clint Eastwood in the present article, but it looks like there has been a confusion ? (or did they have the exact same reaction to the role proposal? that seems weird) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.174.158.179 ( talk) 08:02, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
Many of these old Bond movies seem to have utterly pointless re-edits in the "new" remastered versions. The remastering is initially most obvious in the music but Live and Let Die has a re-edit that seems uttely pointless. In the original version Bond parks the decapitated London Double-decker bus at the end of the pier and escapes with Solitaire onto the boat that Quarrel Jr. has waiting. As they leave in the boat the weight of the bus collapses the pier and the whole lot sinks into the sea. In the remastered version the boat leaves the pier but the next edit cuts to aboard the boat and you do not see the pier collapse with the bus. This edit serves no function other than to irritate those who remember the original version. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.148.43.107 ( talk) 23:46, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
No comment on the article. Just wanted to express my condolences on the death of George Martin SonOfThornhill ( talk) 15:21, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
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I can see the appeal to audience and I do not doubt it works as a merchandising tie-in, but what is the in-universe explanation for Solitaire tarotting with 007-themed cards? 2A01:CB0C:CD:D800:EC01:F663:A26C:B216 ( talk) 14:22, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
So, if you actually watch this movie, you'll notice that every black character is somehow involved with Mr. Big. Yet somehow, You Only Live Twice is the "racist Bond movie." At least that You Only Live Twice had Asian characters that wanted to legitimately help 007, and openly stated that they wanted to help him. Even the one black character that tried to help James was working with Mr. Big. Yet this movie is not considered racist. 2600:8805:3A00:E200:9D83:2842:7C9F:CE81 ( talk) 21:53, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
Live and Let Die was released during the height of the blaxploitation era, and many blaxploitation archetypes and clichés are depicted in the film, including derogatory racial epithets ("honky"), black gangsters, and pimpmobiles.DonQuixote ( talk) 22:22, 19 August 2021 (UTC)