History YMMV / LiveAndLetDie

** The fact that all but ''two'' black people in America (Agent Strutter and Quarrel Jr) are evil and somehow in league with Kananga. Including not only everyone who lives in San Monique, but apparently also the entire population of Harlem.

** The fact that all but ''two'' black people in America (Agent Strutter and Quarrel Jr) are evil and in league with Kananga. Including not only everyone who lives in San Monique, but apparently also the entire population of Harlem.

* HilariousInHindsight: Bond hears Felix communicating to his car through a cigarette lighter, noting "[[IncrediblyLamePun A genuine Felix Leiter/Lighter. Illuminating.]]". In ''Film/LicenceToKill'', Felix (again played by David Hedison) gives Bond a cigarette lighter as a gift for being his wedding's best man [[spoiler:which he uses to kill Franz Sanchez as vengeance for Felix.]]

** The fact that all but ''two'' black people in the world (Agent Strutter and Quarrel Jr) are evil and in league with Kananga. Including not only everyone who lives in San Monique, but apparently also the entire population of Harlem.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: That Paul [=McCartney=] title theme. Whoa.
** So much so that Guns 'n Roses did a cover of it.

* SpecialEffectFailure: the BigBad's death scene.
** There were limits on how realistic they could have possibly made that sequence without outraging the censors at the time. Still, it just goes to show what a poor idea that method of dispatch really was.

** Also in the movie: how about the fact that all but ''two'' black people in the world (Agent Strutter and Quarrel Jr) are evil and in league with Kananga? Including not only everyone who lives in San Monique, but apparently also the entire population of Harlem.
** Well, the people tracking Bond's car, except for the cab driver, were all CIA, so they are at least okay.
** Alas, poor Strutter.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Perhaps to stave off the aforementioned UnfortunateImplications, the production crew originally wanted Solitaire to be black and the CIA contact/[[spoiler:traitor]] to be white.
** It was 1973 and depicting an [[MalignedMixedMarriage interracial romance]] might have been considered risky.

** Bond tricking Solitaire into sleeping with him with a trick Tarot deck is up there with his blackmailing a woman into sex in ''{{Thunderball}}''.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Perhaps to stave off the aforementioned UnfortunateImplications, the production crew originally wanted Solitaire to be black and the CIA contact/[[spoiler:traitor]] to be white.

* GeniusBonus: At the close of the pre-credits sequence, to ratchet up the tension of the agent's death, the musical score quotes the Huge Chord from TheBeatles' "A Day In The Life". The film's composer was GeorgeMartin.

* HilariousInHindsight: Bond hears Felix communicating to his car through a cigarette lighter, noting "[[IncrediblyLamePun A genuine Felix Leiter/Lighter. Illuminating.]]". In ''Film/LicenceToKill'', Felix (again played by David Hedison) gives Bond a cigarette lighter as a gift for being his wedding's best man [[spoiler:which he uses to kill Franz Sanchez as vengeance for Felix.]]

* HilariousInHindsight: Bond hears Felix communicating to his car through a cigarette lighter, noting "[[IncrediblyLamePun A genuine Felix Leiter/Lighter. Illuminating.]]". In ''LicenceToKill'', Felix (again played by David Hedison) gives Bond a cigarette lighter as a gift for being his wedding's best man [[spoiler:which he uses to kill Franz Sanchez as vengeance for Felix.]]
* TheScrappy: Sheriff J. W. Pepper, to a certain extent, although this really set in for him after he reappeared in ''TheManWithTheGoldenGun''.

* NightmareFuel: Bond shoots Baron Samedi ''right in the head'', and his cranium breaks like a piece of pottery. He just looks up at it like it's nothing more than a papercut. What the hell ''is'' this guy?
** Answer- a dummy. Still creepy though.

** So much so that Guns 'n Roses did a cover of it. And it is also awesome.

** Well, the people tracking Bond's car, except for the cab driver, were all CIA, so they are at least okay.

* CrowningMomentOfFunny
-->'''Trooper:''' Now, J.W., this feller's from England, see, he's workin' in cooperation with our boys, he's a, a, secret agent.
-->'''Sheriff J.W. Pepper:''' Secret AGENT?!? On WHOSE SIDE?!?!?
-->'''Sheriff J.W. Pepper:''' WE GOT SOME '''''BLACK RUSSIANS!'''''

** Also in the movie: how about the fact that all but ''two'' black people in the world (Agent Strutter and Quarrel Jr) are evil and in league with Kananga? Including not only everyone who lives in San Monique, but apparently also the entire population of Harlem.

* UnfortunateImplications: Rescuing the white DistressedDamsel from the [[ScaryBlackMan Scary Black Men]]. And that's just the movie; let's not talk about the book.