Line #11 Trivia/LiveAndLetDie


1	!!The film
2	* BTeamSequel:
3	** Richard Maibaum later claimed he was asked to write the film, but declined, as he was working on the MadeForTVMovie ''Jarrett''. He disliked the final film saying "to process drugs in the middle of the jungle is not a Bond caper."
4	** Creator/KenAdam was unable to return as production designer, as he was working on ''Film/{{Sleuth}}''.
5	** Music/JohnBarry was unable to score the film, as he was working on the stage musical ''Theatre/{{Bill}}''.
6	* BreakawayPopHit: The titular song by Music/PaulMcCartney and Music/{{Wings\|Band}} is one of the most famous Bond themes of all. It continues to get heavy airplay on classic rock stations to this day, as does its cover by Music/GunsNRoses, and is a staple of Sir Paul's live performance setlist. There are younger fans of the genre and song who aren't even aware that it's from a Bond film.
7	* CaliforniaDoubling: UsefulNotes/{{Jamaica}} doubled as the fictional San Monique. Jamaica itself exists in the setting since ''Film/DrNo'' (which was also filmed there a decade prior).
8	* CastTheExpert: Creator/GeoffreyHolder was not only an imposing (he stood at 6'6) yet jovial presence that was perfect for Baron Samedi, but he also choreographed the HollywoodVoodoo cult scenes, as he was a professional choreographer in addition to an actor.
9	* CompletelyDifferentTitle:
10	** ''The Dead Slave/It Is Them To Die'' (Japan)
11	** ''Allow To Leave Alone To Die'' (Poland)
12	** ''To Live And Let Die'' (Norway and Hungary)
13	** ''With 007 You Live And Let It Die'' (Brazil)
14	** ''Agent 007, Live and Let Die'' (Italy)
15	** ''Live and Let Others Die'' (Finland).
16	* CreatorBacklash: Creator/YaphetKotto [[http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2012/10/yaphet-kotto-kills-live-and-let-die.html stated that]] "There were so many problems with that script... I was too afraid of coming off like Mantan Moreland ... I had to dig deep in my soul and brain and come up with a level of reality that would offset the sea of stereotype crap that Tom Mankiewicz wrote that had nothing to do with the Black experience or culture." He found the way Kananga dies to be a "joke", and the entire experience was "not as rewarding as [he] wanted it to be".
17	* ExecutiveMeddling: Writer Tom Mankiewicz originally wanted to cast a black actress to play Solitaire, even considering Diana Ross for the role. It would have made more sense since ''all'' of the BigBad's henchmen are black except her, but the executives felt racial tensions at the time meant that TheWorldIsNotReady for a black Bond Girl (at least one that isn't TheMole). Indeed, it wasn't until 2002's ''Film/DieAnotherDay'' that Bond was given a black romantic lead.
18	* FollowTheLeader: If the setting of Harlem, New York, a mostly-African-American cast, arguably-gaudy pimpmobiles, [[JiveTurkey Bond being called a "honky"]], and Creator/YaphetKotto as the villain didn't make it obvious, ''Live and Let Die'' was made to cash-in on the still-booming {{Blaxploitation}} genre of TheSeventies and gave the genre noticable appeal to the big studios.
19	* HostilityOnTheSet: Creator/GuyHamilton didn't get on with Creator/YaphetKotto, finding him difficult:
20	-->Yaphet Kotto, I regret bitterly. I did not enjoy working with him at all. Originally it was to be a very distinguished American black actor. Suddenly Harry Saltzman announced he's out and UA say Yaphet Kotto is really hot property. We were forced into Yaphet Kotto. I'd never met him until he turned up on the set. He starts off thinking he should be playing Bond - quite seriously. He was very badly behaved, he would try and make life difficult. I am tremondously pro-black and I was determined because of having a big black cast that they all be treated properly - it wasn't us - it was the American crews that treated them like shit.
21	** Creator/RogerMoore wrote in his diary:
22	-->When Yaphet Kotto came to New Orleans and gave the Black Power salute there were those who said he had a chip on his shoulder. As a black actor in a predominately white industry perhaps he believed he had to assert himself.
23	** Kotto later resonded to Moore's comment:
24	-->I don't think that was fair. [But] I can see how he would have arrived at that opinion because I was very aloof and removed from everyone. It may have appeared I had a chip on my shoulder because I was quiet. I am not there to socialise. I think method actors are misunderstood. Maybe he wasn't used to method actors. I don't know what his problem was. It didn't bother me then, it doesn't bother me now.
25	** Moore elaborated on the Black Power incident:
26	-->[Publicity director] Derek Coyte pointed out that the pictures would rouse resentment from the rabid whites and would be seen as an endorsement of black power by militant blacks. We are making anything but a political picture, but Derek said the photographs syndicated far and wide would involve us in a controversy, which could do nothing but harm. Yaphet was incensed. At midday he and the black stuntmen lunched together and during the afternoon, Derek Coyte was ostracised by blacks [with whom he] had previously been pally.
27	** According to Moore, Harry Saltzman was so jealous of Moore's friendship with Creator/DavidHedison that he had the latter moved to a different hotel.
28	* LoopingLines: Bond regular Nikki van der Zyl partially redubbed Creator/JaneSeymourActress's lines during post production.
29	* OnSetInjury: Creator/RogerMoore injured his teeth and knee on his first day of shooting. Fortunately, he was filming the boat chase, so he was largely seated.
30	* TheOtherDarrin:
31	** Creator/RogerMoore replaces Creator/SeanConnery (who had technically replaced Creator/GeorgeLazenby.)
32	** Creator/DavidHedison also becomes the ''fifth'' actor to play Felix Leiter (he would later become the first one to [[Film/LicenceToKill reprise it]]).
33	* RecycledScript: The film has a lot in common with ''Film/DrNo'' - a British agent is killed by seemingly innocuous passersby, we meet Bond in his flat, Bond is menaced in his hotel room by a creepy crawly, there's a bogus taxi driver working for the villain, Bond and Quarrel sail out to the villain's domain under cover of night, the villain keeps islanders at bay by resurrecting mythological terrors with the aid of modern technology, and a villain has a prosthetic arm with a deadly grip. Both were filmed in Jamaica and both introduced an actor as Bond.
34	* TheRedStapler: Solitaire's Tarot deck was a prop designed by artist Fergus Hall specifically for use in the film. It was later sold briefly as the 007 deck before being renamed as the [[https://www.jamesbondlifestyle.com/product/tarot-witches-cards-fergus-hall Tarot of the Witches]].
35	* RefittedForSequel: The boat chase was supposed to be the climax of ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'', which was abandoned because Creator/GuyHamilton thought that boats were boring.
36	* TechnologyMarchesOn: M is nonplussed to watch Bond make coffee with his newfangled espresso machine. Clearly this is a man with refined and exotic tastes.
37	* ThrowItIn
38	** A speedboat crashing into a police car and utterly wrecking it was an accident, but no one was hurt and it looked great on camera, so they kept it in.
39	** Bond's quip to Tee Hee "Butterhook?" was ad libbed by Creator/RogerMoore on the set when Julius Harris fumbled with his watch. It subsequently became Harris's nickname throughout the production.
40	** Bond was originally going to succeed in using the boat to escape the crocodiles, until the farm's owner (also named Ross Kananga) showed the crew how he could run across their backs. Everyone agreed this was too awesome to not put in the movie. Kananga was also homaged [[{{Tuckerization}} with the alternate name for Mr. Big.]]
41	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/JamesBond Enough for its own page]].
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43	!!The novel
44	* CompletelyDifferentTitle: The book's Hungarian title is ''Voodoo''.
45	* SparedByTheCut: Felix Leiter originally suffered a SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome when the villains feed him to a shark. Creator/IanFleming's American publisher talked him out of it and he settled for having him lose an arm and a leg instead.
46	* WorkingTitle: ''The Undertaker's Wind''.
47	* WriteWhatYouKnow:
48	** Much of the novel draws from Fleming's personal experiences: the opening of the book, with Bond's arrival at New York's Idlewild Airport was inspired by Fleming's own journeys in 1941 and 1953, and the warehouse at which Leiter is attacked by a shark was based on a similar building Fleming and his wife had visited in St. Petersburg, Florida on their recent journey. He also used his experiences on his two journeys on the Silver Meteor as background for the route taken by Bond and Solitaire.
49	** Fleming's experiences on his first scuba dive with Creator/JacquesCousteau in 1953 provided much of the description of Bond's swim to Mr Big's boat, while the concept of limpet-mining is probably based on the wartime activities of the elite 10th Light Flotilla, a unit of Italian navy frogmen.

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