These are what we call the 'YMMV items.' Things that some people find in this work. We call them 'your mileage might vary' because not everyone sees these things in the same way. This starts discussions in the trope lists, a thing we don't want. Please use the discussion page if you'd like to discuss any of these items.
YMMV: Live and Let Die
Badass Decay: Bond is supposed to be a very good spy and secret agent. Yet on this movie it is quite jarring how EVERYBODY seems to know what he is, what's he's up to, and what he's doing. Not only that, but they're following and tailing him at almost EVERY SINGLE INSTANT in the whole film, to the point he gets betrayed twice AND trapped three times.
Genius Bonus: 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 The Beatles' "A Day In The Life". The film's composer was George Martin.
Hilarious in Hindsight: Bond hears Felix communicating to his car through a cigarette lighter, noting "A genuine Felix Leiter/Lighter. Illuminating.". In Licence to Kill, Felix (again played by David Hedison) gives Bond a cigarette lighter as a gift for being his wedding's best man which he uses to kill Franz Sanchez as vengeance for Felix.
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.
It's quite obvious that the actor playing Tee-Hee is wearing a prop claw (you can see his wrist bending the sleeves, even though it's supposed to be solid steel).
Averted, surprisingly, on Bond's escape after being left to be eaten by crocodiles in a very small island. Instead of using fake props, those were actually real crocodiles. That ain't Moore or even a proper stunt double running on top of them. That's the owner of the ranch, Kananga himself.
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.
What Could Have Been: Perhaps to stave off the aforementioned Unfortunate Implications, the production crew originally wanted Solitaire to be black and the CIA contact/traitor to be white.
