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▲{{quote|''When you were young and your heart was an open book<br />
▲You used to say live and let live<br />
▲(you know you did, you know you did, you know you did...)<br />
''Say Live and Let Die!''|'''[[
▲But if this ever changing world in which we're livin' makes you give in and cry...<br />
▲Say Live and Let Die!''|'''[[Paul McCartney (Music)|Paul McCartney]] and [[Wings (Music)|Wings]]''' singing the title song}}
The 8th [[James Bond]] film, starring Roger Moore in his first appearance. [[James Bond]] is assigned to a case involving a drug lord that utilizes Voodoo (or at least the [[Hollywood Voodoo|Hollywood version]]). After rescuing the drug lord's tarot fortune teller from her virginity (a controversial scene, since it involved Bond tricking her), it becomes a plot of everybody trying to kill them.
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Includes a boat chase in Louisiana, which resulted in at least a dozen speedboats being written off when they filmed it.
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* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: The portrayal of black people is ''much, much'' improved upon from the book. The villains are still evil, but they at least talk like they finished grade school. As with ''[[Goldfinger]]'', [[Ian Fleming]] was a great author but sadly a product of his time.
* [[Aerosol Flamethrower]]: Bond improvises one to kill the snake released in his bathroom.
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* [[Big Applesauce]]: Starts at the UN, and also goes to [[New York City|the Harlem]].
* [[The Big Easy]]
* [[Blofeld Ploy]]: Inverted. Kananga looks like he's going to test Bond's shark gun on Whisper, but he shoots the couch he's sitting on instead (then again, over the years the couch had surely served him well).
* [[Bond Villain Stupidity]]: Bond is left on a small island surrounded by crocodiles without a single guard watching to make sure he dies, after having previously escaped Kananga's traps more than once. Why they don't shoot him ''then'' feed his body to the
** A minor case: If the dialogue between Solitaire and Bond on the boat immediately after the chase sequence is to be believed, Bond and Solitaire were actually NOT going to continue chasing Kananga and were going to leave everything on Felix's hands. If he had only allowed them to leave, odds are that at worst he would've been arrested for a couple of years. However he does not. Couple of minutes later
* [[Book Safe]]: A Bible.
* [[Bottomless Magazines]]: Averted, Bond uses a revolver at one point and fires exactly six shots before resorting to hand-to-hand combat.
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* [[Cute Clumsy Girl]]: Rosie Carver, though this could be [[Obfuscating Stupidity|at least partially an act]].
* [[Deadfoot Leadfoot]]: Whisper kills Bond driver not long after his arrival on New York, and he has to navigate through traffic with the dead guy's foot on the gas.
* [[Death
* [[Death
* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: Quite unusually, Bond's magnet watch also turns out to have a serrated edge that can cut ropes when the face is spun, which comes out of nowhere in the climax. Ironically, it's perhaps the most plausible gadget in the whole series, so you'd think writing in a mention of it beforehand wouldn't be too hard.
* [[The Dragon]]: Tee Hee, Baron Samedi.
** [[Dragon Their Feet]]: Tee Hee.
** [[Dragon-in-Chief]]: If Samedi is the real deal, he's probably this.
* [[Elaborate Underground Base]]: Under San Monique.
* [[Everyone Hates Hades]]: Baron Samedi is portrayed as a Voodoo version of Satan who has numerous zombie servants. In actual Voodoo mythology, Samedi is known for making the dead rot quicker so they can't be turned into zombies.
* [[Evil Chancellor]]: Mister Big himself.
* [[Evil Laugh]]: Baron Samedi, who has a single line, but lots of laughter (which even appears in ''[[
* [[Fingore]]: Someone threatens to cut off Bond's finger.
** Along with some... [[Groin Attack|other]] important parts of his anatomy.
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* [[The Hyena]] / [[Meaningful Name]]: Tee Hee.
* [[Instant Convertible]]: Done with a bus when the police force of San Monique is chasing Bond, and he drives under a tunnel.
* [[It's Always Mardi Gras in New Orleans]]: Averted, it uses [[wikipedia:Jazz funeral|jazz funerals]] since ''[[
* [[Just Between You and Me]]
** Subverted when Mr. Big says "Take this honky out and waste him!"
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* [[Kick the Dog]]: When Kananga slaps Solitaire in the face after she sleeps with Bond.
* [[Large Ham]]: Kananga.
** Pepper too, even more when he [[The Man
* [[Latex Perfection]]: {{spoiler|Dr. Kananga as Mr. Big}}. A subversion- the actor is wearing real latex, and is playing both characters
* [[The Mole]]: Rosie Carver.
* [[Mondegreen]]: The theme song includes a line about "this ever changing world in which we're living," which has often been misheard and mocked as the redundant "in which we live in."
* [[Mutilation Interrogation]]: Tee Hee and Bond.
* [[Never Smile At a Crocodile]]: At one point during the film, Bond is trapped on a small island in the middle of a Crocodile-infested pond.
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]] / [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate]]: Kananga, who is at least partially based on Dr Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier, dictator of Haiti, who used Voodoo as the basis of his [[Cult of Personality|personality cult]] and even claimed that he was Baron Samedi. Inverted with the name- Kananga was the [[Real Life]] owner of the crocodile farm and the producers decided to use his name for the movie, so the real Kananga became a minor celebrity as a result of this film.
* [[No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine]]: Kananga, after he captures Bond in his underground lair.
* [[Not My Driver]]: Happens to Bond and Solitaire when they get a cab in New Orleans. The driver turns out to be the same guy who drove Bond back in Harlem, who then proceeds to trap them in his car.
* [[Older Than They Look]]: Would you have guessed that Roger Moore was ''45'' (and three years ''older'' than [[Sean Connery]]) when he first played Bond here?
* [[Pistol-Whipping]]: Adam, one of Mr. Big's thugs, knocks out Sheriff Pepper's brother-in-law Billy Bob when he steals his boat
* [[Power Perversion Potential]]: Proven when Bond uses his magnetic watch to ''unzip'' a woman's dress.
* [[Precision F-Strike]]: The first of (currently, [[A View to
* [[Rape Is Love]]: Bond tricks Solitaire into having sex with him and she falls in love with him, thinking it predestined because she drew the Lovers card from his hand, when ''every'' card was the Lovers. It's ''technically'' not rape--he doesn't force her to do anything and she did draw the Lovers card earlier--but it's still one of his sleazier conquests.
* [[Reality Is Unrealistic]]: One of the most unbelievable and cartoonish stunts, {{spoiler|Bond jumping on some crocodiles to safety after being left to die on a small island}} was actually an authentic feat by the owner of the crocodile ranch.
* [[Red Right Hand]]: Tee Hee's [[Artificial Limbs|right arm]].
* [[Religion Is Magic]]: Baron Samedi and voodoo.
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* [[Sound Effect Bleep]]
* [[Standard Hollywood Strafing Procedure]]: By a helicopter while Bond is hiding under the poppy field net.
* [[Staying Alive]]: Baron Samedi.
* [[Storming the Castle]]
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: Quarrel Jr., to his father.
** Which they did to work around the fact that Quarrel first appeared in the book ''Live and Let Die'', but they filmed ''[[
* [[Tap
* [[Tarot Motifs]]: A new deck was designed for the movie.
* [[Theme Tune Cameo]]: A lounge singer gives the title song a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UVTsiNbICQ Motown-style reprise], and she mocks Bond from the stage as he's captured by the bad guys.
* [[Traintop Battle]]: Though it never actually gets on ''top'' of the train.
* [[Tuckerization]]: Dr. Kananga was named after the guy who owned the crocodile farm seen in the film. {{spoiler|The feet you see running on top of the crocodiles when Bond escapes said farm? Those were Kananga's, and those were real crocodiles.}}
* [[The Unintelligible]]: Whisper.
* [[United Nations]]
* [[Villain
** Then again, they probably don't know that Mr. Big and Dr. Kananga are the same person. In the interrogation scene, Mr. Big [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Doc Browns]] Bond by pulling off his makeup and revealing Kananga underneath.
* [[Virgin Power]]: Solitaire's tarot reading ability.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Bond's dialogue with Quarrel Jr. after the chase scene implies Bond was going to use Scarlett, perhaps one of the frailest Bond girls out there, to negotiate with Kananga, apparently even WILLING to give her back if necessary. To a man that most definitely wants her dead (or at least punished). And he says that with a SMIRK.
* [[Why Don't
** Likewise the "put him in an easily-escapable deathtrap and then just walk away and assume it worked" meme is exemplified when Bond is marooned on a rock in a lake full of hungry crocodiles without even a single mook left behind to watch him.
** Minor case: when Bond and Solitaire get captured on the Taxi, why didn't the taxi driver just SHOT Bond then and there when he had the chance?
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