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[Tanger]

When Bond enters the office, he makes to throw his hat onto the stand; but somebody's moved it so it's right next to the door. He then continues in to see M, then is told to go to the conference room. After the main '00' briefing, Bond goes through to M for his assignment brief. When he goes to leave, he heads towards the hat stand, which is back in its original place...but there is no hat. He says ' I think I had a hat when I came in.' and leaves it at that.
Why, if there is a reason, would someone move the stand, only to move it back again. Furthermore, why would they nick Bond's hat? Moneypenny would have been in the room. Was it a joke on the part of another '00' agent? 008 perhaps?

It does explain one thing though...Why the hat doesn't show up in YOLT and DAF, and why the hats seen in OHMSS, FYEO, OP and AVTAK are each different.

[PaulZ108]

It makes no sense as the scene where Moneypenny lifts her skirt and reveals it to be crammed between her thighs (iviting him to take it) was cut.

[Tanger]

PaulZ108 (25 Mar, 2002 01:03 a.m.):
It makes no sense as the scene where Moneypenny lifts her skirt and reveals it to be crammed between her thighs (iviting him to take it) was cut.

LOL! If only!

[Tanger]

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[Tanger]

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[stromberg]

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Been digging in the garden for that one?
You must have had a two digit post count when you started this thread

To answer your initial question: I have no clue.

Maybe the hat was a Q-gadget. A premature form of the invisible car in DAD...

[crheath]

Thunderball has more errors than any other movie I can think.

When Bond locks Count Lippe in the steam machine and leaves, the words on the door are different then when he went in.

When Bond switches from a blue face mask to the black, it goes back to the blue the next shot.

When Felix helps Bond out of the water in the helicopter, his clothes are different.

There were reports that Peter Hunt was overwhelmed with having to edit the film by himself and getting no help at the time. That might have had something to do with it.

Edited by crheath, 27 March 2006 - 10:34 PM.

[Tanger]

Yes but the hat disappearing is no editing error.

It's a true mystery. Why has nobody ever questioned this before?

[ComplimentsOfSharky]

Real patriots question Sean's hat.


I noticed this once, I just thought it was an unfunny joke or something. I don't know what to tell you.

[Double-Oh-Zero]

Not sure about this one meself, although I'm willng to go along with PaulZ108's theory. I suppose it's just one of those small errors that we'll never know the reasoning behind, like the much-debated scene in DN when the General bloke is distracted by something off-camera whilst escorting Bond to Strangway's office.

Does kind of inadvertantly go along with the "I believe I had a hat when I came in" line, though.

[Blofeld's Cat]

A simple continuity error, surely.

[BMT-216A]

when my dad saw that scene for the first time he laughed (and i didnt understand) and i think he said 'thats what people said 40 years ago (or whenever) when they were trying to subtly get away from someone' in this case M. but i dont know why it disappears.....

[Skudor]

when my dad saw that scene for the first time he laughed (and i didnt understand) and i think he said 'thats what people said 40 years ago (or whenever) when they were trying to subtly get away from someone' in this case M. but i dont know why it disappears.....

That would sort of explain it, right? A joke around a concept so old that us youngsters simply don't understand it.

[stamper]

I stole it and sold to Sotheby's to the tune of 3 000 dollars. If only I had known Bond had much more life, I would have hold onto it and sold it later.

[Jaws0178]

Darn you, Herr Stamper!!! So much for German efficiency