History Film / Octopussy

* CoolGuns:
** CZ vz. 58s are carried by Soviet soldiers and Khan's men. Bond later procures one himself, notably shooting it while sliding down a staircase.
** Kamal Khan attempts to kill Bond with a Smith and Wesson Model 39 on the train.
** Gobinda uses a double-barrelled shotgun converted into a blunderbuss to try and kill Bond.
** BSA Scorpions loaded with tranquilizer darts are used by Octopussy and her team to fight off Kamal Khan's men.

* CoolTrain: Te Octopussy's circus train. The locomotives used are a Danish DSB S Class 2-6-4T tank engine No.740, which was renumbered 62 015 for filming, Swedish SJ B Class 4-6-0 No.1697, disguised as 38 243 which collides with the Mercedes, and Swedish SJ S Class 2-6-2T No.1178. Justfied, as the East German railways (Deutsche Reichsbahn) used steam locomotives on line service until 1988. The rolling stock are former LMS wagons painted in circus scheme.

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* CreatorCameo: Producer Michael G. Wilson appears as a member of the Soviet Politburo at the beginning of the film.

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Octopussy and her minions do not appear to get any consequences for their smuggling operation which unintentionally nearly led to a US Air Base and the surrounding German city being obliterated by a Nuclear Bomb.]]

** The first two acts feature a lot of the silliness and narm that defined the Roger Moore era. [[spoiler: However the third act becomes very serious when Bond realizes that a Nuclear bomb is about to detonate on a US Air Base in Germany.]]

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Once Bond realizes Orlov's plot is very sound his tone changes completely. Gone is the lighthearted Roger Moore Bond and he spends the rest of the movie desperately trying to get to the base to prevent the explosion.

* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The jewellery smuggling plot was inspired by a scandal in the Soviet Union involving General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev's son Yuri Brezhnev manipulating the Moscow State Circus to smuggle jewellery.

* EiffelTowerEffect: There is a shot of Bond's helicopter flying in front of the Taj Mahal, although Agra is not on the way to his destination. The director felt that he needed to insert a shot of the Taj Mahal because it was so beautiful, and they were in India anyway.

* EggMacguffin: The forged (and real) Fabergé egg in the first half.

* DeathBySex: Octopussy ''thinks'' Bond gets killed after having sex with her (and she looks quite upset about it), but fortunately he survives; this is a much more fortunate outcome than the ''last'' time a BondGirl played by Maud Adams lay with Bond in ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun''.

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