10 Movie Mistakes You Can Never Unsee
3. Worst. Extra. Ever. - Quantum Of Solace
One of the unsung arts of making any big movie is ensuring that the hundreds if not thousands of extras and "background artists" are co-ordinated successfully, because if an assistant director gets it wrong, the results can be hilarious.
Case in point, Quantum of Solace features an hysterical beat where Bond (Daniel Craig) is sat on a motorcycle while staring pensively into the middle-distance, and a dock worker sweeping in the background...isn't actually sweeping the ground.
The air-sweeping has become a viral sensation in recent years, while filmmaking logic suggests that the extra was instructed not to actually sweep the floor because it would generate unwanted noise.
That he was allowed to wander into frame while doing this, though, is absolutely absurd - all the more so given Craig's totally stoic foreground expression.