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Algernon: Expert to encounter you lot, Mr. Bail. Things've been clumsily slow 'round here. I promise nosotros're going to come across some complimentary sex and violence in this one!
James Bond: I certainly hope so, as well.

The One With… Bail and the villain settling their differences... with a video game duel.

An "unofficial" annotation Not part of the long-running Eon Productions film series James Bail picture show released in 1983, starring Sean Connery and directed by Irvin Kershner (director of The Empire Strikes Dorsum). It's a remake of Thunderball, with ii nuclear warheads stolen by SPECTRE and used in a bribery endeavor against the nations of the earth. Bail is sent to investigate the only lead, Domino Petachi (Kim Basinger in her Star-Making Role), sister of the airplane pilot who performed the functioning. The filmmakers intentionally decided to have Connery play an aging James Bond — though notably, Connery is actually younger than Roger Moore, who was yet the current 007 in the official films at the time. Michel Legrand composed the soundtrack.

This movie was the result of an odd legal state of affairs whereby Kevin McClory, who had co-written a pic script with Ian Fleming that would get the novel Thunderball, was immune to retain the rights to that film'south story and the characters who appeared in it. This included SPECTRE and Blofeld, who consequently were retired from the official Bail films after 1971's Diamonds Are Forever, not actualization once again until 2015'south Spectre when Eon Productions finally re-obtained the rights (it likewise forced Electronic Arts to rename SPECTRE to the insufficiently cutesy-sounding OCTOPUS when they adjusted From Russia with Love into a video game).

It was in direct competition with Eon'south Octopussy, which came out the aforementioned year. McClory never followed up on this moving-picture show to continue his goal of making his own James Bond franchise to rival the Eon serial, due to the constant legal disputes with Albert R. Broccoli in doing so and having just the Thunderball novel to work with.

This film provides examples of:

  • Adaptational Consent: In both this and Thunderball Bond seduces the nurse attending him at the wellness clinic. Notoriously though, the run into in Thunderball is a instance of borderline rape and Bond virtually / really blackmails the nurse into sleeping with him. It's cryptic how serious he was existence or whether she honestly felt threatened by it, but it can be nonetheless uncomfortable to watch. Here, the encounter is explicitly consensual and no bribery — joking or otherwise — is involved at all. Rather, she's interested and Bail sweetens the deal with gourmet food.
  • Adaptational Nice Guy: Largo in Thunderball was a flat-out sociopath, while here he's more than Affably Evil.
  • Adaptational Villainy: In Thunderball Domino'due south brother was murdered past SPECTRE and replaced with a lookalike. In this film, he actually defects and helps them (albeit due to a combination of drugs & Chroma'due south sexual activity), though, like the same counterpart, he however gets what's coming to him.
  • Affably Evil: Both Largo and Fatima Blush.
  • Artistic License – Gun Safety: Q decides to exam fire the pen gun on the aforementioned range as Bond while standing backside him, firing at the same targets Bail is firing at and without alarm Bond that he'due south almost to fire.
  • Bated Glance: The film ends with Sean Connery winking at the audience.
  • Auction of Evil: Largo eventually sells Domino to be auctioned as a sex slave earlier Bond saves her.
  • Ax-Crazy: Largo. Fabricated pretty literal when he demolishes part of the Flying Saucer with an ax trying to find Bail.
  • Bastard Boyfriend: Largo. Also insanely jealous, and once he thinks Domino has fallen for Bond turns into a Domestic Abuser.
  • Beard of Evil: Blofeld
  • Blood Knight: Aside from existence a Femme Fatale, she as well revels in murdering her rivals and sexual conquests.
  • Bail One-Liner: Wouldn't exist a Bond motion picture without one.

    Fatima: Oh. I got you all wet.
    Bond: Yes, but my martini is still dry.

  • Brainwashed and Crazy: Domino'due south brother, cheers to some heroin encouragement.
  • Broad Strokes: Rather loosely follows the plot of the picture show Thunderball rather than the novel, with an update to the 80's and a motorbike for Bail to ride.
  • Choke Holds: James uses a sleeper concur on a mook guard during the opening and an assassin uses a sleeper hold on one of the attendants at Shrublands.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: Largo comes across like this at times.
  • Complexity Habit: Fatima passes up several opportunities to electrocute Bond with a gun, knife or explosive in favor of a convoluted ambush using remote-controlled sharks.
  • Crash-Into Hello: Invoked by Fatima Blush who slips and falls into Bond's arms on their first encounter.
  • Cut Autonomously: 007 is having sex with a girl as a bomb ticks abroad nether his bed. Cue explosion in a room across the courtyard from Bond and Bail Girl.

    Bail: Well, it proves we fabricated the correct decision.
    Fishing Girl: About what, darling?
    Bail: Your place or mine.

  • Da Principal: Bizarrely, M plays a foreign British variation of this trope. The film acknowledges this Grand is explicitly not the same character as Bernard Lee'south.
  • Die Laughing: Fatima.

    Bond: "Not perfected notwithstanding"!

  • Do Not Arrange Your Set: Unlike in Thunderball, Blofeld delivers a far more hammy version that even includes his Right-Paw True cat!
  • Driving into a Truck: While James Bond is riding a motorcycle, the enemy mooks force him to ride upward a ramp into a truck so he can be captured. However, as the ramp is rising up to trap him he guns it and jumps the motorcycle over the ramp and out of the truck.
  • Eye Scream: Domino'due south brother has surgery on ane of his eyes to pass a retina browse. This comes complete with a close-up of the hideous stitched-together monstrosity. Once information technology heals properly though all information technology looks similar is that he has slight heterochromia, and equally Fatima notes, when he has his contacts in you'd never notice anything at all.
  • Failed a Spot Check: The Parisian police fails to find that the "boxer in training" and his bicycling director are both wearing clothes shoes with black socks.
  • Faux-Out Opening: The opening of the film is simply a test do.
  • Fast-Roping: Done during the opening.
  • Femme Fatale: Fatima Blush, for many the sole reason to see the moving-picture show. Barbara Carrera doesn't Chew the Scenery, she has a iv grade meal plus dessert.
  • Friendly Enemy: The Affably Evil Largo towards Bail.
  • Gadget Watches: Bond uses a sentinel with a born laser to cut open the manacles holding him and escape.
  • Gasp!: Fatima's inital reaction to spotting Bond with nighttime vision goggles. When Jack asks her if she knows who he is, she gleefully replies, "Oh, yes... James Bond. 007."
  • Giant Mook: Lippe, presumably this picture's version of Count Lippe. Naturally, played by Pat Roach.
  • Green-Eyed Monster: Largo is extremely possessive of Domino. Seeing Bond dancing with her turns their antagonism from professional to quite personal.
  • Groin Assault:
    • While Bond is fighting the SPECTRE assassinator at Shrublands role of their battle occurs in a kitchen. Afterward Bond throws a pan of water in the assassin'south confront he kicks him in the basics and runs away.
    • Fatima threatens to perform this on Bond with a bullet from her gun.

      Fatima Chroma: You're quite a homo, Mr. James Bond, only I am a superior woman. Judge where yous get the beginning one?

  • High Neckband of Doom: One of Fatima'south many outfits.
  • Hospital Hottie: Another of Fatima's many outfits.
  • Indecisive Parody: The moving-picture show tin't quite seem to make up one's mind if it's a harsh satire of the Eon series or if it's a regular James Bond film. Plainly satirical scenes (such as Bail'due south word with Thou at the beginning) are next with normal Bond-style scenes, and a blatantly eye-aged Bond certainly doesn't help matters (though Moore was a few years older than Connery and starring in Octopussy at the aforementioned time, even he felt he was besides old in the adjacent Bond picture, A View to a Kill, and he definitely looked also onetime).
  • Improvised Weapon: Bond defeats 1 Mook with his urine. notation Well, causing the Giant Mook to stumble into beakers and get killed past broken shards of glass.
  • Improvised Zipline: During the opening.
  • Instant Sedation: During the opening (so information technology probably wasn't real).
  • Jerkass: M, who is far more contemptuous and hundred-to-one of Bond'southward abilities here than perhaps whatsoever incarnation of 1000 from the official serial.
  • Keep the Advantage: When Bond beats Largo at the "Domination" video game, theoretically winning over $300,000, he turns downward Largo'due south coin in exchange for a dance with Domino. Subverted in that Largo's jealousy makes the trip the light fantastic a much bigger sting than losing coin.
  • Kick the Canis familiaris: Largo auctioning Domino to some lecherous Arabian slavers. He'd generally been Affably Evil up until this point and then this scene seems like information technology was included just to make Largo out to be more of a bastard.
  • Kitchen Hunt: The assassin trying to kill Bail at Shrublands follows him into a kitchen and a fight breaks out, complete with a terrified female chef.
  • Kneel Before Zod: Fatima'south last see with Bond.
  • Made a Slave: Largo'due south concluding fashion of disposing of Domino is to sell her as a Sexual practice Slave.
  • Meaningful Name: "Small-Fawcett". Doesn't accept Sigmund Freud to get that joke.
  • Memetic Badass: Invoked with the gag that Bond might exist so badass his piss can burn a homo's confront, and potentially even kill.
  • Mistaken for Servant: Domino mistakes Bond for the masseur. As she is an attractive adult female in a towel, he doesn't correct her and does the task (as whatever admirer would).
  • Ms. Fanservice: Domino is played by Kim Basinger. Barbara Carrera equally Fatima is rather fetching as well.
  • No, Mr. Bail, I Expect You lot to Dine: Bond spends fourth dimension aboard the Flying Saucer as an unwilling but well cared-for invitee.
  • Non-Indicative Proper noun: The title has nothing to do with the plot. It refers to Connery returning to the role of Bail after pledging to never play the character once again. Connery's wife suggested the title, and she'southward listed in the credits for information technology. (Thought information technology does get almost-dropped at the very end, with a literal flash.)
  • No OSHA Compliance: The staircases in Nicole'southward firm definitely don't await safe for anyone prone to losing their balance.
  • Zippo Can Stop United states At present!: Blofeld says this equally the warhead is existence sent to the target.
  • Older Hero vs. Younger Villain: Though not younger by that much, but Bond is definitely showing his age - which is Thou's complaint (though this incarnation of M would announced to have difficulty running an ice foam parlour, nevermind MI6, then he can't complain about having Bond on his payroll).
  • Overt Operative: Lampshaded by Bail, when Nigel Small-Fawcett is yelling Bond's proper name to attract his attention, and then acts furtively when talking to Bond. The fact Nigel is played by Mr. Bean and Johnny English makes it funnier. invoked

    Nigel Small-Fawcett: [yelling] Mr Bail! I say Mr. Bond! Nigel Modest-Fawcett, British Embassy, Nassau.
    James Bond: Nice to meet you Nigel.
    Nigel Small-Fawcett: Sorry I'k late, merely equally you're i of these undercover jollies, I took the precaution of not being followed.
    James Bond: And that's why yous shouted my name across the harbor?
    Nigel Small-Fawcett: Oh God, did I? Oh I'm sorry! Damn! Damn! Sorry I'thousand rather new to all this!

  • The Pen Is Mightier: When it's a pocket-sized rocket launcher, it is.
  • Pocket Rocket Launcher: Ane of the gadgets James Bond is provided by Algernon the quartermaster is a miniature rocket launcher disguised as a fountain pen. Bond ends upwards using it to blow upwardly SPECTRE agent Fatima Blush when Blush, eager to obtain proof that she was the one who killed the legendary James Bond, orders him to write a letter at gunpoint.
  • Production Placement: Atari, of all things. A particularly ironic case of this at that, considering that this film was released in the year 1983. To be fair, the games shown off are stand-upward arcade cabinets, which continued strong throughout The '80s and early on 90's.
  • Punch Take hold of: During the fight between Bond and the SPECTRE assassin at Shrublands, Bond throws a punch at the assassin and the assassin calmly grabs Bail'south fist, demonstrating his tremendous strength.
  • Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh...: One of the SPECTRE assassins is then tough that he not only shrugs off Bail'south punches, simply pulls a Dial Grab.
  • Punny Name: Nigel Minor-Fawcett. Pocket-size-Fawcett...small faucet. Doesn't have Sigmund Freud to get that joke.
  • Race Lift: Felix Leiter, who is played by African-American actor Bernie Casey.
  • Revealing Cover-Up: SPECTRE'Southward effort to keep their activities at Shrubland'due south a undercover not only attract Bond's attention, only indicate him in the direction of Domino - and by extension, Largo.
  • Right-Manus Cat: Blofeld wouldn't be Blofeld without having his white Persian cat.
  • Running Gag: The bit near "eliminating Free Radicals."
  • Sealed with a Kiss: It's a Bond film, it's expected.

    Small-Fawcett: M says that without you lot in the service, he fears for the security of the civilized world.
    Bond: Never once more.
    Domino: Never?
    Soundtrack: ♪ Never, never say never once again, never, never say never again! ♫
    (Bond winks to camera and moves in on Domino. Credits Roll.)

  • Self-Plagiarism: Screenwriters Dick Cloudless and Ian La Frenais reused a joke from the first episode of Porridge:

    Fill up this glass.

    What, from here?

  • Shark Pool: Fatima Blush turns the Caribbean area into a giant version past sending electronically controlled sharks to assail Bond after placing a Tracking Device on him.
  • She's Got Legs: Fatima. "Then nurse-y volition give infant his candy."
  • Shoe Phone: Subverted at to the lowest degree once. The "gyroscopic bomb" disguised as a cigar case turns out to exist just a cigar instance. And and so there's Q's mini-rocket launcher bearded every bit a fountain pen.
  • Slave Marketplace: Bond rescues Bond Girl Domino Petachi from slave traders, where she'd been shackled to a mail and put up for auction. Domino had been sent in that location every bit punishment for betraying Big Bad Largo.
  • Smoldering Shoes: Played straight when Fatima is killed by one of Q's devices.
  • Soundtrack Dissonance: The theme is a calorie-free, easy listening melody, and it'south outset played during the opening training sequence where Bond beats the crap out of everyone.
  • Spanner in the Works: Keep in listen, James stumbled onto the plot while he was on holiday in a health spa.
  • A Spy at the Spa: Bond poses as a masseur to become information from Domino.
  • Stockholm Syndrome: "She could have turned."
  • Stocking Filler: Fatima Blush has Jack Petachi hooked on heroin to forcefulness him to obey her. She carries a hypo filled with the drug in a garter chugalug (under a nurse's uniform no less), and exposes it while taking out the hypo. On YouTube starting at i:05.
  • Harbinger Feminist: Fatima Blush certainly prides herself on being an empowered adult female able to control any man she wants, merely when Bail implies that he was non impressed past her performance while making beloved, she virtually goes to pieces, frightened and embarrassed by the idea that her sexual prowess is anything less than stellar. For a brief moment, Fatima really begs Bail to assure her that making love to her was the greatest experience of his life - right before she resumes threatening to shoot him in his privates, and she took neat please in murdering her "rival" for Bond'south affections also. Once more, Sigmund Freud, field day.
  • Take That!: Algernon's quip almost hoping to see some "gratuitous sexual practice and violence" was aimed at the "official" Bond films which had become cartoonish. Granted, this film'southward not much better in that regard.
  • There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Fatima's decease blows her upward completely.
  • Threatening Shark: Fatima sends electronically controlled sharks to attack Bond subsequently placing a Tracking Device on him.
  • Tracking Device: Fatima Blush plants one on Bail then her electronically controlled sharks can home in on him.
  • Tranquillizer Sprint: James uses a sleep-poisoned blowgun dart on a Mook guard at the beginning.
  • Truer to the Text: There are a handful of moments that definitely go back to the original novel rather than the previous movie — the well-nigh obvious being the final death of Largo, where Domino shooting him underwater goes much closer to how it's described in the book.
  • Under the Truck: During a chase scene Bond dives under a truck with his motorcycle and exits the other side.
  • Unwinnable Training Simulation: Discussed. Bond's new dominate is dissatisfied with his operation during the simulated preparation missions (he died in one case and lost his legs in another mission). Bond then points out that training missions cannot be compared to the real thing as the adrenaline boost is missing.
  • Villainous Friendship: Largo and Blush are both homicidal psychopaths but they seem to be on genuinely friendly terms with each other, and Largo has to remind her at times that he is her superior. They are otherwise on get-go name terms and he personally chose her to "recruit" Jack Petachi.
  • Why Don't Yous Just Shoot Him?: Fatima Blush has not i, not ii, not even 3, but four times to only shoot Bond, merely simply settles for trying inane things similar trying to go him eaten by sharks, blowing him up, killing Nicole for no reason, and trying to get Bond to put her in his memoirs. This last one gets her killed.
  • Writing Around Trademarks: While information technology employs the plot and character names of Thunderball, Bond mainstays which Eon wouldn't allow such equally the Leitmotif and the Bond Gun Barrel are absent.
  • You Are Number six: Largo calls Fatima "Number 12" at one point to remind her that they have a strictly professional human relationship. This, when she was going to buss him for giving her an order to kill Bail's female assistant.
  • Y'all Have Outlived Your Usefulness: After Jack Petachi has served his purpose (replacing the dummy warheads with real ones), he is killed off by Fatima.
  • You're Insane!: Delivered by Domino to Largo. Largo just smiles and agrees.
  • Zeerust: The arcade game Domination, very much so. It was supposed to exist advanced and futuristic, but it comes off every bit LESS advanced than the games in the game room in the casino that Domino had just been inside.

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