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Algernon: Skillful to see yous, Mr. Bond. Things've been awfully dull 'round here. I hope nosotros're going to see some gratuitous sex and violence in this one!
James Bond: I certainly hope so, besides.

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

An "unofficial" ^note Not part of the long-running Eon Productions moving picture series James Bond pic released in 1983, starring Sean Connery and directed by Irvin Kershner (manager of The Empire Strikes Back). Information technology's a remake of Thunderball, with two nuclear warheads stolen by SPECTRE and used in a bribery attempt confronting the nations of the world. Bond is sent to investigate the only pb, Domino Petachi (Kim Basinger in her Star-Making Role), sister of the pilot who performed the operation. The filmmakers intentionally decided to take Connery play an aging James Bail — though notably, Connery is actually younger than Roger Moore, who was still the electric current 007 in the official films at the time. Michel Legrand composed the soundtrack.

This movie was the result of an odd legal situation whereby Kevin McClory, who had co-written a movie script with Ian Fleming that would get the novel Thunderball, was allowed to retain the rights to that film's story and the characters who appeared in information technology. This included SPECTRE and Blofeld, who consequently were retired from the official Bond films afterward 1971's Diamonds Are Forever, not appearing once again until 2015's Spectre when Eon Productions finally re-obtained the rights (information technology also forced Electronic Arts to rename SPECTRE to the comparatively cutesy-sounding OCTOPUS when they adapted From Russia with Dearest into a video game).

Information technology was in direct competition with Eon's Octopussy, which came out the same year. McClory never followed up on this pic to continue his goal of making his own James Bond franchise to rival the Eon series, due to the constant legal disputes with Albert R. Broccoli in doing so and having only the Thunderball novel to work with.

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This film provides examples of:

• Adaptational Consent: In both this and Thunderball Bail seduces the nurse attending him at the health clinic. Notoriously though, the encounter in Thunderball is a case of borderline rape and Bond virtually / actually blackmails the nurse into sleeping with him. It's ambiguous how serious he was being or whether she honestly felt threatened past information technology, only it can be all the same uncomfortable to lookout. Here, the encounter is explicitly consensual and no bribery — joking or otherwise — is involved at all. Rather, she's interested and Bond sweetens the deal with gourmet food.
• Adaptational Overnice Guy: Largo in Thunderball was a flat-out sociopath, while hither he'due south more Affably Evil.
• Adaptational Villainy: In Thunderball Domino's brother was murdered by SPECTRE and replaced with a lookalike. In this motion picture, he actually defects and helps them (albeit due to a combination of drugs & Blush's sexual activity), though, similar the aforementioned counterpart, he nevertheless gets what's coming to him.
• Affably Evil: Both Largo and Fatima Blush.
• Bated Glance: The picture show ends with Sean Connery winking at the audience.
• Sale of Evil: Largo eventually sells Domino to exist auctioned as a sex slave earlier Bond saves her.
• Ax-Crazy: Largo. Made pretty literal when he demolishes part of the Flight Saucer with an ax trying to find Bond.
• Bastard Boyfriend: Largo. As well insanely jealous, and one time he thinks Domino has fallen for Bond turns into a Domestic Abuser.
• Beard of Evil: Blofeld
• Blood Knight: Aside from being a Femme Fatale, she also revels in murdering her rivals and sexual conquests.
• Bond 1-Liner: Wouldn't be a Bond movie without one.

  Fatima: Oh. I got you all moisture.
  Bond: Yep, but my martini is withal dry.

• Brainwashed and Crazy: Domino's brother, cheers to some heroin encouragement.
• Broad Strokes: Rather loosely follows the plot of the film Thunderball rather than the novel, with an update to the 80's and a motorbike for Bond to ride.
• Asphyxiate Holds: James uses a sleeper concur on a mook guard during the opening and an assassinator uses a sleeper hold on one of the attendants at Shrublands.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Largo comes across like this at times.
• Complexity Addiction: Fatima passes upwardly several opportunities to electrocute Bond with a gun, knife or explosive in favor of a convoluted deadfall using remote-controlled sharks.
• Crash-Into Hello: Invoked by Fatima Blush who slips and falls into Bond'due south arms on their showtime encounter.
• Cut Apart: 007 is having sex with a daughter every bit a bomb ticks away under his bed. Cue explosion in a room across the courtyard from Bond and Bond Girl.

  Bail: Well, it proves we made the right determination.
  Line-fishing Girl: Near what, darling?
  Bond: Your identify or mine.

• Da Chief: Bizarrely, M plays a strange British variation of this trope. The motion-picture show acknowledges this M is explicitly not the same grapheme as Bernard Lee's.
• Dice Laughing: Fatima.

  Bail: "Not perfected all the same"!

• Do Not Suit Your Set: Unlike in Thunderball, Blofeld delivers a far more hammy version that even includes his Right-Hand True cat!

• Driving into a Truck: While James Bail is riding a motorbike, the enemy mooks force him to ride up a ramp into a truck and so he tin be captured. Nevertheless, as the ramp is rising upwardly to trap him he guns information technology and jumps the motorcycle over the ramp and out of the truck.

• Middle Scream: Domino'due south brother has surgery on one of his optics to pass a retina browse. This comes consummate with a close-up of the hideous stitched-together monstrosity. Once it heals properly though all information technology looks like is that he has slight heterochromia, and as Fatima notes, when he has his contacts in you'd never observe anything at all.
• Failed a Spot Cheque: The Parisian police fails to notice that the "boxer in preparation" and his bicycling manager are both wearing wearing apparel shoes with black socks.
• Faux-Out Opening: The opening of the pic is only a test exercise.
• Fast-Roping: Done during the opening.
• Femme Fatale: Fatima Blush, for many the sole reason to run into the film. Barbara Carrera doesn't Chew the Scenery, she has a four course repast plus dessert.
• Friendly Enemy: The Affably Evil Largo towards Bond.
• Gadget Watches: Bond uses a picket with a born laser to cut open the manacles holding him and escape.
• Gasp!: Fatima'due south inital reaction to spotting Bond with night vision goggles. When Jack asks her if she knows who he is, she gleefully replies, "Oh, yes... James Bail. 007."
• Giant Mook: Lippe, presumably this motion 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 animosity from professional to quite personal.
• Groin Attack:
  • While Bail is fighting the SPECTRE assassinator at Shrublands role of their battle occurs in a kitchen. After Bail throws a pan of water in the assassin's face he kicks him in the nuts and runs abroad.
  • Fatima threatens to perform this on Bond with a bullet from her gun.

    Fatima Chroma: You're quite a man, Mr. James Bond, just I am a superior adult female. Gauge where you get the offset 1?

• Loftier Collar of Doom: One of Fatima's many outfits.
• Hospital Hottie: Another of Fatima'southward many outfits.
• Indecisive Parody: The film can't quite seem to make up one's mind if information technology's a harsh satire of the Eon serial or if it'due south a regular James Bond film. Evidently satirical scenes (such as Bond's discussion with One thousand at the first) are next with normal Bond-fashion scenes, and a blatantly centre-anile Bond certainly doesn't assistance matters (though Moore was a few years older than Connery and starring in Octopussy at the same time, even he felt he was too old in the next Bond film, A View to a Kill, and he definitely looked also old).
• Improvised Weapon: Bond defeats one Mook with his urine. ^note Well, causing the Giant Mook to stumble into beakers and get killed by broken shards of glass.
• Improvised Zipline: During the opening.
• Instant Sedation: During the opening (so information technology probably wasn't real).
• Jerkass: 1000, who is far more contemptuous and doubtful of Bail's abilities here than perhaps any incarnation of M from the official series.
• Continue the Advantage: When Bond beats Largo at the "Domination" video game, theoretically winning over $300,000, he turns down Largo'southward money in substitution for a trip the light fantastic with Domino. Subverted in that Largo's jealousy makes the dance a much bigger sting than losing money.
• Kitchen Chase: The assassin trying to kill Bond at Shrublands follows him into a kitchen and a fight breaks out, complete with a terrified female person chef.
• Kick the Canis familiaris: Largo auctioning Domino to some carnal Arabian slavers. He'd generally been Affably Evil up until this point and then this scene seems similar it was included just to make Largo out to be more of a bastard.
• Kneel Before Zod: Fatima'south final run across with Bond.

• Fabricated a Slave: Largo's final style of disposing of Domino is to sell her equally a Sex activity Slave.

• Meaningful Name: "Small-Fawcett". Doesn't take Sigmund Freud to get that joke.
• Memetic Badass: Invoked with the gag that Bail might exist so badass his piss can burn a human being'southward face up, and potentially even impale.
• Mistaken for Servant: Domino mistakes Bail for the masseur. As she is an attractive adult female in a towel, he doesn't correct her and does the job (every bit any gentleman would).
• Ms. Fanservice: Domino is played past Kim Basinger. Barbara Carrera as Fatima is rather fetching as well.
• No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine: Bond spends time aboard the Flying Saucer as an unwilling just well cared-for guest.
• Non-Indicative Name: The title has zilch to do with the plot. Information technology refers to Connery returning to the office of Bond afterwards pledging to never play the graphic symbol again. Connery's wife suggested the title, and she'southward listed in the credits for it. (Thought it does go most-dropped at the very end, with a literal wink.)
• No OSHA Compliance: The staircases in Nicole's house definitely don't look safety for anyone prone to losing their balance.

• Nothing Tin Cease Us Now!: Blofeld says this as the warhead is being sent to the target.
• Older Hero vs. Younger Villain: Though not younger past that much, only Bond is definitely showing his age - which is M's complaint (though this incarnation of 1000 would appear to accept difficulty running an ice cream parlour, nevermind MI6, so he can't complain about having Bond on his payroll).
• Overt Operative: Lampshaded by Bond, when Nigel Small-Fawcett is yelling Bond's name to attract his attending, then acts furtively when talking to Bond. The fact Nigel is played past Mr. Bean and Johnny English makes it funnier. invoked

  Nigel Minor-Fawcett: [yelling] Mr Bail! I say Mr. Bond! Nigel Small-scale-Fawcett, British Embassy, Nassau.
  James Bond: Squeamish to run into yous Nigel.
  Nigel Small-Fawcett: Sad I'm late, simply as you're one of these clandestine jollies, I took the precaution of not being followed.
  James Bond: And that's why you shouted my proper noun across the harbor?
  Nigel Pocket-size-Fawcett: Oh God, did I? Oh I'chiliad sorry! Damn! Damn! Sorry I'grand rather new to all this!

• The Pen Is Mightier: When it'south a modest rocket launcher, information technology is.
• Pocket Rocket Launcher: 1 of the gadgets James Bond is provided by Algernon the quartermaster is a miniature rocket launcher disguised as a fountain pen. Bond ends up using it to blow up SPECTRE agent Fatima Chroma when Chroma, eager to obtain proof that she was the 1 who killed the legendary James Bond, orders him to write a letter at gunpoint.
• Product Placement: Atari, of all things. A particularly ironic case of this at that, considering that this motion-picture show was released in the year 1983. To exist fair, the games shown off are stand up-up arcade cabinets, which continued strong throughout The '80s and early on 90's.
• Punch Catch: During the fight betwixt Bail and the SPECTRE assassin at Shrublands, Bond throws a punch at the assassinator and the assassin calmly grabs Bond's fist, demonstrating his tremendous strength.
• Punch! Dial! Dial! Uh Oh...: One of the SPECTRE assassins is so tough that he not only shrugs off Bond's punches, but pulls a Punch Grab.
• Punny Proper noun: Nigel Minor-Fawcett. Small-Fawcett...minor faucet. Doesn't take Sigmund Freud to get that joke.
• Race Elevator: Felix Leiter, who is played by African-American player Bernie Casey.
• Revealing Camouflage: SPECTRE'Due south attempt to keep their activities at Shrubland's a underground not only attract Bond'due south attention, simply point him in the direction of Domino - and by extension, Largo.
• Correct-Mitt True cat: Blofeld wouldn't be Blofeld without having his white Western farsi cat.
• Running Gag: The bit about "eliminating Costless Radicals."
• Sealed with a Buss: It's a Bond film, information technology'due south expected.

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

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

  Fill this glass.

  What, from here?

• Shark Puddle: Fatima Blush turns the Caribbean area into a behemothic version past sending electronically controlled sharks to assail Bond after placing a Tracking Device on him.
• She's Got Legs: Fatima. "So nurse-y will give baby his candy."
• Shoe Phone: Subverted at to the lowest degree one time. The "gyroscopic bomb" bearded every bit a cigar case turns out to be simply a cigar case. Then in that location'south Q'due south mini-rocket launcher disguised every bit a fountain pen.
• Slave Market: Bail rescues Bail Girl Domino Petachi from slave traders, where she'd been shackled to a postal service and put upward for auction. Domino had been sent there 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's first played during the opening training sequence where Bond beats the crap out of everyone.
• Spanner in the Works: Go along in mind, James stumbled onto the plot while he was on vacation in a wellness spa.
• Stockholm Syndrome: "She could take turned."
• Stocking Filler: Fatima Blush has Jack Petachi hooked on heroin to force him to obey her. She carries a hypo filled with the drug in a garter belt (nether a nurse's uniform no less), and exposes information technology while taking out the hypo. On YouTube starting at 1:05.
• Straw Feminist: Fatima Chroma certainly prides herself on being an empowered adult female able to control whatever man she wants, but when Bond implies that he was not impressed by her performance while making love, she nearly goes to pieces, frightened and embarrassed by the idea that her sexual prowess is anything less than stellar. For a cursory moment, Fatima actually begs Bond to assure her that making honey to her was the greatest experience of his life - right before she resumes threatening to shoot him in his privates, and she took great delight in murdering her "rival" for Bond's affections also. Once more, Sigmund Freud, field day.
• Accept That!: Algernon's quip near hoping to run into some "gratuitous sex and violence" was aimed at the "official" Bond films which had become cartoonish. Granted, this film'southward not much meliorate in that regard.

• There Is No Impale Like Overkill: Fatima's death blows her up completely.
• Threatening Shark: Fatima sends electronically controlled sharks to attack Bond after placing a Tracking Device on him.
• Tracking Device: Fatima Blush plants one on Bond and then her electronically controlled sharks can home in on him.
• Tranquillizer Dart: James uses a slumber-poisoned blowgun dart on a Mook guard at the beginning.

• Truer to the Text: There are a scattering of moments that definitely go dorsum to the original novel rather than the previous motion picture — the near obvious being the final death of Largo, where Domino shooting him underwater goes much closer to how it'south described in the volume.
• Nether the Truck: During a chase scene Bail dives under a truck with his motorcycle and exits the other side.
• Unwinnable Training Simulation: Discussed. Bond's new boss is dissatisfied with his functioning during the simulated preparation missions (he died once and lost his legs in another mission). Bail then points out that training missions cannot be compared to the existent affair as the adrenaline heave 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 first name terms and he personally chose her to "recruit" Jack Petachi.

• Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Fatima Blush has not one, not two, not even three, but 4 times to just shoot Bond, but merely settles for trying inane things like trying to get him eaten past sharks, blowing him up, killing Nicole for no reason, and trying to become Bond to put her in his memoirs. This last 1 gets her killed.
• Writing Effectually Trademarks: While it employs the plot and grapheme names of Thunderball, Bond mainstays which Eon wouldn't let such as the Leitmotif and the Bond Gun Barrel are absent-minded.
• You Are Number 6: Largo calls Fatima "Number 12" at i 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 Bond'south female assistant.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: After Jack Petachi has served his purpose (replacing the dummy warheads with real ones), he is killed off past Fatima.
• You're Insane!: Delivered by Domino to Largo. Largo just smiles and agrees.
• Zeerust: The arcade game Domination, very much and so. Information technology was supposed to be advanced and futuristic, but information technology comes off as LESS advanced than the games in the game room in the casino that Domino had just been inside.

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