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Algernon: Proficient to see you, Mr. Bail. Things've been awfully dull 'round here. I hope we're going to see some gratuitous sex and violence in this 1!
James Bond: I certainly hope so, too.

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 motion-picture show series James Bond picture released in 1983, starring Sean Connery and directed by Irvin Kershner (director of The Empire Strikes Back). Information technology's a remake of Thunderball, with two nuclear warheads stolen by SPECTRE and used in a blackmail attempt against the nations of the world. Bond is sent to investigate the only lead, Domino Petachi (Kim Basinger in her Star-Making Part), sis of the pilot who performed the operation. 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 fourth dimension. 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 movie script with Ian Fleming that would become 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'south Diamonds Are Forever, non appearing again until 2015'south Spectre when Eon Productions finally re-obtained the rights (it also forced Electronic Arts to rename SPECTRE to the comparatively cutesy-sounding OCTOPUS when they adapted From Russia with Love into a video game).

It was in direct contest with Eon's Octopussy, which came out the same year. McClory never followed up on this motion-picture show 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 then and having only the Thunderball novel to piece of work with.

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This picture provides examples of:

• Adaptational Consent: In both this and Thunderball Bond seduces the nurse attention him at the wellness clinic. Notoriously though, the run across in Thunderball is a instance of borderline rape and Bond about / actually blackmails the nurse into sleeping with him. Information technology'southward ambiguous how serious he was being or whether she honestly felt threatened past it, but information technology can be nonetheless uncomfortable to picket. Here, the come across is explicitly consensual and no bribery — joking or otherwise — is involved at all. Rather, she'south interested and Bail sweetens the deal with gourmet nutrient.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: Largo in Thunderball was a flat-out sociopath, while here he'due south more than Affably Evil.
• Adaptational Villainy: In Thunderball Domino's brother was murdered past SPECTRE and replaced with a lookalike. In this film, he really defects and helps them (admitting due to a combination of drugs & Blush'southward sex activity), though, like the aforementioned counterpart, he still gets what's coming to him.
• Affably Evil: Both Largo and Fatima Chroma.
• Artistic License – Gun Prophylactic: Q decides to examination fire the pen gun on the same range as Bond while standing behind him, firing at the same targets Bond is firing at and without warning Bond that he's about to fire.
• Aside Glance: The flick ends with Sean Connery winking at the audience.
• Auction of Evil: Largo eventually sells Domino to be auctioned as a sexual activity slave before Bail saves her.
• Ax-Crazy: Largo. Made pretty literal when he demolishes part of the Flight Saucer with an ax trying to find Bond.
• Bounder Boyfriend: Largo. Besides insanely jealous, and in one case 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.
• Bond One-Liner: Wouldn't be a Bond movie without one.

  Fatima: Oh. I got you all moisture.
  Bond: Yes, but my martini is all the same dry.

• Brainwashed and Crazy: Domino's blood brother, thanks to some heroin encouragement.
• Wide Strokes: Rather loosely follows the plot of the moving-picture show Thunderball rather than the novel, with an update to the lxxx'southward and a motorcycle for Bond 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 similar this at times.
• Complexity Habit: Fatima passes upwards several opportunities to assassinate Bail with a gun, knife or explosive in favor of a convoluted ambush using remote-controlled sharks.
• Crash-Into Howdy: Invoked by Fatima Chroma who slips and falls into Bond's artillery on their first meet.
• Cut Apart: 007 is having sex with a girl as a bomb ticks away under his bed. Cue explosion in a room across the courtyard from Bond and Bond Girl.

  Bond: Well, it proves we made the correct decision.
  Angling Girl: Near what, darling?
  Bail: Your identify or mine.

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

  Bond: "Not perfected yet"!

• Do Not Adjust Your Set up: Dissimilar in Thunderball, Blofeld delivers a far more hammy version that even includes his Correct-Paw Cat!

• Driving into a Truck: While James Bond is riding a motorcycle, the enemy mooks strength him to ride up a ramp into a truck so he tin can exist captured. However, as the ramp is ascent upwardly to trap him he guns information technology and jumps the motorcycle over the ramp and out of the truck.

• Eye Scream: Domino's brother has surgery on one of his eyes to laissez passer a retina scan. This comes consummate with a shut-upwardly of the hideous stitched-together monstrosity. In one case it heals properly though all it looks like is that he has slight heterochromia, and as Fatima notes, when he has his contacts in you'd never notice anything at all.
• Failed a Spot Check: The Parisian law fails to observe that the "boxer in training" and his bicycling managing director are both wearing wearing apparel shoes with black socks.
• Imitation-Out Opening: The opening of the film is merely a examination exercise.
• Fast-Roping: Done during the opening.
• Femme Fatale: Fatima Chroma, for many the sole reason to meet the film. Barbara Carrera doesn't Chew the Scenery, she has a four class meal plus dessert.
• Friendly Enemy: The Affably Evil Largo towards Bail.
• Gadget Watches: Bond uses a spotter with a born laser to cutting open the manacles holding him and escape.
• Gasp!: Fatima'south inital reaction to spotting Bail 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 film'southward 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 Set on:
  • While Bail is fighting the SPECTRE assassin at Shrublands function of their boxing occurs in a kitchen. After Bond throws a pan of h2o in the assassinator'southward face he kicks him in the basics and runs away.
  • Fatima threatens to perform this on Bond with a bullet from her gun.

    Fatima Blush: Y'all're quite a man, Mr. James Bond, just I am a superior woman. Guess where you get the first one?

• High Collar of Doom: 1 of Fatima'south many outfits.
• Hospital Hottie: Another of Fatima's many outfits.
• Indecisive Parody: The film can't quite seem to decide if it'due south a harsh satire of the Eon series or if it'southward a regular James Bond film. Obviously satirical scenes (such every bit Bond's discussion with One thousand at the beginning) are side past side with normal Bail-mode scenes, and a blatantly middle-aged Bail certainly doesn't help matters (though Moore was a few years older than Connery and starring in Octopussy at the same fourth dimension, fifty-fifty he felt he was too old in the side by side Bail film, A View to a Kill, and he definitely looked as well onetime).
• Improvised Weapon: Bail defeats one Mook with his urine. ^note Well, causing the Giant Mook to stumble into beakers and get killed by broken shards of drinking glass.
• Improvised Zipline: During the opening.
• Instant Sedation: During the opening (so it probably wasn't real).
• Jerkass: M, who is far more cynical and doubtful of Bond's abilities here than possibly whatever incarnation of M from the official series.
• Go along the Reward: When Bond beats Largo at the "Domination" video game, theoretically winning over $300,000, he turns downwardly Largo'southward money in exchange for a dance 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 Dog: Largo auctioning Domino to some carnal Arabian slavers. He'd generally been Affably Evil up until this indicate then this scene seems like it was included just to make Largo out to be more of a bastard.
• Kneel Earlier Zod: Fatima's final encounter with Bond.

• Made a Slave: Largo's terminal style of disposing of Domino is to sell her equally a Sex Slave.

• Meaningful Name: "Small-Fawcett". Doesn't take Sigmund Freud to go that joke.
• Memetic Badass: Invoked with the gag that Bond might exist so badass his piss can burn a man's face, 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 whatever admirer would).
• Ms. Fanservice: Domino is played by Kim Basinger. Barbara Carrera as Fatima is rather fetching besides.
• No, Mr. Bond, I Look You to Dine: Bond spends time aboard the Flying Saucer as an unwilling just well cared-for guest.
• Not-Indicative Proper name: The title has nothing to do with the plot. It refers to Connery returning to the role of Bond afterward pledging to never play the grapheme once again. Connery's wife suggested the title, and she's listed in the credits for it. (Thought information technology does become almost-dropped at the very cease, with a literal wink.)
• No OSHA Compliance: The staircases in Nicole's firm definitely don't look safe for anyone prone to losing their remainder.

• Null Can Stop Us Now!: Blofeld says this as the warhead is beingness sent to the target.
• Older Hero vs. Younger Villain: Though non younger past that much, but Bail is definitely showing his historic period - which is Thousand's complaint (though this incarnation of K would appear to accept difficulty running an ice cream parlour, nevermind MI6, then he tin can't complain almost having Bond on his payroll).
• Overt Operative: Lampshaded by Bail, when Nigel Pocket-size-Fawcett is yelling Bond's proper name to attract his attending, then acts furtively when talking to Bail. The fact Nigel is played past Mr. Edible bean and Johnny English makes it funnier. invoked

  Nigel Small-Fawcett: [yelling] Mr Bail! I say Mr. Bond! Nigel Minor-Fawcett, British Diplomatic mission, Nassau.
  James Bond: Nice to come across you Nigel.
  Nigel Small-Fawcett: Sorry I'm tardily, just as y'all're 1 of these surreptitious jollies, I took the precaution of not being followed.
  James Bond: And that's why you shouted my proper name across the harbor?
  Nigel Small-Fawcett: Oh God, did I? Oh I'm sad! Damn! Damn! Lamentable I'chiliad rather new to all this!

• The Pen Is Mightier: When it's a pocket-sized rocket launcher, information technology is.
• Pocket Rocket Launcher: One of the gadgets James Bond is provided by Algernon the quartermaster is a miniature rocket launcher disguised every bit 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.
• Product Placement: Atari, of all things. A specially ironic case of this at that, considering that this motion-picture show was released in the year 1983. To exist off-white, the games shown off are stand-up arcade cabinets, which continued potent throughout The '80s and early xc'southward.
• Punch Catch: During the fight betwixt Bond and the SPECTRE assassin at Shrublands, Bond throws a punch at the assassin and the assassin calmly grabs Bond's fist, demonstrating his tremendous strength.
• Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh...: One of the SPECTRE assassins is then tough that he not just shrugs off Bond's punches, but pulls a Dial Catch.
• Punny Name: Nigel Small-Fawcett. Small-scale-Fawcett...small faucet. Doesn't take Sigmund Freud to get that joke.
• Race Elevator: Felix Leiter, who is played by African-American actor Bernie Casey.
• Revealing Embrace-Up: SPECTRE'S attempt to proceed their activities at Shrubland'due south a secret not only attract Bond's attention, but betoken him in the direction of Domino - and past extension, Largo.
• Right-Manus True cat: Blofeld wouldn't be Blofeld without having his white Persian true cat.
• Running Gag: The bit about "eliminating Costless Radicals."
• Sealed with a Kiss: It'south a Bond film, it's expected.

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

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

  Fill this glass.

  What, from hither?

• Shark Pool: Fatima Chroma turns the Caribbean into a behemothic version by sending electronically controlled sharks to assault Bond after placing a Tracking Device on him.
• She's Got Legs: Fatima. "Then nurse-y will give baby his processed."
• Shoe Phone: Subverted at least one time. The "gyroscopic bomb" disguised as a cigar case turns out to exist only a cigar example. And and so there'south Q'south mini-rocket launcher disguised as a fountain pen.
• Slave Market: Bail rescues Bond Girl Domino Petachi from slave traders, where she'd been shackled to a post and put up for auction. Domino had been sent there as penalisation for betraying Big Bad Largo.
• Smoldering Shoes: Played straight when Fatima is killed by 1 of Q's devices.
• Soundtrack Noise: The theme is a light, piece of cake listening melody, and it'south first played during the opening training sequence where Bond beats the crap out of everyone.
• Spanner in the Works: Proceed in listen, James stumbled onto the plot while he was on holiday in a wellness spa.
• A Spy at the Spa: Bail poses as a masseur to get data from Domino.
• Stockholm Syndrome: "She could have turned."
• Stocking Filler: Fatima Chroma has Jack Petachi hooked on heroin to force 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 1:05.
• Harbinger Feminist: Fatima Chroma certainly prides herself on being an empowered woman able to control whatsoever man she wants, only when Bail implies that he was not impressed past her performance while making beloved, she about goes to pieces, frightened and embarrassed past the idea that her sexual prowess is anything less than stellar. For a brief moment, Fatima really begs Bond 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 great please in murdering her "rival" for Bond's affections every bit well. Once again, Sigmund Freud, field solar day.
• Take That!: Algernon's quip well-nigh hoping to see some "gratuitous sexual activity and violence" was aimed at the "official" Bond films which had become cartoonish. Granted, this film'south non much better in that regard.

• There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Fatima's death blows her upwards 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 then her electronically controlled sharks tin dwelling in on him.
• Tranquillizer Dart: James uses a sleep-poisoned blowgun dart on a Mook guard at the commencement.

• Truer to the Text: In that location are a handful of moments that definitely go dorsum to the original novel rather than the previous movie — the most obvious being the final decease of Largo, where Domino shooting him underwater goes much closer to how it's described in the book.
• Nether the Truck: During a chase scene Bond dives under a truck with his motorcycle and exits the other side.
• Unwinnable Grooming Simulation: Discussed. Bond's new boss is dissatisfied with his functioning during the false training missions (he died one time and lost his legs in another mission). Bail then points out that training missions cannot exist compared to the real matter as the adrenaline heave is missing.
• Villainous Friendship: Largo and Blush are both homicidal psychopaths but they seem to exist on genuinely friendly terms with each other, and Largo has to remind her at times that he is her superior. They are otherwise on commencement proper noun terms and he personally chose her to "recruit" Jack Petachi.

• Why Don't Yous Just Shoot Him?: Fatima Blush has not one, not ii, not even three, but four times to just shoot Bail, but merely settles for trying inane things like trying to get him eaten past sharks, bravado him upwards, killing Nicole for no reason, and trying to get Bond to put her in his memoirs. This final one gets her killed.
• Writing Effectually Trademarks: While it employs the plot and grapheme names of Thunderball, Bail mainstays which Eon wouldn't allow such as the Leitmotif and the Bond Gun Barrel are absent.
• Y'all Are Number 6: Largo calls Fatima "Number 12" at ane point to remind her that they take a strictly professional person human relationship. This, when she was going to kiss him for giving her an lodge to kill Bond's female assistant.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Subsequently Jack Petachi has served his purpose (replacing the dummy warheads with existent 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. Information technology was supposed to be advanced and futuristic, but it comes off as LESS advanced than the games in the game room in the casino that Domino had merely been inside.

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