Horse Scene Never Say Never Again Edit

Algernon: Adept to see y'all, Mr. Bond. Things've been clumsily dull 'round here. I hope we're going to see some gratis sex and violence in this i!
James Bond: I certainly promise then, 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 film series James Bond film released in 1983, starring Sean Connery and directed by Irvin Kershner (director of The Empire Strikes Back). It's a remake of Thunderball, with 2 nuclear warheads stolen by SPECTRE and used in a blackmail try against the nations of the world. Bond is sent to investigate the just lead, Domino Petachi (Kim Basinger in her Star-Making Part), sister of the airplane 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 electric current 007 in the official films at the time. Michel Legrand composed the soundtrack.

This picture was the result of an odd legal situation 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 motion-picture show's story and the characters who appeared in information technology. This included SPECTRE and Blofeld, who consequently were retired from the official Bond films after 1971's Diamonds Are Forever, not appearing again until 2015's 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 Russian federation with Love into a video game).

It was in direct contest with Eon's Octopussy, which came out the aforementioned twelvemonth. McClory never followed up on this film to continue his goal of making his own James Bail franchise to rival the Eon series, due to the constant legal disputes with Albert R. Broccoli in doing and so and having only the Thunderball novel to work with.

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This flick provides examples of:

• Adaptational Consent: In both this and Thunderball Bail seduces the nurse attending him at the health clinic. Notoriously though, the run into in Thunderball is a case of borderline rape and Bail nigh / really blackmails the nurse into sleeping with him. It's ambiguous how serious he was being or whether she honestly felt threatened by it, but it can be however uncomfortable to watch. Here, the encounter is explicitly consensual and no blackmail — joking or otherwise — is involved at all. Rather, she'due south interested and Bail sweetens the deal with gourmet nutrient.
• Adaptational Dainty Guy: Largo in Thunderball was a flat-out sociopath, while here he'due south more Affably Evil.
• Adaptational Villainy: In Thunderball Domino's brother was murdered by SPECTRE and replaced with a lookalike. In this picture show, he actually defects and helps them (albeit due to a combination of drugs & Blush's sexual activity), though, similar the aforementioned counterpart, he still gets what's coming to him.
• Affably Evil: Both Largo and Fatima Blush.
• Creative License – Gun Safety: Q decides to exam 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 alert Bail that he's nigh to burn.
• Bated Glance: The movie ends with Sean Connery winking at the audience.
• Auction of Evil: Largo eventually sells Domino to exist auctioned every bit a sex slave before Bond saves her.
• Ax-Crazy: Largo. Made pretty literal when he demolishes part of the Flight Saucer with an ax trying to find Bail.
• Bounder Boyfriend: Largo. Also 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 also revels in murdering her rivals and sexual conquests.
• Bond 1-Liner: Wouldn't be a Bond movie without i.

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

• Brainwashed and Crazy: Domino's brother, thanks 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.
• Choke Holds: James uses a sleeper hold on a mook guard during the opening and an assassinator uses a sleeper hold on one of the attendants at Shrublands.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Largo comes beyond similar this at times.
• Complexity Addiction: Fatima passes up several opportunities to assassinate Bond with a gun, pocketknife or explosive in favor of a convoluted ambush using remote-controlled sharks.
• Crash-Into Hullo: Invoked by Fatima Chroma who slips and falls into Bond's artillery on their first encounter.
• Cut Apart: 007 is having sex with a girl equally a bomb ticks away under his bed. Cue explosion in a room beyond the courtyard from Bail and Bond Daughter.

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

• Da Chief: Bizarrely, K plays a strange British variation of this trope. The movie acknowledges this M is explicitly non the aforementioned character as Bernard Lee's.
• Die Laughing: Fatima.

  Bond: "Non perfected yet"!

• Do Not Adjust Your Gear up: Unlike in Thunderball, Blofeld delivers a far more hammy version that even includes his Right-Manus Cat!

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

• Eye Scream: Domino's blood brother has surgery on one of his eyes to pass a retina scan. This comes complete with a close-up of the hideous stitched-together monstrosity. Once 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 lot'd never notice anything at all.
• Failed a Spot Check: The Parisian police fails to notice that the "boxer in training" and his bicycling manager are both wearing dress shoes with black socks.
• Fake-Out Opening: The opening of the film is simply a exam exercise.
• Fast-Roping: Washed during the opening.
• Femme Fatale: Fatima Blush, for many the sole reason to see the moving picture. Barbara Carrera doesn't Chew the Scenery, she has a iv grade repast plus dessert.
• Friendly Enemy: The Affably Evil Largo towards Bond.
• Gadget Watches: Bail uses a sentinel with a congenital-in light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation to cut open the manacles holding him and escape.
• Gasp!: Fatima's 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 Bond. 007."
• Giant Mook: Lippe, presumably this motion-picture show's version of Count Lippe. Naturally, played by Pat Roach.
• Envy Monster: Largo is extremely possessive of Domino. Seeing Bail dancing with her turns their antagonism from professional person to quite personal.
• Groin Attack:
  • While Bail is fighting the SPECTRE assassin at Shrublands office of their battle occurs in a kitchen. After Bond throws a pan of water in the assassin's face he kicks him in the nuts and runs away.
  • Fatima threatens to perform this on Bail with a bullet from her gun.

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

• High Collar of Doom: One of Fatima's many outfits.
• Infirmary Hottie: Another of Fatima'south many outfits.
• Indecisive Parody: The film can't quite seem to determine if it'southward a harsh satire of the Eon series or if it's a regular James Bond picture. Plainly satirical scenes (such every bit Bond's give-and-take with M at the beginning) are side past side with normal Bond-style scenes, and a blatantly middle-aged Bail certainly doesn't assistance matters (though Moore was a few years older than Connery and starring in Octopussy at the aforementioned fourth dimension, 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 1 Mook with his urine. ^note Well, causing the Giant Mook to stumble into beakers and go killed by broken shards of glass.
• Improvised Zipline: During the opening.
• Instant Sedation: During the opening (and then it probably wasn't real).
• Jerkass: M, who is far more contemptuous and doubtful of Bond'south abilities here than maybe any incarnation of Grand from the official series.
• Keep the Reward: When Bond beats Largo at the "Domination" video game, theoretically winning over $300,000, he turns downwards Largo's money in substitution for a dance with Domino. Subverted in that Largo's jealousy makes the dance a much bigger sting than losing coin.
• Kitchen Chase: The assassinator trying to impale Bond at Shrublands follows him into a kitchen and a fight breaks out, complete with a terrified female chef.
• Kick the Domestic dog: Largo auctioning Domino to some lecherous Arabian slavers. He'd generally been Affably Evil up until this signal so this scene seems like information technology was included just to make Largo out to be more of a bastard.
• Kneel Before Zod: Fatima'due south final run into with Bond.

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

• Meaningful Name: "Pocket-sized-Fawcett". Doesn't accept Sigmund Freud to get that joke.
• Memetic Badass: Invoked with the gag that Bail might be so badass his piss can burn a homo'due south face up, and potentially even kill.
• Mistaken for Servant: Domino mistakes Bond for the masseur. Equally she is an attractive adult female in a towel, he doesn't correct her and does the job (as any gentleman would).
• Ms. Fanservice: Domino is played by Kim Basinger. Barbara Carrera as Fatima is rather fetching as well.
• No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine: Bail spends fourth dimension aboard the Flying Saucer as an unwilling but well cared-for guest.
• Non-Indicative Name: The title has nothing to exercise with the plot. It refers to Connery returning to the function of Bond after pledging to never play the grapheme once more. Connery's married woman suggested the championship, and she's listed in the credits for it. (Thought it does get almost-dropped at the very end, with a literal wink.)
• No OSHA Compliance: The staircases in Nicole'due south house definitely don't look rubber for anyone prone to losing their residuum.

• Zippo Can Cease The states At present!: Blofeld says this every bit the warhead is being sent to the target.
• Older Hero vs. Younger Villain: Though not younger by that much, but Bond is definitely showing his age - which is M'south complaint (though this incarnation of M would announced to have difficulty running an ice cream parlour, nevermind MI6, and then he can't complain about having Bond on his payroll).
• Overt Operative: Lampshaded past Bond, when Nigel Minor-Fawcett is yelling Bond'south name to attract his attention, then acts furtively when talking to Bond. The fact Nigel is played by Mr. Bean and Johnny English makes information technology funnier. invoked

  Nigel Minor-Fawcett: [yelling] Mr Bond! I say Mr. Bail! Nigel Small-Fawcett, British Diplomatic mission, Nassau.
  James Bail: Nice to encounter you Nigel.
  Nigel Small-Fawcett: Sorry I'm tardily, but every bit you lot're 1 of these cloak-and-dagger jollies, I took the precaution of not being followed.
  James Bail: And that's why you lot shouted my name across the harbor?
  Nigel Small-Fawcett: Oh God, did I? Oh I'm sorry! Damn! Damn! Sad I'm rather new to all this!

• The Pen Is Mightier: When it'south a modest rocket launcher, it is.
• Pocket Rocket Launcher: 1 of the gadgets James Bond is provided by Algernon the quartermaster is a miniature rocket launcher disguised every bit a fountain pen. Bond ends up using it to blow up SPECTRE agent Fatima Blush when Chroma, 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 particularly ironic instance of this at that, considering that this picture show was released in the twelvemonth 1983. To be fair, the games shown off are stand up-up arcade cabinets, which connected strong throughout The '80s and early 90'due south.
• Punch Catch: During the fight between Bond and the SPECTRE assassin at Shrublands, Bond throws a dial 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 and then tough that he non simply shrugs off Bail's punches, only pulls a Punch Take hold of.
• Punny Name: Nigel Small-Fawcett. Modest-Fawcett...small faucet. Doesn't take Sigmund Freud to become that joke.
• Race Elevator: Felix Leiter, who is played past African-American actor Bernie Casey.
• Revealing Cover-Up: SPECTRE'South attempt to keep their activities at Shrubland'due south a underground not only attract Bail'due south attention, but signal him in the direction of Domino - and past extension, Largo.
• Right-Hand Cat: Blofeld wouldn't be Blofeld without having his white Farsi cat.
• Running Gag: The bit about "eliminating Free Radicals."
• Sealed with a Buss: It'south a Bond picture, it's expected.

  Pocket-sized-Fawcett: Chiliad says that without y'all in the service, he fears for the security of the civilized world.
  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 Ringlet.)

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

  Fill up this glass.

  What, from here?

• Shark Puddle: Fatima Blush turns the Caribbean area into a giant version by sending electronically controlled sharks to attack Bond after placing a Tracking Device on him.
• She's Got Legs: Fatima. "And so nurse-y will give babe his candy."
• Shoe Phone: Subverted at to the lowest degree in one case. The "gyroscopic bomb" disguised equally a cigar case turns out to exist just a cigar case. And then in that location's Q's mini-rocket launcher bearded as a fountain pen.
• Slave Market: Bail rescues Bond Daughter Domino Petachi from slave traders, where she'd been shackled to a post and put upwards for auction. Domino had been sent in that location as penalisation for betraying Big Bad Largo.
• Smoldering Shoes: Played straight when Fatima is killed by one of Q'southward devices.
• Soundtrack Racket: The theme is a calorie-free, easy listening tune, and it'due south offset 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 health spa.
• A Spy at the Spa: Bond poses as a masseur to get data from Domino.
• Stockholm Syndrome: "She could have 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 (under a nurse's uniform no less), and exposes it while taking out the hypo. On YouTube starting at ane:05.
• Straw Feminist: Fatima Blush certainly prides herself on being an empowered woman able to control any 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 brief moment, Fatima really begs Bond to assure her that making love to her was the greatest experience of his life - correct before she resumes threatening to shoot him in his privates, and she took great please in murdering her "rival" for Bond'due south affections as well. Again, Sigmund Freud, field mean solar day.
• Accept That!: Algernon'southward quip well-nigh hoping to run into some "gratis sexual activity and violence" was aimed at the "official" Bail films which had become cartoonish. Granted, this picture's not much better in that regard.

• There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Fatima's death blows her up completely.
• Threatening Shark: Fatima sends electronically controlled sharks to attack Bond later on 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 sleep-poisoned blowgun sprint on a Mook guard at the starting time.

• Truer to the Text: There are a handful of moments that definitely go back to the original novel rather than the previous moving-picture show — the most obvious being the concluding 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 nether a truck with his motorcycle and exits the other side.
• Unwinnable Preparation Simulation: Discussed. Bond's new dominate is dissatisfied with his performance during the false preparation missions (he died once and lost his legs in another mission). Bond then points out that training missions cannot be compared to the existent thing as the adrenaline boost 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 offset name terms and he personally chose her to "recruit" Jack Petachi.

• Why Don't You Only Shoot Him?: Fatima Blush has non ane, not two, not even iii, only four times to but shoot Bond, but merely settles for trying inane things similar trying to become him eaten by sharks, blowing him upwards, killing Nicole for no reason, and trying to get Bond to put her in his memoirs. This last one gets her killed.
• Writing Effectually Trademarks: While it employs the plot and grapheme names of Thunderball, Bond mainstays which Eon wouldn't permit such as the Leitmotif and the Bail Gun Barrel are absent.
• You Are Number half dozen: Largo calls Fatima "Number 12" at one point to remind her that they take a strictly professional relationship. This, when she was going to osculation him for giving her an order to kill Bond's female banana.
• 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 lot're Insane!: Delivered by Domino to Largo. Largo simply smiles and agrees.
• Zeerust: The arcade game Domination, very much and then. It 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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