Never Say Never Again Nigel Small Fawcett

Algernon: Good to see you, Mr. Bond. Things've been awfully tedious 'round here. I hope nosotros're going to see some gratuitous sex and violence in this one!
James Bond: I certainly hope and then, too.

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

An "unofficial" ^notation Non function of the long-running Eon Productions film series James Bail pic released in 1983, starring Sean Connery and directed by Irvin Kershner (manager of The Empire Strikes Dorsum). Information technology'southward a remake of Thunderball, with two nuclear warheads stolen past SPECTRE and used in a bribery attempt against the nations of the earth. Bond is sent to investigate the just lead, Domino Petachi (Kim Basinger in her Star-Making Office), sister 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 even so the electric current 007 in the official films at the fourth dimension. Michel Legrand composed the soundtrack.

This picture show was the effect of an odd legal situation whereby Kevin McClory, who had co-written a flick script with Ian Fleming that would become the novel Thunderball, was allowed 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 later on 1971'due south Diamonds Are Forever, not actualization again until 2015's 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 adapted From Russia with Love into a video game).

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

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This movie provides examples of:

• Adaptational Consent: In both this and Thunderball Bond seduces the nurse attending him at the wellness clinic. Notoriously though, the encounter in Thunderball is a case of deadline rape and Bond virtually / really blackmails the nurse into sleeping with him. It's ambiguous how serious he was being or whether she honestly felt threatened by it, merely it can be nonetheless 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 Bond sweetens the deal with gourmet food.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: Largo in Thunderball was a flat-out sociopath, while here he's more Affably Evil.
• Adaptational Villainy: In Thunderball Domino's blood 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 sex), though, like the aforementioned counterpart, he still gets what's coming to him.
• Affably Evil: Both Largo and Fatima Blush.
• Aside Glance: The moving picture ends with Sean Connery winking at the audience.
• Auction of Evil: Largo somewhen sells Domino to be auctioned as a sexual practice slave before Bond saves her.
• Ax-Crazy: Largo. Fabricated pretty literal when he demolishes part of the Flying Saucer with an ax trying to notice Bail.
• Bastard Beau: Largo. Also insanely jealous, and once he thinks Domino has fallen for Bond turns into a Domestic Abuser.
• Bristles of Evil: Blofeld
• Blood Knight: Bated from being a Femme Fatale, she besides revels in murdering her rivals and sexual conquests.
• Bond Ane-Liner: Wouldn't be a Bond movie without one.

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

• Brainwashed and Crazy: Domino'southward brother, thanks to some heroin encouragement.
• Broad Strokes: Rather loosely follows the plot of the motion-picture show Thunderball rather than the novel, with an update to the 80's and a motorcycle for Bond to ride.
• Choke Holds: James uses a sleeper concord on a mook guard during the opening and an assassinator uses a sleeper hold on ane of the attendants at Shrublands.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Largo comes across like 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 Hi: Invoked by Fatima Blush who slips and falls into Bail's artillery on their start encounter.
• Cut Apart: 007 is having sexual practice with a girl as a bomb ticks away under his bed. Cue explosion in a room across the courtyard from Bail and Bond Girl.

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

• Da Chief: Bizarrely, Grand plays a strange British variation of this trope. The flick acknowledges this K is explicitly not the same graphic symbol as Bernard Lee'due south.
• Dice Laughing: Fatima.

  Bail: "Not perfected yet"!

• Do Not Conform Your Fix: Different in Thunderball, Blofeld delivers a far more hammy version that even includes his Correct-Hand Cat!

• Driving into a Truck: While James Bail is riding a motorcycle, the enemy mooks force him to ride up a ramp into a truck so he can be captured. However, equally the ramp is rising upwardly to trap him he guns it and jumps the motorcycle over the ramp and out of the truck.

• Middle Scream: Domino'south brother has surgery on 1 of his eyes to pass a retina browse. This comes consummate with a close-up of the hideous stitched-together monstrosity. One time it heals properly though all it looks similar is that he has slight heterochromia, and as Fatima notes, when he has his contacts in you'd never notice annihilation at all.
• Failed a Spot Check: The Parisian law fails to notice that the "boxer in training" and his bicycling manager are both wearing apparel shoes with black socks.
• Imitation-Out Opening: The opening of the moving-picture show is just a test exercise.
• Fast-Roping: Done during the opening.
• Femme Fatale: Fatima Blush, for many the sole reason to encounter the film. Barbara Carrera doesn't Chew the Scenery, she has a iv grade meal plus dessert.
• Friendly Enemy: The Affably Evil Largo towards Bond.
• Gadget Watches: Bail uses a watch with a congenital-in light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation to cut open the manacles belongings him and escape.
• Gasp!: Fatima's inital reaction to spotting Bail with dark vision goggles. When Jack asks her if she knows who he is, she gleefully replies, "Oh, aye... James Bond. 007."
• Giant Mook: Lippe, presumably this motion picture'south version of Count Lippe. Naturally, played by Pat Roach.
• Dark-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 Bond is fighting the SPECTRE assassinator at Shrublands role of their battle occurs in a kitchen. After Bond throws a pan of h2o in the assassinator's confront he kicks him in the nuts and runs away.
  • Fatima threatens to perform this on Bond with a bullet from her gun.

    Fatima Blush: You're quite a man, Mr. James Bond, but I am a superior woman. Judge where you go the first one?

• High Collar of Doom: I of Fatima'southward many outfits.
• Hospital Hottie: Another of Fatima'south many outfits.
• Indecisive Parody: The movie can't quite seem to decide 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'south discussion with M at the beginning) are side by side with normal Bond-mode scenes, and a blatantly middle-anile Bail 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 too old in the next Bail film, A View to a Kill, and he definitely looked too quondam).
• Improvised Weapon: Bond defeats one Mook with his urine. ^note Well, causing the Giant Mook to stumble into beakers and get killed by cleaved shards of drinking glass.
• Improvised Zipline: During the opening.
• Instant Sedation: During the opening (and so it probably wasn't real).
• Jerkass: M, who is far more than cynical and doubtful of Bond's abilities here than perhaps whatever incarnation of M from the official series.
• Go along the Advantage: When Bond beats Largo at the "Domination" video game, theoretically winning over $300,000, he turns downwards Largo'southward money 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 money.
• Kitchen Chase: The assassinator trying to kill Bond at Shrublands follows him into a kitchen and a fight breaks out, complete with a terrified female chef.
• Kick the Dog: Largo auctioning Domino to some carnal Arabian slavers. He'd generally been Affably Evil up until this point so this scene seems similar it was included simply to brand Largo out to be more of a bastard.
• Kneel Before Zod: Fatima's last encounter with Bond.

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

• Meaningful Proper name: "Small-Fawcett". Doesn't take Sigmund Freud to get that joke.
• Memetic Badass: Invoked with the gag that Bond might be then badass his piss can fire a man's face, and potentially fifty-fifty kill.
• Mistaken for Servant: Domino mistakes Bond for the masseur. Every bit she is an bonny woman 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 too.
• No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You 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 grapheme once again. Connery'southward wife suggested the championship, and she'south listed in the credits for it. (Idea it does get nearly-dropped at the very end, with a literal wink.)
• No OSHA Compliance: The staircases in Nicole'due south business firm definitely don't expect safety for anyone prone to losing their balance.

• Nothing Can Stop Us Now!: 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 Bail is definitely showing his historic period - which is Thou's complaint (though this incarnation of Yard would appear to have difficulty running an water ice cream parlour, nevermind MI6, so he can't complain most having Bond on his payroll).
• Overt Operative: Lampshaded past Bond, when Nigel Small-Fawcett is yelling Bond'due south proper name to attract his attention, then acts furtively when talking to Bond. The fact Nigel is played by Mr. Bean and Johnny English language makes it funnier. invoked

  Nigel Small-Fawcett: [yelling] Mr Bond! I say Mr. Bail! Nigel Small-Fawcett, British Embassy, Nassau.
  James Bail: Nice to run across you Nigel.
  Nigel Small-Fawcett: Distressing I'm late, just as you're one of these underground jollies, I took the precaution of non being followed.
  James Bond: And that'due south why yous shouted my proper name across the harbor?
  Nigel Pocket-sized-Fawcett: Oh God, did I? Oh I'm pitiful! Damn! Damn! Sorry I'k rather new to all this!

• The Pen Is Mightier: When it's a pocket-sized rocket launcher, it is.
• Pocket Rocket Launcher: I of the gadgets James Bond is provided by Algernon the quartermaster is a miniature rocket launcher bearded as a fountain pen. Bond ends up using it to blow upwards 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 specially 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-up arcade cabinets, which continued strong throughout The '80s and early 90'southward.
• Punch Catch: During the fight between Bond and the SPECTRE assassin at Shrublands, Bond throws a punch at the assassin and the assassin calmly grabs Bail'southward fist, demonstrating his tremendous strength.
• Punch! Dial! Dial! Uh Oh...: One of the SPECTRE assassins is and then tough that he non only shrugs off Bond's punches, but pulls a Dial Catch.
• Punny Name: Nigel Pocket-sized-Fawcett. Small-Fawcett...pocket-size faucet. Doesn't take Sigmund Freud to get that joke.
• Race Lift: Felix Leiter, who is played by African-American actor Bernie Casey.
• Revealing Cover-Up: SPECTRE'Due south attempt to keep their activities at Shrubland's a secret not only concenter Bond'southward attention, just point him in the management of Domino - and by extension, Largo.
• Right-Hand Cat: Blofeld wouldn't exist Blofeld without having his white Persian cat.
• Running Gag: The chip about "eliminating Free Radicals."
• Sealed with a Buss: It's a Bond film, it's expected.

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

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

  Fill this drinking glass.

  What, from hither?

• Shark Pool: Fatima Blush turns the Caribbean into a giant version by sending electronically controlled sharks to attack Bail after placing a Tracking Device on him.
• She'southward Got Legs: Fatima. "And then nurse-y will give baby his candy."
• Shoe Telephone: Subverted at to the lowest degree once. The "gyroscopic flop" disguised as a cigar instance turns out to be merely a cigar case. And and so there'southward Q's mini-rocket launcher disguised every bit a fountain pen.
• Slave Market place: 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 at that place as penalty for betraying Big Bad Largo.
• Smoldering Shoes: Played directly when Fatima is killed past one of Q'due south devices.
• Soundtrack Dissonance: The theme is a light, easy listening tune, and information technology's outset played during the opening grooming sequence where Bond beats the crap out of everyone.
• Spanner in the Works: Keep in mind, 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 get information from Domino.
• Stockholm Syndrome: "She could have turned."
• Stocking Filler: Fatima Chroma has Jack Petachi hooked on heroin to strength him to obey her. She carries a hypo filled with the drug in a garter belt (under a nurse'south uniform no less), and exposes information technology while taking out the hypo. On YouTube starting at 1:05.
• Straw Feminist: Fatima Blush certainly prides herself on beingness an empowered adult female able to command any homo she wants, but when Bond implies that he was not impressed by her operation while making love, she nigh goes to pieces, frightened and embarrassed by the idea that her sexual prowess is anything less than stellar. For a brief moment, Fatima actually begs Bond to assure her that making dear to her was the greatest experience of his life - right before she resumes threatening to shoot him in his privates, and she took bang-up delight in murdering her "rival" for Bond'due south angel as well. Again, Sigmund Freud, field 24-hour interval.
• Take That!: Algernon's quip about hoping to encounter some "gratuitous sex and violence" was aimed at the "official" Bail films which had become cartoonish. Granted, this flick's not much better in that regard.

• There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Fatima'southward death blows her upwardly 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 Bail so 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 back to the original novel rather than the previous movie — the virtually obvious being the final death of Largo, where Domino shooting him underwater goes much closer to how information technology'due south described in the book.
• Under the Truck: During a chase scene Bail dives under a truck with his motorcycle and exits the other side.
• Unwinnable Training Simulation: Discussed. Bail's new dominate is dissatisfied with his operation during the imitation training missions (he died once and lost his legs in some other mission). Bail then points out that training missions cannot be compared to the real thing as the adrenaline boost is missing.
• Villainous Friendship: Largo and Chroma are both homicidal psychopaths just 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 You lot Just Shoot Him?: Fatima Blush has not one, not ii, not even three, but four times to just shoot Bond, but merely settles for trying inane things similar trying to become him eaten past sharks, blowing him upward, 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 it employs the plot and character names of Thunderball, Bond mainstays which Eon wouldn't allow such as the Leitmotif and the Bail Gun Barrel are absent-minded.
• You Are Number 6: Largo calls Fatima "Number 12" at one point to remind her that they have a strictly professional person relationship. This, when she was going to kiss him for giving her an order to kill Bond'southward female assistant.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: After 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 and then. It was supposed to be avant-garde and futuristic, simply it 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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