Never Say Never Again Sex Scene

Algernon: Good to see y'all, Mr. Bail. Things've been awfully dull 'round here. I promise we're going to see some costless sex and violence in this one!
James Bond: I certainly promise so, too.

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 moving picture series James Bond picture released in 1983, starring Sean Connery and directed by Irvin Kershner (director of The Empire Strikes Dorsum). It'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 Role), sis of the pilot who performed the operation. The filmmakers intentionally decided to accept Connery play an crumbling James Bond — though notably, Connery is actually younger than Roger Moore, who was nonetheless the current 007 in the official films at the time. Michel Legrand equanimous the soundtrack.

This picture was the result of an odd legal situation whereby Kevin McClory, who had co-written a picture show script with Ian Fleming that would get the novel Thunderball, was allowed to retain the rights to that flick's story and the characters who appeared in it. This included SPECTRE and Blofeld, who consequently were retired from the official Bond films afterward 1971's Diamonds Are Forever, non appearing over 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 Russian federation with Love into a video game).

Information technology was in direct contest with Eon's Octopussy, which came out the same year. McClory never followed up on this film 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 Bond seduces the nurse attending him at the wellness dispensary. Notoriously though, the run into in Thunderball is a case of borderline rape and Bond well-nigh / actually blackmails the nurse into sleeping with him. It'due south ambiguous how serious he was being or whether she honestly felt threatened by information technology, but it can exist notwithstanding uncomfortable to picket. Hither, the run across is explicitly consensual and no blackmail — joking or otherwise — is involved at all. Rather, she's interested and Bond sweetens the deal with gourmet food.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: Largo in Thunderball was a flat-out sociopath, while hither he's more Affably Evil.
• Adaptational Villainy: In Thunderball Domino's brother was murdered past SPECTRE and replaced with a lookalike. In this moving picture, he actually defects and helps them (albeit due to a combination of drugs & Chroma's sexual practice), though, similar the same counterpart, he yet gets what's coming to him.
• Affably Evil: Both Largo and Fatima Blush.
• Creative License – Gun Prophylactic: Q decides to test burn down 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 nigh to fire.
• Aside Glance: The film ends with Sean Connery winking at the audience.
• Auction of Evil: Largo somewhen sells Domino to be auctioned as a sex slave before Bail saves her.
• Ax-Crazy: Largo. Made pretty literal when he demolishes function of the Flight Saucer with an ax trying to find Bond.
• Bounder Boyfriend: Largo. Also insanely jealous, and once he thinks Domino has fallen for Bond turns into a Domestic Abuser.
• Beard of Evil: Blofeld
• Claret Knight: Bated from being a Femme Fatale, she also revels in murdering her rivals and sexual conquests.
• Bond Ane-Liner: Wouldn't be a Bond pic without ane.

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

• Brainwashed and Crazy: Domino'southward brother, thank you 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 assassin uses a sleeper hold on one of the attendants at Shrublands.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Largo comes beyond like this at times.
• Complexity Addiction: Fatima passes upwards several opportunities to assassinate Bond with a gun, knife or explosive in favor of a convoluted ambush using remote-controlled sharks.
• Crash-Into Hi: Invoked past Fatima Blush who slips and falls into Bail'southward arms on their get-go encounter.
• Cut Autonomously: 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 right decision.
  Fishing Girl: About what, darling?
  Bail: Your place or mine.

• Da Chief: Bizarrely, Grand plays a strange British variation of this trope. The moving-picture show acknowledges this M is explicitly non the aforementioned character as Bernard Lee'south.
• Dice Laughing: Fatima.

  Bail: "Non perfected yet"!

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

• Driving into a Truck: While James Bond is riding a motorcycle, the enemy mooks forcefulness him to ride upward a ramp into a truck so he can be captured. All the same, as the ramp is rising up to trap him he guns it and jumps the motorcycle over the ramp and out of the truck.

• Center Scream: Domino'south brother has surgery on one of his optics 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'd never notice anything at all.
• Failed a Spot Check: The Parisian police fails to notice that the "boxer in preparation" and his bicycling manager are both wearing dress shoes with black socks.
• Fake-Out Opening: The opening of the flick is but a test exercise.
• Fast-Roping: Done during the opening.
• Femme Fatale: Fatima Chroma, for many the sole reason to run into the movie. Barbara Carrera doesn't Chew the Scenery, she has a four class meal plus dessert.
• Friendly Enemy: The Affably Evil Largo towards Bond.
• Gadget Watches: Bail uses a spotter with a built-in laser to cut open up 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, yeah... James Bail. 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 Bond dancing with her turns their antagonism from professional to quite personal.
• Groin Attack:
  • While Bond is fighting the SPECTRE assassin at Shrublands part of their battle occurs in a kitchen. Subsequently Bail throws a pan of water in the assassin'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 Bail, but I am a superior adult female. Estimate where you get the first ane?

• High Neckband of Doom: 1 of Fatima'south many outfits.
• Hospital Hottie: Another of Fatima's many outfits.
• Indecisive Parody: The picture can't quite seem to decide if it's a harsh satire of the Eon series or if it's a regular James Bail film. Patently satirical scenes (such every bit Bond's discussion with M at the beginning) are next with normal Bail-manner scenes, and a blatantly middle-anile Bond certainly doesn't help matters (though Moore was a few years older than Connery and starring in Octopussy at the same fourth dimension, even he felt he was too erstwhile in the next Bail motion-picture show, A View to a Kill, and he definitely looked too one-time).
• Improvised Weapon: Bond defeats one Mook with his urine. ^note Well, causing the Behemothic Mook to stumble into beakers and get killed by cleaved 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 than contemptuous and doubtful of Bond's abilities here than perhaps any incarnation of Thousand from the official series.
• Keep the Reward: When Bail beats Largo at the "Domination" video game, theoretically winning over $300,000, he turns down Largo's coin in exchange for a dance with Domino. Subverted in that Largo's jealousy makes the dance a much bigger sting than losing money.
• Kick the Dog: Largo auctioning Domino to some lecherous Arabian slavers. He'd generally been Affably Evil upward until this indicate and then this scene seems similar information technology was included only to make Largo out to exist more of a bastard.
• 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.
• Kneel Before Zod: Fatima's terminal encounter with Bond.

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

• Meaningful Name: "Small-scale-Fawcett". Doesn't have Sigmund Freud to go that joke.
• Memetic Badass: Invoked with the gag that Bail might be then badass his piss tin burn a human being'due south face, and potentially fifty-fifty kill.
• Mistaken for Retainer: Domino mistakes Bond for the masseur. As she is an bonny woman in a towel, he doesn't correct her and does the job (equally any admirer would).
• Ms. Fanservice: Domino is played past Kim Basinger. Barbara Carrera equally Fatima is rather fetching as well.
• No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine: Bond spends fourth dimension aboard the Flight Saucer every bit an unwilling but well cared-for guest.
• Not-Indicative Name: The title has nothing to do with the plot. It refers to Connery returning to the office of Bond after pledging to never play the character once more. Connery's wife suggested the title, and she'due south listed in the credits for it. (Thought it does get almost-dropped at the very finish, with a literal wink.)
• No OSHA Compliance: The staircases in Nicole's house definitely don't look safe for anyone prone to losing their residue.

• Aught Tin can Cease United states At present!: Blofeld says this as 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's complaint (though this incarnation of K would appear to have difficulty running an ice foam parlour, nevermind MI6, so he can't complain well-nigh having Bond on his payroll).
• Overt Operative: Lampshaded by 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 makes it funnier. invoked

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

• The Pen Is Mightier: When it's a pocket-sized rocket launcher, it is.
• Pocket Rocket Launcher: One 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 up SPECTRE agent Fatima Chroma when Chroma, eager to obtain proof that she was the one who killed the legendary James Bail, orders him to write a alphabetic character at gunpoint.
• Product Placement: Atari, of all things. A especially 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-up arcade cabinets, which continued potent throughout The '80s and early 90's.
• Punch Catch: During the fight between Bond and the SPECTRE assassin at Shrublands, Bond throws a punch at the assassin and the assassinator calmly grabs Bond'south fist, demonstrating his tremendous strength.
• Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh...: 1 of the SPECTRE assassins is so tough that he not only shrugs off Bail's punches, only pulls a Punch Catch.
• Punny Proper name: Nigel Small-Fawcett. Small-Fawcett...pocket-size faucet. Doesn't accept Sigmund Freud to get that joke.
• Race Lift: Felix Leiter, who is played past African-American actor Bernie Casey.
• Revealing Encompass-Up: SPECTRE'Due south attempt to keep their activities at Shrubland's a secret not but attract Bond's attention, but point him in the direction of Domino - and by extension, Largo.
• Correct-Hand Cat: Blofeld wouldn't exist Blofeld without having his white Persian cat.
• Running Gag: The flake about "eliminating Free Radicals."
• Sealed with a Kiss: It's a Bond moving picture, it'due south 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 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 start episode of Porridge:

  Make full this glass.

  What, from here?

• Shark Pool: Fatima Blush turns the Caribbean into a giant version by sending electronically controlled sharks to set on Bond after placing a Tracking Device on him.
• She's Got Legs: Fatima. "And then nurse-y will give baby his candy."
• Shoe Phone: Subverted at least once. The "gyroscopic bomb" disguised as a cigar instance turns out to be just a cigar case. And so there's Q's mini-rocket launcher disguised as a fountain pen.
• Slave Market: Bond rescues Bond Daughter Domino Petachi from slave traders, where she'd been shackled to a mail service and put up for sale. Domino had been sent there every bit punishment for betraying Big Bad Largo.
• Smoldering Shoes: Played direct when Fatima is killed by i of Q's devices.
• Soundtrack Dissonance: The theme is a light, piece of cake listening tune, and it's first played during the opening grooming sequence where Bond beats the crap out of anybody.
• Spanner in the Works: Go along 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 data from Domino.
• Stockholm Syndrome: "She could take turned."
• Stocking Filler: Fatima Chroma has Jack Petachi hooked on heroin to forcefulness 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.
• Harbinger Feminist: Fatima Blush certainly prides herself on being an empowered adult female able to command any man she wants, just when Bond implies that he was non impressed by her functioning while making dear, 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 actually begs Bond to assure her that making love to her was the greatest feel of his life - right before she resumes threatening to shoot him in his privates, and she took groovy delight in murdering her "rival" for Bond'due south affections too. Once again, Sigmund Freud, field twenty-four hours.
• Take That!: Algernon's quip almost hoping to see some "free sex and violence" was aimed at the "official" Bond films which had go cartoonish. Granted, this movie's non much better in that regard.

• There Is No Kill Similar Overkill: Fatima'due south 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 so her electronically controlled sharks can home in on him.
• Tranquillizer Sprint: James uses a sleep-poisoned blowgun dart on a Mook guard at the commencement.

• Truer to the Text: At that place are a scattering of moments that definitely go dorsum to the original novel rather than the previous motion-picture show — the nigh obvious being the final expiry 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 motorbike and exits the other side.
• Unwinnable Training Simulation: Discussed. Bond's new boss is dissatisfied with his performance during the fake training missions (he died one time and lost his legs in another mission). Bond and then points out that preparation missions cannot exist compared to the real thing as the adrenaline boost is missing.
• Villainous Friendship: Largo and Blush are both homicidal psychopaths merely 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 outset name terms and he personally chose her to "recruit" Jack Petachi.

• Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Fatima Chroma has not i, non 2, not even three, but 4 times to just shoot Bond, merely merely settles for trying inane things similar trying to go him eaten by sharks, blowing him upwardly, killing Nicole for no reason, and trying to become Bond to put her in his memoirs. This terminal one gets her killed.
• Writing Effectually Trademarks: While it employs the plot and graphic symbol names of Thunderball, Bond mainstays which Eon wouldn't permit such every bit the Leitmotif and the Bond Gun Barrel are absent.
• You Are Number half dozen: Largo calls Fatima "Number 12" at one betoken to remind her that they take a strictly professional human relationship. This, when she was going to kiss him for giving her an social club to kill Bond's female person assistant.
• You 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 merely smiles and agrees.
• Zeerust: The arcade game Domination, very much so. Information technology was supposed to be avant-garde and futuristic, merely it comes off equally LESS advanced than the games in the game room in the casino that Domino had just been inside.

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