Bond Retrospective: "Thunderball"
Released: 1965
Actor: Sean Connery
Villain: Emilio Largo (Adolfo Celi)
Henchman: Fiona Volpe (Luciana Paluzzi)
Allies: Felix Leiter, Paula Caplan, Pinder
Bond Girl: Domino Derval (Claudine Auger)
First Appearance: Q in the field, jetpack, SPECTRE meeting
Precredits sequence: Bond attends the funeral for Colonel J. Bouvar, and deduces that Bouvar is alive, kills him, and escapes via jetpack.
Plot: Bond recuperates at a clinic, where he meets Colonel Lippe. The colonel is working for SPECTRE. Largo, aka number two, attends a big meeting, where a hidden Blofeld disposes of a disloyal member, and informs everyone of Largo's plan to hold two nuclear bombs hostage. Back at the recovery home, Bond encounters a bandaged man, Angelo, who turns out to be a SPECTRE hire who trained for two years to look like NATO pilot Derval, who's seduced by Fiona Volpe, a SPECTRE agent who's working with Lippe. Derval is killed, and replaced by his doppelgänger, who commandeers the NATO plane and delivers it into Largo's hands before being killed by Largo. Blofeld then makes an offer to the US and UK for £100 million, or a city will be destroyed. Bond is deployed to Nassau, Bahamas, where he finds the late Derval's sister, Domino, who's in a relationship with Largo. Bond also encounters Volpe, who seduces and tries to capture him, but dies in the process. Bond uses Domino's help to find out where Largo is holding the bombs, and with the help of Leiter and their Nassau ally Pinder, they are able to get help to stop the bombs. Domino kills Largo in revenge, and they are rescued to safety.
Thoughts: I definitely feel that I enjoyed the film much more this time than the first time around. The underwater battle was actually rather cool. I kinda wish I could've seen it on the big screen, to feel as if I were there. I liked the plot this time, too. A little more saving the world than Goldfinger, although the mix of different levels of severity in plots is important. Largo was a decent villain, but I really like how SPECTRE is such a prominent factor. It's something that went missing, that sort of continuity, in the Moore films and beyond, until they reintroduced it in Casino Royale. I hear Skyfall isn't part of that threat, but neither was Goldfinger. Overall, a very good entry. Connery comes across as a good balance between the serious and comedic Bond.
Actor: Sean Connery
Villain: Emilio Largo (Adolfo Celi)
Henchman: Fiona Volpe (Luciana Paluzzi)
Allies: Felix Leiter, Paula Caplan, Pinder
Bond Girl: Domino Derval (Claudine Auger)
First Appearance: Q in the field, jetpack, SPECTRE meeting
Precredits sequence: Bond attends the funeral for Colonel J. Bouvar, and deduces that Bouvar is alive, kills him, and escapes via jetpack.
Plot: Bond recuperates at a clinic, where he meets Colonel Lippe. The colonel is working for SPECTRE. Largo, aka number two, attends a big meeting, where a hidden Blofeld disposes of a disloyal member, and informs everyone of Largo's plan to hold two nuclear bombs hostage. Back at the recovery home, Bond encounters a bandaged man, Angelo, who turns out to be a SPECTRE hire who trained for two years to look like NATO pilot Derval, who's seduced by Fiona Volpe, a SPECTRE agent who's working with Lippe. Derval is killed, and replaced by his doppelgänger, who commandeers the NATO plane and delivers it into Largo's hands before being killed by Largo. Blofeld then makes an offer to the US and UK for £100 million, or a city will be destroyed. Bond is deployed to Nassau, Bahamas, where he finds the late Derval's sister, Domino, who's in a relationship with Largo. Bond also encounters Volpe, who seduces and tries to capture him, but dies in the process. Bond uses Domino's help to find out where Largo is holding the bombs, and with the help of Leiter and their Nassau ally Pinder, they are able to get help to stop the bombs. Domino kills Largo in revenge, and they are rescued to safety.
Thoughts: I definitely feel that I enjoyed the film much more this time than the first time around. The underwater battle was actually rather cool. I kinda wish I could've seen it on the big screen, to feel as if I were there. I liked the plot this time, too. A little more saving the world than Goldfinger, although the mix of different levels of severity in plots is important. Largo was a decent villain, but I really like how SPECTRE is such a prominent factor. It's something that went missing, that sort of continuity, in the Moore films and beyond, until they reintroduced it in Casino Royale. I hear Skyfall isn't part of that threat, but neither was Goldfinger. Overall, a very good entry. Connery comes across as a good balance between the serious and comedic Bond.
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