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A pair of nuclear missile submarines go missing. Independently, our British secret agent and a Soviet agent are assigned to find them. Thing is, the former just shot the latter's boyfriend dead.
This is the tenth ''[[James Bond (
Nobody expected ''The Spy Who Loved Me'' to do well after the rather poor ''[[The Man
# [[The Teaser]]. At the end of the sequence, Bond ''skis off a cliff''. He falls for several heart-stopping seconds, then a parachute opens. In the
# The [[Cool Car|Lotus Esprit]]. Driving off a pier into the sea. Where it turns into a submarine.
# The 007 Stage, built for the massive battle scene in a supertanker. It has been made available for filming other movies and remains the largest sound stage in the world<ref>Or rather, its successors do. The original stage burned down during the filming of ''[[Legend (
# Jaws. the 7'4" henchmen with the metal teeth who so unstoppable that he is only [[The Dragon|Dragon]] to survive fighting Bond and maybe the one who came closest to scaring him. That is partially due to the fact that Bond knows that no matter how hard he hits the giant, [[Determinator|he WILL survive it and come back to challenge him again]].
It also features the first appearance of a Wetbike -- the actual prototype -- in a work of fiction, before it came out.
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* [[Action Girl]]: Anya Amasova.
* [[Almost-Dead Guy]]: Just before dying, the captain of the ''Liparus'' tells Bond that the submarines are on station and the missiles will be launched in four minutes.
* [[Apocalypse How]]: Class 2 (Civilization Extinction). Stromberg's plan to start a global thermonuclear war.
* [[Artistic License Ships]]: The Soviet submarine is missing its fairwater planes.
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* [[The Brute]]: Jaws. Also [[The Dragon]].
* [[Collapsing Lair]]: When Stromberg's lair Atlantis is torpedoed. The ''Liparus'' also doubles as a secondary example.
* [[Come Back to Bed, Honey]]:
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'''Bond''': Sorry. Something came up.
'''Girl''': But, James, I need you.
'''Bond''': So does England!
* [[Continuity Nod]]: Reciting a list of Bond's biographical info to him at a bar Anya mentions: "Married only once. Wife killed-" Bond cuts her off, the events of ''[[
* [[Cool Boat]]: Stromberg's ''Liparus''. It ''eats submarines
* [[Cool Car]]: Bond's Lotus Esprit submarine car.
* [[Cool Sidecar]]: The bad guys chase [[James Bond]] with sidecar that becomes a detachable missile steered by a joystick on the motorbike.
* [[Diabolical Mastermind]]: Karl Stromberg.
* [[Disney Villain Death]]: Sandor▼
* [[Distaff Counterpart]]: Anya Amasova to Bond. The scene where she is called on a mission while in bed with someone is in particular very reminiscent of Bond on numerous occasions (though unlike Bond most of the time, she clearly did love her bedmate at the time).▼
* [[Dirty Old Man]]: Stromberg to Anya, while she's strapped to a couch.
▲* [[Disney Villain Death]]: Sandor.
▲* [[Distaff Counterpart]]: Anya Amasova to Bond. The scene where she is called on a mission while in bed with someone is in particular very reminiscent of Bond on numerous occasions (though unlike Bond most of the time, she clearly did love her bedmate at the time).
* [[Double Entendre]]: One of the tastiest in Bond history:
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'''Miss Moneypenny''': He's on a mission, sir. In Austria.
'''M''': "Well, tell him to pull out. Immediately."
''[Cue Bond making love with a woman by a fireplace in Austria.]''
** An even better one at the end, and arguably one of the best Bond endings.
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'''Gogol:''' Triple X!
'''Minister of
'''Bond:''' Keeping the British end up, sir.
* [[The Dragon]]: Jaws.
* [[Driving Stick]]: Anya falls foul to this when trying to escape Jaws with 007.
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'''Bond:''' [[Deadpan Snarker|Can you play any other tune?]]
*** Barbara Bach, Anya's actress, [[Enforced Method Acting|couldn't actually drive stick: Moore's response was unscripted!]]
* [[Dull Surprise]]: Anya makes one face and uses one voice for the entire movie.
* [[Enhance Button]]: [[Older Than They Think|Back before]] it [[CSI|was cool]].
* [[Fan Service]]: Major Anya Amasova in the shower on the U.S. submarine.
** [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Naomi, Stromberg's ''gorgeous'' helicopter pilot / assassin.
* [[Giant Mook]]: Jaws.
* [[Go-Go Enslavement]]: Where ''did'' Stromberg find that outfit for Anya?
** Probably in [[Ms. Fanservice|Naomi's]] wardrobe.
* [[Good
* [[Groin Attack]]: Bond to Jaws in the shark pool room.
** Bond to Stromberg...with two bullets from his Walther.
* [[High Altitude Interrogation]]: Bond does this to a mook and then lets the him plummet to his death when he hears everything he needs.
* [[I Have You Now, My Pretty]]
* [[Implacable Man]]: Jaws proves himself to be Bond's most resilient foe.
* [[Ineffectual Death Threats]]: Indeed, Major Amasova never does kill Bond for killing her lover.
** By then, Bond had saved her life even when he had no other reason to.
* [[In Name Only]]: [[Enforced Trope|Enforced]]. Fleming realized the book was just wrong, so he sold the rights on the condition that any feature film using the title film would NOT be an adaptation. [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|He probably would have been better off just quietly dropping the novel in a shredder, as this film set a precedent for In Name Only adaptations of the Bond novels.]]
* [[Instant Sedation]]: The sleep dust cigarette Anya uses on Bond.
* [[Intimate Healing]]
** Played straight at the end, when they both need to get out of their cold wet clothes.
* [[It's Raining Men]]: After Bond skis off a cliff.
* [[Just Hit Him]]: Jaws and Bond.
* [[Last Request]]: Bond asks Anya if he can make one before she kills him. {{spoiler|Of course, that was before a popping champagne cork broke the tension. It was unlikely from that point she was going to actually kill him.}}
* [[Made of Iron]]: Always true of Bond, but Jaws as well.
* [[Milkman Conspiracy]]: The Stromberg Shipping Line. They hijack nuclear submarines merely to start [[World War Three]]. It's so they can restart civilization and make their own [[BioShock|Rapture]].
* [[Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot]]: Disappearing submarines -> plot to start a nuclear war.
* [[Mnogo Nukes Missile Submarines]]: The Soviet sub, a "Delta I".
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* [[Nipple-and-Dimed]]: Averted.
* [[No More for Me]]: A bystander when Bond drives the Lotus Esprit out of the ocean onto the beach.
* [[No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to
* [[Non-Action Big Bad]]: Stromberg is by far the least physical of Bond villains, relying on push-button deathtraps and legions of [[Mooks]] to do his bidding.
* [[A Nuclear Error]]: The "Impulse Conductor Circuit", which can detonate a nuclear warhead while it's being disassembled.
* [[The One Thing I Don't Hate About You]]:
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* [[Operation Game of Doom]]: Removing the detonator from the warhead.
* [[Playing Both Sides]]
* [[Pretty in Mink]]: A lady wears a white mink coat in the beginning. She's possibly [[Naked in Mink]] in it as well.
* [[Recycled in Space]]: Inverted. Lewis Gilbert directed both ''[[
* [[Red Right Hand]]: Stromberg has webbed fingers.
* [[Red Shirt]]: A young Royal Navy officer volunteers to lead the charge, something you'd expect Bond to do. It's no surprise when he and his men get killed.
* [[Reds
* [[Revenge Myopia]]: In the opening scene, Bond kills Anya's lover, who is trying to kill him at the time. When she finds out about it she vows to kill Bond.
* [[Shark Pool]]
* [[Shoot the Builder]]: Stromberg had two scientists murdered after when they created a submarine tracking system.
* [[Short-Lived Aerial Escape]]: The underwater Lotus to Naomi's chopper.
* [[Shout-Out]]: The music that plays while Bond and Anya are wandering through the desert after the van breaks down [[Lawrence of Arabia|sounds very familiar...]]
* [[Shower Scene]]: "What's wrong, sailor. Haven't you seen a Major taking a shower before?"
* [[Sic Em]]: "Let them get to shore... and then kill them."
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** Then cancels it when he kills them instead. He may have faked the transfer knowing he was going to kill them.
* [[Title Drop]]: The theme song is called "Nobody Does It Better", but still has it ("Like heaven above me, ''the spy who loved me''...")
* [[Transforming Mecha]]: Bond's Lotus Esprit submarine car.
* [[Translation Convention]]: Russian characters (General Gogol, Major Amasova, her lover).
* [[Trap Door]]: Stromberg uses one in his elevator to drop his treacherous secretary into the [[Shark Pool]].
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* [[Undercover As Lovers]]: James and Anya pose as man and wife while visiting Stromberg.
* [[Utopia Justifies the Means]]
* [[War for Fun
** Not for profit, as he sneers at Bond for asking how much he wants to not instigate war.
* [[Weaponized Car]]: Bond's Lotus Esprit.
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[[Category:Films of the 1970s]]
[[Category:The Spy Who Loved Me]]
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[[Category:James Bond (film)]]
[[Category:British Films]]
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