It all stems from Bond’s medical which reveals aliments including high blood pressure, liver issues, and fibrosis. The James Bond novels up to this point have had smarmy witticisms and ludicrous names that may elicit an occasional smile, or more likely a facepalm, but in Thunderball Fleming tries his hand at genuine situational comedy and shockingly it works. THUNDERBALL, the movie: Goldfinger had been a tremendous hit, so the writers of Thunderball didn’t stray far from the formula or Fleming’s book, and the plot is very similar.Nine books into the series, Ian Fleming gains a sense of humour. On the submarine USS Manta, the captain offer Bond a dinner of Virginia ham baked with red eye gravy, poached eggs with rye toast and apple pie with ice cream.

I haven’t found it has any effect on me.” With Felix Leiter he enjoys a huge lunch at the Royal Bahamian(now a Sandals resort) of martinis, seafood cocktail suprême, chicken sauté with watercress, Baltic herring in sour cream, chopped tenderloin of beef with onion rings, all of which Leiter and Bond find insipid. When he meets Domino, she asks if he believes conch is an aphrodisiac, and Bond replies, “Island people have it on their wedding night. Four rashers of that American hickory- smoked bacon if we have any left, hot buttered white toast, not that whole meal, and a big pot of coffee double strength and bring in the drink tray.” He also manage to get his cigarettes down to ten day.īack in London Bond’s longtime housekeeper May is appalled by his commitment to a new, healthy diet, but within days, he admits he cannot “do my work on carrot juice” and asks her for “four scrambled eggs. After completing two weeks at Shrublands, feeling quite chipper, Bond heads for Lucien’s restaurant in Brighton for a huge bowl of spaghetti “bolognaise” with extra garlic and a bottle of cheap Chianti. M's insistence on 007’s physical deterioration is partially due to his eating white bread (Bond insists he doesn’t eat much white bread) and wants him to take the “nature cure” at Shrublands, where his meals consist of broth, vegetables and tea, although the beautiful clinician Pat Fearing brings him brandy. (Photo by MacGregor/Getty Images) Getty Images

A scene from the James Bond film 'Thunderball' with Sean Connery, Claudine Auger and Adolfo Celi.

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