RIP Sean Connery (1 Viewer)

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

Awwwww man. This one hurts. 

 

[Jayrok]

"One ping only... one ping only, please."

 

[Buckna]

Losers whine about their best... Winners go home and #### the prom queen!

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

https://youtu.be/DRTg419BNnU

 

[BobbyLayne]

https://youtu.be/DRTg419BNnU

I'm 58 and it's never occurred to me an open hand slap is an option when I'm arguing with my S.O.

That's third rail stuff, man.

Anyway, nice to see Sir Sean have his own thread. The definitive Bond imo and a very stylish man.

 

[BobbyLayne]

Sean Connery:  Well, well, well Trebek.  Fancy seeing you here, its been awhile.

Alex Trebek:  Not long enough.

Sean Connery:  That's not what your mother said last night.

Looks like it's my lucky day

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

I'm 58 and it's never occurred to me an open hand slap is an option when I'm arguing with my S.O.

That's third rail stuff, man.

Anyway, nice to see Sir Sean have his own thread. The definitive Bond imo and a very stylish man.

43 and me either. I knew about the first interview, I  when he doubled down in this one. 
 

And even more  when Walters commented at the end that Connery and his wife had been married for 30+ and she’s never complained.

 

[Christo]

if it aint the best movie you've seen in a year, i'll send you $4

We did a triple-header last night: Dr. No, The Man Who Would Be King, and Entrapment.

I can see why you like it so much. I can also see why it's not a popular film.

 

[Dr. No]

Huge fan..      I like how eventually he tuned out the public and spent his last remaining years just slinging a golf club in the Bahamas...  that's the way I envision the character of James Bond ending his days as well.

 

[Buckna]

We named the dog Indiana!

 

[James Bond]

My triple header last night:

1. From Russia with Love (Bond film that best tracked the book)

2. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Connery actually only 12 years older than Ford)

3. The Hunt for Red October (Connery should have kept the hairpiece from this one)

RIP

 

[Gr00vus]

The man who could have been Gandalf. But turned it down and did League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen instead. They offered him 15% of the box office for all 3 movies too.

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

The man who could have been Gandalf. But turned it down and did League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen instead. They offered him 15% of the box office for all 3 movies too.

Id rather watch LoEG.  

 

[Honus]

Lord help me, i'm a peaceable man, but i shonuff miss the take-care-of-business days, when the biggest & strongest among us kept the peace instead of made the trouble. Connery's Bond will always symbolize that for me.

Beyond that, however, i remember Sir Sean for Daniel Dravot, Esquire - the man who would be king in the greatest movie no one remembers. Connery had been scrambling to find success outside of 007 and both sides of his performance journey played on his face when  he went out on a balcony to receive the adoration of a nation of swarthies who had not just appointed him their ruler but anointed him their God, then held his head as regally when they tore him down. The empire of film thanks him. RIP -

Thank you for recommending this. I took the four buck challenge and I really enjoyed it. Very good flick. I just wish it could’ve been made with the technology of the 1990s, a la Dances With Wolves. I’m 43, by the way, so that’s my point of reference.

“Let us go seek safety in battle.” is a fantastic line.

 

[wikkidpissah]

Thank you for recommending this. I took the four buck challenge and I really enjoyed it. Very good flick. I just wish it could’ve been made with the technology of the 1990s, a la Dances With Wolves. I’m 43, by the way, so that’s my point of reference.

“Let us go seek safety in battle.” is a fantastic line.

It interests me more to wonder how it would have come out if Huston had done his favorite boyhood story when he wanted to, in the 50s w Bogart & Clark Gable (there was also some talk of Douglas and Lancaster doing it in the 60s) than with more modern technology. with those "when men were men and sheep were nervous" tales i prefer more pulse than scope anyway.

to the point of the thread, though, i can't imagine Dravot being played better than Connery did. his flourishes as a shaman and counting off his ol' sarge were magic and the sense of confounded destiny in his King is something i dont think anyone else could have found. glad you took the challenge -