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He's also the man who donated his entire paycheck for DAF to charity.
Why does anybody assume Barbara or Michael would want him there anyway is beyond me.
In college I had the pleasure of acting on stage with my college professor, who was the best of the best of the best. As awesome as that felt, could you just imagine getting the chance to be in a play with Dalton??
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Because it would give their "event" far more status and create more interest than it would have if he doesn't attend. As I said previously, he is still seen by most people as the best Bond, an unpalatable fact to some, I know.
If he does not come I do not judge him for living his old days in peace instead of once more walking into the field with those pushy and opiniated 007 fans. After all they drove him away before.
And darn I would not mind living on the Bahamas, rather sooner than in my old days.
Strong point.
Sean's life was made a misery by some of the more obsessive fans in the 60s. Some camped almost permenently outside his London home and often knocked on the door and asked if they could come in for tea!.
If you've seen the BBC 'Whickers World' documentary about the making of 'You Only Live Twice', there's a scene where he had to have lunch in his hotel room because of the antics of fans and media in the restaurant. Also in Japan, some 'fans' were looking at him use the primative toilet whilst on location!.
Please don't expect him to want do a lot for 'the fans'.
So he should after the mess DAF turned out to be!
Still in the top 50% of the series
In this thread I've tried to address why Connery has a perfect right not to attend the "reunion" and why it might be a good idea not to attend.
BTW Will Brosnan be attending? I wouldn't blame him if he didn't turn up. An excellent Bond who got landed with some truly awful Bond movies and then got dumped.
Could be down to just four.
Hmm. After giving it some thought I would say Dan and Sean would be both good value down the pub for a pint. However the fact that you could banter with Dan about the dismal situation at Anfield would give him the edge over Big Tam who came close to signing for the scum.
Then again I bet George has some tales to tell and doesnt mind the odd pint.
Obviously somewhere a bit more upmarket for cocktails or a G&T then Rog without question would be great entertainment.
Tim I can see being a real ale man and would be good for a quiet pint in a country pub, perhaps even a game of dominos thrown in.
Pierce the tricky one. I dont really see him fitting in at a pub and hes a bit of a poor mns Rog if youre going somewhere posh. Would like to get him well oiled though and here just exactly what happened when EON sacked him.
This is in danger of turning into Up With the Partridge -
'I'd like to go to Legoland Windsor with Sean Connery and afterwards go for a nice lamb lunch.'
Either way, Connery's refusal to show up, if the rumor is correct, doesn't surprise me at all. That BAFTA tribute to James Bond they did in (I believe it was) 2002 had all the Bonds present, except Connery who had just recorded a few words.
Good heavens, if his introductory scene in DN was all he'd ever given us, I'd still grant him the prerogative to do exactly as he likes. He owes us nothing, we owe him so much.
I'd forgotten all about that! This does seem similar yeah.
I've never been a very good judge of character though so I'm probably wrong.
Pierce does belong in the pub but an Irish one not an English boozer. You have to imagine him on his tenth Guiness, stood round the piano in a country bar with Shane MacGowan singing a duet of Christmas in New York. That would actually be excellent.
Sure, he is entitled to have his own decisions, especially in his old age. But the one thing he's forgetting is that he 's a celebrity, a public icon who has the eyes of the people wherever he goes... and a celebrity must be willing to share a part of him to the fans who helped him achieve what he wants to be. Which is exactly what Sir Sean must do.
All the "reasons" for him not to attend are preposterous. His so-called retirement from public appearances unbelievable. (He publicly watched tennis games, so I think that counts) His age or his health doesn't seem like a problem too; Roger Moore, who is older than him would certainly attend, and I think Sean's pretty healthy as well. All of these are obviously alibis for snobbing the franchise which cemented his cinematic legacy, and he snobbed it along with us, his fans :-S And that's really disappointing.
I respect Sean Connery's legacy which is James Bond more than Sean Connery himself. I don't loathe him, it's just pretty upsetting to wonder what's on him. He got a considerable pay raise in 1971, ripped off the franchise 12 years later so what else does he want? He probably thinks that he's the core of the entire James Bond license, not the character, and not Ian Fleming.
How did Connery rip off the franchise in 1983? A production company legitimately obtained the rights for a Thunderball remake and legally employed Connery.
Don't take this as a criticism. There is a tendency among fans to refer to the 1967 Casino Royale and Never Say Never Again as "rogue" Bond movies (among other labels. Whatever you think of the movies (and there's plenty of fodder for criticism for both), they're not ripoffs or infringment upon the rights Eon held at the time both were made. The rights situation, of course, has changed subsequently.
Good point, I agree. Sean's attendance is not about pleasing the big-wigs and Cubby's daughter, or even about honoring the series that got him started, it's about giving back to the fans.
It's like when you have a family reunion that you don't want to go to... you just go anyway, because you know it's the right thing to do.
I think that you are both wrong and feel far to entitled, the man is plus 80 and has retired. Like any person retirement means you no longer have to work, and doing advertisement"work" for the 007 series is just that.
And as a fan you have no right to demand anything that the actor/star/celebrity is not willing to give. There is a line where privacy should be accepted, and the man has a hard time enough to remain out of the light enough with these lunatic papparazzi chasing him to make a quick buck.
As a true fan you should respect SC's retirement, and if he decides to appear consider yourself lucky. If the man wants to live his life in the shadows without those pesky photographers and pushy fans that is his right. ANd the rights of former employers and fans be damned.
This discussion seems to be more about entitlement people seem to feel they have than respecting the privacy and decissions made by an actor who actively wants to remain out of the spotlight. And his occasional appearance does not alter that at all.
When I read all the replies I must admit I lose respect for the fans.
Even if he's healthy and has no real reason not to, if he doesn't want to, he doesn't have to.
As for which Bond to have a pint with, Dalton, Lazenby or Brosnan I think would make the best drinking buddy.
I think Moore would be the best one to meet and really talk to though.
I agree with you on this. As much as it is disappointing, we as fans have absolutely no right to demand anything from him. He is a person, just like us, and is in his right to live his life the way he chooses, especially at his age. It is wrong for us to feel entitled, and if he does show up, we should consider ourselves, as you say, lucky.
He owes us nothing. He did a great job being Bond. Bond made him famous, but probably without him and his charisma, Bond would'nt have been so successful.
Plus people went to see his Bonds because they love the films, and not out of some kind of charity for Sean Connery.
Connery did a job of work and moved on.