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Slapping women is wrong for any era.
I love Connery, I adore all his works, but he's said some pretty vile stuff. That said, I'm not condemning him. Just acknowledging both the bad and the good.
I love the idea of a small tribute to Sean and Roger. I wonder if, the film being "locked" is it too late? Can Fukunaga go back and put in a small tribute?
I think it would be nice and touching.
Something unsentimental - just a simple “In loving memory of Sean and Roger”
https://variety.com/2020/film/news/sean-connery-dead-hollywood-reaction-1234820506/
I did think it maybe was past the time for one for Roger, but with the film coming out so soon after Connery's death I think it's inevitable there will be something like that for him, and you'd have to do for both of them if they did, yeah.
CBS Morning News (US)
TCM (Turner Movie Classics) Tribute
https://www.tcm.com/video/066667024/sean-connery-1930-2020-tcm-remembers
No man is immortal, but I kind of expected him to live forever. I watched TB this afternoon, followed by (to cheer myself up) a bunch of YouTube clips of him being spoofed by Darrell Hammond in those SNL “Celebrity Jeopardy” skits.
I just saw one of those on that Variety page- I don't think I've seen any of those previously and I must admit I didn't know it was possible to do a Connery impersonation that sounds so little like him! :D
Very fitting, as Connery was born in Fountainbridge.
Nice one @WillyGalore_Redux.
Haha, you’re right. Darrell Hammond actually commented on that at one point, saying how sometimes the closer you get to an accurate impression of someone the less funny it is. So he just made it his own, and Will Farrell did the same with Trebek. Can’t argue with the results!
So is slavery.
Besides his Bond films, I've seen almost all of Connery's films, here's the list:
Darby O'Gill and the Little People
The Longest Day
Marnie
The Hill
A Fine Madness
Shalako
The Red Tent
The Anderson Tapes
The Offence
Zardoz
Murder on the Orient Express
The Man Who Would Be King
A Bridge Too Far
The First Great Train Robbery
Highlander I & Ii
The Untouchables
The Presidio
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
The Hunt for Red October
The Russia House
Robin Hood
The Medicine Man
Rising Sun
Just Cause
First Knight
Dragonheart
The Rock
The Avengers - the only film where Connery played a villain.
Entrapment
Finding Forrester
League of Extraordinary Gentleman - his last film
Thankful that the new James Bond film NTTD was delayed until April 2021!
Yes.
After that it is probably The Hill, in terms of a great acting display.
Gutted, but grateful he had a long productive life and will live on forever in a deep body of work.
I grew up with the films of Sir Roger Moore, but of course it wasn't long before I saw the Connery films, and what a collection of Bond films he gave us. I'm torn between DN and FRWL as my favourites. Both are slick, fast paced thrillers with a limited budget. But so wonderfully made they still look great today. Though that can be said of most Bond films. The older I get, the more I appreciate the older films of the series. TB and YOLT were films I would often see as mediocre entries, today they rank amongst my favourites.
Of course Sean Connery had a great and diverse range of films during and particularly after playing James Bond, The Hill, The Anderson Tapes, The Offence, The Man Who Would Be King, Outland, The Name Of The Rose, The Untouchables, Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade, The Hunt For Red October and The Rock ranking amongst my favourites. Though in truth most films with Sir Sean are worth a view.
I cannot think of many if any actor who could play a Russian submariner or an Irish cop and still keep that unmistakable Scots brogue. For Sean Connery we just let it go, because there is only one Sean Connery, and also because he is such a fine actor. You need only look at the tributes to the great man to see how adored he is among his peers.
We've lost one of the all time great legends of the screen. And it makes me feel sad that he's left us.
But we have such a wonderful range of films to enjoy forever. For that I'm truly thankful.
Rest in peace Big Tam, and thank you for all you have given us.
He was my introduction to Bond; Dr No with the film cover was the first Bond novel I read, and I made sure Dr No was the first of the films I watched.
That's perhaps the best summary of Sir Sean I heard yesterday.
You only have to see Sean in film's like Hell Drivers (1957) that even in a smaller role he had that star power and screen presence of a genuine movie star.
Sean has and always will be number 1 for me, I idolized him in my youth. Sean is James Bond, and Sean's James Bond is one of the most iconic things in cinema.
Very few actors transcend a level of stardom which is so ingrained into our culture, us mere mortals can only look on in awe.
Sean Connery was one of those actors.
16:00 mark is where he discusses Red October and working with Sir Sean.
Heh! I get the feeling he would say that ;)
That’s very interesting to have that confirmed: there have been stories about him suffering from that but it was denied (I think Michael Caine even denied it once). Sad to hear that.