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That's how a hairline like that should look! :D
Yeah, chicken, rice, steroids and dehydration, the Hollywood exercise regime combo.
Personally I’d take the ice pack.
Yes, there is some sharp dialogue in NSNA and I love the section in Monte Carlo, which I think plays very well. Only Connery's Bond could pull off a tango.
Daniel Craig has a widescreen forehead. I don't think it's impossible.
Looking on some other Bond forums I came across this from 2020 ; it's pretty spot on
"Connery's physical appearance in DAF is an interesting topic. Connery was 40, but looks every bit 50. He does look much more fit and younger in his two preceding films, The Molly McGuires ('70) and even sans toupee in The Anderson Tapes ('71).
What's even more interesting is that he looks much more fit and very convincingly as what the young Bond of DN, FRWL, GF, and TB would look like as an older middle-aged Bond in several films he did some years later.
Three that immediately come to mind are A Bridge Too Far ('77); Cuba ('79) in which for all intents and purposes he really looked like an older version of Bond; and Outland ('81).
I guess Connery was just going through a phase around the time of DAF where he really didn't care. Of course as mentioned by others, the bad toupee, uncropped brows, and used car salesmen suites didn't help either."
To be honest, the vast majority of people age noticeably once they get to 40-45. Connery always looked a bit older anyway, and I suspect he liked to indulge himself (I really don't blame him). But like I said, I suspect most people would want his physique at that age.
He didn't look older than Dalton in his movies, for example.
Considering Connery smoked, drank, and probably didn't exercise as much as he'd done in his 20s and 30s I think he looks ok in DAF. Not quite at his fighting weight as it were, but nothing that would make the production too worried or have to do extensive covering up beyond perhaps the ice pack trick. It's not in Marlon Brando territory (and if you want to see someone who aged and put on weight dramatically, that's an actor to look at. Connery was more physically fit and had the height/frame to accommodate that extra weight).
It's just a rewrite of the old quip "I've got to get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini." The line is at least 80 years old and was supposedly uttered by Robert Benchley.
He probably didn't. The early-70s were a bit of a rough time for Connery both personally and professionally. His marriage to Diane Cilento was deteriorating and he was struggling to escape the shadow of Bond. He actually wasn't in high demand in Hollywood at this time. It's not surprising that he let himself go a bit.
There's a better one in TB
"What sharp little eyes you've got!"
"Wait til you get to my teeth!"
Actually TB has some really good ones!
Aaah! Those too!
"Nigel, just go back to your desk..."
1) Fatima Blush
2) The Phyllis Hyman song (which isn't in the movie)
3) At around the 2 hour mark, Bond (or rather Connery) says the word "oasis".
Haha! Number 3. Maybe he influenced the band, since Noel & Liam love Bond. Yeah, Barbara's Fatima is exciting to watch. She's the more enigmatic and sensual version of Fiona, I think.
Yes, I like Casey too. But I suppose Wright just took it to a whole new level. It's funny how Casey gives me Chiwetel Ejiofor vibes.
Ah yes, you're right. Quite an accomplishment if you only appeared in the series' "stepchild" NSNA.
Well-deserved though imo.
Even in just a couple of scenes you do feel like Connery and Casey's characters would go for a drink together. I think that ball/bomb gag is quite important: Felix gets one over on James, which is pretty rare: and James takes it as a joke - straight away we know where their relationship is.
I also quite like that he's involved in the actual climax, actionwise.
Does that happen to other Felixes? I think the rest of them are around but sidelined or aren't even there...