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FRWL was his peak, he had a slickness that wasn't there before, but he still had that killer edge that was lacking in the following films (though YOLT still has a special place in my heart which no other film in the series has).
If FRWL is his peak, then DAF is his trough. He looked like a 60-something, burned out, Vegas car dealer called Crazy Bob. It's shocking to think that he was only 40/41.
Difficult to see how he ever will be really. You can never recreate the magic of those early movies. The era, the glamour and his unreconstructed masculinity will never be matched.
It's a shame DAF didn't embrace his being older in a more interesting way. It has some decent scenes but is otherwise a lame ending to an amazing series of movies. Thinking how he looked in DAF I am quite glad he was not in OHMSS. Laz's youthfulness and optimism seems more appropriate for that film.
Agree, there is a reason why he always ranks as no. 1, however much many disagree.
Yes, difficult to fulfil the 'news' part of this thread when we only have rumours about him coming out of retirement (which he won't).
I also believe Connery get's a bad rap for looking older in DAF. That is mainly because of his added weight gain and not so much because of an older appearance. He was only forty when DAF was being filmed...hardly what I would consider to be an old man. What is interesting is that he looks younger in films he made after DAF. The reason being he's in better all around shape (his loss of weight.)
Connery's 1981 space adventure OUTLAND (a full 10 years after DAF) is a good example of his better looking appearance mainly because he's in great physical condition, something he was not in when he did DAF.
A previous member stated that if you watch DR. NO and then DAF back to back you will see a difference (referring to Connery's age.) Well, it's a nine to ten year difference, your bound to see some change. That's just nature taking it's course. I maintain the difference is mostly in his significant weight gain and really has far less to do with his age.
And I never buy in to the argument that he looked bored in YOLT. Once upon a time someone used this argument in a book and everyone jumped on the bandwagon.
He didn't. The film's pace and spectacle simply left Connery's laid back, sardonic style behind a little. Connery himself was just as cool, just as charismatic as ever.
I appreciate that @WilyGalore has posted this elsewhere, but worth adding it to Sean's own thread.
it's amusing to note they struggled to get Sean to lose his Scottish accent.
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&sqi=2&ved=0CDQQqQIwAg&url=http://metro.co.uk/2014/07/23/does-this-cloud-look-like-god-or-sean-connery-4807472/&ei=jHnXU9W4KOfG7AblmYDgBQ&usg=AFQjCNHJbO3uSUuAuM4E0qNyjEd1JOe3ug
Guess what my least favourite part was? :((
I mean, Sean Connery is God so...
"Sean was taken to hospital after a book hit him on the head
When asked about it later he responded: "I can only blame my shelf".
More pressing, if Scotland gains independence will Sean put his money where his mouth is and move back to Scotland as he said he would?
Willy Eckerslike!
Really hoping Scotland votes for independence. They will do very well on their own, and it will force the English to confront a lot of their own issues.
Piffle...they wont last 5 minutes....
There are plenty of other countries in the EU of a similar or smaller size than Scotland that are doing fine, and most of them don't have North Sea oil. Add in a huge finance sector, whiskey, and a growing green technology sector and you have the foundations of a very strong Scotland. It is perfectly capable of standing on its own two feet - not even those opposed to independence pretend it is not a viable country in its own right. Outside of the South East of England, Scotland currently has the fastest growing economy in the UK - expect that to continue and accelerate under independence.
Frankly, given the increasing likelihood that the lunatics on the far right of the Tory party are going to bump the UK into leaving the EU, the Scots would be mad to not vote for independence and reassert control of their foreign policy before Cameron and co causes irreversible damage to British interests on the global stage.
Just think, if Scotland votes for independence, joins the EU and then a rump UK votes to leave the EU in 2017 (as most Tory MPs are hoping), it will be England looking like the irrelevant little country on the fringes of Europe.
The argument over who controls the oil in the North Sea is a debate which will rage for years, maybe decades. Neither Westminster nor Holyrood will be prepared to let that go.
If you look at a map it's pretty hard to see how any but a few fields off the coast of Northumbria could ever be defined as being in English coastal waters. An independent Scotland would clearly take the lion's share of the oil. Their problem is that stocks are obviously massively down from where they were 3 decades ago, and all the UK has to show for that huge oil boon is a lot dole checks paid out during the 80s and 90s. We basically used the oil money to pay people to do nothing, while dismantling our manufacturing sector. Genius.
If only it was that straightforward. Both the UK and Scottish Governments lay claim to the lion's share of the oil reserves in the North Sea and it's an issue which would be fought out in the European Courts for years to come.
Its hardly Appreciation or News regarding Connery is it ? ...but i'm not a mod so its no skin off my nose..they can decide.