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Sir Sean Connery's Fisticuffs
Which Bond film do you think Connery stood out in the fisticuffs department ?
I think it's the fight with Peter Franks in the life in DAF,a very vicious fight involving glass etc.
Honourable mention to the fight with Grant on the Orient Express in FRWL and with Colonel Bouvar in TB,both very good as well.
What do you think overall of Sir Sean's punching power ?
I think it's the fight with Peter Franks in the life in DAF,a very vicious fight involving glass etc.
Honourable mention to the fight with Grant on the Orient Express in FRWL and with Colonel Bouvar in TB,both very good as well.
What do you think overall of Sir Sean's punching power ?
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The Largo fight at the end of Thunderball is also top notch Bond.
The best Connery-cuffs are in FRWL with Red Grant, but that's the only big fist-fight in the movie.
In TB there's the brutal Bouvar bout(alliteration alert!), and the great underwater fights. And we can't forget the fist-to-stomach Leiter punch. While in FRWL we've got a great fight with Bond at the gypsy camp, as well as the bloody battle on the train. Both films are great showing's of the brutality of Sean's Bond, and why we all love him so darn much. ;)
And in all of these, there is no music, which I think is a great asset to a fight. In fact, the Peter Franks elevator fight didn't have any music for the first half of the fight. I think this contributes to the intensity of the fight, because we are not focused on the music, but the fists flying!
For all of YOLT's negative aspects, I do highly praise the fight scene in Osato's office! Very fast paced, greatly edited and choreographed, and pretty brutal! Extra points to Connery for using a couch as a weapon!
And in DAF it rips off Hitchcock and Torn Curtain a bit, in that it shows just how hard it can be to win a fight that ought to over with one haymaker in the lift.
DN : fight with Doctor No
FRWL : fight with Grant
GF : fight with Goldfinger
TB : fight with Largo
YOLT : fight with Hans
There was not all this free-range shooting we saw in TND and DAD, which i personally turn the film off when those endings come.
The fight with Franks was good and brutal but there is so much to dislake about DAF that I can't harp on that scene too much.
I would rank the fight with the driver at Osato's plant in YOLT pretty high. That guy was a built like a Sumo wrestler with less fat and he gave Bond some rough moments. Good fight.
Bond VS Grant FRWL
Bond VS Jacques Boiter TB
Bond VS Oddjob GF
Bond VS Peter Franks DAF
Agreed. I was watching YOLT last week and I was taken aback of how brutal the fight was. I love it when Bond picks up a sofa and launches it at the goon, but his bulk just seems to reflect it.
He really does have some of the best brawls in the franchise and I love how he always sold the fights he did. I like these ones a lot too.
Bond vs. OSATO driver YOLT
Bond vs. Hans in YOLT
Bond vs. Peter Franks in DAF
Bond vs. Oddjob in GF
Bond vs. thug in PTS of GF
Bond vs. Colonel Bouvar TB
Overall, I think Sean Connery's hand fights were the most consistently strong in his whole tenure. Even in DAF, in which he looks and often acts out of shape, he has his moments. I found the fight versys bambi and Thumper to be very frustrating and far too comedic.
FRWL's fight has to be one of, if not the best in cinema history. Just so visceral, including the sounds, and the claustrophobic scenario of it. Moreover, both the combatants fit the characterizations perfectly so it was all the more credible.
The proof that you don't only need good stunt work to make a good fight in a movie: you need good actors too. In FRWL every punch, every movement is done like it is meant, there is an emotional dimension to it. I don't think it was ever matched, in the series or outside.
As for his lesser fights, you have Oddjob (unfortunately doesn't hold up as well today), whatever that Bambi and Thumper shtick was, and that poorly edited Disco Volante fight. Still, he was always a competent fighter, that much was certain.
If you want bad fights, I direct you to the 'Roger Moore's fisticuffs' thread... "OooooooWOOOOOOOOOAHHH!" indeed.
His best, of course, is the FRWL one, which is still one of the most brutal, tense and three-dimensional fights in the series. It's actually perhaps the most realistic one, because there aren't any exaggerated striking effects and even the grunts and huffs of the two actors are genuine. It's a genuinely intense fight, and we've never had anything close until the modern era, where the fights are digitally enhanced.
I also loved the way Connery decorated his victims' bodies in TB (the flowers, the telephone cord, etc.) to add insult to injury. I really enjoyed his fight with Jacques Bouvar, which is quite well-edited for a 1965 movie and more importantly has a third dimension due to their ample use of the environment around them (which is central to a good fight - just clashing hands isn't good enough).
Ahhhh yes someone else who appreciates the fight with Bouvar. I love the way the surroundings are used in the fight - adds an extra dynamic to the fight with the way they use all the cabinets and chairs and tables and curtains...