Sean Connery
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Fucking great innings
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@NTA said in R.I.P. 2020:
Sean Connery.
Dang
Wonderful sense of humour as well. He was great mates with Roger Moore and told a story that he wanted Moore to have a cameo at the end of his comeback Bond film Never Say Never. Connery said the plan was for them to bump into each other, mutter, and walk on.
Moore, who was in a rival Bond film as the time, loved the idea, but the producers of the film wouldn't agree. Soulless bastards
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I loved his James Bond as most people did.
But for me and a particular time in my early teens I loved 3 movies he was in and the first role was as an Egyptian Immortal with the Scottish accent names Juan Sánchez-Villalobos RamĂrez . Not because it was a great character or his performance any better than his others but because he was Egyptian with the most Spanish names you could possibly have and he was cast opposite a Frenchman murdering a Scottish accent....horrible movie really but still a guilty pleasure of mine.
The next was Jim Malone in the Untouchables for which he won an Oscar. Playing an Irish beat cop with a Scottish accent. Great death scene and the scene at the cabin is an all time classic.
Lastly his Russian submarine commander with a Scottish accent Marko Ramius. Another stirring performance done without so much as a single fuck given to authenticity.
RIP
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@raznomore said in R.I.P. 2020:
I loved his James Bond as most people did.
But for me and a particular time in my early teens I loved 3 movies he was in and the first role was as an Egyptian Immortal with the Scottish accent names Juan Sánchez-Villalobos RamĂrez . Not because it was a great character or his performance any better than his others but because he was Egyptian with the most Spanish names you could possibly have and he was cast opposite a Frenchman murdering a Scottish accent....horrible movie really but still a guilty pleasure of mine.
The next was Jim Malone in the Untouchables for which he won an Oscar. Playing an Irish beat cop with a Scottish accent. Great death scene and the scene at the cabin is an all time classic.
Lastly his Russian submarine commander with a Scottish accent Marko Ramius. Another stirring performance done without so much as a single fuck given to authenticity.
RIP
I am surprised he won an Oscar, he wasn’t a great actor in my opinion.
An absolutely legendary film star though.
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@booboo said in R.I.P. 2020:
@canefan said in R.I.P. 2020:
@raznomore his accent was like Zoolander's blue steel
But Magnum ...
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@raznomore said in R.I.P. 2020:
He was always the same person in his films. Himself
But by God he was fucking cool!!
RIP
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@raznomore said in R.I.P. 2020:
@MN5 I agree. Great to watch but not a great actor. He was like Arnold or The Rock before they existed. He was always the same person in his films. Himself
Absolutely. I certainly didn’t mean what I said in a bad way but he was no De Niro, Pacino, Day Lewis etc, nor did he try to be.
He was relatively wimpy as Indiana Jones’s Dad come to think of it but nailed that role perfectly and had great chemistry with Harrison Ford.
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Apparently Connery was quite a legitimately tough dude in real life if this story is anything to go by.....
....and before Roger Moore took over and some of the ahem, less realistic elements became fashionable in Bond films there was this scrap which Connery and Grant did without any stunt doubles
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@sparky said in R.I.P. 2020:
@NTA said in R.I.P. 2020:
Sean Connery.
Dang
Sean Connery: James Bond actor dies aged 90
I like how you adde that so we knew who you were talking about.