Sean Connery, the Academy Award-winning actor who, among his dozens of stage and screen credits, played secret agent James Bond in seven films between 1962 and 1983, is dead. The BBC reports that Connery died in his sleep while in the Bahamas; according to his son, Jason, Connery had been “unwell for some time.” He was 90.
Connery was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1930, the son of a cleaning woman and factory worker. He joined the Royal Navy as a young man but was discharged on medical grounds for a recurring ulcer problem. After a variety of odd jobs (including lifeguard, artist’s model, and coffin polisher), Connery began working backstage at King’s Theater in 1951. Two years later during a bodybuilding competition—another of Connery’s early youthful passions—a fellow competitor mentioned theater auditions taking place that week, and Connery ended up joining the traveling production of South Pacific as a member of the chorus. Over the next few years, Connery worked in both the theater and netting small roles in film and television, starting as an extra and working his way up to small speaking roles, before landing larger turns in movies like Another Time, Another Place and the Disney film Darby O’Gill And The Little People.
Connery rocketed to fame following his star turn in the first James Bond film, Dr. No, in 1962. He played the British spy in his next four cinematic outings—From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, and You Only Live Twice—as well as two subsequent installments, Diamonds Are Forever and (12 years after Diamonds) Never Say Never Again. (It was on the troubled production of that last film that Connery suffered a broken wrist, an injury caused by the fight choreographer—Steven Seagal, of all people.) During that time, he also starred in films like Alfred Hitchcock’s Marnie, John Huston’s The Man Who Would Be King, and Murder On The Orient Express.
In 1987, Sean Connery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Brian De Palma’s The Untouchables alongside Kevin Costner. This was followed by a string of high-profile hits, including Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade, The Hunt For Red October, The Rock, and Entrapment. Unfortunately, a string of box-office and critical disappointments ending with 2003’s The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen led to Connery’s subsequent decision to retire from acting, an announcement he made official in 2006.
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What a talent and an icon. I’ve been a big fan for many years.Bond, Highlander, Indiana Jones, Hunt for Red October, Untouchables and of course, The Rock. So long Sir Sean. You’ll be missed.
Ah, The Rock. If there was ever an actor who classed up a Michael Bay movie, it was Sean Connery. He’s used to great effect here
Everybody in The Rock was on their game, Michael Bay couldn’t muck it no matter how hard he tried.“Womack you piece of sh1t!”
At one point Michael Bay tried to direct his acting. Sean casually turned to him & said, “Why don’t you go blow up a bridge?”
More to come… if that is not the motto of 2020, i do not know what is…
James Bond will return……
Resht in peash.
…Yesh
Pooshy!
RIP Scottish captain of Russian submarine.
Well, shhhit.
Do you have a chair or something?
He sailed into history
Quite the buckaroo
“I will need another wife!”
He’s free now to slap around all the women he likes in the afterlife…
Barbara Walters deserved it. Being made look ridiculous in an interview, I mean…
Yeah, if only he hadn’t stated and restated his position on 3 different occasions…
He’s beating women and dodging taxes in heaven now! What an all-around rotten egg of a man he was.
RIPSean Connery had been in so many things, but I’ll always think of the first time I saw him in a movie, The Untouchables.When he got older, or just grayer, he took more mentor roles with gravitas. He’d have a scene where he tells the hero about his experiences and the scene always worked because of Connery.
“That’s the Chicago Way”
The NYT obit had an interesting quote where Connery compared the careers of Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas and noted that Lancaster had a more successful later career because he transitioned away from leading roles while Douglas always wanted to be the star. Connery willfully followed in the footsteps of Lancaster, quite successfully.
He was the only man who ever played an alien pretending to be an Egyptian pretending to be a Spaniard.
And the scenes were in Scotland anyway, so if there was ever a time to just let him be himself…
…an alien pretending to be an Egyptian pretending to be a Spaniard, with a Fountainbridge accent.
…opposing a Scot with a French accent.
did we ever get an explanation why they didn’t just switch roles?
Cause of death: poison, garrote, stab wounds, shark bite, laser beam, piranha bites, erotic asphyxiation, and explosive decompression. After being thrown from an airplane without a parachute.
“Every venereal disease known to man, including one previously only found in sharks”
How there weren’t a whole series of Little Bonds out there is a great mystery and set up for another movie series
The ‘67 version of Casino Royale features Woody Allen as Jimmy Bond, Jr. The movie is a bloated mess but Woody’s scenes are arguably the funniest.
The soundtrack is also perfect for the period.
There’s a comic series that I’m pretty sure the whole premise is Bond (under a non-copyrighted name) facing off with his angry bastard children (by Garth Ennis of course).https://www.amazon.com/Jimmys-Bastards-TPB-Vol-1/dp/1935002716
“Is Batman there? Robin! It’s James! No, stay on the line…this concerns you, too…”
dammit where do i know that from? googled it to no avail.
SNL skit from an episode hosted by Pierce Brosnan. Mid 90s probably. James Bond gets his annual physical.
One can only hope that Death at least remembered not to bring a knife to this particular gunfight.And had a suitable dry quip prepared.
HE WAS QUITE THE GENTLEMAN, ACTUALLY.
“Connery spent twelve years battling the effects of that incident but ultimately succumbed.”
No ticket
Cause of death: poison, garrote, stab wounds, shark bite, laser beam, piranha bites, erotic asphyxiation, and explosive decompression.
Don’t forget decapitation and what is colloquially known as “The Chicago Way”.
I should disclose that I’m pretty sure I or someone else made this exact same joke in the Roger Moore obit, and I remember Dennis Miller or maybe Kevin Nealon making this joke on Weekend Update years ago when the James Bond that Fleming named the character after died.
Ah yes the Ornithologist James Bond.
He died in 1989 so I guess it was Dennis Miller’s joke I ripped off
Thats fine. I’m sure he’s done that at some point as well.
I still remember when I heard sometime in 1988 that he was going to play Indiana Jones’ dad. I just laughed out loud in happiness. It was just perfect. One of the greatest casting choices in movie history.
I love him in Last Crusade, so funny.
It was, although realize that Ford is only 12 years younger than Connery.
Ford himself said about that “Well, if anyone could have a kid at 12…”
It’s not as crazy as Angela Lansbury playing Laurence Harvey’s mom in The Manchurian Candidate. She was only three years older than him!
“That earring looks stupid”
in my head I prefer to think that Connery was unaware of Crystal Skull’s existence
I gotta upvote the “stupid-looking earring” meme. As much as I dig Harrison Ford, he just can’t quite pull it off. Unless he was naked, of course; then it wouldn’t matter.
My strongest connection to him is as Indiana Jones’ dad (his Bond was a bit before my time as a kid). I thought he was great, but I hadn’t grasped what a big deal that would be for everyone. He was, in fact, perfect.
“It tellsh me that goosh-stepping morons like yourself should try reading books instead of burning them.”
“We named the dog Indiana!”
“You call this archaeology?!”
‘She talks in her sleep’.
Supposedly that line was an ad-lib, and they had to re shoot the scene because the crew and part of the cast were all doubled over with laughter.Legend.
“I should have mailed it to the Marx Brothers.” I quote that more than anything from James Bond.
The running joke of Henry constantly calling Indy ‘Junior’ has a great pay off when he finally calls him Indiana to make him give up on the grail.
My favorite performance of his was in “The Man Who Would Be King”. He and Michael Caine were great together. That was actually him falling off the bridge at the end. There was a net below him, of course.
That’s such a good film.
It’s not a surprise – the pictures from a couple years ago of a visibly frail Connery walking around New York leaning heavily on his nurse’s arm were a vivid and depressing reminder that age catches up to us all – but still a sad day. Rest in peace.
Rest in Peace, Mr. Connery.
Rest in Peace, Mr. Connery.
I’ll fight anyone who says he wasn’t the best James Bond. They always say the first Bond you see is the best one, and for me that was Goldfinger. Personally I always rhought From Russia With Love was the best. Charming thug is what I’d call his characterization and it fit so damn well. Farewee 007.
They always say the first Bond you see is the best one…Too true. You can use objective metrics to argue who was the best, but the majority of the argument is still going to be an emotional one based on who was your first Bond (for me Roger Moore).It’s kind of eerie (at least to me), but last night I was eating pizza and carving pumpkins with my family and I literally compared something that happened to “the famous James Bond joke: ‘Do you expect me to talk?’ ‘No Mr. Bond, I expect you to die.’”
Counterpoint, millenials: The first Bond I saw in theatres was Brosnan but give me Daniel Craig anyday.
I know people think it’s an objective thing, but no – he was in fact the best Bond. That’s just science!I’m almost sure that Ian Fleming (still alive and still writing Bond books after 1962 when I Dr. No premiered) started giving hints of a Scots background for the character. I won’t swear to it but that’s what I’ve heard.Connery gave the character from the beginning what he has in the books- ruthlessness. I’m sure another actor could have done it – we were lucky enough that it was him. Bond is an assassin – not necessarily a suave, sophisticated gentleman, I mean he could be that but the double-0 rating is his for a reason. Connery, seemingly effortlessly, and certainly immediately, gave us a man who kills without compunction and oh, also looks great in a tux and can order the right wine….
He also seemed to enjoy what he did or at least acknowledged his badass-ness which is why he’ll always be the best
You didn’t imagine that. Fleming wasn’t impressed that a Scotsman was Bond at first, but he liked what he saw enough to change Bonds backstory in later novels to be Scottish. Also I wish I could edit this into my first comment, but his audition was beautifully terrible. He got annoyed with Albert Broccoli and started arguing with him and walked out half way through telling him and another producer to fuck off. Broccoli decided that’s our Bond!
Kinda like how Bernard Cornwall retconned Sharpe to have grown up in Sheffield, like Sean Bean.
I read that it was Barbara Broccoli who insisted that they cast Connery on the grounds he was hot like fire.
I think Fleming actually had David Niven in mind for the role.
He was ironically in the GOD AWFUL 1967 Casino Royale. With Peter Sellers and Orson Wells.
Sorry, reply was for a previous comment
I read most of Fleming’s Bond novels, years ago, and I believe I remember one of the female characters being a former actress or who mentions
that during her time in Hollywood, David Niven was the only man who
treated her decently. Fleming obviously respected Niven, and I believe
you are correct that he was Fleming’s first choice as Bond. Of course,
Niven did get to play James Bond in the second, non-canonical Casino Royal. (The first was a dismal American TV movie starring Barry Nelson. It was also the first production of a Bond movie)
Ian Fleming had Scottish ancestors. He was the grandson of Robert Fleming, a Dundee banker whose firm then moved to London in 1900. It existed until 2000, when it was sold to Chase Manhattan. James Bond was in many ways a projection for Fleming, and the Scottish roots came from it.Fleming actually had second thoughts when he saw who had been cast as Bond. He thought he looked too thuggish, and he writes in the books that Bond actually looks like Hoagy Carmichael (who, predictably, looks like a flattering version of Fleming himself). He would have also preferred Cary Grant over Connery.Yet, Fleming warmed up to Connery’s performance and was fine with him. OHMSS even references Ursula Andress at some point.And Connery being perfectly cast as Bond shouldn’t hide the fact that EON was lucky to repeat the feat with Daniel Craig, who looks and sounds absolutely not like Connery, but who projects the same impression of ruthlessness and efficiency as Connery, in totally different ways. From all the Bonds, if someone was to enter a room full of people, only Connery and Craig would look like they would be able to kill someone in cold blood. A few minutes later, Craig would just feel some self-hatred, while Connery would already be in bed with the waitress.
Yes, that’s true. Fleming was so impressed with Connery’s Bond that he gave Bond Scottish ancestry in the subsequent books.
Connery was the most balanced Bond, Moore and Brosnan were affable and felt like they could pass for some rich playboy while doing the spywork but didn’t seem like the type who could assassinate someone; and Craig/Dalton while they have their charm also seem more on the disturbed side at times (which makes their realistic films all the better)
Counterpoint: my first Bond was Moonraker.
Im so sorry….. at least it wasn’t View to a Kill. I knew someone who said Die Another Day was there first. That has to suck.
A View to a Kill actually was my first Bond. I learned pretty quick though.
The Living Daylights. Dalton’s duo are the only I’ve seen so he’ll always be my Bond.
Well in that case “When I kill, its on the specific
orders of my government. And those I kill are themselves killers.”
Yet On Her Majesty’s Secret Service was the best movie made during the early Bond films. I’m not saying Lazenby compares to Connery or anything like that. He was ok for a first time actor.
No complaints on that film. Its quite wonderful and has maybe the best Bond Girl. Maybe it would have been better without Lazenby but oh well.
Uff the scene at the Piz Gloria when they overdub the cockney accent voice.
Everyone knows the best Bond was Dean Martin as Matt Helm
From Russia With Love might be my favorite, as well. I’m always baffled that Daniela Bianchi never seems to be mentioned when people talk about best Bond girls.
I thought I was the only one who really liked Tatiana Romanova. She’s really good especially for an early Bond. She isn’t Vesper or Tracy but she is a top five for me. Far better Ursala Andresses Honey Ryder.
Bold take there. No one else has ever said it.
Nope. First Bond I saw was Moore and I know he wasn’t the best. Of Series 1 Bond, best was the last: Brosnan. In no small part because the way he played it you could see that the character had begun as Connery and progressed through.I don’t count series two Bond and hold on to some hope that they’ll abandon the “new actor plays Bond” thing and instead create a new character every few films and just assign that character the 007 number.
David Niven.Look it up.
Ahh, so THAT explains my love for “Die Another Day”!!
For me that was Brosnan, I was a kid when he came around in Goldeneye, but Connery definitely had much better stories to work with. Brosnan at times got to be intimidating, but he’ s much harder to buy as a killer than Connery was. So I’d still say Connery was the best, with a close second being Dalton, who might have surpassed him if he had a few more movies.
I’m seeing a lot of talk about Bond, and not a lot of talk about Zardoz.Cowards.
It’s like people have completely forgotten Highlander II: The Quickening!
Or Time Bandits!
Oh jeez. I just erfered to Zardoz as one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. What’s worse Zardoz or Highlander 2?
Highlander II without a doubt.Zardoz is a strange bit of 1970s sci-fi craziness, but it stands on its own as a lovable cult classic in some circles. It’s not good, but it’s intriguing.Highlander II is a bad sequel to a mediocre movie that was only saved by a Queen soundtrack. It takes the mysterious immortals and makes them into aliens, and it smells a bit like someone wrote a different movie and then grafted it onto the first film as an afterthought.
I was luck enough to see Highlander II with all the parts in more or less the right order in Sri Lanka courtesy of a video bootleg due to some loophole in the law from a store owned by a cousin I didn’t know my father had.
Were they still from the planet Zeist?
I’ve never seen Zardoz, but can still confidently say Highlander 2 is worse.
He never regretted doing that one either. Wearing a wedding dress so soon after doing Bond.
Everyone knows better than to mention League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
While they do mention LXG in this obituary, they were nice enough to not mention Connery’s ACTUAL final role, which was voicing the main character of skateboarding old man veterinarian in the 2012 CGI abomination Sir Billi (called Guardian of the Highlands on Netflix in the USA where I drunkenly watched it one night):
I was just coming to say no love for Zardoz?
The Avengers, y’all…
I think we all are forgetting his actual last role. Sir Billi!
honest question here (and i’ve seen the film 3 times…i think and i’m no closer to the answer):does Zardoz actually have any good points to make? however sloppily executed, is it actually satirizing something effectively? my guess would be no if i still can’t get what it is.
The Penis is Evil
the pen is is evil?what’s the second is?
I’ve never seen Zardoz – is that the origin of the SNL Celebrity Jeopardy joke about the penis mightier?
My immediate response to this is: You should watch Zardoz.(More directly to your question: maybe, tangentially? Zardoz is way weirder and more interesting than as a trivia point for an SNL sketch.)
(The Tabernacle is indestructible and everlasting.)
Nothing about Outland, either
Ish he shtoned?
I love this film!
I kill for Zardoz.
Zardoz was legit awesome
Arguably the best introduction of a character in screen history, RIP…
Rita Hayworth in “Gilda” would like a word with you.
Harry Lime and a zither would like a word with you both.
Ehh… I’ve always felt the Harry Lime introduction was a bit underwhelming.
Am I bad? Yeah that’s pretty great as well. But this had the perfectly timed use of the Monty Norman score so I’ll give it to Bond.
The score handled by Monty Norman alone is perfectly forgettable, a few calypso tunes that have nothing outstanding.The producers, who knew him from a previous film, asked him repeatedly for something with more oomph for the main theme. He tried and failed, and, as a last resort, he gave them a few sketches he had started to write for a musical about an Indian who sneezed a lot. The producers were then recommended a young jazz arranger who could put together something in a weekend from these sketches and who was offered something like £700 for the gig. John Barry ended up writing almost everything that makes the James Bond theme special, but because of the existing contracts, he didn’t get a credit on it.Monty Norman has successfully sued journalists who claim that he didn’t write the James Bond theme. He has a point, as he provided part of the melody. But it would be impossible to dispute that John Barry should have been credited as a writer or that he was the main person responsible for the theme. Even the crew on the Bond films would say that he actually wrote the theme. And then he wrote the 007 theme (which is a different theme) for From Russia with Love, the OHMSS theme, etc., while Norman wasn’t asked back.
Ah yes I’m aware of that lawsuit. And the famous Thunderball lawsuit. There is a lot of famous lawsuit with James Bond.
That was another great one, and without words, just the famous ‘flip;
I’ve seen it hundreds of times, and goddamn if it doesn’t give me goosebumps every single time! Amazing..
I only watched Dr. No for the first time a few years ago. My big takeaway from that scene: baccarat is a weird, complicated game that I have no idea how to play, and the movie has no interest in cluing me in even a little bit. If Connery didn’t exude cool in that moment, Bond’s intro would just read as perplexing.
I like that, sometime films shouldn’t have to spoon feed the audience what’s going on. I didn’t like the change of card game to poker for Craig’s Casino Royale, leave it as created by Fleming (IMO).
Re: Casino Royale , high-stakes hold ‘em made a lot more sense for the world of 2006…but not with the group of people at that table. It should have been all skinny white dudes in wraparound shades and ballcaps, wearing a lot of men’s jewelry. They easily could’ve kept it as baccarat, since the movie had already solved the “Huh?” issue through having Felix telling Vesper the stakes of each hand and optimal cards as they watched from the bar.
My buddy and I tried to play baccarat for awhile, never got the rules down….
It’s pretty similar to blackjack, isn’t it? Except the object is to get closest to nine instead of twenty-one.
I read up on baccarat last time I read Casino Royale. It’s not complex at all and is almost a coin flip, with a coin weighted slightly in the house’s favor. Apparently the real game is in managing your money.
Same. Once I looked into the rules, I realized it’s just an instance of “Bond is extraordinarily lucky.” I know they speak to that in the scene itself, but the way it’s filmed and structured it’s leading us to believe this is an extraordinary display of skill. In short, the scene is a mess regardless of your knowledge of baccarat. Connery’s demeanor and screen presence not only saves it, but makes it iconic.
It’s an elegant and simple-minded way for rich people to lose their money.
A true Scottish warrior has fallen. I feel terrible knowing Mr. Connery didn’t live to see his life’s dream of Scottish independence fulfilled. May the Scottish independence movement draw renewed vigor from his passing. I believe it will. I trust the sons and daughters of Scotland to do the right thing to honor Mr. Connery’s memory.
By slapping the shit out of their wives.
Shocking. Positively shocking.RIP Sir Sean.
Such a great talent; tall and handsome, with an unquestionable commanding presence, and capabable of making every film he was in better. RIP Sir Connery. Also, obligatory:
Hmmm… I think I’d prefer to do the guy in the wedding dress.
I always thought he could be Burt Reynolds’ brother based on this picture.
Sean was Borat decades before Borat.
I’ve always had the hots for hairy men but for some reason Connery never did anything for me.
I call my hairy chest my Sean Connery wool sweater.
Still, it’s worth pointing out that The Name of the Rose is merely a blip on an otherwise uninterrupted downward trajectory. Kidding! He was great! Rest in peace.
I never understood the affection for The Name of the Rose. He’s fine in it, I guess, but it’s a dull film and insufferable book.
Maybe it just wasn’t for you.Madness, right?
Yeah, maybe, and I’m not trying to say it’s wrong to like the film (or book.)But I’m a guy who enjoys mysteries, conspiracy stories, and taking the piss out of Catholicism, so there’s a good chance it was for me and it missed its mark.
Man I loved the book. Umberto Eco had a good run.
Eco’s style definitely made an esoteric era and setting accessible. And i liked his overall themes. I think what bothered me in particular about the book was the same thing that often bugs me about the o.g. Sherlock Holmes stories, where too much time is spent by secondary characters expressing how completely blown away they are by Holmes’ genius. After a certain amount of that, it just starts to feel like the writer is jerking himself off at his own perceived cleverness.
Despite the Academy Award?
That means fuck-all. It’s a sympathy vote!Also kidding, he was legitimately great in The Untouchables.
Q Branch could not save him one last time.
The line that always sticks in my head: Now, are you sure you want to have a fight? Because I’m only gonna use my thumb.
My right thumb. Left one’s much too powerful for you.
90 is good age of an extraordinary life he had. It’s a shame we didn’t get more of him after The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen that scared him out of acting forever. It would’ve been nice to see him cameo in at least one more Bond. RIP to one of the most handsome actors ever.
He was always the man, dawg.
Ah, YTMND. Gone, but not forgotten.
PUNCH the keys, for god’s sake!
It was on the troubled production of that last film that Connery suffered a broken wrist, an injury caused by the fight choreographer—Steven Seagal, of all people.Well, I wasn’t looking for more reasons to think Steven Seagal is an utter wanker today, but thanks anyway I guess.
Wow – I initially read that as Connery broke his wrist in a fight scene choreographed by Steven Seagal, but looking into it more, apparently Seagal was literally the person who broke his wrist. Christ, what an asshole. Have another donut, fuckface – you’ll be joining Connery soon.
We lost a true legend and an integral part of movie-making history.Goodnight, Mr. Bond (aka Ramirez, Zed, Dr. Jones Sr, Allan Quartermain, King Agamemnon, Officer Malone, Commander Ramius…)Rest in peace, sir.
One of the last of the genuinely iconic actors. His Bond movies will never be surpassed. He also had the class to walk away from them (and a lot of money) and try a wide variety of roles, fearless of failure. He wasn’t above supporting roles or cameos either. Work was work, though when Hollywood ran out of anything worthwhile he bowed out gracefully.Connery was well regarded in the business. Sidney Lumet said he was a friendly, down-to-earth actor who took his craft very seriously. Michael Caine wrote that he was the most generous actor he’d ever worked with, utterly devoid of ego. Connery also never forgot his childhood of poverty and quietly gave millions to social aid programs for the poor.
The Scottish International Education Trust.
If there’s an afterlife, my late mom just told my late dad to shove it and is now crawling all over Sean Connery.Gave The Man Who Would Be King a watch few weeks back. Hadn’t seen it in years. Holy Jesus, he and Caine looked like they were having more fun than I thought humanly possible.
You can tell that John Huston knew exactly what he was doing with those two.
Darby O’Gill And The Little People is such an underrated Disney classic. I loved that movie when I was a kid.I’m surprised no mention of The Highlander.RIP Sean Connery
I wanted to love that movie as a kid, but that Banshee scared the ever loving shit out of me SO bad.
Ikr?
Its the perfect Irish Halloween film. He’s so charming and even sings! And that banshee I remember scared the piss out of a lot of kids.
Sean will always be THE James Bond, 007. I grew up watching all those movies and even though I appreciated Roger Moore’s suave interpretation as a youngster, and recently Daniel Craig’s incredible character reboot, there’s only one OG icon that made the role. Every Bond will be compared and measured to him for all time.The fact that Sean had the presence of mind to not wear out the role (he definitely left too early if anything) and went on to have such an incredible career, proving that he was no one-trick pony, just speaks to the talent, charisma, and charm that he had as an actor and a person.The Untouchables, Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade, The Hunt For Red October, Highlander, The Rock, are just a few movies that defined my youth, and I doubt I’ll see another actor that has the same amount of respect and gravitas on the screen, that defined such an impressionable era in my life. Steven Spielberg called him the last international movie star, and I think he nailed it.R.I.P.
You know what’s good but definitely not great was Outlander. Busting drug dealers in shpashe.
Strongly agree! It is also the best syfy movie ever IMHO.
Sooo…are we gonna skip over his stance on domestic violence?
Yup.
Good for you. Did you know John Lennon beat his wife?
https://local.theonion.com/man-always-gets-little-rush-out-of-telling-people-john-1819578998
And yet.
MyThoughtsNonSequiturs
That’s your inference. :~)
For real!A whole gaggle of fuming internet warriors are ready to devote their lives to ruining the careers of men who were falsely accused (Johnny Depp) or are willing to own up to and learn from their mistakes (Aziz Ansari). But, no rage for Sean Connery? Instead, people are arguing about how he was the best Bond?I am very confused. Are we supposed to go after every minor indiscretion of famous people with furious abandon? Or do we ignore horrible behavior from the “better” famous people?Maybe, the internet is not the reliable moral compass people act like it is?
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Yes we will.
Nothing must be allowed to hinder ritual veneration of man who said words in moving images a lot.
Good on you brave dude! No fucks given for the women he beat up. How big of you.
Those remarks are abhorrent.
He was still the last great international film star, the best Bond, perfect casting as Henry Jones Sr, and all the rest.
Lol
fart.
And there it is. lulz…
bbBBUT HE HAD JOB BEING IN MOVIE I LIKE SO PRINCIPLES GO OUT THE WINDOW! <3 <3 <3 CELEBRITIES
That’s exactly what came to my mind. I’d only read about that quote. Seeing him talk about it makes it worse. Hmm. Usually seeing something in context makes it come out in a better light. My favorite Sean Connery moment was when he showed up at the Oscars wearing a kilt. Joan Rivers was doing red carpet from high above in a studio. They showed a shot of him on the red carpet and everyone turned to look at Joan who paused and said, “He looks like an ass.” Best red carpet commentary ever.
Yeah, he’s dead and his views died with him. You’re not going to change his mind, educate him, or find out if his opinions have evolved in the years since that interview was filmed. You aren’t going to enrich him by watching his work, you aren’t going to deprive him of anything either. His personal life, views and opinions no longer exist, for he his dead.All that’s left is the work.
His stance on domestic violence was what made him such a great Bond.
Eh, it’s a pretty easy kerfuffle for me to suss out: he was in some movies I like, and I don’t have a photo of him hanging in my house like he’s the fucking Pope.He made some decent movies, made a mark on popular culture, and was a bit of a shit human being. That’s about it.
Thanks for losing me $20. I had bet that the first dipshit to post this was going to be recognitions.
Yeah, I was sad about his death for a whole two minutes until I heard about that. And how he repeatedly defended it. Like his movies all you want, but he was a shit person.
Thought at first to get on here and rave about The Man Who Would Be King, The Wind and The Lion, and Robin and Marian… which, you know, are all great and all rave-able.But where Connery absolutely shone was in things like The Presidio, a 1980s action thing with Mark Harmon, or his voice work in Dragonheart, or – well, you could make a long list of movies that would be completely forgettable if Sean Connery wasn’t in them. Even League of Extraordinary Gentlemen – not, by any stretch, a good movie, but his performance? the only thing from that movie I remember.[But, you guys – see The Wind and the Lion if you haven’t. Candice Bergen is great, and Brian Keith as Teddy Roosevelt is sublime.]
Robin and Marion is pretty good for what it is. Connery and Andrey Hepburn shouldn’t work but surprisingly does.
Which is a Richard Lester flick with Hepburn, Connery, Robert Shaw, Richard Harris, Denholm Elliot, Ian Holm, and a few more I’ve forgotten? Yeah, not bad I guess.
Its a real murderers row.
Yeah, The Wind and The Lion is another good one. I am also not that hard on LXG. Its mostly a bad movie, but at least funny bad and Connery at least gives it some class.
I have a rare photo of Sean Connery signed by Roger Moore.
Golden Age Simpsons entertains forever.
The first thing that pops up upon Googing that is a reddit where someone says they sent Roger Moore a Sean Connery photo and never heard back. A top ten Comic Book Guy jokes.
I caught him in a pre-Bond British comedy once and I was stunned by how beautiful he was in his youth. So tall and chiselled and charismatic. He’ll always be remembered as World’s Sexiest Grandpa but he was fine as hell in his early days.
Correct me if I’m wrong, internets, but I’ve read that a strong reason Connery took the role in League … was because he regretted turning down the roles of Gandalf and Dumbledore, and didn’t want to miss out another franchise. Hopefully that Extended League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Universe money eased his retirement …
Wow. Connery as Gandalf. Obviously McKellen was perfect but damn if Connery wouldnt have been cool as heck.
“You shall not pass!” followed by three shots from a Walther PPK?
Yeah maybe he would’ve slapped Galadriel when she wouldn’t shut up about the ring. As he said, if they won’t drop it, it’s absolutely right to hit them.
Passed up Morpheus in The Matrix as well, if I’m not mistaken.
That may have been for the best, though. Laurence Fishburne (31 years younger than Connery, and no 90 pound weakling himself) discussed in interviews how the Morpheus fight scenes in The Matrix really beat the hell out of him.Obviously you can change the character, use stuntmen in more scenes, but still.
I heard it was the Architect.
IIRC he subsequently hated filming League and the film bombed, the combination of the two convincing him to retire completely.A shame too. If he was looking for a big franchise role a few years later, I think he would’ve made a great Nick Fury (nothing against Sam Jackson, who I think was the first choice for the role regardless).
The awful fights on set between him and director Stephen Norrington also convinced Norrington to never direct again. That must have been a really pleasant film to work on.
I’ve only heard the Gandalf one, but allegedly, he turned it down because he didn’t understand it. So when he didn’t understand League, he figured this must be gold!
Let’s not forget his most famous role- Jeopardy contestant and foe of Alex Trebek
You’re the man now, dog.
CLEANING WOMAN?
Maybe…maybe he’s just in a diabetic coma.
“Achhh, blasted Mallomars…MY TITS ARE BACK!”
Meh. No one is perfect.
^^The collective reaction of patriarchal society to abusive men everywhere
Good for him, standing his ground.
r/theredpill is that way
Oh no she twitn’t!
Damn, Goldfinger. That was one slow ass laser.
It was 1962
Time dilation is a killer.
Loved Sean Connery. He was fun in pretty much everything he was in. I was bummed he never did anything past Extraordinary Gentlemen as one final retirement send off.
If only the movie had been closer to the book, or written or directed or filmed with any sort of finesse whatsoever, it would have been a perfect send off. Quartermaine in the book is a rich part for an aging man of action with a lifetime of regret.
I’m laughing my ass off at the stupid inconsistency of Internet woke culture. This man repeatedly promoted domestic violence as acceptable, and doubled down on it when confronted. Nothing but good words for him!
I’m expecting to hear that Scarlett Johansson or Aziz Ansari will get crucified for liking Connery later next year.
My view: To paraphrase Bette Davis on Joan Crawford, Sean Connery is dead. Good.
I’ll be weird and mention how much I loved him in “The Man Who Would Be King”. It was actually the first movie I saw him in. My parents took me and my friends to see it for my 10th birthday (we lived South Korea at the time, and it was the only movie showing in English). He and Michael Caine made quite the impression on 10 year old me.
he was an asshole who liked to slap women if they were winning an argument against him. he said so publicly and repeatedly and unapologetically.
One of my favorite Hollywood stories has him storming off the set of The Rock one day, after Michael Bay loudly insulted him, saying, “You know, Michael, making a movie can be a wonderful, deeply rewarding experience, but with you it’s a fucking nightmare.”
Did he then slap him with an open hand? Or did he only do that to women?
I think he would have, if the distance had been right. Saying that shit loud, in front of crew and cast, was definitely its own kind of smackdown.In all seriousness, however much I have enjoyed Connery’s work, his legacy is forever tainted by that admission.
For me, it’s totally fine to be sad he died and to still live Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade while acknowledging he had a problematic relationship with women and showed no growth on that front – He doubled down on it more than once.
I urge everyone to seek out the 1973 film by Sidney Lumet, The Offence. Connery gives one of his best performances in a truly dark film, in a role that is truly an outlier in his filmography.
True, but it is a very rough experience to sit through.
“won’t miss him AT ALL.” – alex trebek & his mother
Those SNL Jeopardy skits are gold! I wonder if Connery ever commented on them?
Just remember, the guy who turned down the role of Gandalf because he didn’t understand it, and wrapped his career up with LXG, couldn’t be persuaded to play God in Star Trek V, even though they named God’s planet after him.
This is not the news I wanted to wake up to this morning. By far my favorite Bond, and excellent in nearly every role beyond that. I recently watched The Rock and he’s still the best part of that movie.RIP King
He was my favourite SNL character ㅠㅠ
He’s smacking around the angels now…
AKA Mr. “Slap a Woman with an open hand, not a closed fist”.
Women of all ages all over the world are weeping copious tears tonight. Myself included. RIP, Sir Sean. You were a true original.
Well, Fuck! I thought Connery would still be around when we all kicked off.Enjoy Valhalla, Sir Sean — they’ve got a Shaken, Not Stirred Martini waiting for you.
The Rock? Damn fun movie with him and Nicky Cage..
How did you know she was a nazi?She talks in her sleep.
Outside of the 007 movies, I thought his best role was Captain Ramius in The Hunt for Red October.Although, i must admit I had a little trouble suspending dis-belief when it came to a Lithuanian-Soviet sub captain with a Scottish accent.
The man was a complete asshole. Everyone knows this. But RIP for the benefit of his family.