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Sean Connery (1930 - 2020)


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12 hours ago, ghost of miles said:

The Bond films will obviously be the lead talking point for most remembrances, but my favorite Connery role is in Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade:

 

He makes that movie, and a good many others he either starred or cameoed in. Fantastic actor beyond his Bond days. RIP

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On 10/31/2020 at 7:26 AM, ghost of miles said:

The Bond films will obviously be the lead talking point for most remembrances, but my favorite Connery role is in Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade:

 

He definitely added an extra layer of fun to this movie. RIP

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He used to joke that he had been at the same school as Tony Blair. "I delivered milk to Fettes when I was a milkman", he'd explain.

He had a brilliant wife, Michelline, who was well-versed in philosophy. She had a premonition about the French stage play, "Art". She advised Connery to buy the foreign rights to it. He did so, and it earned him a fortune. My fave film of his was "MWWBK"

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Was there ever any attempt at all to star Sean Connery in a major motion picture production of Macbeth?   I would have loved to have seen that.  There's no demand that Macbeth be a younger man and even elderly men can still have ambition (see: current events), so even a 1990's production of "The Scottish Play" (with perhaps Dame Helen Mirren as Lady M) would have been viable.  Did Mr. Connery perhaps not consider himself enough of a Shakesperean actor?  I mean, if Mel Gibson could star in Hamlet  . . .

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On 10/31/2020 at 3:26 PM, ghost of miles said:

The Bond films will obviously be the lead talking point for most remembrances, but my favorite Connery role is in Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade:

I remember him warmly for The name of the rose, based on Eco's novel. Which also started the career of a young Christian Slater.

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12 hours ago, Bluesnik said:

I remember him warmly for The name of the rose, based on Eco's novel. Which also started the career of a young Christian Slater.

You know its forever since I saw that, I do recall like it a lot, don't remember Slater. Did he at least not try his low-rent Nicholson impersonation in the role?

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