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Aug. 25th, 2010 11:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
filkertomSean Connery is 80 today.
What's your favorite Connery movie, or Connery role? My favorite Bond movie with him is Goldfinger, but I also love Darby O'Gill and the Little People, and of course Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade simply wouldn't be the same without Dr. Henry Jones Senior. His brief turn as King Agamemnon in Time Bandits was excellent, and, even though I don't think it's a particularly good movie, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves knew what the hell they were doing by having him show up as King Richard the Lion-Hearted in the last two minutes -- the crowd pop was amazing.
And then there's Zardoz.
I will let others wax rhapsodic about the amazing Robin and Marian. Oops, too late.
What's your favorite Connery movie, or Connery role? My favorite Bond movie with him is Goldfinger, but I also love Darby O'Gill and the Little People, and of course Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade simply wouldn't be the same without Dr. Henry Jones Senior. His brief turn as King Agamemnon in Time Bandits was excellent, and, even though I don't think it's a particularly good movie, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves knew what the hell they were doing by having him show up as King Richard the Lion-Hearted in the last two minutes -- the crowd pop was amazing.
And then there's Zardoz.
I will let others wax rhapsodic about the amazing Robin and Marian. Oops, too late.
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Date: 2010-08-25 03:39 pm (UTC)Have to second "Goldfinger", but "Highlander" ranks right up there for me as well.
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Date: 2010-08-25 03:45 pm (UTC)Crusade would have to be my overall favorite, but I have a soft spot for Dragonheart...he was a natural as a dragon, all right.
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Date: 2010-08-25 03:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-08-25 03:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-08-25 03:53 pm (UTC)And there are whole comedy routines about Sean's Spanish accent....
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Date: 2010-08-25 03:56 pm (UTC)"I'm not Spanish, I'm Egyptian!" ;-)
Of course, his "Russian" accent in Hunt for Red October wasn't any better, but honestly, those two probably rank as my favorites. I love Crusade, but Highlander and Red October are honestly two of my favorite movies, mostly because of Connery.
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Date: 2010-08-25 04:05 pm (UTC)Jim Malone in The Untouchables
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Date: 2010-08-25 04:06 pm (UTC)(which is a joke, see: King...rules)
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Date: 2010-08-25 04:10 pm (UTC)I liked him in _The Name of the Rose_, and while I haven't seen it, I heard he was good in a comedy called _A Fine Madness_.
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Date: 2010-08-25 04:16 pm (UTC)"You wanna know how you do it? Here's how, they pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way, and that's how you get Capone!"
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Date: 2010-08-25 04:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-08-25 04:43 pm (UTC)The Untouchables, for casting against type and for the sheer nerve of what they do to his character.
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Date: 2010-08-25 04:59 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-08-25 05:07 pm (UTC)-L.
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Date: 2010-08-25 05:22 pm (UTC)Not sure I'm a fan big-time of the man himself. I've heard some very ugly rumors over the years about him being sexist and racist...? Supposedly he's been attributed to saying that smacking around women is actually acceptable??!!
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Date: 2010-08-25 05:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-08-25 06:01 pm (UTC)And Highlander. Boy, Highlander so much... *swoons*
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Date: 2010-08-25 06:23 pm (UTC)I once went on a date with a lovely woman from Chicago. We went to see Robin & Marian. I had seen it before, she had not. We walked out and she said "that was the stupidest thing I have ever seen". We didn't go out again.
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Date: 2010-08-25 06:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-08-25 06:34 pm (UTC)Suddenly I'm wondering how he would have done as Obi-Wan Kenobi. Not dissing the great Sir Alec Guiness at all, but Connery would have been an interesting older Jedi knight.
Heh. Maybe there needs to be a filk song in tribute to all of the older leading men (and women) who still have it in their later years...Sean Connery, Patrict Stewart, Sophia Loren, Barbara Eden, Raquel Welch, Harrison Ford (okay, it's a weird list, but I'm a weird person).
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Date: 2010-08-25 06:43 pm (UTC)I'm Weird, Too
Date: 2010-08-25 07:23 pm (UTC)Yeah, older people can be very HAWT!
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Date: 2010-08-25 08:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-08-25 08:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-08-25 08:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-08-25 08:55 pm (UTC)Re: I'm Weird, Too
Date: 2010-08-25 09:31 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-08-25 09:54 pm (UTC)Sean Connery in First Knight was good: I also liked his acting in the Indiana Jones movies.
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Date: 2010-08-25 10:09 pm (UTC)"This is entrapment!"
"No, this is called 'Blackmail.' Entrapment is what cops do to thieves"
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Date: 2010-08-25 11:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-08-25 11:14 pm (UTC)And even though the rest of the film just about makes Zardoz look like Oscar-quality filmmaking, Connery's scenes in Highlander II also rock. Especially when he first appears in the middle of a production of Hamlet.
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Date: 2010-08-25 11:14 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-08-25 11:20 pm (UTC)I've only performed it a couple of times, but I was inspired to write a filk of UT's "Teenybopper Love" by the fact that my father is one day younger than Raquel Welch.
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Date: 2010-08-26 02:10 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-08-26 05:44 am (UTC)Lola
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Date: 2010-08-26 05:48 am (UTC)Finding Forrestor
Date: 2010-08-28 02:54 pm (UTC)I regard that as his best role, by a long shot. The man has talent. A Russian submarine captain with a Scottish accent? Totally believable with Connery taking the role.
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Date: 2010-08-29 06:43 am (UTC)