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Sean Connery RIP

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  • #52
    mikhail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,862 ✭✭✭mikhail


    Dr No is on RTE 2 on Sunday at 5:55 pm. If you're not a Bond aficionado, it's the very first one. Set in Barbados, it features that famous shot of Ursula Andress emerging from the sea, and a diverse cohort of people pretending to be Chinese, most of whom aren't even Asian. There's a surprising amount of investigation rather than action that means it's aged a little better than some of the later ones.


  • #53
    Thelonious Monk
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    mikhail wrote: »
    Dr No is on RTE 2 on Sunday at 5:55 pm. If you're not a Bond aficionado, it's the very first one. Set in Barbados, it features that famous shot of Ursula Andress emerging from the sea, and a diverse cohort of people pretending to be Chinese, most of whom aren't even Asian. There's a surprising amount of investigation rather than action that means it's aged a little better than some of the later ones.

    I've watched this intro so many times over the last few days, when the music comes in it gives me chills. This is the smoothest man in film history

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DioBk6R6c


  • #54
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    Gotta love this letter to Apple. *Edit it might be a fake actually. But still worth a post!

    Watched The Anderson Tapes again last night, cracking heist movie.

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  • #55
    p to the e
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  • #56
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    Re Bray I know a guy who said that his now elderly Wicklow neighbour and Connery were having a fling in the 70's at some point.
    Connery's wife knew where to find him - at her house.

    Legend of an actor but stated adamantly on several occasions that it was ok to take the hand to women

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo0d1zTAFKA


    Had a reputation for being quite mean also and pretty much never signed an autograph as begrudged the possibility of some people selling it on.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1043417/Autographs-I-dont-paid--I-dont-sign--The-obsession-money-haunts-Sean-Connery.html


  • #57
    silverharp
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    MonkieSocks wrote: »
    Lets not forget Delightful song from "Darby O'Gill and the Little People" sung by Sean Connery and Janet Munro

    the end looks like they filmed it near the same magical part of Ireland where the Irish episode of Sons of Anarchy was filmed :pac:

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  • #58
    p to the e
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    glasso wrote: »
    Re Bray I know a guy who said that his now elderly Wicklow neighbour and Connery were having a fling in the 70's at some point.
    Connery's wife knew where to find him - at her house.

    Legend of an actor but stated adamantly on several occasions that it was ok to take the hand to women

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo0d1zTAFKA


    Had a reputation for being quite mean also and pretty much never signed an autograph as begrudged the possibility of some people selling it on.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1043417/Autographs-I-dont-paid--I-dont-sign--The-obsession-money-haunts-Sean-Connery.html

    "Nevva chlosed Fisht dough"


  • #59
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    p to the e wrote: »
    "Nevva chlosed Fisht dough"

    open-fist was for the women-slapping (although his first wife disputes this)

    closed-fist for his money it seems
    Roald Dahl was in Japan for the filming of You Only Live Twice, the new James Bond movie he had adapted – very loosely – from Ian Fleming’s novel. The shoot was based for a time around the city of Kagoshima in the country’s sweltering south, and at the end of the day the cast and crew would relax with a cold beer on set. Sean Connery joined in with the drinking but, as Dahl quickly noticed, left the business of paying to other people.

    “He was the only man making a million in the film and he never stood anyone a round,” Dahl later observed. “This was known. They all talked about it. He is not an attractive personality.”


  • #60
    p to the e
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    I wonder if growing up as working class brought the miser out in him. I looked around and he was reportedly worth about $350 million (https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/actors/sean-connery-net-worth/). He apparently would have earned about $450 million from Lord of the Rings. Do'h


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  • #61
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    p to the e wrote: »
    I wonder if growing up as working class brought the miser out in him. I looked around and he was reportedly worth about $350 million (https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/actors/sean-connery-net-worth/). He apparently would have earned about $450 million from Lord of the Rings. Do'h

    Its probably racist to say it these days but the Scots are notoriously tight fisted!


  • #62
    teroknor83
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    Undoubtedly the best and my favourite Bond.

    Just recently rewatched The Hunt for Red October after hearing of his passing.

    Also The Hill and The Offence have been recommended to me. They are on my to-watch list.


  • #63
    Declan A Walsh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,173 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    teroknor83 wrote: »
    Undoubtedly the best and my favourite Bond.

    Just recently rewatched The Hunt for Red October after hearing of his passing.

    Also The Hill and The Offence have been recommended to me. They are on my to-watch list.

    I agree that he was the best Bond, my favourite too.

    Sean put in a fantastic performance in The Offence.
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