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Post by Cpt. Sir Dominic Flandry on Aug 25, 2010 5:56:47 GMT -5
Happy Birthday to Sean Connery who is 80.  |
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Favourite James Bond Films: The Dark Knight Trilogy, Mission: Impossible and any upcoming action films starring Pierce Brosnan (no, it's not James Bond which is good because he'll need it to expand his reputation as an actor, especially in the action realm)
Favourite Films: Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Star Trek, The Dark Knight Trilogy, Harry Potter, Middle-Earth, The Matrix, Mission: Impossible
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Post by FormerBondFan on Aug 25, 2010 8:52:28 GMT -5
Happy Big 8-0 Birthday Mr. Connery!
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Post by 009 on Aug 25, 2010 11:16:01 GMT -5
Happy 80th Birthday to the greatest of the Bonds.
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Post by Jake on Aug 25, 2010 12:44:46 GMT -5
I wonder if he'll ever do another film.
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Post by Alec 006 on Aug 25, 2010 17:19:19 GMT -5
HAPPY 80th BIRTHDAY Sir Sean Connery...The Bond Above All Bonds!!!! His first job was as a milkman in Edinburgh with St. Cuthbert's Co-operative Society. He then joined the Royal Navy. Connery was later discharged from the navy on medical grounds because of a duodenal ulcer. Afterwards, he returned to the co-op, then worked as, among other things, a lorry driver, a labourer, an artist's model for the Edinburgh College of Art...and a coffin polisher! Seeking a bit of extra cash...he joined the King's Theatre and embarked on an acting career, and the rest is history! "There are three reasons the James Bond movies are successful - Sean Connery, Sean Connery, and Sean Connery."
- Bond Director Terence Young
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Post by Gambit on Aug 25, 2010 18:17:39 GMT -5
 Happy birthday to the best Bond ever. |
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Favourite James Bond Films: The Dark Knight Trilogy, Mission: Impossible and any upcoming action films starring Pierce Brosnan (no, it's not James Bond which is good because he'll need it to expand his reputation as an actor, especially in the action realm)
Favourite Films: Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Star Trek, The Dark Knight Trilogy, Harry Potter, Middle-Earth, The Matrix, Mission: Impossible
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Post by FormerBondFan on Aug 25, 2010 18:37:15 GMT -5
I wonder if he'll ever do another film. Sean deserves better than this as his last film: |
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Post by poirot on Aug 25, 2010 21:00:03 GMT -5
Cheers to the man who- as You Only Live Twice pointed out- " IS" James Bond. I watched Goldfinger tonight as a tribute. What a fantastic film. |
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Post by harrypalmer on Aug 26, 2010 13:08:19 GMT -5
Happy birthday to the great man. I hope there are many more to come.
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Post by Gambit on Aug 27, 2010 13:19:31 GMT -5
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Post by Jake on Aug 27, 2010 17:03:34 GMT -5
You can't escape it: as I'm typing this post a newscaster just referred to the murky death of a member of the British Secret Intelligence Service as a "James Bond mystery." On Sean Connery's 80th birthday I want to note the vigorous, inspiring post-Bond career he forged with terrific work for legendary directors like John Huston in "The Man Who Would Be King," Brian De Palma in "The Untouchables," Fred Schepisi in "The Russia House," Philip Kaufman in "Rising Sun" and Steven Spielberg in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade." But none of that would have happened had Connery not created the rare screen persona that genuinely demands to be called "icon," 007.
Connery knew exactly what he was doing when he made "Dr. No" (1962), "From Russia With Love" (1963) and "Goldfinger" (1964). The actor said he was playing Bond as "a complete sensualist, his senses highly tuned and awake to everything. He liked his wine, his food, his women." (That's Connery's Bond with Honor Blackman's Pussy Galore in "Goldfinger," left.)
Yet Connery's Bond brought off his all-knowing manliness with a smile. The star said his great gift to 007 was "a sense of humor." Striding through the brisk and volatile "Dr. No," Connery already moved with seasoned confidence. He drawled out his introduction with blase machismo: it remains a funny thrill to hear him say that his name is "Bond. James Bond."
For some fans of Ian Fleming's original spy novels, the gusto of Connery's screen presence gave off an unsettling whiff of non-gentility. Kingsley Amis in his acute, disarming "The James Bond Dossier," wrote in 1965 of Connery's "total wrongness" for the part: "Mr. Connery could put up a show as a Scottish businessman, but never as a Scottish baronet." Connery did spoof the worldliness that Fleming laid on thick. But rather than pollute the books' air of hedonistic omniscience, Connery made it easier to breathe.
Sadly, claiming Bond fatigue and feeling exploited, Connery left the series after Bond #5, "You Only Live Twice" (1967). For Bond fans, it was terrible timing. If Connery and not the smug, obtuse George Lazenby had starred in the otherwise electrifying "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (1969), the doomed love affair of Bond and the mobster's daughter played by Diana Rigg could have set off a sensation. But as composer John Barry remarked, "George Lazenby couldn't have created a boiled egg."
Connery had already been lending his character increasingly humane, ironic undertones. The movies expanded and got grander the more Connery relaxed and filled out, physically as well as emotionally. ("You Only Live Twice," right, is one of the series' unsung high points.) When Connery came back to the shambles of Bond #7, "Diamonds Are Forever," he gave Bond a been-there, done-that attitude that signaled wry experience, not boredom. And a dozen years later, in the first section (the only great section) of "Never Say Never Again," Connery proved how restorative it could be to have a Bond who needed a physical tune-up and a stay at a health farm.This can be found at weblogs.baltimoresun.com/enterta ... y_the.html
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Post by drfanshawe on Aug 28, 2010 5:18:55 GMT -5
Happy Birthday to Sean.
Great snippet by Jake to in the previous post.
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Post by Jake on Aug 29, 2010 13:43:02 GMT -5
Merci.
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