Very sad day for us Bond fans.... https://www.nydailynews.com/news/wo...0201031-7dbfk3ibmneyhd5t5fd6u2wsje-story.html
No shit.. I'm gonna get rip roaring drunk on New Years Eve just to make sure I forget all this bullshit from 2020.
The Bond we all remember was very different from the one Ian Fleming originally imagined - the latter was nondescript, not very handsome (he was described as looking like Hoagy Carmichael, who hardly had screen idol looks), and not very competent, either, at least at the beginning (read Casino Royale for proof). Fleming himself said "When I wrote the first one in 1953, I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened; I wanted him to be a blunt instrument." Connery, with his matinee idol looks, intense masculinity, and utter coolness, turned that upside down. The first few Bond movies were by far my favorite movies of my preteen years. "From Russia With Love" was to my mind the best - it was still a real spy story, but had some cool gadgets as well (the story line is in some ways pretty quaint nowadays - a major plot point is the terrible scandal it would cause if film of Commander Bond having sex with a beautiful blonde Russian spy came out). "Goldfinger" upped the ante by a factor of about 100 with the coolest car ever to grace the silver screen, but also started the series on the path to the cartoons of the Roger Moore era. An interesting timely piece of trivia - Fleming's supposed inspiration for Miss Moneypenny was Vera Atkins, who was played by Stana Katic (one of my favorite actresses) in the recently-released movie "A Call to Spy" (which I highly recommend catching if you want a much more realistic view of what spying is all about). We should all raise a glass containing a medium dry vodka martini (shaken, not stirred, of course) in his honor. RIP, 007.
I'll be binge watching Bond movies today. I have a few on my server that were remastered. Starting with "From Russia with Love".
RIP to a true legend. He lived to be 90 years old. That is really impressive in it's own right. He was great as James Bond, but he was great in many other films too. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is my favorite Indy film! He will be missed.
"You put one of ours in the hospital..... We'll put one of yours in the morgue. It's the Chicago way." -The Untouchables
My personal fave Connery movie isn't really one of his better known ones - The Man who would be King with Michael Caine. Just the epitome of 50s/60s cool as Bond though. He had a great run and will forever be one of the greats.
Wife said his dementia was pretty bad in the end... Think of all those amazing memories of people met & journeys taken to fill the average person's lifetime 10 fold, all taken away at the end wow...sip
Diamonds are Forever was the first movie that I watched with my dad that we both enjoyed. I was probably 12 and that was a milestone for me. We had a bad frame of reference on movies from my 8th birthday where I wanted to take 9 friends to see Planet of the Apes but my dad outvoted me and we went to see 2001: A Space Odyssey - leading to me being shunned at school for a week afterwords... Sean Connery and DaF turned that around.
League of extraordinary gentlemen was his last movie so the forgeties must have hit him hard after that. He lent credibility to that shit movie. It’s a shame cause it’s such a great bad movie and I would have loved to see the sequels.
