Chris Grieb Posted August 25, 2007 Share Posted August 25, 2007 Today Aug. 25th is Sean Connery's birthday. He is 77 years old. He is a very good actor but the role he is most famous for was James Bond. My question is " Was he the best Bond?".There was a hardness about Connery and a feeling when you were watching him that he wasn't just a fashion model playing as a spy.The Bond movies lost their excitement after he left the series. But I hope other will offer their opinions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaalChatzaf Posted August 25, 2007 Share Posted August 25, 2007 Today Aug. 25th is Sean Connery's birthday. He is 77 years old. He is a very good actor but the role he is most famous for was James Bond. My question is " Was he the best Bond?".There was a hardness about Connery and a feeling when you were watching him that he wasn't just a fashion model playing as a spy.The Bond movies lost their excitement after he left the series. But I hope other will offer their opinions.Sean Connery in his slender years WAS James Bond. I think Ian Flemming approved wholeheartedly in the casting of Connery as Bond, James Bond.Ba'al Chatzaf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Grieb Posted August 25, 2007 Author Share Posted August 25, 2007 Bob; Have you seen Daniel Craig? I have not but people whose judgement is good say he is very good.When I get a DVD player I am going to rent Casino Royale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaalChatzaf Posted August 25, 2007 Share Posted August 25, 2007 Bob; Have you seen Daniel Craig? I have not but people whose judgement is good say he is very good.When I get a DVD player I am going to rent Casino Royale.I agree. Craig has that same sort of tough persona that Connery projected. Craig is a very good choice. The other actors who played Bond were Handsome Fellows, but they did not project the hard tough bad ass persona that Bond had to have to survive in a world full of Bad Guys. Craig does this very well. BTW, did you see Craig the Spielberg move -Munich-. I loved when Craig's character responded to the question -What do the Muslim terrorists learn from our hits-. His answer: Don't fuck around with the Jews. I luv it!Ba'al Chatzaf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Uhler Posted August 25, 2007 Share Posted August 25, 2007 Bob; Have you seen Daniel Craig? I have not but people whose judgement is good say he is very good.When I get a DVD player I am going to rent Casino Royale.I thought Casino Royale was loads of fun. Daniel Craig makes an excellent Bond - hard, cynical, driven, and with an undercurrent of personal dysfunction that makes his suave public face look interestingly false. Until I saw this film Sean Connery was, as far as I was concerned, The Only Bond Who Counted; but I would love to see Mr. Craig in further Bond films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Barlow Posted August 26, 2007 Share Posted August 26, 2007 I think that Sean Connery was one of the best two Bonds in film. In *Dr. No* he was superb. I think Daniel Craig resurrected some of same no-nonsense deadly secret agent stuff that Connery first showed us in his early Bond movies. Connery, as an actor in non-Bond films, is very popular, and I think he adds a great deal of charisma to almost any role he plays. He always seems to show a character that is very much at peace with himself, even if he is at war with the rest of the world. Daniel Craig may have more of a *broad range* of acting talent – in his pre-Bond roles – than any of the other Bond actors, e.g., see him in *The Jacket* with Adrian Brody and Keira Knightley. Some people find it hard to believe that it is the same actor. But, of course, I am straying from Chris’s original question here. (I will say more of all this at another time, as I am just now going through all the Bond films -- for the second time -- taking notes and making comments. My ultimate aim is to rank the Bond films, actors, directors, screenwriters, etc. Given the size and complexity of the Bond movie corpus, this may take me a while.)-Ross Barlow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dailey Posted August 26, 2007 Share Posted August 26, 2007 ~ Sean Connery: "Was he the 'best' Bond?"~ Connery made the mold for cinema-Bond.~ 'Nuff said.LLAPJ:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaalChatzaf Posted August 26, 2007 Share Posted August 26, 2007 Connery, as an actor in non-Bond films, is very popular, and I think he adds a great deal of charisma to almost any role he plays. He always seems to show a character that is very much at peace with himself, even if he is at war with the rest of the world.I thought Connery's performance in -The Rock- was top notch. The character he played was a very Bondish fellow.Ba'al Chatzaf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Grieb Posted August 26, 2007 Author Share Posted August 26, 2007 Malloy in The Untouchables. His worst role was the villain in The Avengers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dailey Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 ~ Since this thread is seguing into 'Connery', his most interesting ones were his 1st 'break-out' attempts after leaving the movie-series, THE HILL, A FINE MADNESS, and his much later (and I thought quite interesting) ROBIN AND MARIAN (A. Hepburn's last, I believe.)~ Can't say he ever played 'badly' in any movies, but, a couple non-Bond movies he could've (should've) skipped.LLAPJ:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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