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What is your favorite Connery role?

I would throw every Bond role into a basket unto itself and call them all singularly excellent.

Beyond those roles I would say my favorite would be Jimmy Malone in The Untouchables.

Favorite film would be toss up between The Man Who Would Be King and The Name of the Rose.

Now that Connery has passed, People Magazine will have to decide who is now “The Sexist Man Alive”, Bradley Cooper, @kinnem or me.
 
Always the roughest “manly man” version of Bond. Very tux-worthy. I try not to use the over-worked “iconic,” but he certainly was. I liked him as Indie’s dad in Indiana Jones movies. I did have reservations about him for many years about his openly stated and reiterated feelings it was okay to hit women, but by 2006, he had changed his thinking on that.

I’ll miss that distinctive Scots burr in his voice.
 
Capt MJ said:
Always the roughest “manly man” version of Bond. Very tux-worthy. I try not to use the over-worked “iconic,” but he certainly was. I liked him as Indie’s dad in Indiana Jones movies. I did have reservations about him for many years about his openly stated and reiterated feelings it was okay to hit women, but by 2006, he had changed his thinking on that.

I’ll miss that distinctive Scots burr in his voice.
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Something any son, brother, or father couldn’t fathom. Not sure how anyone could be wrong on that issue.
 
cb7893 said:
What is your favorite Connery role?

I would throw every Bond role into a basket unto itself and call them all singularly excellent.

Beyond those roles I would say my favorite would be Jimmy Malone in The Untouchables.

Favorite film would be toss up between The Man Who Would Be King and The Name of the Rose.

Now that Connery has passed, People Magazine will have to decide who is now “The Sexist Man Alive”, Bradley Cooper, @kinnem or me.
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Well my wife would vote for me. At 68 she still thinks I'm sexy. In fact, every time I walk past her she says, "What an a$$!". 😆
 
I'm going to second @jaglvr , The Last Crusade is how I remember him the most. Followed by 007. Rest in Peace Mr. Connery ♥️
 
A brief clip of Sean Connery as Private Flanagan disembarking for Sword Beach in the Longest Day. Flanagan's remarks indicate he had been at Dunkirk. This movie came out in 1962, the same year as Connery's success as James Bond in Dr. No.

 
The man who would be King was a great film, having a co-star like Michael Caine must have been a dream. Until the most recent Bond movies with Daniel Craig, Sean Connery was my favorite. I think Bond needs to have a touch of the ‘Working Man’ about him and both Craig and Connery brought that to the role.
 
cb7893 said:
What is your favorite Connery role?

I would throw every Bond role into a basket unto itself and call them all singularly excellent.

Beyond those roles I would say my favorite would be Jimmy Malone in The Untouchables.

Favorite film would be toss up between The Man Who Would Be King and The Name of the Rose.

Now that Connery has passed, People Magazine will have to decide who is now “The Sexist Man Alive”, Bradley Cooper, @kinnem or me.
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I have to agree with those movie selections, but I'd give the "Man Who Would Be King" the pick for best.

Sir Sean's career was noteworthy, but I was a bit chagrined in his outspoken support for Scottish independence.
 
Day-Tripper said:
I have to agree with those movie selections, but I'd give the "Man Who Would Be King" the pick for best.

Sir Sean's career was noteworthy, but I was a bit chagrined in his outspoken support for Scottish independence.
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Sir Sean was a Scot, pure, and through. His vision was for an independent Scotland.

Chagrined? (to feel distressed or humiliation)

Why?

Steve
 
flieger83 said:
Sir Sean was a Scot, pure, and through. His vision was for an independent Scotland.

Chagrined? (to feel distressed or humiliation)

Why?

Steve
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Scotland being an integral part of the United Kingdom has been a benefit for both Scotland and the United Kingdom. Scotland leaving the UK would mean the end of the pound as its currency, loss of huge subsidies from London, inevitable tariffs with the UK, etc. And for the majority of Scots who are anti-Brexit, an independent Scotland being admitted to the EU would not be automatic. The EU frowns on separatist movements in general. Admitting Scotland would open a hornet's net for Europe. An independent Scotland couldn't afford the social welfare programs it cherishes, so it would either have to cut them or borrow, sinking a somewhat poor country (London alone is richer than all of Scotland) into greater poverty. Scots with an eye on their wallets would rush to emigrate to England, Canada, the US or Australia. Scotland's "foreign" trade is overwhelming with England. That would be jeopardized in a post-independence world. Even if Scotland gets the North Sea oil (which I doubt the UK would simply surrender), oil prices are quite low these days. Apart from oil, Scotland has Scotch whisky and fish to export, but not much else.

Scotland gets a lot more from its being in the UK than it would from leaving it.

And the Western world would suffer if the United Kingdom went back to being just England.
 
Sir Sean,
May you have an enjoyable time spooling your Aston through the Cotswalds and the Scottish Highlands. Thanks for writing the book of Cool. Well done!

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Day-Tripper said:
Scotland being an integral part of the United Kingdom has been a benefit for both Scotland and the United Kingdom. Scotland leaving the UK would mean the end of the pound as its currency, loss of huge subsidies from London, inevitable tariffs with the UK, etc. And for the majority of Scots who are anti-Brexit, an independent Scotland being admitted to the EU would not be automatic. The EU frowns on separatist movements in general. Admitting Scotland would open a hornet's net for Europe. An independent Scotland couldn't afford the social welfare programs it cherishes, so it would either have to cut them or borrow, sinking a somewhat poor country (London alone is richer than all of Scotland) into greater poverty. Scots with an eye on their wallets would rush to emigrate to England, Canada, the US or Australia. Scotland's "foreign" trade is overwhelming with England. That would be jeopardized in a post-independence world. Even if Scotland gets the North Sea oil (which I doubt the UK would simply surrender), oil prices are quite low these days. Apart from oil, Scotland has Scotch whisky and fish to export, but not much else.

Scotland gets a lot more from its being in the UK than it would from leaving it.

And the Western world would suffer if the United Kingdom went back to being just England.
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Spoken like a good Englishman! :)

However when you go to Scotland and speak with Scot's...they mostly get that, but they still want their independence. I sympathize with them however, for the reasons you listed and others, I think it's not the wisest of moves right now. Re: Brexit and Scotland and the EU...let's just say it, Scotland today, without the UK, does not qualify for admission into the EU. And the emigration question...as non UK citizens, they'd have no right of emigration to a Commonwealth nation and definitely not to the USA.

I "get" it but...

Steve
 
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