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Post by Red Rackham on Nov 3, 2023 7:42:37 GMT
My lasting memory of Sean Connery is him talking about wonderful Scotland, from his luxury home in the Bahamas.
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Post by Pacifico on Nov 3, 2023 7:50:06 GMT
pity we couldnt have a seperate side thread on all things scottish to keep politics apart from vinnys obsession with all things crap about scotland like fitba murder drugs and stabbings and dodgy films.
I mean ffs monte, im no spring chicken , but even i havent watched this ancient film. Was the original in black and white?
I don't think anyone watched it. He was still the best Bond though. I liked Craig but he wasn't even Scottish. In fact Connery was the only Scot to play him. I mean, even a bloody Aussie played him in OHMSS. These Brit Nats go into fits of apoplexy at the thought of a black man playing Bond but turn a blind eye to an Englishman being given the role. Well as he was born in Germany why not? James Bond was born in Wattenscheid near Essen, in the Ruhr region, on November 11, 1920. Bond's father Andrew, an engineer with Metro-Vickers, was stationed in Wattenscheid to dismantle Krupp's armament factories for the allied military government. His wife, Monique Delacroix, had actually planned to go back to England to give birth, but she was caught up in Wattenscheid because of a rail strike. |
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Post by thomas on Nov 3, 2023 8:52:39 GMT
My lasting memory of Sean Connery is him talking about wonderful Scotland, from his luxury home in the Bahamas. A bit like englishman lord lawson ,the tory peer cheering on brexit from his farmhouse in france. |
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Post by Vinny on Nov 3, 2023 9:50:13 GMT
The real James Bond was a composite of various agents and Commandos, including Ian's brother Peter Fleming (English) Christopher Lee (English, yes that Christopher Lee, the actor) and Duško Popov (Serbian) a double agent whom the Abwehr thought was working for them.
And in the books, Bond drove a Bentley.
Peter Fleming died from a heart attack in Scotland in 1971 whilst on a shooting expedition near Glencoe.
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Post by Montegriffo on Nov 3, 2023 11:25:06 GMT
The real James Bond was a composite of various agents and Commandos, including Ian's brother Peter Fleming (English) Christopher Lee (English, yes that Christopher Lee, the actor) and Duško Popov (Serbian) a double agent whom the Abwehr thought was working for them. And in the books, Bond drove a Bentley. Peter Fleming died from a heart attack in Scotland in 1971 whilst on a shooting expedition near Glencoe. Yes, in fact he drove at least 3 Bentleys. Starting out with a 4.5ltr Blower which was already a vintage car when he had it post war. ''Bond regarded his 120mph Bentley as “his only personal hobby” and had laid it up while serving during the Second World War after buying it almost new. This throws up a further anomaly, suggesting he acquired it as a young teenager. There was an attempt to clear up this mystery in the 2007 Young Bond book Double or Die by Charlie Higson, in which it was stated that the youthful James had indeed bought the car aged thirteen with a cut of some casino winnings after helping out an American beer baron.''  Followed by a Bentley Mk VI with open touring bodywork.  ![]() His 3rd Bentley, christened by Bond ''the Locomotive'' was an R type Continental with Mulliner bodywork. This was Bond's favourite car “she went like a bird and a bomb, and Bond loved her more than all the women at present in his life rolled, if that were feasible, together”.  |
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Post by ginnyg on Nov 3, 2023 11:57:27 GMT
My lasting memory of Sean Connery is him talking about wonderful Scotland, from his luxury home in the Bahamas. Yeah. Anyway I never fancied a bloke in a wig. Connery, John Wayne, Burt Reynolds et. al. |
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Post by Red Rackham on Nov 3, 2023 11:58:57 GMT
My lasting memory of Sean Connery is him talking about wonderful Scotland, from his luxury home in the Bahamas. Yeah. Anyway I never fancied a bloke in a wig. Connery, John Wayne, Burt Reynolds et. al. Nor me, oddly enough lol. |
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Post by The Squeezed Middle on Nov 3, 2023 16:34:13 GMT
My lasting memory of Sean Connery is him talking about wonderful Scotland, from his luxury home in the Bahamas. Yeah, he'd do anything for the auld country.
Except live in it.
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Post by Pacifico on Nov 3, 2023 18:01:22 GMT
My lasting memory of Sean Connery is him talking about wonderful Scotland, from his luxury home in the Bahamas. Yeah, he'd do anything for the auld country.
Except live in it.
You find a lot of Independence supporters are like that. The actor Brian Cox waxes lyrical about the benefits of Independence.....from his home in New York. |
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Post by johnofgwent on Nov 27, 2023 23:07:42 GMT
The mankini never caught on. Sasha Baron Cohen made a career out of it.........  All i can say is those gentlemen look a damn sight cooler in one than i did. There’s a picture somewhere in cyberspace, hopefully long disconnected, of a group of us scuba divers in stuff all except mankini’s and top hats, about to jump off the dive pontoon to do a 400 metre swim in bloody freezing water for a prostate cancer fund raiser. |
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Nov 28, 2023 2:58:58 GMT
Here's a little reminder of his acting in Dr No.
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Post by walterpaisley on Nov 28, 2023 8:08:53 GMT
Here's a little reminder of his acting in Dr No. Thanks for that. Dreadful, wasn't he? (I only ever saw two performances by Mr Connery that made me think of him as an actor able to carry out the basic requirement of the craft - that of inhabiting a role. "The Hill" and "The Offense". Both under the direction of the late Sidney Lumet.) |
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Post by Dan Dare on Nov 28, 2023 9:54:38 GMT
My lasting memory of Sean Connery is him talking about wonderful Scotland, from his luxury home in the Bahamas. A bit like englishman lord lawson ,the tory peer cheering on brexit from his farmhouse in france. Lord Lawson was one of Margaret Thatchers 'Old Estonians'. |
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Post by Bentley on Nov 28, 2023 15:02:11 GMT
Connery’s Irish accent in the untouchables was very much like his Scottish accent in everything else .😊
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Nov 28, 2023 15:28:15 GMT
Here's a little reminder of his acting in Dr No. Thanks for that. Dreadful, wasn't he? (I only ever saw two performances by Mr Connery that made me think of him as an actor able to carry out the basic requirement of the craft - that of inhabiting a role. "The Hill" and "The Offense". Both under the direction of the late Sidney Lumet.) Your industrial tastes seem to by our of kilter with what the public think. Dr No was a classic. The later Bond films deteriorated into a comedy show for imbeciles with a mental age of two. I thought the acting of Dr No was equally as good. I've never come across your two preferred films. By the way, I guess you would hate that line in one of the old Bond films where he meets the head of the Japanese secret service and was told, Ah Mr Bond, here in Japan we let the women do all the work. |
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