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I probably said the line myself, probably after watching Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon lovingly imitate Sean Connery’s Scottish English on The Trip. Because Sean Connery made the role iconic. He gave the spy a confident indifference and with little means – the raised eyebrow, the crooked smile – he suggested a game without the rules of the game, on the toilet and between the sheets. Ian Fleming is said to have been so impressed that he gave Bond a Scottish undertone, inspired by Connery’s.
James Bond came at a time when British film culture was moving towards the socially critical and socially conscious. In the spy genre, as in John Le Carré and the Harry Palmer films, the country’s weakened position in world politics was criticized. Bond said instead that Britain was a force to be reckoned with, but under the radar. His Edinburgh dialect was an antidote to the snobby upper-class English associated with power, classical acting, and general bullying. Connery himself came from a simple background. His first job was as a milkman. When he was sixteen, he enlisted in the Navy and got two tattoos: “Scotland Forever” and “Mom and Dad.”
Promising footballer
At the age of eighteen he started bodybuilding and was a good soccer player; in fact, he was offered a contract with Manchester United, but he preferred to act. That he was a fighter is not unimportant. Because even if Connery, like Bond, wears a tux and can behave in nicer salons, there’s always a bit of the working class there, mostly in the body language and violent capital. Something that Alfred Hitchcock skillfully used in “Marnie” (1964), where sensuality slides into the psychotic. Director Sidney Lumet did the same in “The Hill” (1965), where Connery’s character ends up in brutal and sadistic punitive situations.
Over the years, Connery grew weary of Bond, he could never get rid of him. In fact, you could get angry when people yelled at you in the street and you said in interviews that you wanted to “kill Bond.” You can understand that. Have you ever viewed knockoffs as flattering or just elusive?
“Is there a dark link between Bond and Connery?”
There is a dark bond between Bond and Connery. Former wife Diane Cilento has testified that he could be a cruel husband. In a notorious 1987 television interview, he explains that sometimes you have to use force to enforce your will, also within the family. Has promoting violence made you a better or worse Bond? He was voted the best James Bond until 2020 in the UK.
It wasn’t until the 1980s that Connery managed to step out of Bond’s shadow (despite a reprise in 1983’s “Never Say Never Again”) to play some of his best roles: as Franciscan monk William de Baskerville in “In the Name of the Rose “(1986) and the tough policeman Jimmy Malone, who chases Al Capone, in” Los inmutables “(1987). The role earned him an Oscar. Personally, I will remember him better as the old Robin Hood in “Robin Hood – The Man of Adventures” (1976). A love story with depth, maturity and tenderness, unlike James Bond. There, Sean Connery is so adorable and with the phrase “The day is ours, Robin, you used to say, and then it was tomorrow,” I cry.
