Sean Connery has died • Hacker News Board

Re: Sean Connery has died

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Post by kthejoker2 » Sat, Oct 31, 2020, 1:49 PM UTC

I once helped Mr. Connery print something.

I was staying at the Beverly Hills Hilton in 2004 during Oscars week. I was in the business center on the Internet (this was the dark ages before ubiquitous hotel WiFi and personal devices.)

Someone comes in, and then a few minutes later says in a completely unmistakable voice

“Excuse me, do you know how to print this?”

I immediately jumped into parental IT support mode, it was a pretty easy thing to do, he said, Thanks, and (this is the awkward thing) continued to stay in there on the computer while I had to do the whole “pretend to be normal around Sean freaking Connery” for the next 20 minutes. I couldn’t even bring up the courage to mention my childhood favorite, Darby O’Gill and the Little People …

PS the reason I was there was to film an episode of Jeopardy, and I told Alex what had transpired (he loves those skits) and he was pretty pumped, he asked if I’d pop him in the mouth and tell him “that’s from Trebek” if I saw him again.

RIP Sean Connery, a great actor!

Re: Sean Connery has died

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Post by birdsbirdsbirds » Sat, Oct 31, 2020, 1:54 PM UTC

psychometry wrote: post #25

joe_momma wrote: post #6

The guy defined what it meant to be classy, hip, and bad ass all at the same time. Mere mortals can barely do just a single one of those.

Classy... except for when he talked about physically assaulting women and how that's no big deal.

You have it backwards. It's the concept of class that allows you to use violence to put others in line.

Re: Sean Connery has died

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Post by kthejoker2 » Sat, Oct 31, 2020, 1:57 PM UTC

at_a_remove wrote: post #21

Whenever someone of this stature goes, I tend to gather together their films, what I have of them, and work through them. So here I am looking at Outland (which isn't as terrible as Harlan Ellison said but goodness it isn't great), Zardoz , In the Name of the Rose , The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (it's fun, I will grant it that), Time Bandits and was left wondering: what films had his iconic performances? What…

His top 5 performances in my mind

* The Man Who Would Be King

* The Offense

* Last Crusade

* The Untouchables

* The Wind and the Lion

He wasn't as bad of an actor as people say (compared to the greats), but he didn't take a lot of challenging roles. I wish he'd played more villains/anti heroes.

Re: Sean Connery has died

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Post by vmilner » Sat, Oct 31, 2020, 1:59 PM UTC

at_a_remove wrote: post #21

Whenever someone of this stature goes, I tend to gather together their films, what I have of them, and work through them. So here I am looking at Outland (which isn't as terrible as Harlan Ellison said but goodness it isn't great), Zardoz , In the Name of the Rose , The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (it's fun, I will grant it that), Time Bandits and was left wondering: what films had his iconic performances? What…

The Man Who Would Be King

Re: Sean Connery has died

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Post by Krasnol » Sat, Oct 31, 2020, 2:04 PM UTC

cmckn wrote: post #11

I love his Bond films, just pure fun. And, god, he was sexy. They don’t make ‘em like they used to! Few favorites: - You Only Live Twice (1967) - Never Say Never Again (1983) - Goldfinger (1964)

I'm not even gay and I thought the man was sexy!

Re: Sean Connery has died

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Post by sizzzzlerz » Sat, Oct 31, 2020, 2:06 PM UTC

kthejoker2 wrote: post #73

at_a_remove wrote: post #21

Whenever someone of this stature goes, I tend to gather together their films, what I have of them, and work through them. So here I am looking at Outland (which isn't as terrible as Harlan Ellison said but goodness it isn't great), Zardoz , In the Name of the Rose , The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (it's fun, I will grant it that), Time Bandits and was left wondering: what films had his iconic performances? What…

His top 5 performances in my mind * The Man Who Would Be King * The Offense * Last Crusade * The Untouchables * The Wind and the Lion He wasn't as bad of an actor as people say (compared to the greats), but he didn't take a lot of challenging roles. I wish he'd played more villains/anti heroes.

In my mind, I was listing the Connery movies that I liked and I completely forgot The Man Who Would Be King. I love that movie! Along with Michael Caine and Saeed Jaffrey as Billy Fish, it really shows a fun side to him.

Re: Sean Connery has died

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Post by xiphias2 » Sat, Oct 31, 2020, 2:08 PM UTC

kilroy123 wrote: post #13

xiphias2 wrote: post #7

I wish he hadn't stopped making films at 70, but I can understand that he wanted some peace.

Same here. It's a shame The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was his very last.

Maybe I should be ashamed of myself, but I even liked that movie :)

At the same time I felt that Sean's lines were jusy too predictable, that took away a lot from the performance.

Re: Sean Connery has died

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Oct 31, 2020, 2:12 PM UTC

agumonkey wrote: post #15

pratio wrote: post #3

As if 2020 wasn’t worse enough, i was hoping he’d live till the last daniel craig film

Makes me wonder, are there any cameos in Bond movies ?

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Re: Sean Connery has died

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Oct 31, 2020, 2:17 PM UTC

mc32 wrote: post #69

tsimionescu wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is not about the art, it is about the man. While he was a great actor, style icon, artist, and had a tremendously interesting life, he was also quite explicitly misogynistic in several interviews.

I get that. We can criticize that aspect surely. However, if you like the performance like it. Disconnect the person from the performance and from the larger context (his movies were complicit in sexism). Look, consensual people can engage in degrading stuff, but we don’t come down on that because we believe that’s a private matter between consenting adults.

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Re: Sean Connery has died

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Post by mlthoughts2018 » Sat, Oct 31, 2020, 2:21 PM UTC

ljm wrote: post #70

mlthoughts2018 wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don’t forget he was also an unapologetic advocate of spousal abuse, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mzXkbJwrN38

Any living person can hold a reprehensible point of view, and as much as I may disagree with it, I really can't stand this attitude of writing people off because of a flawed perspective. That doesn't mean I support spousal abuse by association, it means I recognise he has a shitty point of view amongst all of his other flaws, as well as his qualities. There isn't a single person in history that can meet this standard…

What a ludicrous point of view. The world has a lot of good people in it. There is do defensible reason for celebrating unapologetic bad people.

Honest mistakes, sure. Character flaws, ok. Blatant endorsement of spousal abuse on a major news program with no retraction or apology ever? Get real.