Sean Connery was the best Bond until he was fed up

Pablo O. Scholz

10/31/2020 12:58 PM

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Fed up.

In truth, Sean Connery dropped out of 007 because he was tired of the fans, of having to stand upright even when he went for a whiskey in a Scottish pub.

If it was even rumored that he was forced to wear a corset to keep his back straight.

It was the best James Bond, although for our generation, we grew up with Roger Moore's 007 and our skin crawled when listening to two chords

of Paul McCartney's

: it was like a revolution in action and adventure cinema.

April 1964. Films "GoldfInger", and caresses "Bond girl" Shirley Eaton at Pinewood Studios, near London.

AP

But when the Bond films were rerun in theaters (do you remember the cinemas?) We discovered that no, there was an actor, a man, a gentleman who had more sarcasm, who was brave and intrepid, who was not afraid of him to anything or anyone.

That he did not need to step on the heads of the crocodiles, in a white suit, to escape the damned on duty, be it the Satanic Dr. No or Goldfinger.

He crippled his feet on April 13, 1999, in the fresh concrete of the sidewalks of the Mann's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

PHOTO: AFP

A guy who was able to hold the following dialogue in

, 55 years ago.

James Bond:

That gun seems more appropriate for a woman.

Emilio Largo:

Do you know a lot about pistols, Mr. Bond?

James Bond:

No, but I know a little bit about women.

He was the man who best suited Scottish skirts.

And the one who said no to a contract as a professional footballer at 23, because he warned that his career as a footballer "was very short."

When in 2000 Queen Elizabeth made him a Knight at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, of course, the Scottish city where he was born, it was with skirts.

PHOTO: REUTERS

The same man who to become Bond again in

(1971) broke a record in terms of what he received in salary: US $ 1,250,000, and a percentage of the film's earnings in the United States, for which obtained more than 6 million dollars.

Everything was donated to a charitable cause in Scotland.

And the same one who said no to Steven Spielberg to be Hammond, the millionaire owner of 

, and to Peter Jackson to be Gandalf in the

trilogy

, because he didn't want to spend a year and a half filming in New Zealand. .

They say he lost earnings of $ 450 million.

For coming to shoot "Highlander II" in Argentina, he charged US $ 3,500,000.

In the photo, with Christopher Lambert.

PHOTO: CLARIN ARCHIVE

But when

came to shoot

in Argentina, he charged $ 3,500,000.

Is that demystifying that he owned a single pose, and in the midst of the phenomenon that Agent 007 became in cinemas around the world, Connery alternated the hundreds of thousands of dollars he earned for being an agent of Her Majesty's Secret Service with other titles that he did like.

Around that time Alfred Hitchcock directed it in

, agreed to shoot The

with Gina Lollobrigida

, and headlined

Sidney Lumet's

, with which he went to the Cannes Film Festival.

And although Brian De Palma offered him to be Dr. Robert Elliott in

(1980), and he declined due to previous commitments, it was being, not close, if not on par, with another Eliot - this one with a single L and a single t- the one who brought him back to fame and gave him his only Oscar.

With his Oscar for best supporting actor for "The untouchables", on April 11, 1988. PHOTO: REUTERS

De Palma called him again and in

(1987) he was Jim Malone, the policeman who accompanied the character played by Kevin Costner.

His death was filmed in a memorable shot, with a crane, entering his apartment through a window.

Three things are remembered from

, in

order you prefer: Connery, the scene with the baby carriage on the steps of the train station in homage to

and the music of Ennio Morricone.

Connery went from action hero to mentor late in his career.

He grew a gray beard and / or mustache.

He had been away from the cinema for 17 years, with the mess - it must be said -

.

With Harrison Ford, when he played Indy's father in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" (1989).

PHOTO: ARCHIVE

Earlier, Steven Spielberg cast him as Indiana Jones's dad.

The director of

wanted to make a Bond-style film, and it was George Lucas who as producer convinced him to do the Adventurous Archaeologist trilogy.

Was there not a better ending for Sean Connery than to drink from the Holy Grail at the end of 

, and ride to the horizon when the sun went down?