To be fair, he isn't wearing the hairpiece throughout; there are a couple of scenes without it.
See, I'm not even sure of what was his real hair & what wasn't in his 60's movies. I'm assuming from The Anderson Tapes that he wore the Shatner-like widow's peak enhanser, is that correct?
Let's just imagine that Daniel Craig gained a few pounds,lost all his muscle mass and had to wear an obvious hairpiece.
Gosh, that would be terrible. I'm just glad that in his last 60's Bond Connery only gained a little weight yet still looked very fit for the role and wore a hairpiece so good that it was only many years after I saw YOLT that I found out it WAS a hairpiece! -{ B-)
That's it, chris. Stand your ground! Connery is in fine shape in YOLT and the hair isn't even a factor. And whatever boredom or bitterness he may have been experiencing behind the scenes, it doesn't diminish his performance as Bond in any significant way. YOLT is terrific fun and Connery is, as always, one of the main reasons. That's a fact!
Funnily enough YOLT has two of my favourite fight sequences !
In Osato's office and the Fight with Hans in Blofeld's pad. {[]
Not big sequences but brilliantly staged.
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Funnily enough YOLT has two of my favourite fight sequences !
In Osato's office and the Fight with Hans in Blofeld's pad. {[]
Not big sequences but brilliantly staged.
Oh, DEFINITELY. Short but sweet, right up there with Lazenby's first two (but cooler).
To be fair, he isn't wearing the hairpiece throughout; there are a couple of scenes without it.
See, I'm not even sure of what was his real hair & what wasn't in his 60's movies. I'm assuming from The Anderson Tapes that he wore the Shatner-like widow's peak enhanser, is that correct?
Nope. Check out the scene when Bond and Kissy climb the volcano and stop for a rest. Make-up wise, it's transitional between his "Japanese" look (yeah, right) and his normal Bond look for the rest of the movie, and he isn't wearing a hairpiece.
Let's just imagine that Daniel Craig gained a few pounds,lost all his muscle mass and had to wear an obvious hairpiece.
Gosh, that would be terrible. I'm just glad that in his last 60's Bond Connery only gained a little weight yet still looked very fit for the role and wore a hairpiece so good that it was only many years after I saw YOLT that I found out it WAS a hairpiece! -{ B-)
It's all relative of course. He might be "very fit" comparing him to an average male his age back in 1966 (when the film was made). However, comparing him to his own self in 1962 he looks terribly unfit to me. He had lost all traces of muscle definition.
Are you really serious about the hairpiece?
Anyways, you obviously enjoy the movie, so I'm not going to argue. It's just my least favourite 60s Bond.
Let's just imagine that Daniel Craig gained a few pounds,lost all his muscle mass and had to wear an obvious hairpiece. Now, let's imagine that he made a Bond movie where the set (a volcano, for instance) was the star, not him. Now let's imagine that halfway through the movie, the action stopped on its tracks and Craig was forced for a solid 15 minutes to wear an even more ridiculous hairpiece and take part in a motionless ceremony of some sort (a marriage for instance).
Imagine Daniel Craig's performance under those circumstances and now compare it in your mind with CR. Because that is exactly what happened to Connery on YOLT. He was bored,angry and tired and it shows, specially in the Japan scenes shot on location where he was at his most bored, angry and tired.
Oddly enough, I'm not sure Daniel Craig would fare poorly under the conditions you describe.
His Bond is already much less animated than Connery's, and in a strange way, he might actually do better as a result. That's not a slam against Craig -- his is the best Bond since Connery -- but a commentary on how different their acting styles are.
I don't think DC and SC performances as Bond are that dissimilar. DC is actually the only actor I can imagine as Bond in Connery's best movies (DN FRWL GF TB of course).
I am indeed sir! I think it looks perfect in YOLT. And as in the later 60's more hair on one's head was coming into style, I actually prefer his do better in YOLT than in any other Bond film! -{
Check out the scene when Bond and Kissy climb the volcano and stop for a rest.
I checked it; holy crap, I never thought to examine that before, at first glance it just looks like his Japanese wig, but you can tell it's his real hair. Wow, he had a lot more of it than I was expecting, given all the talk about hairpieces!
And he's not wearing it while swimming underwater with Kissy. It's a bit more obvious there.
Side bit of info- Kissy's swimming double (Mie Hama couldn't swim, which was a slight problem since swimming is Kissy's job) was Mrs Connery, Diane Cilento, in a black wig. Perhaps she borrowed Sean's? )
I am indeed sir! I think it looks perfect in YOLT. And as in the later 60's more hair on one's head was coming into style, I actually prefer his do better in YOLT than in any other Bond film! -{
I can sense Sean Connery phoning it in during the segments like the Little Nellie dogfight and the car chase where he's not really in control, just sitting there in front of clumsy bluescreen/rear projection. But he's more into his role when he is snarky/guarded with Tiger Tanaka, flirting with Aki (I liked his anguished, shellshocked reaction to her murder), and his brawling with SPECTRE mooks.
'Alright guard, begin the unnecessarily slow moving dipping mechanism...'
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To be fair, he isn't wearing the hairpiece throughout; there are a couple of scenes without it.
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Connery wore a chest wig !
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That's it, chris. Stand your ground! Connery is in fine shape in YOLT and the hair isn't even a factor. And whatever boredom or bitterness he may have been experiencing behind the scenes, it doesn't diminish his performance as Bond in any significant way. YOLT is terrific fun and Connery is, as always, one of the main reasons. That's a fact!
In Osato's office and the Fight with Hans in Blofeld's pad. {[]
Not big sequences but brilliantly staged.
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Nope. Check out the scene when Bond and Kissy climb the volcano and stop for a rest. Make-up wise, it's transitional between his "Japanese" look (yeah, right) and his normal Bond look for the rest of the movie, and he isn't wearing a hairpiece.
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It's all relative of course. He might be "very fit" comparing him to an average male his age back in 1966 (when the film was made). However, comparing him to his own self in 1962 he looks terribly unfit to me. He had lost all traces of muscle definition.
Are you really serious about the hairpiece?
Anyways, you obviously enjoy the movie, so I'm not going to argue. It's just my least favourite 60s Bond.
What? that was the hairpiece I was talking about! did he have another on top of his head?
DC would fare very poorly under YOLT conditions.
I don't think DC and SC performances as Bond are that dissimilar. DC is actually the only actor I can imagine as Bond in Connery's best movies (DN FRWL GF TB of course).
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Side bit of info- Kissy's swimming double (Mie Hama couldn't swim, which was a slight problem since swimming is Kissy's job) was Mrs Connery, Diane Cilento, in a black wig. Perhaps she borrowed Sean's?
Now I feel truly vindicated! -{
And all this time I thought I was the only one!
Indeed! There are so few of us left!
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Thank you for that dose of reality!
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Of course! Because he's not Spanish, he's Egyptian!
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