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blackswaneuroparedux · 2 years

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So they’ve decided on you to fuck up my work.

- Ian Fleming to Sean Connery on being cast as James Bond

By the time auditions for the role of James Bond in the first 007 movie, Dr No, were held in 1961, Connery was a well-established and highly regarded serious actor, but Fleming reportedly didn’t think he was right for the part of 007.

Connery said that Patrick McGoohan, James Mason, Rex Harrison, Stewart Granger and Richard Burton (all approved by Fleming as being suitable for the role) were ruled out, for various reasons. The casting wasn’t going well and had even been advertised in stage magazines.

Eventually, Connery was taken in to see the casting directors and he got the part. However, Fleming wasn’t happy with their choice, reportedly saying privately he was nothing but an “over-developed stunt man”, describing him as “unrefined”. Connery reciprocated the feelings, calling Fleming “a real snob”, but admitting he was “interesting”.

Connery was surprised to get the part, because he had heard how Fleming felt about him. Apparently, Dana Broccoli, wife of producer Albert “Cubby” Broccoli, was instrumental in getting Connery the part, as she was convinced he was the right man. Fleming’s girlfriend, Blanche Blackwell, also said he had the right “charisma” for the role.

Fleming’s frustration over the direction his series was being taken was revealed when he confronted first time director Terence Young at a United Artists function in London.

Fleming squared up to the realities of an untested director guiding a half-known ex-labourer star into James Bond’s elegant world.

Mr Fleming vented: “So they’ve decided on you to fuck up my work.”

But Mr Young “was not shaken” and told him: “Let me put it this way, Ian. I don’t think anything you’ve written is immortal as yet.

Ian Fleming wrote relatively little about Bond’s style, sketching in only the briefest of descriptions while devoting pages to the overblown outfits of Bond’s foes. A little goes a long way. Terence Young took Connery to Anthony Sinclair, a tailor on London’s Conduit Street at the northern end of Savile Row. Sinclair was Young’s tailor. He specialised in what he called the “Conduit Cut,” a fitted hourglass shape to the jacket that suited fit, military men. It was deliberately at odds with the boxy fashion suits worn by most young men at the dawn of the swinging sixties. Cutting like that stood out as slightly behind the times but reassuringly expensive.

Next Young took him to Turnbull and Asser, his shirtmaker on Jermyn Street several blocks away south of Piccadilly. There, Connery was fitted with the same pale blue cotton poplin shirts and knitted navy silk ties that Young wore day in day out himself. It was Young who gave Bond his turned back “cocktail” cuffs, a sartorial detail that at the time defined a man as both well-to-do yet rather rakish.

Bond’s style was extremely precise, the spare but expensive, handmade wardrobe of a military man, not overtly fashionable but not fuddy-duddy, either. It met and exceeded accepted standards of dress while remaining deliberately unsensational. Fashion in all its preening frivolity was always reserved for Bond’s vain, egotistical nemeses like Goldfinger, Blofeld, or Largo. As a recipe for worry-free style, Connery’s Bond defined and still defines the clean-cut ideal of a wardrobe that transcends fashion and becomes eternal.

If Bond was the establishment man in town, the exotic and tropical locations around the globe were the backdrop for him to get a bit more experimental with his off-duty wardrobe. It didn’t always work. That said, Connery fares better than all succeeding Bonds as his wardrobe for the beach is still as spare and restrained as his working day clothes. Later Bonds fall prey to the gravitational pull of fashion and pay the price. Roger Moore suffers from this and unfairly, I think. It’s not his fault he got the gig in the hedonistic 1970s. But just about the only thing Connery’s Bond gets wrong is in Goldfinger, where he appears in Miami in a sky-blue terry-cloth onesie. Somehow, he gets away with it.

In the end it was a cocktail: Connery’s suave style with his own rough edges poking through that gave Bond his bite. It resonated with the socially and geographically expanding world of the 1960s; Connery was a forerunner of a whole generation of working-class British actors made good - like Michael Caine and Terence Stamp - who personified a rougher and racier sexuality on screen. In clothing terms, Connery’s Bond gave all young man an easily referenced visual encyclopedia of how to dress well without ever overdoing it.

The two didn’t meet until filming was underway. Connery’s performance won the writer over immediately. In fact, Fleming liked Connery so much that he later gave the spy a Scots heritage to mirror the actor’s own. In his novel, You Only Live Twice, published in March 1964, Fleming wrote that Bond’s father was from Glencoe.

Photo: Legendary actor Sean Connery photographed laying on a sofa while smoking a cigarette in London, United Kingdom on the 8 October 1963

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nekoandfriends · 2 years

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2 days ago at night:

My brain: Hey, are you sleeping?

Me: Yes, now shut up.

My brain: But it would be funny if you draw the interaction between Aku and the Triseraquins after @teacupballerina followed you.

Me: *Open my eyes and began to chuckle from that*

(And yes it's a gift from me to you fwiend uwu)

#I have no control over it 😭😭😭#I have to because this is how it turns out to be when Triseraquin fan and Aku fan followed each other's blog #and boy our fav characters are sworn enemies I'm dying 🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭#I do hope things are not getting chaotic between them (mostly Aku)#aku #guinness #ringo #connery #triseraquins #samurai jack #fanart #sketch #short comic

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kokoronbain · 3 months

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Connery (Triseraquin from Samurai Jack) and Alistair (my OC Triseraquin in the Samurai Jack universe) for ship bingo uwu

I didn't think about OCXCanon case but let's try it!

Since I am not into Samurai Jack (just watched it when i was little but i wasn't into entirely either) as I have no idea what is a triseraquin, I discovered your ship just today.

Despite all, I am curious about them! I love the comic where you show more the flirty one and the tsundere, I kind of like this ship dynamic yeah XD

#nekoandfriends #thanks for asking me!#A.M.: Ship Bingo #Samurai Jack #Connery #Triseraquin #Alistair #OCXCanon #my thoughts

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pleasuredelaying · 10 months

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Behind the scenes - Thunderball - 1965

#thunderball #1965 #bond #Connery #behind the scenes #James bond

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screencapt · 2 years

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Zardoz, 1974, by John Boorman

#zardoz #connery

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waybackwanderer · 1 month

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CONNERY.DK - Danmarks Største Onlinemagasin For Drengerøve! Jan 2004 Archived Web Page 🧩

#connery #2004

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beepsworld · 6 months

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Jamaica - WHERE MOVIE MAGIC IS WRITTEN…

For the sake of remembrance and just returning from my mother’s homeland in Jamaica, it reminded me of Ian Fleming, his books on Jame Bond (007) and the fact he has a Hotel called Goldeneye near Ocho Rios means I couldn’t resist re-telling the first Bond movie shot mostly in Jamaica some 61 years (released October 1962). So here is my poetic repost of that first encounter with the ‘Man with the…

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atomic-chronoscaph · 1 year

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Sean Connery and Harrison Ford - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

#harrison ford gif #sean connery gif #indiana jones gif #80s movies #indiana jones and the last crusade #steven spielberg #adventure movies #1980s #1989 #gif #chronoscaph gif

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hotvintagepoll · 4 months

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This is a three-way poll. Only one of these men will continue to the second round of the bracket.

Propaganda

Dean Martin (My Friend Irma, Rio Bravo)—No propaganda submitted

Sean Connery (Dr. No, From Russia with Love, Marnie)—no propaganda submitted

Jeremy Brett (My Fair Lady)—he's such a himbo sunshine boy in my fair lady <3 later on he gets dark and brooding as sherlock holmes but right now he's just a dumb little summer child with no braincells <3

This is round 1 of the bracket. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage man.

#dean martin #sean connery #jeremy brett #the rat pack #james bond #round 1 #hotvintagepoll #old hollywood

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ornithorynquerouge · 5 months

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Sean Connery - James Bond 007, 1963

#sean connery #james bond #actor

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blackswaneuroparedux · 2 years

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Bond has taste. He is a dream character for most men. Wouldn't everyone like to have the birds fighting over them, and be able to tell a bartender how to make cocktails?

- Anthony Sinclair

Tailor Anthony Sinclair provided the suits for Sean Connery in the first Bond movies Dr. No, From Russia With Love, Goldfinger (including the famous three-piece suit), You Only Live Twice and Diamonds Are Forever.

Terence Young, the director of Dr. No, turned to his own tailor Anthony Sinclair to oversee the transformation of the then unknown Sean Connery into the suave and stylish character that prevails in our minds today. For the shirts and ties, they went to Terence Young's own bespoke shirtmaker Turnbull & Asser where Bond got his signature shirts with double cuffs.

Connery was not used to wearing suits at the time and it is said that Young had him wear the suits around the clock, even to the extent of sleeping in them, in order to have him feel totally natural when filming began.

#sinclair #anthing sinclair #bespoke #tailor #suit #mens suit #fashion style #james bond #bond #sean connery #connery #terence young #007 #film #movies #cinema #culture

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hammerbacks · 17 days

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FIRST & FINAL SOLO SHOTS OF EACH JAMES BOND Dr. No (1962) Diamonds Are Forever (1971) On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) Live and Let Die (1973) View to a Kill (1985) The Living Daylights (1987) Licence to Kill (1989) GoldenEye (1995) Die Another Day (2002) Casino Royale (2006) No Time to Die (2021)