8
by CDFingers
I'll make a Connery point at the end, eh.
We make sense from what we see based on what we've already seen.
Bond, James Bond. Yeah, the best one, for sure. All those flicks in the adolescent brain.
But all the other flicks, the interviews and clips, it was his voice. As he aged and played parts, his voice was there the whole time. His voice for me indicated some kind of archetype--not necessarily something to be emulated, but something very clear and ancient and resonant. His movies, yeah, action flicks, The Man Who Would Be King and so on. All those roles rolled into an archetype conspired to give me the one moment in any of his films when I lost it in the theater--luckily dark. It was in Costner's Robin Hood flick when we saw who King Richard was and everyone dropped to a knee, the walk-on part that saved that mediocre flick.
RIP
CDFingers
Crazy cat peekin' through a lace bandana
like a one-eyed Cheshire, like a diamond-eyed Jack