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Post by Jep Gambardella on Aug 25, 2020 13:25:15 GMT
Sean Connery turns 90 today. Suggestions of one of his movies to watch to honour the pride of Scotland? I am thinking "Outland", the sci-fi adaptation of the western "High Noon".
Carl LaFong, is this true? (from the Wikipedia link below)
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Post by Zos on Aug 25, 2020 13:43:24 GMT
Zardoz....Always Zardoz.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Aug 25, 2020 13:49:12 GMT
...Or the 'Spaniard,' who for some unknown reason has a Scottish accent.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Aug 25, 2020 14:03:26 GMT
I realize I didn't include the title of the movie and just named his character. I assume everyone knew I was talking about Highlander (the titular character from the Scottish Highlands who has Christopher Lambert's mish mosh of an American/French/Swiss accent).
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Post by klawrencio79 on Aug 25, 2020 14:06:22 GMT
I realize I didn't include the title of the movie and just named his character. I assume everyone knew I was talking about Highlander (the titular character from the Scottish Highlands who has Christopher Lambert's mish mosh of an American/French/Swiss accent). In The Hunt for Red October, he plays a Russian submarine commander, while Sam Neill, an Irishman, plays his second in command.
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Post by FrankSobotka1514 on Aug 25, 2020 14:10:42 GMT
Can’t go wrong with The Last Crusade.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Aug 25, 2020 14:12:22 GMT
On second thought, I think I will go with one that I have never seen before. Hitchcock's "Marnie" is the one that stands out from among those.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Aug 25, 2020 14:19:22 GMT
I have never seen that one but I know of its poor reputation... Maybe I will keep it for Sir Sean's 100th birthday.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Aug 25, 2020 14:20:37 GMT
I realize I didn't include the title of the movie and just named his character. I assume everyone knew I was talking about Highlander (the titular character from the Scottish Highlands who has Christopher Lambert's mish mosh of an American/French/Swiss accent). In The Hunt for Red October, he plays a Russian submarine commander, while Sam Neill, an Irishman, plays his second in command. Ha true. Despite the lack of logic that sort of thing somehow feels like it makes more sense. They're not gonna go through the trouble of hiring Russian actors or having their actors learn Russian, so they just make any 'foreign' language character have a British accent. In that case they aren't quite doing that and don't even bother giving them the same accent. But Highlander is in English and takes place where English is spoken. Not having the lead guy have a Scottish accent, especially when the other guy does even though he's supposed to be from somewhere else was always pretty silly to me. Then again, that's hardly the only silliness in that movie. |
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Post by Aj_June on Aug 25, 2020 14:21:01 GMT
His last movie that I watched is The Name of the Rose (1986). Quite an enjoyable murder mystery set in medieval times. |
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Post by sdm3 on Aug 25, 2020 14:28:48 GMT
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Aug 25, 2020 14:30:35 GMT
His last movie that I watched is The Name of the Rose (1986). Quite an enjoyable murder mystery set in medieval times.
That would be a good choice too. I have been meaning to re-watch it, although I wanted to read the book first - but I will probably never get around to it.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Aug 25, 2020 14:39:15 GMT
Also from his Wikipedia entry:
Hard to believe that he would have been offered FIFTEEN PERCENT of the worldwide box office receipts (not of the profits! Of the revenue!). That would have been a nice paycheck. I wonder if any actor was ever paid that much for a role.
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Post by Midi-Chlorian_Count on Aug 25, 2020 15:21:57 GMT
His last movie that I watched is The Name of the Rose (1986). Quite an enjoyable murder mystery set in medieval times. Always thought that was a poor knock off of Satan's Alley:-
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Post by Carl LaFong on Aug 25, 2020 15:27:08 GMT
Sean Connery turns 90 today. Suggestions of one of his movies to watch to honour the pride of Scotland? I am thinking "Outland", the sci-fi adaptation of the western "High Noon".
Carl LaFong, is this true? (from the Wikipedia link below) Yes. Turncoat!
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Post by Carl LaFong on Aug 25, 2020 15:29:37 GMT
Not a yuge fan, although he was pretty good in the early Bonds.
Did quite enjoy his OTT turn in Untouchables, shite accent and all.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Aug 25, 2020 17:16:48 GMT
Also from his Wikipedia entry:
Hard to believe that he would have been offered FIFTEEN PERCENT of the worldwide box office receipts (not of the profits! Of the revenue!). That would have been a nice paycheck. I wonder if any actor was ever paid that much for a role.
Yeah that's a crazy number. Crazy to the point that I doubt it's totally accurate. From what I saw on a lazy Google search the most an actor has made from playing one character is Tom Cruise from the Mission Impossibke movies at almost 300 million dollars. I think Robert Downey Jr. is not all that far behind with Marvel. But those are all over the course of like 58 movies and 9 thousand years, I'm pretty sure. I think the first mega deal like that was Jack Nicholson for Batman. He made something like 6 million as a base salary, but then signed on for a percentage of the profits and a cut of the merchandise which got him more like 40 to 60 million, which is more like 100 now. That's just for the one movie, but the rumor is that he was also contracted to get a piece of every ensuing sequel, so there's a chance that over the years that number got a lot bigger. No doubt though that the Connery as Gandalf deal would have broken records. |
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Post by marco266 on Aug 25, 2020 17:17:04 GMT
I am the Sean Connery expert here. OUTLAND was good. Could have been better, but still a good film. Peter Boyle is a real good sleazy bad guy. The one Connery film to watch that most are not even aware of is THE MOLLY MAGUIRES. We get Connery and Richard Harris at their best. Connery is exceptionally good. Great film that has a gnawing moral ambiguity about it. Connery is a shit...but we side with him. Harris is a shit...but we understand him. Fantastic film that grabs you right away and holds you right up to a great final scene.  And THE WIND AND THE LION is always worth a re-watch. It has a line in it that perfectly describes Connery: "He has the way about him."  Can't go wrong with just about any of Connery's '70s films. Not all are great films, but many are; and if not great films, they were interesting as hell. The Great Train Robbery A Bridge Too Far Robin and Marian The Man Who Would Be King The Wind and the Lion Murder on the Orient Express Zardoz The Offence Diamonds Are Forever The Anderson Tapes The Molly Maguires |
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Post by marco266 on Aug 25, 2020 17:27:52 GMT
Hard to believe that he would have been offered FIFTEEN PERCENT of the worldwide box office receipts (not of the profits! Of the revenue!). That would have been a nice paycheck. I wonder if any actor was ever paid that much for a role.
I think the first mega deal like that was Jack Nicholson for Batman. Dude, this is a Sean Connery thread. You don't have to look far to find the real answer to "first mega deal." It was Sean Connery for his return to Bond in DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER. Largest salary ever for an actor plus 12% of gross (and funding for two movies of his own choice).
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Post by klawrencio79 on Aug 25, 2020 17:29:22 GMT
Also from his Wikipedia entry:
Hard to believe that he would have been offered FIFTEEN PERCENT of the worldwide box office receipts (not of the profits! Of the revenue!). That would have been a nice paycheck. I wonder if any actor was ever paid that much for a role.
Yeah that's a crazy number. Crazy to the point that I doubt it's totally accurate. From what I saw on a lazy Google search the most an actor has made from playing one character is Tom Cruise from the Mission Impossibke movies at almost 300 million dollars. I think Robert Downey Jr. is not all that far behind with Marvel. But those are all over the course of like 58 movies and 9 thousand years, I'm pretty sure. I think the first mega deal like that was Jack Nicholson for Batman. He made something like 6 million as a base salary, but then signed on for a percentage of the profits and a cut of the merchandise which got him more like 40 to 60 million, which is more like 100 now. That's just for the one movie, but the rumor is that he was also contracted to get a piece of every ensuing sequel, so there's a chance that over the years that number got a lot bigger. No doubt though that the Connery as Gandalf deal would have broken records. Yeah, the Nicholson for Batman is the earliest one I'm familiar with without looking it up. In addition to getting a cut of the sequels, he also got a piece of merchandise sales for the entire franchise. Not bad. There are probably others (certainly with directors wanting to do vanity projects) that I'm just not aware of. You mentioned Cruise ($70m for Mission Impossible) and Downey for Iron Man, but also DiCaprio took points on Titanic (getting something like $50m), Adam Sandler makes $60m-ish for each of his awful Netflix movies, Tom Hanks on Forrest Gump and Bruce Willis took a reduced salary on Sixth Sense and ended up making $100m for it. I remember reading about Will Smith getting a huge chunk of change for Men in Black 3 and Keanu Reeves hitting well into 9 figures (over $200m) for the Matrix trilogy, all involving points, but I can't say for sure about those two.
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