To say the position of James Bond vaulted Sean Connery to superstardom is like saying James Cameron’s Avatar made just a bit bit of cash. As the primary individual to play Bond within the official James Bond movie collection, Sean Connery set expectations absurdly excessive for each actor after him who has ever taken on the position of cinema’s most memorable undercover agent. Connery performed Bond in six official movies, together with his final being 1971’s Diamonds Are Forever, and one unofficial movie, 1983’s Never Say Never Again, which was primarily a retelling of Thunderball, Connery’s fourth official Bond movie. Let’s check out a few of Connery’s greatest moments because the legendary undercover agent.
7/7 “Shocking. Positively Shocking” – Goldfinger
The pre-title sequence of Goldfinger sees Bond in Latin America, blowing up a drug lord’s facility specializing in heroin-flavored bananas. He vegetation a bomb, then goes to chill out in a membership. After the bomb goes off, Bond heads again to his lodge room, the place a unadorned girl waits for him in a tub. Unfortunately, the 2 aren’t alone. There’s a baddie within the room who will get right into a combat with Bond, trashing the room within the course of. Bond finally throws the baddie into the bath, with a lamp following moments later, electrocuting him. He delivers his post-kill one-liner, grabs his gun and jacket, then leaves the room. The title sequence and Shirley Bassey’s iconic title theme music begins seconds later. It’s a badass one-liner, particularly the best way Connery delivers it.
6/7 “I Think He Got The Point” – Thunderball
This second comes after Bond and essential Bond Girl Domino have simply made love underwater (don’t try this in actual life. It will not finish properly). The two sit on a seaside within the Bahamas the place Bond reveals to Domino her brother’s army canine tags and states that essential villain Largo had him killed and stole two nuclear bombs. He convinces Domino to assist him discover the bombs, however Domino notices a henchman by the identify of Vargas sneaking up on them, with a silenced pistol in his palms. Bond, utterly unfazed, grabs a harpoon gun, shoots Vargas, pinning him to a tree and killing him, then delivers the above-mentioned autopsy one-liner. It’s an amazing second.
5/7 Killing Professor Dent – Dr. No
This is well one of many coldest kills Bond’s ever finished, and for it to be within the first movie of the franchise actually underscores that Bond is a ruthless undercover agent. Bond has arrived on the home of a secretary who plans to maintain him there till Dent can arrive to kill him, however Bond will get the secretary arrested, giving him time to organize for Dent’s arrival. Bond makes use of pillows to make it seem to be he is sleeping. Dent is available in, empties his clip into the pillows, and that is when Bond surprises him. He interrogates Dent, stating what made Bond suspicious of him, however Dent manages to select up his dropped gun… besides the clip is empty. Bond’s, nonetheless, shouldn’t be. We get an amazing pre-mortem one-liner with Bond saying “That’s a Smith and Wesson and you have had your six.” earlier than capturing Dent.
4/7 Golf With Goldfinger – Goldfinger
Bond meets Goldfinger for the second time at an English nation membership, and challenges him to a sport of golf, providing a bar of Nazi gold price 5,000 kilos if Goldfinger wins. Goldfinger can pay the quantity in money if he loses. Goldfinger has a status as a cheater and Bond goals, as he says in his phrases, “have slightly enjoyable with Mr. Goldfinger.” The enjoyable begins on the final two holes, with the 2 agreeing to play by the “strict guidelines of golf.” Bond exploits this when Goldfinger loses his authentic ball (Bond finally ends up standing on it at one level), however fortunately sufficient, loyal henchman Oddjob sneakily offers him one other. However, Bond finds one other golf ball and switches them, inflicting Goldfinger to play the flawed ball. Due to the “strict guidelines of golf,” this causes Goldfinger to lose the match. This will not be the final time Bond trolls a essential villain, but it surely is among the extra entertaining methods he is ever finished it.
3/7 Defeating Red Grant – From Russia With Love
Very few villains or henchmen have ever gotten the drop on Bond like Red Grant does right here… however all of them have squandered golden alternatives to kill James Bond for good. Red Grant has captured Bond in his practice compartment onboard the Orient Express and has simply defined the entire scheme to our hero. Bond asks for a cigarette as a final request, which Grant agrees to, however opens Bond’s particular briefcase from Q incorrectly, inflicting him to get a face stuffed with tear fuel. What follows is among the greatest fights within the collection. It’s closed, it is cramped, it is brutal. It’s unimaginable to observe.
2/7 The Very First “Bond, James Bond.”- Dr. No
The very first time we see Connery as Bond is among the biggest introductions of any character ever. We see a bunch of individuals taking part in a variant of baccarat at a flowery London membership. A rich girl loses two palms to a mysterious man, whose face we now have not seen. She asks for his identify and will get the enduring “Bond, James Bond” response. We see Sean Connery’s face for the primary time, trying suave past all purpose as he smokes a cigarette, with the 007 theme taking part in over it. An ideal introduction to our hero.
1/7 Talking His Way Out Of Getting Killed By Goldfinger – Goldfinger
This total scene is a powerful contender for probably the most iconic scene within the historical past of the franchise. It’s the one which options the enduring “Do you count on me to speak?”/ “No, Mr. Bond. I count on you to die!” change. Goldfinger has captured Bond at his services in Switzerland and strapped MI6’s golden boy to a desk, with a big industrial laser, headed proper for his manhood. This appears to be like like the top for our hero, and Bond’s more and more determined makes an attempt to get out of it add an additional layer of stress to the scene. It’s legitimately one of many few occasions we see Bond outright terrified.
So how does Bond get out of it? He convinces Goldfinger that if he is killed, then 008 will come after Goldfinger subsequent, and that 008 additionally is aware of about “Operation Grand Slam.” Goldfinger spares Bond, however what makes it higher is Bond was bluffing. At this level within the movie, Goldfinger is totally proper when he says that it is only a meaningless phrase Bond has overheard. Still, killing an MI6 agent can be a lifeless giveaway that Goldfinger’s as much as one thing shady, so he spares Bond. It’s an unimaginable bluff by Bond and simply one of the crucial memorable methods he is ever gotten out of hazard.