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He had a pressing engagement.
He blew a fuse.
[Hes] playing his golden harp.
She had her kicks.
See you later, irrigator.
But Connerys ability to deliver the perfect rejoinder, the perfect kiss-off, endured beyond Bond.
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It even lay at the heart of Connerys comeback in later years.
Obviously, it wasnt merely the dialogue that made Scottish Connerys 007 so compelling.
It took some time, and it definitely took some aging.
(And who knows what was going on in his private life?
(There is, by the way, a65,000-member subredditdedicated to Connerys accent.)
There he was, as the compassionate, intellectual monk-detective (!)
Brother William of Baskerville in the underratedName of the Rose(1986).
He also made the ludicrous, Junior Tolkien dialogue ofHighlander(1986) surprisingly seaworthy.
(They pull a knife, you pull a gun.
He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to themorgue.ThatstheChicagoway!
Again, nobody could deliver that kind of tough-guy poetry like Sean Connery.)
By then, his comeback was in full swing.
(That audience also knew that he was a lock to winBest Supporting Actor later that night.)
Its an ideal role for him, partly becauseThe Rockis one of the most quotable movies ever.
Theres nothing like Sean Connery delivering lines like, Losers always whine about their best.
I was trained by the best: British intelligence, he says, with a perfect, apathetic twinkle.
There was still a bit of Bond in there, but Sean Connery was free.
