How to be like Sean Connery

[@SeanA.Skeete-wd4vi]

Great history lesson. I was born in 1969 and my mother was so impressed with Sean Connery that she named me "Sean" like so many boys in my era. 😊🙏.

[@ryano7220]

You can see Sir Connery's smooth, panther-like movements stem from the way that he walks on the balls of his feet rather than heel-to-toe. It adds a natural smoothness and "swagger" without the arrogance. Also, he looks very comfortable in everything he wears, primarily because he slept in his suits to help him grow accustomed to wearing them.

[@ronaldpoppe3774]

Sean Connery is James Bond for me. Goldfinger was my favorite. I always liked his style even as a lad in the 60's. I also liked him in the man who would be King and The Hill. Cheers Ron

[@Gwartonium]

Roger Moore gotta be my favorite tho!

[@ronaldpoppe3774]

@@Gwartonium I really liked him as the Saint.

[@Gwartonium]

@@ronaldpoppe3774 I just finished Season 2 of the Saint. If there's any man out there I'd like to emulate it's him

[@ronaldpoppe3774]

@@Gwartonium very stylish and sophisticated

[@ronaldpoppe3774]

@@Gwartonium I recently watched the Saint on TV. The fight scenes were a bit funny compared to today's shows. I remember watching them as a lad in the 60s and thought it was cool 😎. Still enjoyed seeing them again.

[@Argon369]

My masculine Role model, Thanks for making this

[@Gent.Z]

You’re most welcome

[@frankb821]

I strive every day to be a little bit more like Connery. At this rate, I'll only need another 150 years. From Russia With Love is the best Connery Bond film, and imo, the best Bond film overall!

[@theurbangentry]

Outstanding video. You deffo earned a new sub, KBO! Best regards, TGV P.s. To answer your question, as a Kipling fan, I adore 'The Man Who Would Be King" most. I think "The Russia House" is VERY underrated. His performance Indiana Jones's father is also great and tends to be overlooked, and accent aside, he is difficult to forget in "The Untouchables".

[@ToonTownDano]

High Praise indeed! Big fan of you both!!

[@oscarcordes]

I've been watching all your videos lately. Keep up the good work!

[@Gent.Z]

Thank you!

[@boteanu.tudor6]

Literally the Golden Age of cinematography.

[@tobybarrett5574]

The age of B movies.

[@leonardoabdul]

Just started watching your content and I’m hooked. Finally found a fitting style for me. Keep it up mate!

[@ediesedgwick4462]

My favorite Bond film of all time is Diamonds Are Forever. I don't fast forward over a single scene. Plus, Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd! 🤗🥰💖

[@FlorisYoung]

Great video! I’m a big Bond fan and Sean Connery is my favorite Bond actor. Goldfinger is my favorite bond movie but my favorite movie he ever did is Indiana Jones and the last crusade.

[@UnDonnaiolo]

He was a real badass. As Michael Caine describes, he once beat 4 men in a bar when they were harrassing a woman there.

[@serenityinside1]

Which is ironic as he openly admitted to slapping women 🙄. How to be Sean Connery ? Err no thanks ..you all and the poster hero worship if you want 🤨

[@richardgrant418]

@@serenityinside1There, we totally agree 👍

[@ChipperieMC]

Would appreciate a video on Pierce Brosnan! His story is quite interesting as well

[@Gent.Z]

For sure! I definitely plan on doing a style analysis of his Bond movies and then maybe a video about his life overall too

[@paulbetz3325]

Never say never again is a personal favorite

[@andrewgenner2613]

Great video on the style of the Connery Bond films. The first five are.all great (I watched Dr No again only last week), but the best of all is From Russia With Love. Even Grant, the Spectre assassin, is impeccably dressed.

[@RobertJones-et7gh]

Thunderball is my favorite. Perhaps because it was the first Connery Bond film I saw, that a friend took me to the movies to see.

[@nightrider12soul]

Sean Connery was one off the best dressed man in early Bond movies.His charcoal suit looks one of the best suits in cinema together with M Cain in Get Carter.

[@ToonTownDano]

Good evening Gent Z. I’m a 54 year old gentleman from the prairies of Canada and a big fan of your budding content. Well done! Just curious if you are a fan of Sir Roger Moore and his “The Saint” days?! It’s truly such an rarely mined treasure trove of sartorial excellence. Really enjoy your content and look forward to more! Cheers! 🥃

[@joeconcertshd3451]

You Only Live Twice for me is the best Connery flick. The film just screams Bond completely

[@christianrancourt712]

My favorite James Bond movie with Sir Connery is Thunderball! This one is action no-stop! Likely one of the best with OMSS, Skyfall and No time to die...

[@anthonyharmon9265]

NTTD was garbage...you sure youre a 007 fan????

[@SimonChambers]

My favourite Connery Bond film is From Russia with Love. And if you want to learn more about all of Bond's clothes, I highly recommend the book From Tailors with Love, which goes through the outfits of the cinematic Bond from Dr. No to No Time to Die (although the last movie wasn't yet released when the book was published). A great look into the tailoring and clothes of Bond!

[@THETURKISHKEBAB1]

I like the attention to detail. Im often wary about videos that encourage you to pretend its 1955 outside, however this was an interesting take

[@marlinshanklin-ww7em]

Sean Connery was a avid reader also.

[@Kdb_stylin]

From Russia with love

[@totoleheros6217]

Indeed

[@j.st.jamesesq.9599]

It also helps if a man grows to be about 6’ 2” tall. Most people won’t mess with a man that size.

[@joanne26]

Sean was ‘my Bond’ Why? I was only born in 1965 but still love everything about the decade today because of many things but fashion. Sean was a ‘rough diamond’ but Terence soon got Sean into ‘shape’ with the finer things in life Anthony Sinclair for the suits John Lobb for the shoes Turnball and Asser for the shirts I think Terence wanted to be James Bond 😃😃🤩🤩🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿👍 👍 ❤️❤️🙏🙏

[@kevintopete4438]

Can you do Paul Newman next?

[@richardgrant418]

Glad to see you’ve since lightened up on the eyebrow crayons

[@Videoone123]

I agree he was a fine Bond, however I don’t share your enthusiasm for his status a role model. His misogynistic views on women count him well and truly out on this point. Sadly one of your commentators statement that some women require “manual correction”, speaks volumes on how he is hero worshipped by some.

[@kevin-jg5nq]

My favorite Bond movie is “Thunderball.”

[@briangoody6721]

Goldfinger, I'm saving up to get a replica of the suit from the movie.

[@richardgrant418]

I’m saving to get a replica of the car

[@tobias1752]

S.C. was also known for his interest in politics; he was very proud of his scottish heritage and supported scottish independence from the UK. 1 of his 2 tattoos showed a bleeding heart pierced by a knife on top it was written: Scotland forever( on his forearm) It’s another example of Lessons 3…Stay strong..💪

[@georgelim4533]

*007*greatest James bond ever

[@JMD1965]

Favorite James Bond movie with Sean?... That's easy.. "You Only Live Twice" It had Ernst Blofeld, piranhas, ninjas, astronauts, a Benson Ultralight flyer (Little Nell) and a hollowed out volcano lair!!! ... Now my favorite NON-Bond film(s) with Sean??.. 'The Hill'... 'Robin & Marion'... 'The Untouchables' and 'The Rock' and I could probably list more if I go through my DVD collection...

[@3581tossit]

One life lesson Connery should've learned but didn't is that it's never okay to hit a woman. On a humorous note, he used to quietly rebel by not using cutlery while dining in public and instead eat with his fingers just to poke a hole in the pretenses of life.

[@ΕΜΜΑΝΟΥΗΛΧΑΤΖΗΔΑΚΗΣ-ρ5σ]

THUNDERBALL because; 1) CONNERY'S PERFORMANCE:: In Dr No, Connery is still experimenting with the role and he is great but yet a bit stiff. In FRWL he explores more the "dark" side of the character. In Goldfinger he adds more charm and "witticism" and completes the formula. But in Thunderball he IS James Bond and the formula is perfected. Connery's performance on this is truly unique. He shows the greatest confidence ever. His style, his movements, the way he speaks, his one-liners, his demeanor and even the way he looks, everything that was built in the previous 3 films, reach perfection. He is "dark" and gritty and at the same time charming and stylish. He looks tough and ruthless which at the same time combines with a dark dry witt coated with venure sophistication and style. And he obviously enjoys playing the character more than ever, either before or after. 2) PLOT AND VILAIN: This movie tends on focusing on Bond for the first time and not the vilain. It is a celebration of Bond himself as a character. The plot is simple but smart and realistically believable. It has some great twists: The whole idea of seducing and killing a flying officer (Major Dervall) and replacing him with another pilot after a plastic surgery and how Bond finds out about it, is intriguing and it is revealed to us progressively and not from the start. As for the vilains: I always liked most the "invisible Blofeld" which we have only in FRWL and in this. As for Largo, he seems stylish, resourcefull and smart. He is dangerous and twisted. And most of all he is not relying on his henchmen to do the job (as Goldfinger for instance). He fights himself, he dives himself, he leads his men into battle. As for Fiona Volpe, what can i say! She is the icon of every "femme fatale" of the franchise. 3) THE SPY ELEMENTS: He is doing a great spy work there and seems unstopable: -He first gets in contact with the sister of Dervall. -Then through her he discovers Largo. -Then he is spying into his house. -Then he is diving under his boat to find out where the bombs are, he takes pictures, he fights, he gets attacked with grenades. -Then he tries to seduce Fiona and find out more. -He is captured and manages resoursefully to escape but gets wounded. -He gets surrounded but manages to escape again by killing her. -Then he disguise him self as an enemy diver and finds out where the bombs are hidden underwater. -He gets attacked again and escapes. -He notifies where the bombs are to the Parachute Special Forces. -He then enters into the underwater battle him self. -He heroically stops Largo to escape by fighting till the end inside the boat. This is a far better spy work than in Goldfinger where in the second half of the movie he is a prisoner οf the vilain. 4) ACTION, UNDERWΑTER SCENES AND FINAL BATTLE: The action scenes are great. The first fight with Jack Bouvar in the beginning is gritty and violent. So is the final battle with Largo (even if the bad projector scene behind it is an unfortunate momentt). The gadjets are believable and smart (geiger counter, breathing machine, underwater camera). The jet-pack which seems over the top, was a real thing and a revolutionary invention. The underwater shooting was a revolutionary achievement for the time and especially the final underwater battle was a unique sample of cinematography for 1965! The crisp underwater photography is excellently choreographing so many divers under the water at the same time in a full scale battle of epic proportions with some very gritty and violent moments. Such a complicated action scene has never been replicated in any other movie since. 5) THE "ESCAPISM" ELEMENT: It is also the ultimate "escapism" movie. Beautiful exotic places, wonderful scenery and landscapes, incomparable lifestyle, amazing women (Fiona Volpe is an amazing femme fatale and Domino one of the hottest Bondgirls). some of the greatest one-liners in the franchise, while it is even considered alongside with Goldfinger a "fashion icon" movie! 6) HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: Thunderball is also historically extremely significant for the franchise that we love: It broke the smashing box office records. It is to this date the highest grossing Bond movie of all time (inflation counted). If Goldifinger created the "Bondmania", then Thunderball turned it into a high fever. The flms remarkable achievements transformed James Bond from a popular fictional hero, into a phenomenon in cinema history 7) FINAL THOUGHTS: If Goldfinger found the "classsic formula" of Bond movies, then Thunderball perfected it. It is the timeless epitome of the classic Bond movies, before Connery got tired of the role Initially in Goldfinger but mainly in Thunderball, Connery' Bond reaches the fine line of perfection, as he becomes at the same time tough and refined, stylish and ruthless, a real killer with a sense of humor, who lives on the edge and therefore enjoys every minute of his life as if it were his last.

[@ejseabury]

As for your question, my favourite Sean Connery/James Bond movie are “Dr. No” and “From Russia With Love”. I prefer the earlier, less gadgetry films.

[@Exxon300]

Goldfinger #1

[@smackroscoe]

Hilarious of Connery. To ask for the moon thinking they'd refused & then whoops they actually cut him the check. That's leverage!

[@osaji922]

From Russia With Love

[@supersonique001]

To be a bit of a devil's advocate it's sometimes useful to tone down your celebrity worship a bit. Remember that Connery was a real penny pincher and despite his love of country became a tax exile all his life to pay little or no tax to home country. Also staunchly anti English hypocritically accept a Queen's knight ship from the Queen herself! Of course I would have done the same thing but it smacks of hypocrisy and greed , especially the 'Sir' part . Otherwise he will always be a talented actor with charisma and you got to love him as James Bond!

[@serenityinside1]

Exactly. Famously stereotypically “ Scottish tight “. Moaned about the English , but made his considerably err tax conscious fortune with English money .

[@richardgrant418]

Leaving Britain wasn’t exactly uncommon among people earning over a million a year

[@richardgrant418]

@@serenityinside1Earth to Serenity his money didn’t come from England!! It came from his high fees because of massive popularity in ticket sales all around the world

[@cam-inf-4w5]

Right...because ALL blue collar people arent suave? And ALL rich folk are just so charming and polite? Or is the opposite usually true?

[@bbaird197]

Goldfinger is my favorite Connery/Bond film but he was in several good ones afterwards. Sean Connery is the only Bond who remained in character throughout his life. Roger Moore was the most stylish Bond during and after. Daniel Craig was the best James Bond but he has completely dumped everything about the character. I wish I could learn to walk like Sean Connery. If you have never watched any of his interviews they are very entertaining. You are literally listening to James Bond being interviewed.

[@Ruben-co6pz]

Life lesson 6: if a woman misbehaves....

[@drg6161]

Unpopular opinion: Pierce Brosnan was the best bond but he was in all the worst movies. This said, Roger Moore was the best all-around

[@Gent.Z]

I agree Pierce was a great Bond, but aside from Golden eye, he was in some of the worst movies

[@drg6161]

​@@Gent.Z GoldenEye was the only good movie he was in for sure. The rest were absolutely terrible. Die another day was arguably the worst Bond movie of all time (no time to die is neck and neck though. That movie was horrid. So bad in fact, I think it ruined Daniel Craig's legacy entirely)

[@richardgrant418]

The best at toff flavoured witticisms. Not sure that Fleming wrote 007 like that

[@Alex-uo6kh]

I LOVE Pierce.

[@piepirate4u]

I agree… it is an unpopular opinion.

[@arcabuz]

Another video for insecure screen-glued gen-Z male crowd

[@kristicana1384]

Be born 6 foot+

[@KnozLo]

Who the hell is born 6'+? I feel bad for the woman having to birth that behemoth

[@nightrider12soul]

Dr.No

[@samspencer582]

Goldfinger is the best Bond movie ever. Diamonds are forever is a big disappointment and you can clearly see that Connery didn’t his best in this boring movie. On her majestys secret service is a great movie and much better than Diamonds are forever. Of course Connery is the best Bond and Brosnan and Moore comes in second place. Craig was lousy and the biggest disappointment in the Bond franchise. He is NOT Bond.

[@AmbitiousGuess]

How long until the “hE UsEd tO HiT WoMeN” comments…

[@ericgeneric135]

The fact that you brought it up makes you sound pretty defensive.

[@serenityinside1]

@@jheagy1234567890oh , and what is the “ positive light “ of this ? He looked stylish whilst he did it ? Ffs

[@youtubeur]

​@@jheagy1234567890i really hope you're a troll

[@richardgrant418]

Have you been keeping tabs?