The Cinematic Connery
The Cinematic Connery
Description
Scotland's greatest export. The world's first super spy. Voted the sexiest man on the planet.Sir Sean Connery was a titanic figure on screen and off for over half a century.
Behind the son of a factory worker, growing up in near-poverty on the harsh streets of pre-war Edinburgh,lay a timeless array of motion pictures that spanned multiple decades and saw Connery work across theglobe with directors as diverse as Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg and Michael Bay. And amongstthem his greatest role, whether he liked it or not Bond, James Bond.
Author A. J. Black delves into Connery's life for more than mere biography, exploring not just theenormously varied pictures he made including crowd pleasing blockbusters such asThe UntouchablesorIndiana Jones and the Last Crusade, serious-minded fare inThe HillorThe Offence, and hisstrange sojourns into eclectic fantasy withZardozorTime Bandits, but also the sweep of a career thatcrossed movie eras as well as decades.
From skirmishes with the angry young men of the British New Wave, via becoming the cinematic icon ofthe 1960s as 007, through to a challenging reinvention as a unique older actor of stature in the 1980s,this exploration of the Cinematic Connery shows just how much his work reflected the changing movie-goingtastes, political realities and cultural trends of the 20th century, and beyond . . .
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