Sean Connery

Thankyou bluebelle that expresses it perfectly for me.
Except that on the whole this thread has heartened me as there are many people pointing out the violence which isnt happening elsewhere on the internet.

He nade a good king arthur

Just to add,we ALL are flawed ,it would be a very sad world if one flaw and admission of t affected not only all our own lives but how we were viewed by everyone else .
Nice to see so many perfect folk on here though !

Please please never compare working class men with violence against women that’s really does my head in I come from working class my dad my grandads were gentle.....men and many a violent man has come from the upper crusts
trisher please stop making excuses for violence to women

Why are some people excusing this man he was at least middle aged or more when he made that statement that is on tube (he has an almost American accent) what happened in the ‘olden days ’ is no excuse for that type of thing to happen now

I cant believe what I m reading on here to be honest

Can I say as well that there is still in working class areas a concept that a boy has to learn to fight and musn't be soft (which given the level of violence they sometimes encounter is understandable in a way). Having seen mothers standing outside a school gate holding their sons' coats while the two boys 'settled things', and learning from a young mum that other mothers were giving her a hard time because she hugged and kissed her son (he was 5) I know some women actively encourage this.

Galaxy in poor areas of Glasgow I know for fact that Fridays were for getting drunk and beating your wife if she dared object....or for asking for the wages just spent in the pub.It was very common in the late 18hundreds early 1900's .My great Granny left her husband of more than 20 years after such a beating ...one too many as she had my granny newly born.It was so normal she had accepted it for years;

You have to remember that it was different times and that women essentially "belonged" to thier husbands .When my GP's married they used to take in battered wives and try to find them somewhere to get away as gg had done.My Granny was a suffragette ,she was arrested at a demo for knocking off a policemans hat ,the sheriff told my GF to take her home and make sure she behaved ,take what you will from that!
Chastisement of wives and children was normal right up to and beyond the time Sean Connery was born in the poor part of Edinburgh where he grew up.
We live what we learn in MOST CASES ,he may well have believed that was how things should be.Hopefully with age and different social contacts he realised it wasn't right .
I never liked the Bond books or films .I didn't rate him as an actor ,I do applaud his success ,from such a lowly start .
For the poster who questioned his paying tax,he did and on one occasion proved it .He also set up an Educational Trust in Scotland with his fees from one of the Bond movies and contributed to it throughout his life.That helped thousands of young Scots get the education he himself lacked as he had to leave school at 13 .
He was charming and he did love his country and he will be missed by many here who knew and loved him .

The only James Bond.

No but you said previously it was linked to his age and class. I disagree. My grandad and those of his age would be much older than SC and would not have hit a woman. Actually I wonder if there is any data on class and domestic violence. I am not aware of any but there may be. I am glad that forums like MN and GN exist as it gives people a chance to discuss male violence. Its very rarely being mentioned on the twitter threads I have seen.

I always preferred him in his later roles.

He was wonderful in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Sad news, but not totally unexpected. 90 is a good age after all.

I didn't mean the hitting Galaxy I meant the response to a questioner that isn't the expected one (I thought that was obvious).

RIP but not one of my favourites, too ‘masculine’ for me and I imagine quite a boring man ; golf?
I’m always fixated by his toupee? My tastes in male stars often run counter to the main trend, Bill Nighy (when younger) Jeremy Irons, not effeminate men, but gentler.
I had a violent father so maybe I sensed that about him.

Certainly gave me a few lovely heart flips in my day. Thanks Sean.

Definitely the Best Bond. R.I.P.

Nope not a working class thing my grandad and those like him managed to never hit a woman and thought that behaviour was appalling.

FoghornLeghorn

trisher

I think he had the sort of sense of humour which enjoyed causing upset and shocking interviewers. Did he believe what he said? I'm not sure, he was after all an actor.

I’m afraid I can see nothing funny about a man advocating giving women a good slap to shut them up.

Maybe it's a working class thing. My grandfather a confirmed communist loved to say something really right wing and watch others tying themselves up in knots arguing about it. It's called irony by the way. I think it's much more refreshing than a man who bursts into tears and pretends he is sorry. His second marriage lasted 45 years, so perhaps he was just being controversial.

Nasty man. Never a Bond fan either so I won't miss him at all.

Could never get past the fact that he said (more than once) that it was ok for men to slap women if they misbehaved. And that he was abusive to his first wife , mentally and physically. Can't forget those things because of a nice voice and Bond -which I never liked. Sexist crap that made me cringe.

On the day of the Glenfiddich solo piping championships too, dreadful day for Scots Nationalists

Used to enjoy his films as got older his parts got better , and have seen some of his before Bond films on talking pictures .
Stand out films are Untouchables , India Jones .
Mick

As someone who detests Bond films I hope they show some of his other stuff instead, absolutely loved him in Highlander.

As to slapping women, if it is true, then it's inexcusable but also a product of his age and upbringing, he just never learnt to change. Sad really.

It's a No from me because of his own admission of abuse.

The best Bond of all of them.

I so all the James bonds with Sean Connery, the best r I p, you'll be sadly missed

The only Bond worth watching! I had such a crush on him.
That voice & those eyes.
A great pity but he lived to a good age & seemed to have enjoyed his latter years.
RIP Mr Bond.

For me, the world is a slightly dark place, he was my girlhood hero.