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Winners go home and fuck the prom queen3/31/2024 The crown of Connery's career, outside Bond, is the mythic trilogy of The Wind and the Lion, The Man Who Would Be King, and Robin and Marian. His most daring, draining, and astonishing role. Connery explored aspects of his screen persona that were never touched on before or since. The film is badly paced (its first half drags badly), but once Connery is given a chance to act, he turns in a volcanic performance, a study in repression and rage. His career, like that of Clark Gable (the golden age star Connery most resembles), is filled with lots of lousy films and poor decisions (why bow out with the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen? Why not King Lear?), but he's made enough great films to have a great career. Sean Connery is perhaps the last of the great, larger-than-life film stars.
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