In all the official Bond films, Connery looks great. Whether it's his real hair or a toupee, it doesn't really matter. He looks impressive. In DAF, he's wearing the least convincing of his rugs, and he doesn't look so bad. In all of his non-Bond films stretching into the present day, his toupees look fine. Why in the world did he wear that grey, thin rug in NSNA? The idea of a toupee is to make you look like you have good hair. Why would they give him a toupee that looks like it's balding? I really beleive that if they changed the music and gave him any other toupee than that thing, NSNA could have been great. How is it that he looks younger in Entrapment than in NSNA? Just wondering. He looks younger in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade than in NSNA. Connery looks dignified as a bald man. And he looks dignified with a good toupee. In NSNA, he looks weak and sad. Does anybody agree? Any insight as to why he might have worn that thing?
Connery's NSNA toupee. Makes him look terrible.
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zerozeroseven
, Apr 03 2004 04:59 AM
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zerozeroseven
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Posted 03 April 2004 - 04:59 AM
In all the official Bond films, Connery looks great. Whether it's his real hair or a toupee, it doesn't really matter. He looks impressive. In DAF, he's wearing the least convincing of his rugs, and he doesn't look so bad. In all of his non-Bond films stretching into the present day, his toupees look fine. Why in the world did he wear that grey, thin rug in NSNA? The idea of a toupee is to make you look like you have good hair. Why would they give him a toupee that looks like it's balding? I really beleive that if they changed the music and gave him any other toupee than that thing, NSNA could have been great. How is it that he looks younger in Entrapment than in NSNA? Just wondering. He looks younger in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade than in NSNA. Connery looks dignified as a bald man. And he looks dignified with a good toupee. In NSNA, he looks weak and sad. Does anybody agree? Any insight as to why he might have worn that thing?
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Posted 03 April 2004 - 11:36 AM
I agree about the NSNA hairpiece. Someone once said it looks like Connery borrowed it from Fred Astaire or Frank Sinatra. And apparently it cost an enormous amont, maybe even more than the entire budget or DR NO. Money well spent? I think it makes him look more like a middle-aged businessman than a lethal '00' agent. If only Q Branch could have kitted him out with something a little more convincing...
I vaguely recall reading an old Connery interview - it might have been in STARLOG magazine - where he says that he tried going back to a 60's-style Bond toupee, but it looked like a balaclava helmet on him (For those unfamiliar with this item of headwear, it's like a kind of tightly-knitted ski mask type thing with the face cut out, as worn by wartime commandos). He said he also tried going sans toupee, but it just didn't look right for 007. (A wise decision, probably. 007 without the hair seems somehow as wrong as Columbo without the raincoat.)
Ironically, in another Connery film of that era, WRONG IS RIGHT, aka THE MAN WITH THE DEADLY LENS, Connery wears a similar toupee then pulls it off and throws it away in the final scene. I always thought that this would have been the perfect ending for NSNA, emphasising the gulf that separates the real Sean Connery from the cinematic James Bond.
I think it makes him look more like a middle-aged businessman than a lethal '00' agent. If only Q Branch could have kitted him out with something a little more convincing...I vaguely recall reading an old Connery interview - it might have been in STARLOG magazine - where he says that he tried going back to a 60's-style Bond toupee, but it looked like a balaclava helmet on him (For those unfamiliar with this item of headwear, it's like a kind of tightly-knitted ski mask type thing with the face cut out, as worn by wartime commandos). He said he also tried going sans toupee, but it just didn't look right for 007. (A wise decision, probably. 007 without the hair seems somehow as wrong as Columbo without the raincoat.)
Ironically, in another Connery film of that era, WRONG IS RIGHT, aka THE MAN WITH THE DEADLY LENS, Connery wears a similar toupee then pulls it off and throws it away in the final scene. I always thought that this would have been the perfect ending for NSNA, emphasising the gulf that separates the real Sean Connery from the cinematic James Bond.