After seeing the trailer for LXG, I can’t help but marvel at how much Sean Connery seems to be turning into Darrel Hammond.
Connery has been an outstanding action hero since his Bond days. When SNL started doing the “Celebrity Jeopardy” skit, Hammond always did this outrageous over-the-top (and hilarious) impression of Connery that I’m sure many of you are familiar with.
This impression was never meant to be realistic. But it’s scaring me a little bit that Connery seems to be turning into his SNL impression.
I think “The Rock” and “Entrapment” was where he first started acting this way. Now comes LXG, which isn’t out yet, but two lines from the trailer are Connery saying “That was naughty” and “The game is on.” These sound EXACTLY like the kind of thing Hammond would have said in the skits.
Am I the only one who thinks this? If you all think I’m crazy, then I’ll keep quiet about it…
Actually, I thought this too. When I first saw the trailers for LXG I kept thinking of quotes from SNL like “Anal bum cover” or “Buck Futter” and thinking that Connery did sound a lot like Hammond. And you’re right about the “That was naughty” quote sounding like something from the SNL skits.
And didn’t Hammond say “The game is on” in one of those skits?
I just hope the movie has Quartermain wearing a leather glove!
(speaking of which, that’s the only genuinely cool thing I think I’ve ever seen on VH-1. It was on an episode of “Rock & Roll Jeopardy.” The contestant buzzed in on an answer but didn’t know the question. The camera zoomed in on him, he flustered for a little bit, then said in a perfect Connery impression “a leather glove!”)
Sir Sean doesn’t seem to think much of the director of his new film, The League of Extraodinary Gentleman. From this article on the IMDB’s Celebrity News page, http://us.imdb.com/PeopleNews/2003/20030703.html#4
Yeah, I think you’re right, he’s sounding more and more like Hammond every day
“What’s the difference between you and a mallard with a cold?”
“I don’t know.”
“One’s a sick duck and I don’t know the rest but your mother’s a whore!”
“Buck futter!”
“And lastly on Rock and Roll Celebrity Jeopardy, Sean Connery.”
“I wrote a book of dirty limericks just so I’d be eligible. For instance, 'There once was a man named Tribick, who had the world’s tiniest…”
“OK, that’s enough!”
“A sound a doggy makes. I would have accepted ‘ruff-ruff’ or ‘bow-wow’”
“Ruff. Just the way your mother likes it, eh Trebeck?”
“Where’d you get that pen? We frisked you on the way in.”
“I bet if you frisked me you’d find it. 'Cause I was hiding it in my butt!”
“I saw that you had trouble sitting down during the break, Trebeck. What’s the matter? Have a hot date last night?”