R.I.P. Sir Sean Connery

[1st post for today]

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Yesterday was a very sad day.

Legendary Sir Sean Connery passed away on the Bahamas, aged 90.

I have quite a lot of his movies in my collection and he played a part in many fantastic movies like the James Bond movies, A Bridge too far, Indiana Jones and the last Crusade, the Untouchables and many more.

I could write a lot more about his other movies, but after all this blog is named Frogwoman, so why am I posting about him?

Well, the answer is quite simple:

(the french Thunderball poster – click to enlarge)

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The movie Thunderball influenced a LOT of people to get into scuba diving.

Sadly there was only one short scene were a woman actually scuba dives (Claudine Auger, who passed away in December last year).

But the movie offers over 30 minutes of underwater scenes and still -after over 50 years- the best scuba fight scenes in history!

I can’t possible tell how often I watched the movie and certain scenes of it.

Again I could write here endlessly about certain scenes…..but as a matter of fact…I already did.

You are welcome to check out my detailed Thunderball section here on the blog!

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R.I.P. Sir Sean Connery!

Thank you for everything!

You will be missed, but you will live on in all of these great movies 🙂

(click to enlarge to full size)

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P.S.: As I wrote he died on his house on the Bahamas.

And that is were they filmed most of the scenes of Thunderball.

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