But again it’s fair to ask does the Warrior Scholar truly exist in the way we see them? These men who always know instinctively when to act and when to analyze in a way that appeals to the most upstanding virtues in ourselves. Apparently not. Connery was accused of abuse in her memoir by ex-wife Diane Cilento both mentally and physically, and in all those years where was the analysis of situation then? Where was society's, especially other men? Later when asked about his distasteful comments about abuse he doubled down and didn't back off one bit. His explanation is horrific, and lacks analysis of even the most banal sort. It’s the kind born of the audacity of not only an individual, but an age. Make no mistake thinking this entrenched is always backed up by a body of thought, and yet when we are honest with ourselves we find some of that “body" in us. Our society not only allowed, but celebrated Connery as he would appeal to this sentiment many times over his career as Bond, and if not directly, implicitly in films that range from the Lion in Winter to The Anderson Tapes ( One of my faves) and then even more as he grew older in The Highlander and The Untouchables. It’s not just about physical violence it’s the mindset that seems to not even desire to question the harm. There’s no empathy, because there is no analysis, no analysis because that’s hesitation, that’s pause. Connery could look the scholar, feel it, but he didnt really understand it, it was a concept to him. In the latter of the last two films I mentioned ( The Untouchables) Connery is in rare form. As Malone, he is a street scholar, a man that understands the guttural heart beat of a cruel city. A man that knows the streets, and understands the mentality of the gangster while fully being dedicated to the law, the type that would sooner laugh at a scholar, a thinker, because he is a doer. This is not only fool-hardy, its copaganda, but its myth and Connery understands the power of it, and we believe Connery exactly because he’s so damn sure he’s right he assures us. Elliott Ness (or at least Costner’s and DePalmas idealized version of this actually very mediocre person ) is all innocence and uncertainty, but Connery's Malone is all worldliness and confidence. He knows he’s right even when hes wrong. Hes seen it all, done it all, so what’s the point of thinking about it, ACTION! “You’ve got to take action SON! Stop thinking about what’s right and worrying about your precious morality and ACT!” That’s the sum of what hes saying here. Connery fills it and almost all his roles with this mythical confidence, this complete lack of doubt in his words this power, this virility, and truth, not objective truth mind you, because that’s not what he's going for, hell it doesn't matter that this is complete bullshit, Connery gives it the ring of truth by being true to the man, the myth that is Malone, there is no contemplation in Connery and there is none in Malone as to why he is, he just is…Connery was nominated for his first and only Oscar …