Disillusioned

By GlosKat

Sat, 20 Jun 2026
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Some time ago in a reply to Celticman's blog, I mentioned I used to fancy Sean Bean, but since he started advertising Yorkshire Tea I couldn't take him seriously as a hard man any more.

I was reminded of this last night when I watched a film called Far North.  Sean Bean plays a typically macho man, spending his days shooting reindeer, seducing an Innuit girl and murdering Russian soldiers.  He tramps about the icy wastes wrapped in animal skins, with a rifle slung over his shoulder.

In several scenes he stalks into the camp, surrounded by the magnificent Arctic frozen tundra with ice cliffs towering in the background.  Slings down the bloody carcass of his kill, shrugs the rifle off and sits down at the fire.  At which point I couldn't help myself expecting him to say :

"Let's have a proper brew".

I just kept losing the moment …

Certificate 15
Biography
Humour

Comments

Submitted by celticman on

Let's have a proper brew. Well, he did show a bit of variety. Playing a transexual teacher in  one of McGovern's dramas, while mouthing poetry about Gunnevere? A proper man.  

 

Submitted by GlosKat on

Very Shakespearean, Jack :

"A sweet-faced man, a proper man, as one shall see in a summer’s day, a most lovely gentlemanlike man."

 

 

Submitted by celticman on

Guinevere (not Gunnevere) Idlys of the King. A kind of horsey cadence. 

 

Submitted by airyfairy on

I half expected to see Sean riding shotgun for Andy Burnham as the King of the North arrived at Euston for his anointing. I know Andy's from t'other side of the Pennines, but a proper brew is every citizen's birthright.

Submitted by GlosKat on

Thanks for reading AiryFairy !  I think Sean is from Sheffield, but I could be wrong.