This one makes an appearance for a couple of reasons. The first is that it's one of my favourite cameos in any film I've yet seen, but there's another reason as to why that is, and that is because of the sheer absurdity of it. Not only is it Sean Connery, one of the most recognisable faces of cinema history in an uncredited cameo role tacked on to the very ending of a major summer blockbuster, but also because it's Sean Connery, one of the most Scottish men on the planet playing King Richard I. You know...Richard the Lionheart, one of the figures known throughout history as being most strongly linked to Englishness. Once again, we're treated to Connery swaying his confident way on screen and bellowing out his lines in nothing other than his ordinary speaking voice, not even a little phased by how blatantly un-English he sounds. It's a minute performance of catastrophic ballsiness, and it's beautiful to watch. Perhaps Connery just figured that, as King Richard I spent the majority of his life not actually in Enland, his accent could be wildly different to a typical English one...Scottish, for instance. Then again, he probably thought "How do I make this man sound glorious..."
