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Sir Christopher Lee dies at 93

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Re: Sir Christopher Lee dies at 93

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Post by saiya-jin »

bhaak wrote: post #5

Even though he had quite a varied career, the first and most profound impression he had on me was his voice-acting in "The Last Unicorn". I always felt that most of his later roles, what the telegraph calls "among the most fruitful" years, were too much of a type-cast. requiescat in pace

that's one mighty movie. brought me to tears at the end in a very consistent way, quite a few times... The Audio part of audio-visual experience doesn't get neglected, but story itself is beautiful too.

too bad not many studios have balls to release similar dark stories, most one can expect is darkly-themed, sugar-sweet ones.

Re: Sir Christopher Lee dies at 93

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Post by morganvachon »

bhaak wrote: post #5

Even though he had quite a varied career, the first and most profound impression he had on me was his voice-acting in "The Last Unicorn". I always felt that most of his later roles, what the telegraph calls "among the most fruitful" years, were too much of a type-cast. requiescat in pace

My wife and I were hoping he would make it to star in the coming live action version in the same role. I broke the news to her a few minutes ago, and she wants to watch the movie tonight in remembrance of him.

Re: Sir Christopher Lee dies at 93

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Post by pierrec »

If you can find it, I highly recommend watching Jinnah, a film about the founder of Pakistan, in which he played the title role. He often said it was his favorite performance. Sadly it's difficult to find - there's no edition currently on sale, and even on the pirating scene there only seems to exist a horribly low quality version. I look forward to a re-edition of the film.

I don't have any ties to the subject, but I loved the movie for its purely cinematic quality. It would be sad if it stayed forgotten as it is now. Maybe it will only re-emerge when the conflict surrounding this part of history becomes less heated and gives way to peace.

Re: Sir Christopher Lee dies at 93

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Post by SideburnsOfDoom »

acheron wrote: post #9
arethuza wrote: post #7

He volunteered to fight for the Finnish forces in the Winter War against the Soviets and was then in the proto-SAS: "I was attached to the SAS from time to time but we are forbidden – former, present, or future – to discuss any specific operations. Let's just say I was in Special Forces and leave it at that. People can read in to that what they like." That's quite impressive! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_…

There's the story of filming the scene in Lord of the Rings where Saruman is stabbed in the back by Wormtongue. From Peter Jackson's DVD commentary: When I was shooting the stabbing shot with Christopher, as a director would I was explaining to him what he should do"... "And he says, 'Peter, have you ever heard the sound a man makes when he’s stabbed in the back?' And I said, 'Um, no.' And he says 'Well, I have, and…

If I recall correctly, Peter Jackson asked Christopher Lee to utter Saruman's loud death-scream after Saruman had been stabbed in the back.

Christopher Lee responded that a person in that position, (due to punctured lung I suppose) wouldn't be able to scream, so it would be more of a strangled noise. Apparently this drew on his experiences in special forces in WW2.

edit: the scene is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bG8CVUujhs Saruman is stabbed, it is Grima Wormtounge who gets the arrow.

Re: Sir Christopher Lee dies at 93

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Post by codyZ »

I remember reading somewhere that Peter Jackson was directing Lee on how to sound when stabbed in the back...Lee promptly told him No. That is in fact not how he sounds when he is stabbed in the back. He knows...(given his military background)

Re: Sir Christopher Lee dies at 93

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Post by pknerd »

pierrec wrote: post #25

If you can find it, I highly recommend watching Jinnah , a film about the founder of Pakistan, in which he played the title role. He often said it was his favorite performance. Sadly it's difficult to find - there's no edition currently on sale, and even on the pirating scene there only seems to exist a horribly low quality version. I look forward to a re-edition of the film. I don't have any ties to the subject, but…

As a Pakistani I thoroughly loved how he transformed himself into M.A.Jinnah and did his role. Truly amazing.

Check this if it helps:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x11f96g_quaid-e-azam-muhamm...

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