LotR: RotK LE - Christopher Lee Has Deja Vu

[jhibbitt1]

omg he's invincible or undead! look at him, impaled and he's still alive and talking normally

[ZachValkyrie]

@jhibbitt1 Of course! don't you know how you have to do it?

Step 1: Drive a stake through its heart

Step 2: Decapitate it

Step 3: Stuff its mouth with garlic

Step 4: Burn it

Step 5: Scatter the ashes over running water

Step 6: Run like hell, because by now you've only just managed to piss it off!!!

[MetaKnightfall13]

@spartanwarrior46 I think it was that Peter Cushing died a couple years back..

[spider1g5]

For them that don't know- he played Dracula

[MetaKnightfall13]

That's Deja vu

[14DEADSOUL]

"There's something vaguely familiar about this situation" - hahahahaha Christopher Lee is just so awesome!

[spartanwarrior46]

he sounded so depressed when he said peter jackson

[lithanion]

Peter Cushing lives in Whitsable.

[unstrungzero]

@lithanion He goes shopping on his bicycle. You can meet him buying vegetables.

[ebag10]

@unstrungzero "Ah Peter- I have seen you buying vegetables."

[Chidderz2k11]

@unstrungzero he died 16 years ago ? :L

[unstrungzero]

@Chidderz2k11 LOL I know. They're lyrics from a song, and a funny bit from the show QI.

[Tenshiyami13]

It the look of disappointment on his face after he mentioned Peter Jackson that makes me laugh

[PetraKenobi]

I never knew it was actually Chris on the wheel...interesting.

[kutuluu]

That was just wonderful. Slain by Peter yet again :D

[Fairport4Life]

"But no, he came down here to New Zealand and we rammed another wooden stake through his heart."

[Mortalvis]

haha, getting stabbed in two different movies, nice XD

[Somebodylost]

Who did he see 27 years before?

[peacecanhappen27]

@Somebodylost, Peter Cushing another pretty famous director.

[peacecanhappen27]

@Somebodylost, Peter Cushing director of Dracula

[unstrungzero]

@peacecanhappen27 Actually no, Peter Cushing was a famous ACTOR, who was in many films with Christopher Lee in the 60's & 70's. Christopher is referencing how when he played Dracula, he was taked by Peter Cushing who was playing Van Helsing, and how the impalement on the wheel brought it back to him. :)

[peacecanhappen27]

@unstrungzero, oh excuse me, thanks you're absolutely right, that was a really stupid mistake. *smacks head against wall*

[unstrungzero]

@Somebodylost Actually Peter Cushing was a famous ACTOR, who was in many films with Christopher Lee in the 60's & 70's. Christopher is referencing how when he played Dracula, he was taked by Peter Cushing who was playing Van Helsing, and how the impalement on the wheel brought it back to him. :)

[Schoening91]

xD hes awesome

[kriitikko]

There's something something vaguely familiar about this situation" lol It's good to see Sir Christopher can indeed make fun of his Dracula reputation.

[OxXHannibalXxO]

xDDD

"There's something vaguely familiar about this situation...27 years ago, when I looked up, I saw Peter Cushing....27 years later in New Zealand and I look up....I see Peter Jackson" >>

[slytherinbabe93]

LMAO love this, thanks for posting it!!

[BattleM012]

haha

Christopher Lee was in Dracula 1958

also starring Peter Cushing ;)

[OsamaBinLooney]

don't think i saw that one

peter cushing as dracula? wow, that would be scarey, he was freaky enough in star wars

[imcoolandreallynot]

lol to the people arguing in comments.

[peacecanhappen27]

starbtle, good point, however you forget that the films unlike the books are not done yet. I bet depending on how well The Hobbit does they will probably want to make another LoTR based movie, Saruman taking over the Shire would do just nicely. xTailsPrower, the books are better, although I agree with mikese93. I think these films are easily some of the best movies ever made, however nothing can top the books.

[GuinnevereB]

Christopher Lee has always impressed me as a very intelligent, philosophical man. He has enough talent to play virtually any kind of role, and yet people are totally hung up on one role he played more than forty years ago. But he does his work well and faithfully, and he can laugh at it all. I admire him very much.

[bebejayme]

It was like watching a dead guy talk

[BeautifulStrangeMyst]

i love his sense of humor! :D

[starbtle]

That's not how Saruman is supposed to die... It really ticks me off that Peter Jackson had the balls to change Tolkien's work, and take out one of the best parts of the books by not shooting the scouring of the shire at the end of the return of the king.

[Kyonkyonpanda]

@starbtle yeah...one of the few flaws of the movies I think.

Oh well...

[unstrungzero]

Would you rather RotK was FIVE hours long instead of 4 1/2? :)

[starbtle]

They could have always split it into 2 films like they are doing to The Hobbit.

I mean Shelob is supposed to be in the two towers not the return of the king... Arwen is supposed to have one speaking line in the whole series at the end... there are so many things that Jackson changed and took out... it just ruins the movies.

Go read the books every one, they are so much better lol

[unstrungzero]

How many films are made is up to the film studio, not the director/producers. They say make 3, you make 3. When they had signed with Miramax, they were going to have to just make 2. I can't even imagine. lol

Film and books are two very different media with their own requirements in pacing and plot development. What flows well on the page often DIES on the screen. The EEs have excellent coverage of why certain choices were made.

And I've read the books many times, most fans have. :)

[unstrungzero]

Also, books are pretty much ALWAYS better than movies. LOL

[mikese93]

contrary, i think the lord of the rings are nearly, if not as, good for a movie, as the books were for books. but thats just my opinion. anyway, two very different activities, most likely reading is going to be a more profound and enriching experience, thus the general preference of the books(plus its usually the originator)

[BiffaTW]

i think that unfair on the movies, and not really understanding what it takes to portray such a stroy, they get harsd time from some fans who really have no idea what it takes to portray film, in this case it could easily have not happend.

[XaniaGeo]

@starbtle i've read the books and i agree that the changes are too much.. but i think most of them are necassary .. imagine arwen appear from nowhere in the last scene... also the horse chasing thing with arwen never happened in the books

[TheMetalPenguin]

YES

[Jesusfreak28532]

i personally wouldn't have minded a 5 hour LOTR movie...if you're gonna do a 4.5 one you might as well go ahead and do 5 hours

[cybertron71289]

@unstrungzero Speaking for myself, yes. Lol

[unstrungzero]

@cybertron71289 Rofl, I myself would as well, I love long movies, ESPECIALLY LotR, but you'd be surprised how many "fans" don't/won't watch the Extended Editions because of how long they are. I hear the complaint again and again.

[cybertron71289]

@unstrungzero Yeah I know what you mean. I personally love a good long movie because the longer it is, the more you can get into it. Ninety minute films just don't have the same feel to them, in my opinion. To be honest, they could have pieced the LotR trilogy together into one giant screenfest and I still would've happily spend half a day watching it lol.

[xTailsPrower]

@starbtle In the book he died when Greamer (sp) stabbed him, which is how he died in the deleted scene. Jackson just made him fall off his tower and land on that object, nothing was changed, really.

[starbtle]

Wormtongue may have killed him yes, but he was killed in the Shire after taking it over and corrupting it. Seeing that, after having been all over the world to Mt. Doom and back, to the great Halls, Hills, and every where else, to have to come home and defend their own country and save it was a personal journey for the 4 lead hobbits and saying that Saruman getting killed by wormtongue by getting pushed off his tower instead dosen't change anything shows how little you know about the books.

[xTailsPrower]

@starbtle He didnt push him off the tower, he was stabbed, died, and fell off. What do you expect Jackson to do, nobody expected it to be exactly like the books, doing that would of been nearly impossible, and why do you have to be so pissy about the books? Jesus, I HATE when a movie comes out based on a book because theres always people like you eager to say "the book was sooo much better' It's funny how people like you are quick to announce they can read.. Nobody cares buddy.

[MORNING12inchWOOD]

sounds like you care quite a bit lol. and btw the movies are amazing but the books are way better

[iondragonx]

@starbtle True but the scourging of the shire would not have made good film. It is great in the book, where Samwise becomes a big hero and Frodo is overlooked but, as a film, there should not be a sudden role reversal just before the end credits.

[yzak102dearka103]

@starbtle

i don't think it was that PJ wanted to change it as much as he had to change it for the sake of time constraints (both on set and the length of the movies), money, and what is realistically possible to pull off on set and with the technology available. he also had to look at what would look good on screen and keep the audience's attention. there are some things that may be really epic on paper, but once it's on screen doesn't work at all.

[munnonockspirit]

I absolutely adore Christopher Lee. He's just brilliant. And funny. :D

[chadbaritugo]

The deja vu he was referring to was the fact that Christopher Lee was known as Dracula and Sir Peter Wilson Cushing, OBE played the character Dr. Lawrence Van Helsing, the Vampire Slayer, back in the 1950's. Prolly that was about the scene when Van Helsing drove a sharp wedge onto Dracula's chest.

They were actually best friends, Cushing and Lee. Cushing's very recent appearance before he died in 1994 was 1977's Star Wars 4: A New Hope in which he played as Grand Moff Tarkin of Death Star.

[GrabMySanity]

Rofl :)) Christopher Lee is amazing, I can actually imagine him playing Gandalf. Apparantly Sean Connery was offered the part? That would have seemed weird...

[peacecanhappen27]

lolz! seriously? he met Tolkein? like J.R.R? OMG!!!!!!!!!!! lolz he is so funny! speaking of him and deja vu, did anyone else get it while watching Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? (btw he played Willy Wonka's dad) scary!

[unstrungzero]

Yeah, he actually had J.R.R. Tolkien's blessing to play Gandalf if there was ever a movie made, but sadly by the time the movies were made he was 70 and just a bit too old. Which ended up for the best, because he really is FANTASTIC as Saruman.

I agree, that was a great lil moment in that movie! :)

[Vahki100]

@unstrungzero he was 78 during the shooting of the Fellowship of the Ring.

[DairDubh]

@peacecanhappen27

He's also related to Ian Flemming. Making his Scaramanga role noteworthy.

[peacecanhappen27]

OMG really? I guess it really is a small world after all lol!

@unstrungzero, really? b/c Christopher Lee as a rule only plays villans b/c he's really good at it (and b/c villans are really fun to play)

[padfootrocksmysocks]

rofl :D loveeeeeeeeee Chris Lee.

[PurpleHillSeeker]

hmmmm.....this looks familier only last time it was black and white.......hmmmm

[Blunka796]

Lawl..

[1FinalEffort]

7 years later i see peter jackson lol

[Challenger2uk]

27 years

[soulcornflake1]

ROFL!! Awesome.

[Terradreamer]

"There's something vaguely familiar about this situation."

[padfootrocksmysocks]

"there's something vaguely famialiar..." haha

[Acrimony01]

funny as hell dracula ftw

[ballkicker19]

haha,he actually joked about it.

ya,he is pretty pimp

he actually met tolkien too

[roseredfearn]

haha! i love christopher lee. his voice is so cool!!

[gianttaco12345]

HAHAHA!

[karloffornia13]

HAHAHA!!! Wow...what a great sense of humor that man has!

[Liljamoon]

Haha! I thought it was a dummy on the weel but then it blinked XD

[coconut994777]

HEEHEEHEE!!! lolz,

[GeneralErlend]

Lol, Christopher Lee is awsome :D

[wingheiko]

lmfao

[isshiahluk]

haha!