Special Guest Appearance By ... Christopher Lee

Third SGA, this time of Christopher Lee in Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow. Lee became a regular to Burton since, contributing to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Corpse Bride, the recent The Nightmare Before Christmas DVD and - almost - to Sweeney Todd, where he had to drop out in almost the last second.

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[Silverlightbird]

count dooku x3

[PuppetMask]

They didn't use Lee enough. He deserved a bigger part.

[CalistaGarrettt]

ahahaha i love the nightmare before christmas, i didn't knew that Jack where be so.... Old XDXDXD still love it ;)

[ShakespeareHamlet]

is this a good movie?

[ShakespeareHamlet]

I've not seen "Sleepy Hollow," but I so want to after viewing the trailer and this scene. Christopher Lee is an excellent villain, but it's all the more surprising when he plays a good guy.

[Jendellyn]

No, I don't think that one was from 'The Wandering Jew', though I haven't seen it as well. Anyway, I can e-mail you some pictures if you would like me to. :)

[Thespilian]

I, sadly, have very few Veidt stills. The one that comes to mind immediately is a portrait from "The Wandering Jew" (which I've never seen). Once bought a signed picture of him at a film fair in London, but I don't know the movie it's from.

[Thespilian]

The use of colour in "Sweeney Todd" was, of course, very different from Hammer. It was toned down to almost black and white. But then, little expressionistic, eye-rolling over-the-top acting - Depp very restricted and therefore effective, Rickman and Spall creepy in their Shakespearian seriousness - very much as in Hammer's good old days.

[Jendellyn]

Besides, I happen to have a very beautiful picture of Conrad Veidt - sadly, I don't know what film it is from - on which he does resemble Sweeney Todd in many ways, having the same eye make-up and even a lock of white in his raven-black hair. He is extraordinarily beautiful. :)

[Jendellyn]

However, Tim Burton himself claimed that 'Sweeney Todd' was "a silent film in sound" - an oxymoron indeed, but then 'Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari' was often described as "a painting in motion". There are indeed some certain things in 'Sweeney Todd' which make this film connected with silent films of the German Expressionism period.