@@NorthernNorthdude91749 I now imagine an 80 year old Christopher Lee sneezing and accidentally force lightning-ing someone to death. Then I realise that Christopher Lee is too proper for that.
So, to sum up: Lee dies at the ripe old age of 93, after a life in which he: -- Hunted and killed Nazis; -- Portrayed Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, and villains in the Star Wars, James Bond and Middle Earth movie franchises; -- Spoke five languages fluently, and three others with some proficiency; and -- Released two heavy metal albums after the age of 80. If that's not a life fully lived, I don't know what is. He only died because he was ready to. Respect. \m/
@@antoniom_sports7971 - you'd be that guy visiting the Sistine Chapel in the 16th century and criticizing Michelangelo's brush technique, wouldn't you?
"do you know what sort of noise a person makes when they've been stabbed........(that creepy deep voice) because i do." i felt a shiver run down my spine
Christopher Lee is probably the only man in the world that can literally say "been there, done that". He's done more in his lifetime than anyone else could possibly imagine and lived to tell the tale. Rest peacefully. A pity he never won an Oscar.
Christopher lee is better then the oscars. The oscars are now just stupid awards given to stupid undeserving idiots. Christopher Lee was an awesome actor who deserved actor of the century along with the other big names.
Theodore Roosevelt actually did a far greater variety and was even more active, he probably owns that title, but Lee is right up there for my favorite figures in history and was an incredible man.
As a German I have to admit I often check my closet before going to bed, because I am scared the ghost of Christopher Lee could be hiding in there with a knife.
When an old man who served in WWII in a special forces unit is asking you "Do you know what sort of noise someone makes when they're stabbed in the back? Because I do" you stop talking and listen.
First time i watched this I thought wow, Christopher Lee survived being stabbed in the back Now I realise wow, Christopher stabbed some people in the back
and to think they make Chuck Norris out to be this all-powerful, most-badass guy. as much as i respect them both, being a fellow Veteran.....Chuck Norris got nothing on Christopher Lee.
*Peter working on Gollum's torture scene.* Sir Christopher Lee : Oh please, dear, do you have any idea of what noise make someone who's getting tortured ? Because I do.
Well, at least PJ listened to the actors, and when they corrected him he took it on board. That's a good director, who is prepared to change things when the actors give him input.
That’s why anyone who’s ever worked with Peter have nothing but nice things to say about him. It was a known rule that the actors could come in and work to help Better the script.
I want everyone to stop and remember this man died peacefully in his sleep after a full life, and one that was clearly involving combat operations against nazis and being the man who inspired Bond 007. He played the game, beat the odds, then went to be an iconic star in Hollywood famous to his dying breath. This is what a legend is.
And as a grown man, got threatened with being thrown out of his local cinema for giggling through the serious movie alongside his great friend Peter Cushing.
Peter Jackson should have taken more advice from him and Ian Mckellen. Hell Lee and Tolkien were friends. Christopher knew more about those books than historians know about history.
Incredible behind the scenes capture! Christopher Lee really did see it all and do it all! British SAS operative, Count Dooku, Saurman, Dracula list goes on! I couldn't believe when he passed but at least he's at rest now! rip
@@jackcloud4728 they did work close together. Just often had different skills and missions but he with out a doubt worked with SAS. But yes he was not a SAS operative.
He was attached to the SAS not in them which is still really cool. He was even allowed to go and visit the training grounds when he wanted since they gave him some kind of special pass.
Badassness aside, it's now kinda haunting to see Christopher Lee act out being stabbed because he has seen first hand what it's like for real and thus Saruman's death scene is probably one of the most realistic death scenes in all cinema.
I feel like "seen it" doesn't really do it justice He was a spy in WWII; there's a very good chance Christopher Lee personally stabbed a bunch of Axis soldiers in their backs
@@thefiregodzapp But there's a difference between the warfare you'd expect an average soldier in world war 2 to engage in, and the sort of killing sir Lee is talking about. No amount of propaganda is going to allow you to cope with killing a person that closeby
Christopher Lee belongs to a very select club of actors who were much tougher in real life than any of their on-screen personas. Others in this club include: Jack Palance, Charles Bronson, and Steve McQueen.
This brought tears to my eyes because I feel so sorry for what this man must have been through to be able to tell how someone being stabbed sounds, talking about it in such a casual manner. I didn´t even presume he stabbed people himself, I thought he had watched others do it. Whatever it is, I feel so sorry for him. In a human to human way, not because I am German...
SarSaraneth he was a part of The Special Operations Executive or The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. Basically the forerunner to James Bonds 00 group
@@andrewthorne3570 He wasnt just a James Bond like agent before James Bond and played a villian in a James Bond movie, but even was related to Ian Fleming, the author of James Bond books and films...
Christopher Lee is Ian Flemings cousin. Ian has said Christopher is his inspiration for James Bond. Christopher Lee is the real 007 James Bond. He knows what he's talking about 😎
In the hospital when I had Leukemia, I have been "stabbed" low in my spine with a syringe shot multiple times so id say I am very much convinced, because if a syringe is enough for me to lose all my breath instead of scream from the excruciating pain, I believe a whole knife more or less confirms it. ( If you think that is bad enough imagine having them want to chat with you, ALL THE WHILE you are STILL out of breath and in GREAT pain and can't even think of anything but the pain.)
There's something terrifyingly awesome about how calmly he says it, almost like he would do it again and not lose a second of sleep.. RIP to a real one, a real menacing and terrifying one
It's like that video interview of this little old grandmother. It's only when she starts talking about how many Germans she killed in WWII, you realize this is pretty strange. Turns out she was some kind of assassin in the French Resistance. lol
When my mother had her seizure, I recognized the gasp and knew I had to start compressions immediately. You hear that noise, it is go time. I had done it four times prior working in a hospital.
Don’t argue with a man who firstly voluntarily signed up to fight with the Finnish against the Soviet Union in the Winter War and subsequently fought with the special forces in WWII.
0:24 notice Lee says "when somebody is stabbed in the back", not "when a man is stabbed in the back". Lee probably had to do things he still thought about until his last days.
"So Christopher, when he stabs you I want you to-"
*"Have you ever killed a man, Peter?"*
"N-no I-"
*"Because I have."*
Damn
*"they won't hear your cries for help peter"*
I can hear it in his voice 😂
I read that in his voice too.
I'm not saying that Christopher Lee killed a man, but Christopher Lee definitely killed a man.
A man? Like, a singular man?
I feel like he’s killed men, many men
He went on record saying he actually lost count of how many men he's killed over his life.
more than one, i'm sure.
@@NorthernNorthdude91749 I now imagine an 80 year old Christopher Lee sneezing and accidentally force lightning-ing someone to death. Then I realise that Christopher Lee is too proper for that.
So, to sum up: Lee dies at the ripe old age of 93, after a life in which he:
-- Hunted and killed Nazis;
-- Portrayed Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, and villains in the Star Wars, James Bond and Middle Earth movie franchises;
-- Spoke five languages fluently, and three others with some proficiency; and
-- Released two heavy metal albums after the age of 80.
If that's not a life fully lived, I don't know what is. He only died because he was ready to. Respect. \m/
Speaking 5 language isnt special
@@antoniom_sports7971 - you'd be that guy visiting the Sistine Chapel in the 16th century and criticizing Michelangelo's brush technique, wouldn't you?
@@michaelairton3723 hahahaha wtf. I only sayed speaking 5 language isnt special to count it there because i speak 5 languages and im a simple person
@@antoniom_sports7971 considering that only less than 1% of people on this planet can speak 5 or more languages fluently it is somewhat special
@@aljosailic9725 then im special
"I seem to recall"
As in he remembers the exact moment when he schooled Jackson, he's just being very british about it.
Facts lol
Haha exactly, that's the most British way possible to say it
"Being very british about it" LMAO. British understatement is an art.
@@OrdinaryLatvian It's true, we're really rather good at it.
@@philiphunn194"Some might say we're rather good at it." There. I made it more British.
"do you know what sort of noise a person makes when they've been stabbed........(that creepy deep voice) because i do." i felt a shiver run down my spine
jhibbitt1 The fact its so conversational makes it creepier.
he just talks about it so casually like it's just a conversation over tea
He could have just as easily been saying "Do you know how to make a cup of tea? Well, I do." in the exact same tone.
there should be a movie about his life
"Caramels" (spoken in creepy, deep voice).
Christopher Lee is probably the only man in the world that can literally say "been there, done that". He's done more in his lifetime than anyone else could possibly imagine and lived to tell the tale. Rest peacefully. A pity he never won an Oscar.
in the end of the day it doesnt really matter people know how amazing he was with or without an oscar
Christopher lee is better then the oscars. The oscars are now just stupid awards given to stupid undeserving idiots. Christopher Lee was an awesome actor who deserved actor of the century along with the other big names.
Theodore Roosevelt actually did a far greater variety and was even more active, he probably owns that title, but Lee is right up there for my favorite figures in history and was an incredible man.
Meeh- fuck the Oscars. The man is a legend!
I am amused that you could say all that. And not say legende. Good work chap
Everyone is talking about Christopher Lee stabbing someone,
but no one talks about Brad Dourif's feeling like shooting someone with a Magnum
Lord of the rings woulda looked hella different.
@@then00brathalos "I dont THINK that's canon..."
@@then00brathalos Middle Earth has no firearms. Middle Earth needs no firearms...
Man Brad Douriff in LoTR is so radically different from his Doc Cochren character in Deadwood. Simply unrecognisable. Genius actor!
The .357 is Canon, it's a hand cannon.
As a German I have to admit I often check my closet before going to bed, because I am scared the ghost of Christopher Lee could be hiding in there with a knife.
And he speaks perfect German too, so he could use tricks.
But if he’s a ghost, wouldn’t the knife pass through you?
Meshakhad it’s going to pass through you either way
If you're a surviving nazi war criminal then you have every reason to be afraid. He may come back as a vampire.
i readed this comment imagining a german accent
"You ought to see me with 357 magnum, I am awesome" made me laugh so hard. He was still pretty great.
From creepy minion to full-fledged gangstah in 1 sentence!
This is by far my favorite piece of movie trivia of all time.
Same:)
This to me,come right next to the ''broken toe scream'' and the nail in the foot.
"Aaragorn acktually broke his toe when he kicked the helmet!"
When an old man who served in WWII in a special forces unit is asking you "Do you know what sort of noise someone makes when they're stabbed in the back? Because I do" you stop talking and listen.
"I didn't push the subject any further"
Wise man!
Christopher Lee didn't die, he beat the game.
Will he come back to play it again, in hard mode perhaps?
That might be the the messiah returns.
@@ChadKakashi if reincarnation is real he's probably with us again right now.
I finished the hardcore tutorial and is now playing the REAL game.
First time i watched this I thought wow, Christopher Lee survived being stabbed in the back
Now I realise wow, Christopher stabbed some people in the back
Well he was in the SAS in WWII
@@Envy_the_Darksider or what would later become the SAS. still, very badass.
and to think they make Chuck Norris out to be this all-powerful, most-badass guy. as much as i respect them both, being a fellow Veteran.....Chuck Norris got nothing on Christopher Lee.
Envy the Darksider - no he was SOE, not SAS.
Well, where do you think Chuck got it from? He was just carrying on the legacy of his hero. XD
"You got to see me with 357. Magnum : I'm awesome !"
Christopher Lee: Hold my beer old boy
Not something I expected Grima to say.
That’s definitely Brad Dourif for you 😅
no one fuck with the chuck
Well he's from West Virginia... so I have no doubts that is true! #CueCountryRoads
0:34 "and then Peter uncomfortably left the room. I have it on good authority that he'd soiled himself"
*Peter working on Gollum's torture scene.*
Sir Christopher Lee : Oh please, dear, do you have any idea of what noise make someone who's getting tortured ? Because I do.
Christopher Lee was obviously the main character in this universe.
Well, at least PJ listened to the actors, and when they corrected him he took it on board. That's a good director, who is prepared to change things when the actors give him input.
I think in this case he was just like "I am not dying today."
That’s why anyone who’s ever worked with Peter have nothing but nice things to say about him. It was a known rule that the actors could come in and work to help
Better the script.
@@rokaanalzeer7148 Good, makes you think well of him despite the way Rings of Power fans try to disparage the guy.
Christopher Lee: exists
Nazis: why do I hear boss music?
I want everyone to stop and remember this man died peacefully in his sleep after a full life, and one that was clearly involving combat operations against nazis and being the man who inspired Bond 007. He played the game, beat the odds, then went to be an iconic star in Hollywood famous to his dying breath.
This is what a legend is.
And as a grown man, got threatened with being thrown out of his local cinema for giggling through the serious movie alongside his great friend Peter Cushing.
@@zacmumblethunder7466Oh, what I wouldn't give to see Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing giggling in a theater like two schoolgirls.
@SHEEPSLEEPDEEP - Please consider pinning that person's comment
He left this world loved by millions and millions of fans. Rest in peace, great man.
Not to mention a war hero and living legend as the inspiration of his cousin, Ian Lemming's, new spy book James Bond
Peter Jackson should have taken more advice from him and Ian Mckellen. Hell Lee and Tolkien were friends. Christopher knew more about those books than historians know about history.
well from what i understand lee read the books once a year, and he knew Tolkien as well
He only met Tolkien once coincidentally. They're not really friends as he only met him as a fan.
if you watch all the documentaries on the extended edtions (I have, I also have too much time on my hands) PJ did that a lot of suggestions on board
@Rick O'Shay
Source?
Lee met Tolkien once in a pub.
So I find that hard to believe.
In fact, I don't believe it at all.
@Rick O'Shay Shame, I thought that was real too. That's a pretty cool urban legend though, as urban legens go.
I gotta give Peter Jackson credit for listening to what Christopher Lee had to say.
Well telling someone who knows the exact sound made when stabbed in the back they don't, seems like an invitation to a bad time.
"Ya outta see me with a .357 magnum. I'm awesome!" Yes sir you are XD
Sir Christopher Lee: _Peter, boy, do you know what sound does a man being stabbed? I do_
Incredible behind the scenes capture! Christopher Lee really did see it all and do it all! British SAS operative, Count Dooku, Saurman, Dracula list goes on! I couldn't believe when he passed but at least he's at rest now! rip
And Heavy Metal singer
no he was what we now call mi6 from what I gathered
@@jackcloud4728 they did work close together. Just often had different skills and missions but he with out a doubt worked with SAS. But yes he was not a SAS operative.
He was attached to the SAS not in them which is still really cool. He was even allowed to go and visit the training grounds when he wanted since they gave him some kind of special pass.
He was SOE. Special Operations Executive.
“Be ware of old men in a profession where men die young.”
How could you not love Christopher Lee he is a true legend
Legends never die
Badassness aside, it's now kinda haunting to see Christopher Lee act out being stabbed because he has seen first hand what it's like for real and thus Saruman's death scene is probably one of the most realistic death scenes in all cinema.
I feel like "seen it" doesn't really do it justice
He was a spy in WWII; there's a very good chance Christopher Lee personally stabbed a bunch of Axis soldiers in their backs
Before he goes to bed, Chuck Norris checks under his bed for Christopher fucking Lee!
there should be a comic, christopher Lee fighing Nazis
I would read all of that.
Twice.
And disguising himself as a Nazi to be rude to civilians. (Or was that just a joke on the name "Ministry of Ungentlemanly Oarfare?")
Elliot Broadhurst and stabbing them with his lightsaber
I actually had an idea on a Cap. America comic where Lee joined Cap, Fury and the Howling Commandos on a mission in WW2.
God bless you, Christopher Lee for only being a magnificent actor, but also a heroic WW2 veteran!!!
Am I the only one that finds how casual Christopher is about talking about how people getting stabbed funny in a morbid sort of way?
thefiregodzapp Well that’s probably the only way you can really cope with knowing that kind of information firsthand.
Logan Bedenis then again war time propaganda in both world wars dehumanized German soldiers to the point soldiers don't even feel bad about it.
@@thefiregodzapp But there's a difference between the warfare you'd expect an average soldier in world war 2 to engage in, and the sort of killing sir Lee is talking about. No amount of propaganda is going to allow you to cope with killing a person that closeby
And Peter Jackson wisely let the subject drop and Sir Lee to play it his way.
Christopher Lee belongs to a very select club of actors who were much tougher in real life than any of their on-screen personas. Others in this club include: Jack Palance, Charles Bronson, and Steve McQueen.
0:08 You tell 'em, Chucky!
Hahaha! Thankyou for commenting! I missed that!
Best anecdote ever.Perfect part from behind the scenes.
My go-to pick-me-up clip on slow Monday mornings. Never get tired of watching this
Ditto!
Same here!
This brought tears to my eyes because I feel so sorry for what this man must have been through to be able to tell how someone being stabbed sounds, talking about it in such a casual manner. I didn´t even presume he stabbed people himself, I thought he had watched others do it. Whatever it is, I feel so sorry for him. In a human to human way, not because I am German...
He was a soldier. Special forces, as I recall.
He did the stabbing.
Why feel sorry for him? He was the "STABBER" not the "STABBEE".
I'm sure Lee was the one that got stabbed too
SarSaraneth he was a part of The Special Operations Executive or The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. Basically the forerunner to James Bonds 00 group
@@andrewthorne3570 He wasnt just a James Bond like agent before James Bond and played a villian in a James Bond movie, but even was related to Ian Fleming, the author of James Bond books and films...
Awful creative decision to leave out Wormtongue bragging about his revolver skills
Christopher Lee is a legend. RIP
Are we just gonna ignore Brad Dourif (wormtongue) saying "you oughta see me with a 357 magnum"
This is probably one of my favorite BTS clips from any movie ever.
It’s a shame we will probably never get a movie based on his life because truth is far less believable than fiction
To this day the Germans still look under the bed before sleeping, looking for Christopher Lee
RIP Sir Christopher Lee. A true legend.
The cut to Peter saying "He proceeded to sort of talk about some very clandestine part of World War II" is so funny
This makes it clearer why the saying “stabbing someone in the back” is so popular. No one can even hear you scream.
Holy crap I never knew this. That man was already a legend in my books.... I didn't know he could become more than one!
I mean, it makes sense. It's the shock that would make you gasp.
Officially one of my top 5 favorite vids on this site
Christopher Lee stabbing dudes while frog-maning in WW2: "This is going to be great for my acting career. "
r.i.p.
Christopher Lee is Ian Flemings cousin.
Ian has said Christopher is his inspiration for James Bond.
Christopher Lee is the real 007 James Bond.
He knows what he's talking about 😎
Gotta admit, it's pretty weird seeing Saruman getting stabbed in the middle of a parking lot.
"you got to see me with a 357 magnum..im awesome :)" super underrated part.
Oh man, this actor is my hero
LMAO ! That is one of the most badass things I've ever heard ! 😂
Now all we need is Gríma with a .357 Magnum.
In the hospital when I had Leukemia, I have been "stabbed" low in my spine with a syringe shot multiple times so id say I am very much convinced, because if a syringe is enough for me to lose all my breath instead of scream from the excruciating pain, I believe a whole knife more or less confirms it.
( If you think that is bad enough imagine having them want to chat with you, ALL THE WHILE you are STILL out of breath and in GREAT pain and can't even think of anything but the pain.)
Also your lungs are in your back so it would be pretty hard to force air out your mouth to scream when you got a big hole in your lung
you are absolutely overdramatic lmfao
One my favourite clips on UA-cam!
There's something terrifyingly awesome about how calmly he says it, almost like he would do it again and not lose a second of sleep.. RIP to a real one, a real menacing and terrifying one
I'm impressed they actually film this outside to.get the lighting great
It's insane how different Brad Dourif looks just by changing his posture.
Now i need to see the alternate version where Grima straight-up gangsta kills Saruman with a 357
Really like how authentic he wanted to be in that scene
-In which acting school did you learn it?
-Life school
You don't direct Christopher Lee.
Christopher Lee directs Christopher Lee.
You simply don't fuck with Sir Christopher Lee - full stop.
Christopher didn’t die, he ascended to the hall of Mandos and tell him how awesome he is.
Christopher Lee: Do you know how does a man sound when he is stabbed in the back?
Peter Jackson: [meep]
jeez. this is awesome
Second best thing about this after Christopher Lee is that Orthanc is a parking lot
I love how Brad D is just cracking jokes while looking like death.
You don't direct Christopher Lee, he directs you
one of the most genuinely fascinating men that have worked in cinema!
All this video needs is Billy Boyd popping up at the end to just say "Christopher scared the shit out of us that day."
One badass dude right there
Christopher: do you know the sound someone makes when they’ve been stabbed?
Peter: no, do you?
Christopher:………..
Peter: Chris??
It's like that video interview of this little old grandmother. It's only when she starts talking about how many Germans she killed in WWII, you realize this is pretty strange. Turns out she was some kind of assassin in the French Resistance. lol
This dude was killing Nazis in WW2, he knows a thing or two lol.
Love hearing the voice of Chucky in person lol always love Brad D.
What a fucking legend. Legend honestly isn’t enough of a compliment for him.
twice the pride, double the fall.
I don't know why I keep listening to this again and again and again lol
The. Absolute. Best.
People are focusing on Christopher Lee here but Brad Dourif's line was hilarious
he is a legend
When my mother had her seizure, I recognized the gasp and knew I had to start compressions immediately. You hear that noise, it is go time.
I had done it four times prior working in a hospital.
Christopher Lee. He even predicted his own natural dead and send a good bye message before going to sleep (no joke)
Hot Damn, SOE and RAF. Hats off to the legend Christopher Lee (R.I.P)
That man deffo taken another man’s life 😂😂😂
Don’t argue with a man who firstly voluntarily signed up to fight with the Finnish against the Soviet Union in the Winter War and subsequently fought with the special forces in WWII.
0:24 notice Lee says "when somebody is stabbed in the back", not "when a man is stabbed in the back". Lee probably had to do things he still thought about until his last days.
I’m pretty sure it’s somewhere on record of Lee saying he’d lost count of how many men he’d killed
I can only imagine how badass Christopher Lee was during WWII
bet Peter Jackson felt a chill go down his spine when Christopher Lee said that stuff to him.
And after all he cut out his part from the theatrical cut. Nice job, man! :/
Christopher Lee is the protagonist of Earth. There's a reason things have gone to shit after 2015
And David Bowie dying didn't help. Things _really_ fell off after he passed.
The man, the myth, the legend.