Christopher Lee's Life Is Way Cooler Than Yours
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If fiction mirrored reality, Christopher Lee's Saruman would be ruling Middle-earth and using Sauron's helmet as a chamber pot.
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Fun fact. Christopher Lee witnessed the last public execution by guillotine in France.
That doesn't surprise me given it was so late in the century and the expanse of his travels in his adult life and all. But still very kewl given its significance in history! I didn't know that, thanks :)
Neat!
Madame Chaos awesome!
I believe they were actually friends and Tolkien promised him Gandalf if there was a movie.
Madame Chaos Fitting for someone who spilled the blood of the Saxon men.
Lee was a righteous badass. He was also a huge tolkien fan and knew tolkien personally. Heres to nerdy badasses
I'm not sure if 'personally' is the right word. He (as far as I know) met him randomly at a bar, and that was it.
Yup well said!
Nice
@@hopebringer2348 i heard that they got more in contact after that
So basically the man who, arguably, should've been James Bond instead of Sean Connery actually *_was_* James Bond during the war...
I think lee actually inspired James Bond.
Could work for James Bond as written as after all he's a professor killer.
Spot on
The real James Bond was actually executed by a paranoid Stalin during the Cold War lol.
@@specialunit0428 Since when executing enemy spies is paranoid.
Chuck Norris checks under his bed for Liam Neeson while Liam Neeson checks his closet for Christopher Lee
Connor Bethel and Christopher Lee drinks tea with Bruce Lee after they have killed two armies before lunch.
Love it
Connor Bethel Frodo still check under his bed for Saruman even though he knows he’s dead ;)
Funny thing is, Qui Gon Ginn is Count Dooku's apprentice.
@@Scazoid When Lee told Vader to hold his beer.
Fun fact: He was one of the inspirations for James Bond
King Yak yes together with Prince Bernhardt of the Netherlands. Our scumbag prince
Along with Jon Pertwee (aka the Third Doctor) and Ian Flemming himself.
+Eammon Wright
You would be surprised how many famous actors used to be in the SOE or in the OSS.
Yes Jon Pertwee was in SOE. He, Flemming and Lee were actually good friends and Ian Flemming based James Bond on all three of them.
Weren't Lee and Fleming actually related? Cousins so I've read. Sincerely, Bill
Sir Christopher Lee is also a descendant of Charlemagne (King of the Franks) on his mother's side. So he literally had the blood of kings in his veins.
everyone with european heritage is at least related to charlemagne.
www.theguardian.com/science/commentisfree/2015/may/24/business-genetic-ancestry-charlemagne-adam-rutherford
He was the closest person in modern history to the archetypal chivalrous knight that we have. (had)
Except on his mother's side they have actual relation to the Carolingians, versus some schmuck who by genetic accident shares DNA with Charlemagne.
Tons of Americans and even modern Europeans overblow their relation to historical figures. Fun fact, most of those guys' closest relatives are still alive and considerably wealthy/influential. The worst offenders are Scottish-Americans. They don't realize that in the Scottish clan style of feudalism serfs and knights and such often took the surnames of their lords to identify where they were from or who their overlord was. Surprise surprise, most of the actual Scottish nobility and royalty are still alive today in Scotland or somewhere else in the UK. If you by some chance are actually blood-related to these guys, you're probably the result of an embarrassing party accident. ESPECIALLY if out of the blue for no reason you and your parents ended up in America.
So do I! Proud to be related not only to Charlamagne and many other royals, but Christopher Lee!
@@oaesiir5676 Ok settle down there buddy. I wasn't looking for a debate on the genetic lines of all people with European ancestry. I'm a Christopher Lee fan and I am celebrating how awesome he was.
It's not hard to have a cooler life than me
Jackal Unleashed also me.
welcome to the club!
Jackal Unleashed, tore the brand strait off my soul.
Me too thanks
Common, i bet you've done a lot with your life so far
Christopher Lee was the only person that worked on the LOTR rings movie to actually meet Tolkien in real life.
That's SIR Christopher Lee to you
A knight of the realm!
@@specialunit0428 *_The Sith Lord_*
RIP Sir* Christopher Lee - May 27, 1922 - Jun 07, 2015 (age 93)
Rest in Peace Sir Christopher Lee
Corey Adolfi thank you for the correction. This man deserves that much.
Kent Weisner Sorry if I gave off the impression of calling you out, I just remember he was knighted and wanted to add in his title to my comment.
No worries man. I didn't take it that way.
He'll be back!
Imagine getting interrogated by that voice... I'd probably shit myself in the first few seconds.
I would be having nightmares after that interrogation!
Oh wait, I'd be shivering in fear, forever!
Having known most of this, my initial reaction to the title was like, "no shit Sherlock."
Shame he isn't with us anymore, he was clearly one of the most awesome people in recent history.
Sir christopher played Sherlock Holmes too.
He's also been in an incredible amount of movie sword fights and actually was quite skilled as a fencer in real life. I'd recommend anyone to watch the three musketeers movies where he played Rochefort. It's such a great part for him.
Willem Verheij that’s why in Star Wars his character count dooku is a duelist they based it off of the fact he could duel quite well so yeah that’s cool!
@@lebaby4001 It is, but sadly they underused him. They could hardly get better casting for the role of a Sith lord, yet they replace him early in the third movie by some lame CGI robot thing and his role in the second movie was pretty limited too.
Would have been so much better if we saw him as a Jedi master in the first movie leaving the order and if he was captured in episode 3 and killed later.
Would have made more sense for Palpatine's plot too, since he took too much of a gamble on Anakin turning during the most crucial part of his plan.
@@willemverheij3412 actually he said he couldn't do much in that movie due to his age on the behind the scenes. But did advise Lucas what he could do.
Dude went up against both Stalin's *and* Hitler's goons in WW2, absolute legend.
Yeah, I saw that picture with his face and the long list of all the amazingly cool stuff of his life, that ended with:
"Now let's see Chuck Norris top that."
"We'd make a biopic, but who would play him?" Easy: Charles Dance.
Or Sir Ian Mckellen.
Cumberbach for young Chris, Dance for old.
Cumberbatch looks like an alien.
Keith Thurston
Lee drank at the same MI6 pub as the real Allen Turing (between missions). During one of his scenes there, They should have had a young Lee on leave, singing a traditional drinking song in the background in "The Imitation Game", getting drunk with his cousin, Ian Fleming.
I was gonna suggest we use the Necronomicon to bring Lee back from oblivion but that works too.
When the books were still blurred, I thought one said "GETTING REINCARNATED".
That remains to be seen...
he was also a British aristocratic from a very wealthy and highly ranked family which is one of the reasons he ran away to begin with. he didn't want to sully the family name both in war and with his acting.
Jackie wignall If thats true then damn he was one hell of a Gentleman
"Christopher Lee's Life Is Way Cooler Than Yours" we all know it's true, but you didn't have to say it :'(
Truth hurts
Indded
indeed
This guy is a legend. He was a British spy, met J.R.R. Tolkien, and was in both The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies 👏
he actually wasn't a british spy, he was a RAF LIASON OFFICER which is a desk job
Intresting fact, he was the cousin of Ian flemming and is believed to have been the inspiration for james bond.
He was also fluent in several languages. Was there anything this man couldn't do?!
He couldn't escape death.
But his legacy will live on.
For a while.
Horny Fruit Flies My public health professor (a certified badass in his own right considering his extensive public health/damage control career) quoted many times “You will never get out of this world alive.” Whenever the life threatening topics in public health get brought up by students.
inb4 "because he's dead and I'm not"
Wow, medals from all those govenrments.
Sneaky.
*British
Yeah it pisses me off too. British. How hard is it to get ?
That's just a few
Rumor has it that Christopher Lee fathered Chuck Norris.
How are you gonna write, “For Lee, this was just the beginning,” and not play a clip of Count Dooku saying, “This is just the beginning?”
Christopher Lee was also in a rock band.
Warrior, hero, actor, knight, musician, author, swordsman...what a fine, fine gentlemen. We never saw many like him, and I doubt we ever will.
Who could play him? I'm sure Daniel Day Lewis would put himself through hell trying.
One thing that is known about Sir Christopher Lee's time in the British Army is that apparently his unit was known throughout the spec ops division as "The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare."
No wonder he was supposed to be James Bond. He's an actual secret agent.
The Lord of the Rings producers were like: "Oh, so you know what it sounds like when a person gets stabbed? Oh that would be perfect for this scene with you which we *won't* use for the theatrical release!"
I wrote a dissertation on Lee in 2015 about his war time, movies, metal albums etc. the man is and forever will be a true inspiration to me.
you must have had some horrible sources since he never went to war. he was RAF LIASON OFFICER which is a fucking desk job. he was attached to the SAS , LRGB, and SOE but only as a LIASON OFFICER
What a cool dude who lived life to the absolute fullest
Would absolutely love to see a Christopher Lee biopic. Go a bit zany with it, have like 3 or 4 actors, all solid actors in their current age bracket, each play him at a different period while some intrepid researcher tries to chronicle Lee's life in full after his death, and as he learns about a part in Lee's history we see it reenacted by that actor as Lee. The stuff portrayed would effectively be nuts so go fanciful.
The man was really a a real life Spy, swordsman, Star Wars and Lord of the Rings villain, he knows the sounds of someone being stabbed in the back, and has the “Sir” in his name
Legend, total Legend
Lee was being interviewed shortly after he was knighted and the interviewer, at a legitimate loss, asked him, "How do I address you? Is it Sir Christopher or Sir Lee?" and Lee shot back, "No, no, no... Just 'Chris'."
@@ConstantineFurman Chris was indeed Goated
@@melecio9423 Huh?
And what better way to honor his 100th birthday than to see one of his most iconic roles as a young Jedi Master prior to his fall to the Dark Side.
A master actor, and a master swordsman, and a medieval rockstar nonetheless, bless you always Sir Christopher Lee.
*WAS
PackoVids that's wrong
He's fuckin' dead
BigFatCock leave it to Cracked and their masterful use of grammar. Where can I apply?
The fact that he's dead doesn't negate that the life he lived is cooler. It still IS cooler than yours.
PackoVids I thought he was still alive...
Wasn't he also friends with JRR Tolkein?
He met Tolkien once, but never knew him personally. He was, however, good friends with Ian Fleming. They were related somehow, but exactly how escapes me at the moment.
They were cousins.
Ian Mckellen could play him in his Biopic. lol. That man can do anything.
It should be "who COULD play him." Presumably, a lot of people WOULD love to play him but not a lot actually can.
‘All of Christopher Lee’s movies suck...’
You only put that in after you opened up his tomb to make sure he was dead.
Spokes 6 languages, became a metal singer in his 90s.
I love the mention that little is known of his time in the army, as most of it is classified. Fancy way of saying that he's a badass who's done some crazy shit. Reminds me of my grandfather and the few snippets we were able to get out of him about what he did in the Korean War.
He was James Bond before James Bond
Releasing a metal album at 88: Christopher Lee is the Pinnacle of human achievement
Christopher Lee: One of the most impressive humans to have ever lived.
Rest in peace Mr. Lee.
Hollywood: Ok guys! I have an Idea for a new movie! Let's make a movie on Christopher Lee's Life!
Eric D. Let the BBC make a film about his life. I dont trust hollywood with anything these days.
Title: Christopher Lee's life is way cooler than yours
"Hey, there's no need to rub that in, alright?"
Most of his war time activity is probably still covered by The Official Secrets Act...So there may be even more awesomeness we don't know
Admittedly upon seeing the title of this video, I thought "Well he was Dracula, a wizard, an evil Jedi, acted in more movies than anyone else and narrated the Hollywood Vampires album, so... duh." However, I didn't know all of the military aspects. I'll go cry myself to sleep now.
I'm so happy to hear that he volunteered and came all the way to Finland to fight for Democracy against an oppressive Dictatorship. And he didn't even have any family ties to Finland. I mean who does something so selfless? A true defender of Democracy, and not just in words.
Damn, for someone that was backstabbed by Lord Sidious, he lived such a full life
that's a bold statement considering he's dead
And his life was filled with enough incredible accomplishments to fill 10 lifetimes
Stuart his body is cooler than yours then!
I guess even his decomposition is cooler than anything you've got going on.
Jessica Lee cooler than anything I have on anyway.
it's certainly the truth :P
well, he did shed the blood of a Saxon man...
He shed the blood of _four thousand_ Saxon men!
A different channel already did this but with a British narrator who made it all sound even more awesome, I think it even had a similar name
And it ends with a clip of Cody. The antithesis to Christopher Lee.
I remember on Facebook when you had 'Top 5' and one of them was "Things you wouldn't want to see at the end of your bed in the middle of the night" and people put down various horror movie demons, ghosts and monsters. One of my choices was Christopher Lee; not only was he Dracula but he also played Count Dooku, Saruman and Scaramanga! Greatest villain in cinema history!!!
I'm tryin to get my life where it's cooler than Christopher Lee's. I'm still livin in mom's basement tho.
saying all of Christopher Lee's movies suck
me, a kiwi: how dare you
He is literally James Bond
Fun fact in Star Wars the only reason his character dooku is a duelist is because he is a great fencer and duelist in real life so that’s a cool fact
That and he was Jedi!
Dude, before this video I already knew that his life was cooler, now I’m just getting sad
Rip sir Christopher Lee 😪
There is so much more. He witnessed the last public guillotining in France, he received a permanent injury sword fighting with Errol Flynn, he was a cousin of Ian Flemming, friend of Chuck Norris, and decedent of Charlemagne, he met J.R.R. Tolkien, was close friends with and starred alongside tons of films with Peter Cushing, and Muhammad Ali (a fan) dedicated his fight with Chuck Wepner (the one that Rocky is based on) to him, which Christopher Lee was watching at the Playboy Mansion next to George Foreman (who was very surprised). He really had the most amazing life.
Imagine Christopher Lee in Epic Rap Battles of History...
No matter whom he faced, Lee would totally win.
You can be Cool but you will never be “Christopher Lee” cool.
was* Christopher Lee died in 2015
Hell, it still _is_ more interesting than most of our lives.
Penguin I didn't know this... I just thought he went on a break.
This video didn't even scratch the surface of his life - his family background alone is bonkers.
Bonus:He has a metal band
Charles Dance would be a great pick to play Christopher Lee in a biopic! With other possibilities being Sir Anthony Hopkins, Sir Patrick Stewart, or Sir Ian McKellen. But Charles Dance definitely has the best youth resemblance.
Some of his war stories are highly exaggerated by media. He himself doesn't talk a lot about it in his interviews.
Correction, Lee never engaged in battle in Finland, they were not allowed to.
He was there as an observer which is probably nonsense.
how could his life be more interesting then Count Dooku?
The dude's Death. He can just give himself time off to play himself in a movie.
SIR CHRISTOPHER LEEE DAMMIT!! get it right
Not even watching the video just here to say: "No shit? It's Christopher Lee"
More respect to this fine man.
James Bond wishes he could be this guy.
You forgot to mention that the metal album (released at age 88) is about Charlemagne, of whom Lee was a *direct descendant*.
Can you imagine being interrogated by Christoper Lee ? You would just about shit out your heart
Chuck Norris checks under his bed at night for Christopher Lee
He also had a really cool voice
Or was, anyway. RIP to a true Gentleman with incredible presence.
The real life "most interesting man in the world".
It takes a certain level of badassery to school people on how *other people* sounded when they were stabbed....with a knife.
Atleast Anakin didn't killed him
So this is who the Dos Equis man was based on.
"For Lee, this was just the beginning" Goooddd. Twice the pride, double the fall
His voice is already way cooler than mine... this video is here to add fuel to the fire
this should be renamed "christopher lee answers one question, also a bunch of reading"
He also trained at Camp X in Canada, where the Canadians, British and Americas trained their spies in WWII.
My immediate thought upon seeing the title; Obviously.
00:12 = He did not join the Finnish Army to Fight off the Soviets and he never claimed to do so. He traveled to Finland as a volunteer for Winter War when he was 17 for a fortnight and was kept far away from the battle. Quoted from his autobiography 'Tall, Dark And Gruesome":
"Along with a tew other recent schoolboys who felt neglected by the War Office, I took a journey to Finland. Our idea was that we would rescue the Finns from the Russian invaders. Our surprised hosts affected to be delighted by this callow set of volunteers, and touched that we had paid our own third class fares. They gave us some white uniforms as camouflage in the snow, and took us up front to a perfectly safe area. We never saw any Russians, and went home after a fortnight. It was clear that the tiny Finnish army was doing rather well against the Russian colossus, without our help."
No shit? A fly have a way cooler life then me.
He's really had a lot of experience in battle...
Great man. The real heroe.
Far too short, way more info out there
Yeah i don’t even have to watch this video to know he lived a really impressively cool life. Best guy ever, may he rest in peace.