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RIP Christopher Lee

ZuelZuel Registered User regular
in Social Entropy++
One hell of a well lived life.

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  • Macro9Macro9 Registered User regular
    He had a long good life. I'm sure he has some more metal albums to cut wherever he is now.

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  • KyouguKyougu Registered User regular
    Dang. :(

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Son of a bitch.

  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2015
    WHAT

    edit: wow he was super old. I'm amazed he was still acting so much over the last decade!

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  • VeldrinVeldrin Sham bam bamina Registered User regular
    Dude has thoroughly earned this rest.

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    I just kind of assumed he was immortal.

  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    Genuinely shocked he was still acting. Glad he had a nice long life.

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  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    Yeah, that's sad but he probably had one of the most interesting lives you could live and enjoyed good health basically right up until the end. Pretty great run.

  • Macro9Macro9 Registered User regular
    https://youtu.be/cvKRbi2ovDY

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  • PlatyPlaty Registered User regular
    I'm somehow hoping he's still alive because there is only a single source for his death so far and his agency declined to comment

    But this may be it

    Farewell, Christopher Lee

  • QuantumTurkQuantumTurk Registered User regular
    Though it's a loss, I gotta say if I go out half as well as he did I'll be happy.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVzOve8T39w

  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    Like how many people can say they were an active special operative James Bond spy in WWII and also in a metal band and also a world famous actor

    The answer is no one

  • AnzekayAnzekay Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited June 2015
    For once a celebrity passes away that I am not completely sad to hear of it, but rather sad that we don't yet have the technology to prolong life.

    The man has had one hell of an innings. Everyone's time comes and at least his came remarkably late and quickly enough that he was still doing all his good stuff right up until just recently.

    Rest well.

    Anzekay on
  • Bad-BeatBad-Beat Registered User regular
    Dang that's super sad but 93 is a decent innings, especially with the career he's had.

    It's almost a relief to see a celebrity who has been able to enjoy their time in the spotlight and live their career to the fullest, rather than tragically fall victim to the showbiz machine way too soon, as seems too common these days.

    RIP, Christopher.

  • PlatyPlaty Registered User regular
    Platypus Beirut wrote: »
    I'm somehow hoping he's still alive because there is only a single source for his death so far and his agency declined to comment

    But this may be it

    Farewell, Christopher Lee

    He already died on Sunday and the news of his death, if true, was a Telegraph scoop

  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    edited June 2015
    My absolute favorite story about Lee is on the extended lord of the rings commentary, Peter Jackson was giving him direction for his death scene, and he was like ok so then wormtongue stabs you in the back and you do a big scream as you fall off the tower

    And Lee goes Peter have you ever stabbed anyone in the back?

    Uh...no?

    Well, I have. And I can tell you they don't scream. Because the knife deflates their lungs so they can only make a sort of gasping sound before they die.

    And Jackson was just like ...oh O.O

    Langly on
  • Magic PinkMagic Pink Tur-Boner-Fed Registered User regular
    he'll be back at midnight

  • CaptainNemoCaptainNemo Registered User regular
    God dammit.

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  • pimentopimento she/they/pim Registered User regular
    The thing about Sir Christopher Lee being dead is that it doesn’t immediately strike you as being much of a career setback. For as long as he was an actor (which was a very long time indeed; his first film role was a one-line part in Terence Young’s baroquely strange romance Corridor of Mirrors, in 1948), his characters have often exuded – not immortality, exactly, but a kind of ennobled deathlessness. You always sensed they’d been around for longer than was perhaps entirely natural, and would more than likely outlast you.

    And he was worried about being typecast...

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  • ButtersButters A glass of some milks Registered User regular
    93 is a pretty good run. To still be acting in major motion pictures in your 80s is awfully impressive.

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  • Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    Langly wrote: »
    My absolute favorite story about Lee is on the extended lord of the rings commentary, Peter Jackson was giving him direction for his death scene, and he was like ok so then wormtongue stabs you in the back and you do a big scream as you fall off the tower

    And Lee goes Peter have you ever stabbed anyone in the back?

    Uh...no?

    Well, I have. And I can tell you they don't scream. Because the knife deflates their lungs so they can only make a sort of gasping sound before they die.

    And Jackson was just like ...oh O.O

    The dude was a Nazi hunter in the last days of the war, as well as working in Intelligence with Ian Fleming.

    He'd seen some shit.

    [Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
  • StericaSterica Yes Registered User, Moderator mod
    ...excuse me?

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  • NecoNeco In My Restless Dreams Registered User regular
    Aww.

    Well he lived long at least. Hopefully he had a happy life. he was certainly a great actor.

    1922....that's the same year my grandma was born.

  • DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    Fuck, I loved Christopher Lee so much. Dude had a pretty awesome career in films and also one hell of an interesting life. I will miss him greatly.

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    It's hard to be sad about Christopher Lee's passing because he lived more life in his 93 years than most of us would if we had a thousand years.

    I'm sad because I'll miss him but him dying just seems like the next great adventure for him.

  • StericaSterica Yes Registered User, Moderator mod
    I really shouldn't be surprised that a 93-year-old man died, but for some reason this is a sucker punch to me.

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  • Johnny ChopsockyJohnny Chopsocky Scootaloo! We have to cook! Grillin' HaysenburgersRegistered User regular
    Farewell to a titan of a person. May we all forever strive to be even a tenth as awesome as he was.

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  • MayabirdMayabird Pecking at the keyboardRegistered User regular
    He was a gentleman and a scholar. Plus a total badass.

    Sir Christopher Lee had a very good life, and he earned it.

  • UnbrokenEvaUnbrokenEva HIGH ON THE WIRE BUT I WON'T TRIP ITRegistered User regular
    Magic Pink wrote: »
    he'll be back at midnight

    as long as they remember to bury him in native soil

  • StericaSterica Yes Registered User, Moderator mod
    I think this is so surprising because the dude was doing movies up until his death, so you just assume he'll be around forever.

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  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    hey guys do you remember when Lee and Alan Arkin did a superhero musical together?

    Oh you don't, because it was terrible?

    Well at least please listen to the main song from that movie where Lee is incredible.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh_pCaOupSs

  • SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    Well, only a hundred years until he rises again now.

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  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    long before the great big bang

    there was evil in the void

    long before the first bird sang

    evil was enjoyed

    long before the sands of time

    there was evil doing well

    long before the birth of crime

    there was evil building hell



    I love you Christopher Lee

  • MayabirdMayabird Pecking at the keyboardRegistered User regular
    He was an incredibly prolific actor and usually cast in the role of the villain. His kids would watch his movies and played a guessing game called "How will daddy die tonight?" Maybe it's hard to believe because we've seen Lee die dozens of times and he's always up again for the next role.

    :(

  • SassoriSassori Registered User regular
    Rhesus Positive wrote: »
    Langly wrote: »
    My absolute favorite story about Lee is on the extended lord of the rings commentary, Peter Jackson was giving him direction for his death scene, and he was like ok so then wormtongue stabs you in the back and you do a big scream as you fall off the tower

    And Lee goes Peter have you ever stabbed anyone in the back?

    Uh...no?

    Well, I have. And I can tell you they don't scream. Because the knife deflates their lungs so they can only make a sort of gasping sound before they die.

    And Jackson was just like ...oh O.O

    The dude was a Nazi hunter in the last days of the war, as well as working in Intelligence with Ian Fleming.

    He'd seen some shit.

    I literally just told this story to someone in my office about twenty seconds ago.

    He was one of those people that you knew was going to pass sooner rather than later just because of his age, but he had this kind of vitality that made him seem untouchable by death.

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  • JavenJaven Registered User regular
    edited June 2015
    Christopher Lee wrote:
    One should try anything he can in his career, except folkdance and incest.

    Javen on
  • SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    Kinda hate that every place that's reporting this seems to list Star Wars second or third on the list of things he was in.

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  • SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    Like at least put Kingdom Hearts up there, people.

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  • Magic PinkMagic Pink Tur-Boner-Fed Registered User regular
    edited June 2015
    Langly wrote: »
    hey guys do you remember when Lee and Alan Arkin did a superhero musical together?

    Oh you don't, because it was terrible?

    Well at least please listen to the main song from that movie where Lee is incredible.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh_pCaOupSs

    holy fuck I did see that
    that was the one set in Australia for no reason and then the sidekick female kept getting her shirt torn off and she would always have these ridiculously complex corsets on underneath.

    god dammit now I'm remembering it damn you langly damn youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

    Magic Pink on
  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    Now I want to find a bunch of his movies and marathon them today.

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