R.I.P. Christopher Lee

Christopher Lee, famous for villainous roles, dies at 93 - The Washington Post

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I've had my favorite Lee line in my head all day, "Your love of the halflings' leaf has clearly slowed your mind."

OMG that is sad. I used to love Hammer films. Cool actor that worked to the end.

In '58 or '59 I saw 'Horror of Dracula' and thought he was so cool. I wanted a long black cape, and to be tall. I never got either one ......... :o

It was 'The Curse of Frankenstein', when I was 9 or 10, that had me so scared I could hardly sleep for a week. Laurence Olivier he wasn't, but he was good at what he did.

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Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

In '58 or '59 I saw 'Horror of Dracula' and thought he was so cool. I wanted a long black cape, and to be tall. I never got either one ......... :o

It was 'The Curse of Frankenstein', when I was 9 or 10, that had me so scared I could hardly sleep for a week. Laurence Olivier he wasn't, but he was good at what he did.

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No,, you missed out on the cape,,,
but,,,
You got a hard hat & walked steel beems 200' above ground,,, never saw Drac do that. :shrug:

Lee, as I, was very disappointed when Jackson cut his final scenes in Ring-Return of the King. When Frodo and the others returned to the Shire they found Lee's character and other bad guys controlling the area. The halflings proceeded to oust the bad guys. It was one of my favorite parts of the trilogy.

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Lee, as I, was very disappointed when Jackson cut his final scenes in Ring-Return of the King. When Frodo and the others returned to the Shire they found Lee's character and other bad guys controlling the area. The halflings proceeded to oust the bad guys. It was one of my favorite parts of the trilogy.

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I didn't know they filmed those scenes. Are they available as special features on one of the DVDs?

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I didn't know they filmed those scenes. Are they available as special features on one of the DVDs?

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I don't know.

If you find them please let me know.

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Lee, as I, was very disappointed when Jackson cut his final scenes in Ring-Return of the King. When Frodo and the others returned to the Shire they found Lee's character and other bad guys controlling the area. The halflings proceeded to oust the bad guys. It was one of my favorite parts of the trilogy.

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The problem, from a cinematic pov, is that first you get a big ending with a clean cut-off, and then some more chapters mopping up. For cinema, that just doesn't work. And the story was big enough as it was. At least they didn't change it. I still don't understand why the story involving the ents was changed. In the books, the ents choose to go to war.

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I don't know.

If you find them please let me know.

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They can't have been, because in the movies, Saruman dies at the tower of orthanc, instead of in the shire. Ergo, those parts of the story were cut already in the script writing stage and never filmed.

It's been years since I watched it, but isn't there a bit with Grima Wormtongue in the Shire?

Unfortunately not, that part of the book was changed for the movie, see Bruno's post #10.

Yep, It's coming back to me now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFzC-72FlQ4