Special Report: The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee

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The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Mike talks to writer/director Jon Spira about his latest film, The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee. It's a documentary about the Lee's life and career that features a great array of interviews and a fascinating visual style.

Pre-order the film at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jonspira/the-life-and-deaths-of-christopher-lee

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks. It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.2	Shut it off. Turn it off.
0:22.6	Turn it off.
0:26.6	That's what's so interesting about monsters.
0:45.3	Most monsters are victims. How do you do? I'm Christopher Lee.
1:03.0	Toll, handsome, arrogant, imperious, powerful.
1:13.6	Ooh, he must be scary to meet.
1:16.8	He went from tiny parts in Swashbuckler movies in the early 50s
1:21.7	to working with George Lucas and working with Peter Jackson,
1:24.6	the most respected directors in the world.
1:26.9	You put that in perspective with his wartime experiences, and so what?
1:34.4	It was very intense.
1:37.0	It marked him.
1:39.4	There is some mystery attached to his work during the war and immediately after him.
1:45.0	He was involved with a lot of sabotage and targeted assassinations, which of course the British government doesn't know anything about.
1:53.0	The British film industry was at its zenith, particularly after the war.
1:58.0	There was a great hunger to create new stars.
2:06.6	Everyone that will always remember him as Dracula.
2:11.6	Great things were expected of him and here he was playing monsters.
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