jedinightwing Well he wasn't just in it. He took a very (extremely) active role in the film's production. He, along with the crew (I'm just saying the crew because I don't remember exactly who-- I think it was the writer and the director) in just trying to get it made.

100% agree... There will never be another Christopher Lee. All around unique and outstanding man and actor who did so many great things in his life!

jedinightwing Well Lee could speak a half dozen languages fluently so it only makes sense that he is incredibly smart in other areas as well.

The wickerman is one of legendary horror movie of course he remember

I always consider that not every actor making films is a film lover, so why should he care?

One new addition to the collection of Why Christopher Lee was one of the most badass men ever

Fluent in six languages, trained as an opera singer.

@@ColonelFredPuntridge Also trained to chase Nazis and fought 2 wars (Finland vs Soviet Union and World War 2)

He got an superbolus voice

@@user-it6qf1uy4t so would he of fought with nazis against the Russians?

@@wunderwaffe7998 basically he fought against both nazis and soviets but not on the same time

They were both equally excellent in their respective roles, but yes I think Woodward clinches it.

Oh, here it is, the ubiquitous _"underrated"_ comment that every bastard feels compelled to leave under every You Tube video ever...

I noticed that too! hehe

Christopher has several Harris tweed jackets.

Obviously he was scarier in Salem's Lot !

Unlike you with that clownish avatar

Love oswald mosley. However Britain has fallen. Which is why meany of the far right here in Scotland want independence now. That Britain is dead.

Let you know I schizo like Salem's Lot better wraghhhhh🤬🤢🤯

Mine too.

It is such a bizarre yet awesome movie. I mean, it's a crime mystery, but it's also a musical, and it ends up being a horror film. Lee does a fantastic job as did Edward Woodward.

What was the point of this comment? It provided nothing to think about. It’s a statement to get likes purely for attention and nothing more..

@@grassmonkeyO5What’s the point of the comment on the comment? It provided nothing to think about. That’s called hypocrisy! 👍

He's also Ian Fleming's cousin.

He also knew M R James

Jinnah was his passion project, and deserves to be ranked up with Attenborough's Gandhi

He was also in the first British special forces unit in WWII and spent the tail end of the war hunting down Nazi war criminals who'd escaped trial

@@TheGeneralDisarray Epic life right there

I'd take Sir Christopher Lee over Nicolas Cage any day.

+Seth Tyrssen It was awful, to be sure. It reached new levels of bad, but forgettable it was not.

Well, maybe it recurs in nightmares or something ... I've done my best to forget it! ;)

+Seth Tyrssen I disagree about the remake. It was the fact that it was incredibly awful that makes it completely unforgettable. It's like an unintentional comedy.

+Spiteful64 I guess it could be seen that way; m'self, I just sort of cringed in agony and went "Eww, Yuck!" throughout the whole thing.

I think the reason why it's so terrifying is because Howie has no help and he's at the mercy of the locals.

They couldn't make a movie this great today, even with a high budget.

+Michael Townley he was 93, don't feel too bad, most of us can only hope to live that long.

+Blurbs 2015 That's true, I guess. I'd only just recently become a fan of his, which is why it shocked me.

cha5 I also saw the movie (i have the Blu ray, the steelbook) and i personally do not like it because it's very painful, and i'm a catholic and i do not like the atheist and pagan message against christians and believers. But i've watched all of Christopher's movies and i like him very much. I like more his classic terror movies, because they weren't made against beliefs, they just were classic horror stories made with good taste. RIP.

Alfredo Di Stéfano Laulhé I thought the film's intent was simply to point out that Christianity and Paganism are perhaps more similar than they might seem on the surface, not to entirely undermine Christianity, and it's certainly not an aggressively atheist film. Surely the protagonist's crying out of Christ's name as he is ritually sacrificed (basically upon a tree, no less) is not unintentional. It's all just packaged in this horror/thriller genre to make it a more compelling story.

Ra's al Cool Well, the pagans burn a christian alive in that movie, it doesn't look to me like a pro christian movie at all, lol.

Ra's al Cool I'm a scholar of the roman empire and the christians were persecuted by roman emperors like if they were rats, but it's true that in medieval times, the christians persecuted the pagans too. During the Roman Empire, christians and pagans were two main forces, specially in the days just before the christianity became official with Constantine. They hated each other.

cha5 I just wish the studios treated the film better. I wish the 102 original cut was still available. But, because of the various studios and people so inappropriately handling the film, it's lost to us forever.

He was right, though. They found and added some lost footage several years after this interview, and it really fleshed out the Howie character nicely.

​@@dashcammer4322 I believe the 'Final Cut' only adds about 5 extra mins?

_Never Lost_ 🌟

Spot on

The good guy is Christian and the bad guys are pagan. Its a Christian film. Suck it. You could also say Jesus “failed” because he was killed in a similar way. But because he stood up for the truth and died for the truth. The truth lived on and became the largest religion in history!

It's like he knew Universal was going to put out a crappy remake just to make money, instead of making a work of art like the original.

Nowadays it would be received differently. I think so because of some reviews on KZfaq.

There are a number of versions still available. The US Director's Cut, running at around 99 minutes, is the most complete, but very hard to find these days. The Restoration version from about 1979 (running around 96 minutes) is more common, and the one that is usually referred to as the "Director's Cut". The theatrical version that most people have seen (87 minutes) is of course still the most common. However, even with the 99 minute version there is still about 15 minutes of (according to Lee and Hardy) essential footage missing. Although Lee believed that it still existed somewhere, the official narrative is that the negatives were thrown out by the studio and eventually ended up as landfill for the M4 motorway- so it's unlikely that anyone will ever see the completed version ever again, unfortunately. On this subject I greatly recommend the documentary The Wicker Man Enigma, available on youtube. You might also find of interest this in-depth analysis of each available version: www.steve-p.org/wm/

You can find it on KZfaq.

eh. he died 7 june 2015 - 93 year old ... R.I.P

They didn't make men like Sir Christopher in his own time tbf. An unbelievably accomplished man.

*sip*

Terrible English. What, he made good pancakes?

Spot on. Legend.

Not only that, but he spoke about a billion languages fluently. True Renaissance Man.

Rarely ever does anyone seem to want to remake shitty films. They just remake great films, and almost always pale in comparison to the original.