The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Aristocratic Italian roots, a close family connection to James Bond novelist Ian Fleming, wartime experiences in the Bri | dG1fWUVfbUVId3hIUEU

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00:00That's what's so interesting about monsters.

00:11Most monsters are victims.

00:22How do you do?

00:23I'm Christopher Lee.

00:30Tall, handsome, arrogant, imperious, powerful.

00:34Ooh, he must be scary to meet.

00:37He went from tiny parts in swashbuckler movies in the early 50s to working with George Lucas

00:44and working with Peter Jackson.

00:45I mean, the most respected directors in the world.

00:48He put that in perspective with his wartime experiences, and so what?

00:56It was very intense.

00:58It marked him.

01:01There is some mystery attached to his work during the war and immediately after it.

01:06He was involved with a lot of sabotage and targeted assassinations,

01:10which, of course, the British government doesn't know anything about.

01:15The British film industry was at its zenith, particularly after the war.

01:19There was a great hunger to create new stars.

01:28Everyone will always remember him as Dracula.

01:33Great things were expected of him, and here he was playing monsters.

01:38It had got him recognition, but it also was the sort of thing that he could never leave behind

01:43that many people thought was all he could do.

01:45He once said to me that he pitied me because I had seen so many of his movies.

01:48He wanted to move on from that.