The Other Adventures

Keep calm and carry on.

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gregxb: “Reasons why Sir Christopher Lee is just plain cool. 1. Nearly a century of life and he shows no signs of even slowing down. (There must be something in the surname…Stan Lee is the same.) 2. He knows the meaning of commitment. Fifty years...

gregxb:

Reasons why Sir Christopher Lee is just plain cool.

1. Nearly a century of life and he shows no signs of even slowing down. (There must be something in the surname…Stan Lee is the same.) 

2. He knows the meaning of commitment. Fifty years with his one and only wife! (Did sow plenty of wild oats in his younger years, but happened to meet the right woman as he was getting tired of it.) 

3. He is related by marriage to Ian Fleming. No coincidence that he was a Bond villain. 

4. He joined the intelligence services during WWII, where it’s hinted he did some very badass things to some Nazis. (He indicated during the filming of LOTR that he knew the exact sound a man makes when stabbed in the back.) 

5. He is the only one of the LOTR cast to have met J.R.R. Tolkien personally. 

6. He is a loyal and steadfast friend. He was a mainstay to Peter Cushing during the latter’s grief over his wife’s death. He still misses his old chum deeply. 

7. He is a Warner Brothers cartoon fan (something he shared with Peter Cushing) and can apparently do a spot-on Yosemite Sam. 

8. He was the narrator in a studio cast recording of The Rocky Horror Show. 

9. He is a classically trained singer and has recorded everything from opera to Broadway to heavy metal (no, I am not kidding). 

10. Related to that…he likes to head bang to keep his neck muscles from growing stiff. 

11. He was on the cover of Paul McCartney and Wings’ Band On The Run album. 

12. He plays a good golf game too! 

13. Is descended from Charlemagne. 

14. As a child, met the killers of Rasputin personally when they stopped by his mother’s house. (He kept this in mind when playing Rasputin in later years.) 

15. He evokes all imagination of gothic horror in your mind when see him.

16. He has the most onscreen swordfights of any other living or dead actor in the history of movies. I am guessing that record will be his for eternity.

17. He is Dracula

18. He is Saruman

19. His full name is Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE, CStJ. Cool name. 

20. He has the right to bear the coat of arms of the Holy Roman Empire by the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa.

21. He fought for Finland in the Winter War against Russia in 1939. 

22. He’s an inspiration to us all. 

23. Also he’s very tall. 

24. He rereads “Lord of the Rings” every year!

25. Despite all the points mentioned he is really modest. 

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fortinbrasftw:

I will always remember Christopher Lee as that horrifying moment in the LOTR commentaries where Peter Jackson says he started to direct him on how to act like he’d been stabbed and Christopher Lee goes “no no peter dear, when someone is stabbed like this, THIS is how they look, they don’t make a sound, air just leaves them all at once” and peter jackson remembers in that moment that lee was in the secret service and just slowly backs away.

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Side Note To Fan Fic Authors

twobirdsonesong:

Here’s the thing.

I read a lot of scripts.  A lot.  From professionals to aspiring writers to complete newbies.  Features and pilots.  Specs and treatments.

And 8 times out of 10 the fan fic that I’ve read over the last, oh, 15 years is leagues better than this stuff.  It’s more inspired.  It’s more compelling.  It’s genre bending and creative and heartfelt.  It’s well-paced and intense and funny and sexy and meaningful.  It’s smart and thoughtful and good.  It’s novel-quality.  Better than, sometimes.

Rare is the script I don’t want to put down, but how often have we stayed up until 3am to get to the last chapter of a 100k fic? And it’s not even a fan fic author’s day job.  This is what they do on the side.  In their spare time.  For free.

So my point is, fan fic authors, you’re good.  You’re good writers and great storytellers.  I know it doesn’t always feel like it, especially if you’re one of the authors who’s not a BNF and doesn’t get the notes/hits that a few do.  And  because some people still view fic as “not real writing.” You guys know the shit that gets made into movies.  You’re better than that.  So be better than that.  If writing is what you think want to do, then just know you’re already doing it.   You’ve already started.

And you’re more talented than you might think.

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