{"id":17416,"date":"2015-06-11T16:15:20","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T23:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allouttabubblegum.com\/?p=17416"},"modified":"2015-06-11T16:15:20","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T23:15:20","slug":"thank-you-christopher-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allouttabubblegum.com\/new-home\/thank-you-christopher-lee\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank you, Christopher Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">1922 &#8211; 2015<\/h1>\n<p>I don&#8217;t usually go in for the memorial articles, but today&#8217;s death of the great and mighty Sir Christopher Lee hit me surprisingly hard.\u00a0 He had been a mainstay for GENERATIONS of filmgoers, and a standout in everything from a James Bond movie to <strong>Star Wars<\/strong> to <strong>The Lord Of The Rings<\/strong>.\u00a0 And while many will always remember him as Dracula, I first saw Mr. Lee in a small fantasy film called <strong>Mio In The Land Of Faraway<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/allouttabubblegum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Lee-1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17417   aligncenter\" title=\"Lee!\" src=\"https:\/\/allouttabubblegum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Lee-1.jpg\" alt=\"Lee!\" width=\"576\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allouttabubblegum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Lee-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/allouttabubblegum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Lee-1-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The movie&#8217;s not much to talk about, being a trite and sometimes terrible little flick about a boy escaping to a fantasy land, but aside from the fact it can boast being Christian Bale&#8217;s first feature film it also has a rather enjoyable performance from Christopher Lee as the primary antagonist.\u00a0 Lee takes what is basically nothing on the page (a sword and sorcery-style Darth Vader type at best) and wrings out all the evil he can muster, while bringing in a sense of tragedy.\u00a0 In a movie with Timothy Bottoms as the great king of a far away land, invisibility cloaks, and bread that can satisfy all hunger, only Christopher Lee really seems to give a damn.\u00a0 He sold me on the whole stupid movie when I was a kid.\u00a0 I love him for this.<\/p>\n<p>Lee also serves a very prominent role in my favorite horror film of all time, <strong>The Wicker Man<\/strong>.\u00a0 I know it&#8217;s a bit clich\u00e9 to use such terms, but Lee was all these things: iconic, commanding, spellbinding, entrancing, charismatic, and powerful.\u00a0 His is a presence that will be greatly missed, but fortunately his work will live on forever.\u00a0 I leave you with the following, a rendition of <span>Paul Anka <\/span>&#8216;s My Way, performed by Christopher Lee himself in a metal band he joined when he was only 84 years old:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rmANHj8Tn7A\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1922 &#8211; 2015 I don&#8217;t usually go in for the memorial articles, but today&#8217;s death of the great and mighty Sir Christopher Lee hit me surprisingly hard.\u00a0 He had been a mainstay for GENERATIONS of filmgoers, and a standout in everything from a James Bond movie to Star Wars to The Lord Of The Rings.\u00a0 &#8230; <a title=\"Thank you, Christopher Lee\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/allouttabubblegum.com\/new-home\/thank-you-christopher-lee\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thank you, Christopher Lee<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[328],"class_list":["post-17416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-christopher-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allouttabubblegum.com\/new-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allouttabubblegum.com\/new-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allouttabubblegum.com\/new-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allouttabubblegum.com\/new-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allouttabubblegum.com\/new-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/allouttabubblegum.com\/new-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allouttabubblegum.com\/new-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allouttabubblegum.com\/new-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allouttabubblegum.com\/new-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}