He has that voice in Star Wars Lord of the Rings and Charlie and the chocolate factory as well. Thats how i recognize him. However i could not say the same about Mark Hamills voice always sounds so different.
Right, you should research Sir Christopher Lee's background. He was an incredible man. He was a real life James Bond during WWII. He's also British Royalty and a direct descendent of Charles the Magnificent and arguably, but not by line of succession could be the true King of England. I think his family left royal service by technicality during the reign of Oliver Cromwell. He was also a relative of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. He had a spooky and clandestine background.
@Akshay Natu M says “Outraged”, I guess he means that Bond can be too much of a cultured twæt when he dines, and keeps insulting the chefs for Not Being Good Enough For What He’s Paying.
@@TheTallMan50 my parents had a cookout a while back, and the grilled mushrooms absolutely 100% stole the show, they were fucking amazing and absolutely none were leftover after the fact
@@technoturnovers7072 Here's a mushroom recipe me and my stupid friends invented (edit: I want to include that I am also stupid, if you want to invent something new, you need to dive into stupid). Champignon mushrooms. Take the leg off. Stuff it with blue mold cheese. Wrap in bacon. Preferably cook on open fire. But can be cooked on the pan with butter. Enjoy.
@@VickStarkiller damn me too. I know him from Jinnah, Lord of the rings, Star Wars, Dracula and Frankenstein. Btw his best friend with whom he played in Frankenstein and Dracula was also in Star wars his name was Peter Cushing.
He was part of the SAS during WW2. Nothing that strange overall has he was never into being quiet. He even launched some singles and EPs(most of them of the heavy metal sort) over the years.
Sir Christopher Lee led a fascinating life. Not only for his hundreds of credits in movies but more importantly he fought in WW2 in the unit that later became the SAS. He spoke several languages fluently. French, Italian and Spanish to name a few. And he was the step-cousin of Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond. In fact, Lee was one of Flemings choices to play 007. There are many more facts about Sir Christopher Lee. He was a true legend.
I met Chris Lee at a horror film convention and he said that when he played scaramanga that it was a dream come true an to face rodger instead of sean but he was good friends with all the bonds and even sent Christmas cards to them
@@nsasupporter7557 Roger Moore was even more known and popular in Europe before he landed the role of Bond and even then he was still very popular in England and countries but his Bond films became popular in the US as well and what he was known more for and his tv show The Saint in the 60s.
@@nsasupporter7557 what is your point? He never said anything about who was the better bond, it's just that - as i understand him - lee thougt that sean was going to play the part but instead rodger did. And that in the end it didn't matter since the two came along very well with another.
@@nsasupporter7557 but that is just no point, why would it? Lee was a grown, very intelligent man! And as far as i know was Moore a real charm to work with other than Connery who could be quite difficult. So just because some (or almost everybody) would say that sean was the better bond, rodger may just was the better potential friend.
1:45 I love this moment as Scaramanga just casually picks up the golden gun components as if he's about to put them away. The way the following dialogue and cinematography makes you almost forget about them afterwards. Keeping Lees hands out of shot and the conversation so casual. Up until he pulls the fully assembled weapon on bond later. I love how you only then as an audience member realise holy shit he was (without even looking as he probably knows the ins and outs of his signature weapon better than his own house) assembling the thing under the freaking table all without breaking eye contact. It's some masterful acting and directing. Including the bit prior. It's brilliant how Scaramanga raises a glass to himself and bond (a normally kind gesture) and Bond just so codly and snarkily calls him full of shit. The expression on Lees face changing from admiration to stone cold anger is just fantastic. It's that moment that makes him want to bring the gun into play. Like "oh we're gonna be insulting are we? Fine then let's cut to the fucking chase". Not many people like this film and that's fine but it's scenes like these that I think set it above some other films in the series for me. And Moore and Lee's chemistry on screen is electric ❤
I always felt like Moore never got credit for his subtle wit and jabs. I like how he can change from flippant to dead serious and how much gravity he brings when he plays it serious. Both men REALLY are the best. At acting, that is.
This is the ONE Bond film you never walk past when it’s on. What other film has: Tabasco served on a silver platter. Two stunning Swedish women. The world’s greatest car stunt. Solar energy!! A blue bath robe dropping to the floor. A V8 doing a J turn. M at his rudest and most disgruntled. Flute playing that makes you want to learn playing the instrument. Britt Eklands bum & legs, and her blonde hair leaning over you. The coolest looking gadget that you never see actually working - SOLEX. Brazen car theft followed by smashing the thing up a central divider to overtake. A whole area renamed due to the mass tourism it created. Shortest ever Bond villain. And finally… Christopher Lee 🇬🇧
Roger gave Bond a moral outrage at the atrocities the villains committed and the potential for innocent lives lost. Connery gave the impression his Bond didn't give a toss as long as there was a shag at the end.
@@normanby100 Yeah, Connery's Bond is probably the least empathetic and most textbook sociopathic of all the Bonds. Aside from his reaction to the death of Kerim Bey in FRWL and the moment of him shaking as he tells Domino about her brother's death in Thunderball, there aren't many moments of him showing much of any emotional vulnerability in his movies. For as much as I love Sean in the role, I do think this is one area where all his succeeding Bond actors have outdone him (even Lazenby).
@@Whoa802to be fair, looking at the films as an adult, Connery’s interpretation of Bond did care, but he was very laser-focused on the mission and had a sharp poker face. You really had to look very hard whenever he was angry that something terrible had happened to someone.
"There's a useful four letter word, and you're full of it..." What a classic. Only Bond would have the wit and British humor to put it that way. I love how Roger Moore can change is facial expression very quickly to go from humor to a very serious tone... almost menacing.
And I think what happens is when you see someone very old, and then you see footage of them from earlier, they look much younger in that footage. But if you only knew them when they were teenagers, and then you saw them in a scene like this, you would be like, wow they are so old, they are like dads.
Christopher Lee was fit as a fiddle until he had a fall in 2011. He looked very frail in every appearance after that. Crazy how something we can brush off in our younger years becomes life changing in old age.
Man, Scaramanga is THE anti-Bond. The fact he beat Bond to it with the Golden Gun shows how dang deadly he is. If ONLY he took the opportunity and fired. I loved his infamously powerful weapon in Goldeneye 007. RIP Christopher Lee, as well as Roger Moore.
@LITTLE: the Golden-Gun is a combination of a cigarette-case, lighter, cufflink, and pen. (It might have some-other-stuff but I don't remember them right-now). When Scaramanga took his cigarette-case and pen and lighter he automatically-began reassembling them into his Golden Gun underneath the table while still-talking to Bond. Talking to Bond was a distraction. He does the same thing to Hi Fat, a Asian businessman who had [earlier in the movie] employed Scaramanga [to kill someone for him]. Hehe, Scaramanga even assembled the final-piece (ie. Screwing the pen into "where the barrel of the gun would go") in front of Hi Fat with Hi-Fat's face facing Scaramanga and Hi-Fat didn't even realize what he (ie. Scaramanga) was doing until he (ie. Scaramanga) pointed the gun at him. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NoemQ3uz890.html
Sorry... The second one... The first gun is the Gold PP7 (aka Golden Walther PPK). Seven bullets in sequence with one-hit K.O. vs one bullet with one-hit K.O and reload...
@@reoencarcelado5904 Yes I think you’re right about the components. The cigar(ette)-case is the maon handle. The lighter is the “upper” part of the gun (also the part where Scaramanga puts in his golden bullets one at a time). The pen is the barrel. The cufflink is the trigger. :)
@@a.n.9090 Yes, that one is superior, but I wasn't counting the Gold PP7 because that version is one Scaramanga never himself owned, film nor novel. But his line in 2:49 is ironically referencing that.
Scaramanga is my favorite Bond villain! He's 5 steps ahead of Bond the entire movie, leaving Bond in the dust... Scaramanga dismantled Bond at that table so effectively and also got his gun assembled before Bond could grab his own... Not to mention that earlier, when Bond thinks he has Scaramanga trapped, Scaramanga attaches wings to his car and flies away! That is something Bond would have done, but it's being done to him! Also the fact that Christopher Lee plays him is another added bonus
Christopher Lee as Scaramanga is what Bond would be if he fell to the dark side. Christopher Lee as Saruman is what Gandalf would be if he fell to dark side. Christopher Lee as Count Dooku is what Kenobi would be if he fell to the dark side. Christopher Lee was just fantastic at portraying the dark version of heroes.
Roger may not have been the most physically imposing or outwardly intense actor to have played Bond, but he delivers all his icy, cold-blooded dialogue here perfectly. His performance as a whole in this film shows that he was perfectly capable at playing a harder-edged, more Fleming-esque Bond if given the chance, it just wasn't what audiences wanted at the time. It's fine if you don't like his portrayal, but don't blame him for supposedly turning Bond into a joke.
@@GregJamesMusic That was Cubby Broccoli's attempt to spoil Connery's comeback. Moore did not turn Bond into a joke Daniel Craig did that by killing Bond off, thereby terminating the franchise.
Lunch, dinner, sometimes just a cup. Only one person dies at their own table. While someone's henchmen gets killed after a shot of Scotch and a shooting match. Ice tea with a mad man obsessed with the love of a rare resource. Nearly killed on the deck, only to kill the assailants, and overboard. A bottle nearly going to be used to bash someone with. Suspecting choice of wine to going with their fish. Invited over, with shark like creatures in a pool. Champagne in the day while meeting a CEO of the company broken into. Must I go on?
@@Horwellston First time I heard this line I playfully speculated that Goodnight was referring to the mushroom shaped rock, housing the solar panels which I'm sure Scaramanga had bragged about to her earlier, when he gave her a guided tour.
Scaramanga is so genial and charming until 2:03 He becomes deadly earnest and the intensity in his eyes is chilling. I'm sure he brought Roger Moore's game up considerably.
@@patprabha7860 He has a strong case for being the best for sure. He has lazy journalism (bla bla raised eyebrow, bla bla tongue in cheek) and his own self deprecation going against him though. But he nailed it for me. His more famous humorous scenes he absolutely nailed, but the dramatic stuff, he nailed that too!
what is wrong with you people? half of all the actors in the RU-vid movie videos are already dead. this is no reason to turn comments into a graveyard. if you think otherwise, apply the math. every year, the percentage of dead actors increases. do you suggest that people should end up writing RIP in every comment?
@@pjosepha , this scene, of Moore’s Bond palpable dislike and disgust for Scaramanga, reminds me of his relationship with Zorin. He is repulsed. A joy to watch. And Scaramanga’s comments regarding the Queen’s hearty well-done and Bond’s pittance of a pension remind me of Trevelyan’s and Silva’s conversations with Bond. Villains who are like twisted versions of 007 are, to me, very interesting. Another example is Franz Sanchez.
And note the reaction shot! It's not easy to deliberately let your poker face slip, on cue. Too subtle, and it doesn't show; too grandiose, and it looks hammy. Lee absolutely nailed Scaramanga's reaction.
@@ToABrighterFuture , indeed! You’re right! Lee was, as usual, brilliant here. He let Scaramanga briefly show the anger which was brewing inside after Bond’s insult.
I had to watch this scene closely to see that within seconds, working under the table and all the while looking at Bond, Scaramanga assembled his personal items into his golden gun. We are talking about some serious and deadly skills, people. . .
His skills are actually supposedly better than Bond's and let's not forget that before the events of the movie he already killed another 00 Agent - 002.
I don't think anyone could have played Scaramanga better. He's a underrated villain in the series though, a lot of people didn't like the movie but it's one of my favourite's its certainly better than most of the crap they put out in recent years.
It's 10x better than most movies these days. The people and technology were less complex but they found something that was interesting and compelling. They were in touch with human reality.
I love the fact that these two hitmen, one formerly a government hitman and obviously Bond still is a government hitman, have this small bit of diplomacy and respect for one another, even in talks of killing each other. It just shows that English class of elegance and professionalism they have towards their “trade” so to speak. I guess that just comes with years of doing it over and over it’s that numbing effect to it.
"There's a useful four-letter word, and you're full of it. " Best line from Bond if there ever was one. He knew Scaramanga was full of shit even though he was was every much of a killer as he was. Scaramanga overextended himself look where it got him. He was a hunter who got hunted. What irony !
The gist of the criticism is that there's not much that's done well outside of the main characters and that the story's too basic. But I think the simple story of James Bond and Fransisco Scaramanga hunting each other down works very well when the latter's one of the best Bond villains ever. It's enough to keep my attention regardless of whatever bad happens around it. The hero and villain just interact so brilliantly together.
what's so great about roger moore is his ability to perfectly convey jocularity and dead seriousness/earnestness and also seamlessly go between them on demand. Because ultimately, he is on serious business, nothing small about saving the world. 🥰
Sean Connery may be considered to be the best Bond who had a more convincing macho, cold, and imposing demeanor but there's something about Roger Moore's Bond films that I enjoyed more than Connery's. Moore's characterization may have been more goofy and lighthearted but his wit, easy charm and aristocratic air always made his character entertaining and fun watch. He added more of a detective touch to his Bond that befitted the 70s decade that I enjoy, while maintaining the underlying ruthlessness of a OO. Moore understood that films are primarily about escapist entertainment and that's what he provided so well. Even in a couple of his more silly Bond films, I can't help but be captivated by his performance.
Daniel Craig should have to live a thousand lives just to aspire to imitate Roger Moore as Bond. That's what was charming about going to the cinema in the old times to watch a new Bond movie. An encounter with class, coolness, intrigue, luxury scenarios. Oh my God, I understand times have to change, but please, no so fast as before we get old our own world seems gone for ever...
In Loving Memories Of Three James Bond Characters of 1. Sean Connery as James Bond 007 (1930 - 2020) 2. Roger Moore as James Bond 007 (1927 - 2017) 3. Christopher Lee as Francisco Scaramanga (1922 - 2015)
The imposing charm of Sir Christopher Lee almost overshadowed everything else around the aura of his magnetic personality. And the dialogue delivery is so crisp. What a genuine acting genius. He is not just a Dracula, his movie career is far above and beyond that character.
These two are a classic case of " Game recognize game " . An expert will always notice another expert. Hector notice Archilles and told the council that evening " today I saw a man throw a spear like never before "
Good to see that this banquet is actually enjoyed : so many films with these food sequences / dialogue between the antagonists seem to end with little or no nosh being consumed . Love that Bond although largely polite (but knowing he is at a disadvantage) is unwilling to accept S's glorification of either of them . (side note to ALL Bond villains : if you have the "ridiculously easy" option then go for it !! )
I feel like this is definitely one of the more underrated bond film in my mind. A lot of the Bond films present a character meant to be like, Bond's "equal," but Christopher Lee as Scaramanga is easily my favorite.
As a kid these films were spectacles, just pure blockbusters to enjoy, nothing comes close these days. 70s and early 80s were the pinnacle of film in my opinion.
That period definitely made a lot of movies that are now considered classics. The New Hollywood era at the beginning and the Star Wars era ending it as we went into the blockbusters of the 1980s.
Fun fact: Christopher Lee (The person who plays Count Dooku. (Star wars.) Saruman (Lord of the rings.) And Scaramanga (The man with the golden gun)) Was a step cousin to Ian Fleming. Who wrote the James Bond books. And Christopher was the inspiration to Bond. So Lee is James Bond.
Fun fact...... Lee's cousin was Ian Fleming, the writer of the Bond books. He has also been of stage,screen and tv productions which puts him in Guinness World records
I like how this scene is both utterly ridiculous and cool as hell at the same time. Christopher Lee and James Bond throw insults at each other with a woman in a bikini named Goodnight and a little person manservant called Nick Nack bringing everyone mushrooms and wine. Yet, it’s so damn cool
@Tansley Potts I don’t know of anything else that Roger Moore has done as an actor besides James Bond. He didn’t become an icon like Sean Connery did... or a least not as much of one. No one really batted an eye when Moore passed away, but everybody lost their minds when Connery passed away 😕
@@nsasupporter7557 he was a star of several tv shows including The Saint in the 60s and The Persuaders which he did until the show was cancelled and his tv contract ended and was able to replace Sean Connery in 1972 when Connery left the role of Bond again after Diamonds Are Forever and Moore debuted with Live and Let Die. Roger Moore was in the film The Quest with Jean Claude Van Damme in 96 but the film was a box office failure and a number of Moore’s non Bond films were box office disappointments. He was in the comedy Bullseye with Michael Caine in 90 and was in movies like The Man who Haunted Himself and The Cannonball Run in 81 with Burt Reynolds, The Sea Wolves, and The Wild Geese all filmed and released while he was with the Bond series. His Bond films were the most popular and successful films he did.
@@scottknode898 WOW! Very interesting! Thank you for telling me that, my friend. That makes sense what you said about all of his non Bond films being flops because I’m not familiar with any of them. Moore was actually British (which is what James Bond is supposed to be) unlike Connery who was Scottish, which is why Ian Fleming didn’t want Connery at first because he wasn’t British. He wanted Cary Grant to be Bond
@@nsasupporter7557 I didn’t say all his films were flops but yes he was British as was born in England as was Daniel Craig. Other Bond actors Lazenby is Australian, Connery was Scottish, Dalton is Welsh, and Brosnan is Irish and lived in England as a kid.
Really great film which is so underrated. Love Sir Christopher Lee. It's one of the few bond films I love rewatching over and over again. Perfect? No. Enjoyable? Absolutely.
