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Post by Arch Stanton on May 26, 2018 6:12:59 GMT
Okay, back to some quick-fire one on ones. You know the drill, who do you like best? Cushing Vs Lee  |
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Post by Arch Stanton on May 26, 2018 6:45:30 GMT
This is well hard. I dunno who to go for..
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Post by ltd on May 26, 2018 8:07:27 GMT
Hard one to call but I'll go for Peter Cushing. Always seemed like a genuinely nice man when interviewed. Something slightly forbidding about Christopher Lee in person I think.
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Post by Arch Stanton on May 26, 2018 8:11:33 GMT
Hard one to call but I'll go for Peter Cushing. Always seemed like a genuinely nice man when interviewed. Something slightly forbidding about Christopher Lee in person I think. Yeah but it's Christopher Lee!! The Duke De Richleau, Lord Summerisle, Count Dracula..................... You can't vote against that guy, surely? |
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Post by ltd on May 26, 2018 8:21:06 GMT
Hard one to call but I'll go for Peter Cushing. Always seemed like a genuinely nice man when interviewed. Something slightly forbidding about Christopher Lee in person I think. Yeah but it's Christopher Lee!! The Duke De Richleau, Lord Summerisle, Count Dracula..................... You can't vote against that guy, surely? Not voting against him, I'm voting for the other fella. Per MIAS's post I think Christopher Lee could be quite difficult. A few years back I read Michael Deeley's book about his career as a film producer. He was involved in the fiasco of The Wicker Man's original release that saw it come out in cut down form as the B picture on a double bill. It was interesting to get his side of the story and an understanding of the commercial imperatives that drive movie making and sometimes result in unpalatable choices for everyone involved. Him and Lee didn't get on, although he was of the view that this started before the trouble over the film. He felt that Lee had some kind of unfathomable grudge against him, partly based on a perceived failure on his part to be sufficiently courteous to Lee's wife when he first met her (a charge which Deeley refutes).
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Post by Arch Stanton on May 26, 2018 8:23:40 GMT
Lee was a dude. People just try to discredit him because he wore a wig.  For that reason I have just voted for big Chris. |
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Post by ace5150 on May 26, 2018 14:45:26 GMT
Seeing as neither has had Operation Yewtree interested in either of them, I'm going to vote.
Cushing for me, as stressed by others, a genuinely lovely man.
Lee, always looks and sounds angry.
Check this out, says it all...
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Post by Arch Stanton on May 26, 2018 15:45:43 GMT
Lee, always looks and sounds angry. That's just his look and voice. He was very funny and self deprecating in his autobiography. Albeit I read it about 20 odd years ago |
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Post by ace5150 on May 26, 2018 17:20:12 GMT
Bit of an enigma is Lee. Supposed to have witnessed the last public guillotine execution in France and was involved in interrogating high ranking Nazis I have read.
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Post by daz on May 26, 2018 19:37:43 GMT
I don't really know anything about either, but I probably have seen their films, but no idea which ones, so will abstain from this one.
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Post by ace5150 on May 26, 2018 20:58:20 GMT
Lee was renowned as being a bit of a creator of stories about himself. The dates didn't quite add up at times.
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Post by Arch Stanton on May 27, 2018 9:19:02 GMT
It's interesting isn't it because when I watched the Howling 2 BD 'making of' documentary it paints yet another picture...
As the director (Mora) told it, the cast and crew fly into Czechoslovakia (which is still under communist rule until The Velvet Revolution in... what, 1988?) and touch down.
When they arrive the army is in full force and on parade mode with gun/cannon salutes and everything..
So the cast and crew are all looking at one another wondering what's going on...
Except for one of them who is rather humbled and begins to acknowledge their efforts.
Turns out it's all for Christopher Lee, who, due to what he'd been doing in WW2, the Czechs considered him personally, as a war hero and instrumental in driving out the Germans and freeing Czechoslovakia (only for the Russians to take over).
To them he was this huge war hero and when Mora asked Lee about it he refused to discuss it and completely played it down. Eventually citing the official secrets act and changing subject.
Apparently the cast and crew were well impressed and completely surprised by all this coz Lee had never mentioned it would happen.
In his autobiography Lee doesn't even mention he was in Czechoslovakia and completely plays down everything he did in WW2 iirc.
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Post by plasticpenguin on May 27, 2018 10:34:15 GMT
I've gone for Lee, purely because he admitted he love to star in a Carry On film. If Whoopi Goldberg married Peter Cushing, would she be known as a Whoopi Cushing?  |
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Post by gustav on May 28, 2018 19:47:45 GMT
This is a very tough. I would go in the end for Christopher Lee, I think he did have a more interesting career outside movies and a longer and more varied one in the industry.
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Post by bensonrad on May 28, 2018 21:04:09 GMT
Heavens, this really is a hard one, both are equal in my eyes, the hammer horror films, both had a dabble with the Star Wars universe. I do love Lee in The Man with the Golden Gun though and to even the playfield I am going to go for him.
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Post by billyfarmer on Jun 4, 2018 17:15:52 GMT
Difficult choice, but in the end, I voted for Peter Cushing, both Cushing and Lee, would be on my list of all time favourite Actors, I have worked out that I have got 44 films, featuring Peter Cushing, I have yet to work out how many films I have got, featuring Christopher Lee.
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Post by thewoodster on Jun 6, 2018 9:40:23 GMT
Hard one,Peter Cushing tops it though for me.
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Post by pr1 on Jun 22, 2018 5:28:07 GMT
This one was easy. Peter Cushing. There is a good reason why so many people describe as Gentleman. He was one. A true professional. He may have been in bad movies but I've never seen him give a bad performance.
Why wasn't he knighted?
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Post by pr1 on Jun 22, 2018 6:04:37 GMT
Next time I'm having tea with Liz and Phil I'll ask her about it. |
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Post by thewoodster on Jun 22, 2018 8:05:47 GMT
Next time I'm having tea with Liz and Phil I'll ask her about it. Good idea buck house will know why?..lol |
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Post by pr1 on Jun 22, 2018 12:45:33 GMT
Next time I'm having tea with Liz and Phil I'll ask her about it. Good idea buck house will know why?..lol He should have been Knighted but at least he awarded OBE. Or is it referred to as an OBE? |
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Post by billyfarmer on Jun 27, 2018 17:19:28 GMT
Difficult choice, but in the end, I voted for Peter Cushing, both Cushing and Lee, would be on my list of all time favourite Actors, I have worked out that I have got 44 films, featuring Peter Cushing, I have yet to work out how many films I have got, featuring Christopher Lee. Today, I worked out how many films I have got, featuring Christopher Lee, total - 46, would have been 47, but I didn't include My Brother's Keeper (1948), which Christopher Lee, appeared in, because it states on the Wikipedia filmography page for Christopher Lee, that the scenes (where Lee played the role of Second Constable), featuring Christopher Lee, were deleted.
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Post by I used to think I was a parrot on Jul 4, 2018 20:13:07 GMT
I like them both but Peter Cushing is my favourite. I walked past his old house in Whitstable recently.
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