Saruman reads Burton
November 29, 2012 2:36 PM   Subscribe

Christopher Lee reads the original poem The Nightmare Before Christmas [11m], Tim Burton's storybook which inspired the Henry Selick's stop-motion film.

Bonus: Same poem, this time read by Patrick Stewart (parts 1 and 2) [~11m30s total]
posted by hippybear (17 comments total) 18 users marked this as a favorite
 
The animation studio Magnus Rex makes available some of their development process and storyboards for the animation accompanying these videos.
posted by hippybear at 2:38 PM on November 29, 2012 [1 favorite]




Saruman

That's a very strange way of spelling Dracula.
posted by snottydick at 2:45 PM on November 29, 2012 [2 favorites]


That's a very strange way of spelling Mr. Midnight.

Let's face it, Christopher Lee is an actor for all generations.
posted by Mezentian at 2:51 PM on November 29, 2012




That's a very strange way of spelling Count Dooku. Oh wait, I think I did it wrong..
posted by Yowser at 2:53 PM on November 29, 2012


ARGH! Hayden Christensen "acting" warning!
posted by Mezentian at 2:56 PM on November 29, 2012


I had no idea there was an original poem. But wait...Tim Burton's...book? I thought it was his film. I've been completely out of the loop.
posted by DU at 2:59 PM on November 29, 2012


I was watching The Man with the Golden Gun the other day, and too things struck me:
- Chris Lee looks so happy in it all the time. When he's showing Bond around the island he's practically beaming.
- him and Tattoo are totally a couple.
posted by Artw at 3:11 PM on November 29, 2012 [2 favorites]


Same poem, this time read by Patrick Stewart

If you have the official soundtrack, you're treated to the original opening and closing, done by MrPatStew, also in poem form.
posted by zombieflanders at 3:16 PM on November 29, 2012


But wait...Tim Burton's...book? I thought it was his film.

Burton was executive producer but Selig directed it. At the time most of us assumed that meant that it was Burton's film and Selig was a guy who knew how to do stop motion whom Burton hired. Coraline coming out the year before Alice in Wonderland has me ascribing a lot more credit to Selig now, though.
posted by shakespeherian at 3:23 PM on November 29, 2012


Vincent
posted by Mblue at 5:00 PM on November 29, 2012


Selick, not Selig.
posted by ocherdraco at 6:20 PM on November 29, 2012


Oops!
posted by shakespeherian at 6:42 PM on November 29, 2012


Chritopher Lee was doing "washed up horror actor" cameos in the '80s... He is undisputable proof that age is no barrier to achievement, nor an inhibitor of talent.

This, just as yet a new wave of youth-obsessed management makes the news in Silicon Valley and now also Mumbai, claiming anyone over 40 is dead wood (an improvement, it was 30 during the dot-com boom, and if you were over 50, you needed to give up tech and go be a Wall-Mart greeter.)
posted by Slap*Happy at 6:46 PM on November 29, 2012


Christopher Lee also released a heavy metal hardcore symphonic power metal concept album about Charlemagne when he was 88 years old.

My brain said "Wat?!", but my fingers knew how to google. This exists.
posted by sparklemotion at 9:57 AM on November 30, 2012


This exists.

And, by gum, one of the sidebar items for that was Lee singing Treebeard's Song, which led me to discover that this exists.
posted by hippybear at 5:12 PM on November 30, 2012


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