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| Lee as Dracula in 1958 (Public Domain) |
For some, life seems like a walk in the park. These are the sunny optimists who see the glass as half-full.
Then there are those who focus on the darker shades of life.
You know, 50 and counting…
Christopher Lee seemed to be one of those latter individuals. He once told the Guardian: There is a dark
side in all of us. And for us ‘bad’ people, the
bad side dominates… We
cannot stop
ourselves doing what we are doing.
According to The
Hollywood Reporter, Lee found persistent nobility to be somewhat boring. He was “fascinated by the nature of evil,” and perhaps sought answers within his “library of 12,000 books on the occult.”
Lee may have reached deeply into his own dark side in order to portray characters as brilliantly as he did.
He was the first to play Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in living color, and starred as Dracula ten times over.
Sharing a birthday with horror legend Vincent Price just made it all the bloodier. Both were born on May 27th, Price 11 years before Lee. Lee died recently at the age of 93.
Resources
http://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/christopher-lee-legendary-movie-villain-and-horror-icon-dies-at-93/ar-BBkXkal
Copyright June 12, 2015 by Linda Van Slyke All Rights Reserved
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