Comments on: What do you mean repetitive?

By: GuestnamedSilly

GuestnamedSilly — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:52:48 +0000

But that’s not a bad thing! =)

By: UnderCovahKitteh

UnderCovahKitteh — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:26:28 +0000

Dude, you just proved you’re a nerd.

By: Tirade

Tirade — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:30:42 +0000

I think you guys are forgetting that he’s done other things. Like Dracula. He played Dracula. In 47 movies. Totally not repetitive.

By: LOTR 101

LOTR 101 — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:15:07 +0000

I only still have knowledge because it’s a great way to annoy my little brother

By: LOTR 101

LOTR 101 — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:13:29 +0000

although I see your point

By: GuestnamedSilly

GuestnamedSilly — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 23:47:04 +0000

Ah, but he didn’t muster the evil army of helpers, that was Johnny Depp.

By: Danielle

Danielle — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:43:40 +0000

…and in charlie and the chocolate factory, he plays a father who betrays his son who in turn attains secret workers for his factory….that could be an army..

By: LOTR 101

LOTR 101 — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:49:20 +0000

We all know the LOTR books were written long before Star Wars. Which makes it impossible for Tolkien to copy off of Lucas. In fact, maybe Lucas copied off of Tolkien

By: LOTR 101

LOTR 101 — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:45:05 +0000

I think by “LOTR” they mean the movies.

By: GuestnamedSilly

GuestnamedSilly — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:55:29 +0000

Y’know what, EVERYONE rips off of Tolkein. But can you really blame them? Tolkein was a genius!

By: underdoggedovercat

underdoggedovercat — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:16:05 +0000

Well articulated. Although, I think Nubnuts main point was it would be impossible for LOTR to have ripped off Star Wars, considering it was written over 25 years earlier.

By: Frae

Frae — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:30:06 +0000

Nevermind that LotR was written between 1937 and 1949.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotr

By: Mae A.

Mae A. — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 14:24:21 +0000

Thank you. I thought it was just me who saw that. Is it just me, or do people tend to think too hard ’round here? Seems to cause a lot of futile conflicts.

By: TS

TS — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:05:02 +0000

“Tolkien” didn’t cast anyone. He died in 1973. Peter Jackson cast Christopher Lee as Saruman. And Jackson never wanted him for Gandalf, Lee wanted to play Gandalf but got cast as Saruman since Jackson had Sir Ian MacKellen in mind for Gandalf.

By: JAS1988

JAS1988 — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:21:22 +0000

Except for the fact that it’s not comparing Saruman to Emperor Palpatine; it’s comparing Saruman to Count Dooku. Dooku was originally a Jedi and later betrayed them by becoming a Sith in order to gain power, and similarly, Saruman was originally a good wizard who became evil to gain more power for himself. Palpatine was never a Jedi; he was always a Sith. Essentially, the comparison of LOTR to Star Wars has Saruman paralleling Dooku and Sauron paralleling Palpatine. I mean seriously, did you even read the bloody joke, or did you just not get it?

Furthermore, I don’t know fails more: you for trying to pretend that you are a meticulous nerd, or me for actually being one. Good day, sir.

By: Hell Hath No Fury

Hell Hath No Fury — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 01:46:08 +0000

I knew I wasn’t the only one…

By: Tessie

Tessie — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:11:16 +0000

Good Lord, but Frank Zappa’s looking old these days!

By: MisterAJ

MisterAJ — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:55:24 +0000

I finally spotted a flaw in your logic:

I’m not saying Joseph Campbell is wrong.
quite the opposite…

BUT:
Saruman and Dooku are VILLAINS… not heroes…
SWIDT..?

LOL

-Peace out…

By: MisterAJ

MisterAJ — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:50:32 +0000

Nooo…

He played Dracula in half of them,
Lucifer in the other half, and
death and sherlock Holmes in an
additional 1/3…

THEN he gained magic powers and could play the cool parts…

By: MisterAJ

MisterAJ — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:47:23 +0000

LOL

By: MisterAJ

MisterAJ — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:46:34 +0000

…was wondering if no one had pointed that out yet…

G.L. has stolen stuff from all over the place…

By: Nubnut

Nubnut — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 09:08:34 +0000

Except for the fact that it’s comparing Saruman to Emperor Palpatine.

And the way he has it, it makes it seem like LotR ripped off Star Wars. I mean seriously, did you even read the bloody joke, or did you just not get it?

By: slythwolf

slythwolf — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:19:06 +0000

Tolkien didn’t cast Christopher Lee as Saruman, though. He wanted him to play Gandalf.

By: slythwolf

slythwolf — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:18:19 +0000

Right, because Emperor Palpatine was also in LotR. Oh wait, no he wasn’t. FAIL!

By: Officer_lolz

Officer_lolz — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 03:12:04 +0000

Yup. I don’t mean to enrage anyone with my comments here…but the joke I was going for was simply that Christopher Lee played two very similar characters in two completely different trilogies. Nothing in the joke was intended to suggest that the Star Wars films ripped off the LOTR films (or vice versa), nor was the joke meant as in insult to Mr. Lee .

By: YOU!

YOU! — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 02:43:46 +0000

Firsts are lame!

(However I only say that because I am not first. lol)

[Do learn to spell correctly though. Or at least to type quickly correctly.]

^_^

By: uhhh......

uhhh...... — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:12:44 +0000

I had always thought Lee asked for & received the part of Saruman, and no other. I am rather saddened that he has declined to take part in the Guillermo del Toro Hobbit movies, citing his age.

By: uhhh......

uhhh...... — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:10:32 +0000

Not to mention Kurosawa’s “The Hidden Fortress” (vide C3P0 & R2D2 in the Tattooine desert in Episode “IV”) …and to the Lucas apologist(s?) in this thread, this is by Lucas’ OWN ADMISSION:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/filmmakersonfilm/3642010/Film-makers-on-film-George-Lucas.html

further interesting tidbits can be found here:
http://www.moongadget.com/origins/index.html

By: uhhh......

uhhh...... — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:04:23 +0000

Well, aren’t WE erudite?? Commendations on finding a use for those college humanities courses.
I was not referring to any mythopoeia or even Jungian archetypes, which are also applicable in this instance…was simply pointing out to the creator of this LOL, quite probably a member of the “Twilight generation” that his/her timeline was erm, “mythtaken”…

By: Tessie

Tessie — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:54:23 +0000

Christopher Lee has played essentially the same character for the past 50-odd years, and more power to him. There may be an element of typecasting involved, but otoh, it’s a nice, steady career in movies, and I bet playing villains is more fun than playing good guys.

By: Erica Pawlak

Erica Pawlak — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:54:32 +0000

Further proof that George Lucas never had an original idea in his life. Please to consider: the old Flash Gordon serials, I mean the originals, none of this 80’s Queen soundtrack crap. Dude, he even ripped off Princess Leia’s hair.

By: Marek

Marek — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 11:37:25 +0000

Would’ve been less similar if they had followed the actual books with LotR.

By: HAp

HAp — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 07:41:55 +0000

Aah he played the same character. I fail.

By: HAp

HAp — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 07:40:25 +0000

Yes, because we all know LOTR was the copycat … trust me, you’re not fooling anyone.

By: Karen

Karen — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 06:45:04 +0000

True on many levels, but he really wanted to be in the LOTR movies, so I’m glad he was cast in this role. (I think he really wanted to be Gandalf, though.)

By: -_-

-_- — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 05:33:30 +0000

Or MAYBE (and this is a long shot here) the point of the joke was that these two extremely similar characters – more similar than that extremely basic underlying core – were played by the SAME ACTOR, and thus had nothing to do with Lucas ripping off Tolkien…gosh, it’s almost like there were some kind of word for this phenomenon, like “typecast” or something…hmm….

By: David

David — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 05:30:07 +0000

How do you know if you didn’t read it? FAIL.

By: megs

megs — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:17:53 +0000

Wow, so many wordzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…………

By: AkhApep

AkhApep — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:03:11 +0000

He played Dracula in ALL of them. Seriously, more than any other actor who played Dracula, I think more than 100 movies.

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:18:43 +0000

Ooooh, rather insightful. I like it.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:11:16 +0000

Joseph Campbell’s book “The Hero With a Thousand Faces” refers to the “monomyth”, which essentially says that every hero myth told in any culture at any point in human history is basically the same, because they are all metaphors of the same mental transformation that takes place within us all during puberty.

For instance, you can find extremely similar character and plot setups in Harry Potter and the Matrix, as well. They also tell stories of young, “average” heroes who find that they have special powers thanks to the guidance of a mysterious elder.

Joseph Campbell not only inspired the original script of Star Wars, he became good friends with Lucas before he died.

In other words, saying Lucas ripped off Tolkien is extremely short-sighted and missing the point, because every hero myth worth telling rips off every hero myth that comes before it.

Not knowing this is the real fail in this picture.

Thank you for reading this far. Have a nice weekend.

By: This guy over here

This guy over here — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:23:10 +0000

I see no reason to knock Lucas or Lee for that.

By: Candystripe Legs

Candystripe Legs — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:00:20 +0000

I really need to find the movie in which he played Dracula. By his voice alone I can tell he was a good one

I did see an old Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode with a very young Christopher Lee in it, couldn’t recognize him!

By: someguy

someguy — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:18:45 +0000

Well, “uhh” beat me to it, but to elaborate on the Chronology fail, Tolkien published the LOTR trilogy in ‘54-’55…long before Lucas wrote the Star Wars script….

By: no-name

no-name — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:41:26 +0000

Christopher Lee is awesome! You cannot deny that..

By: momo

momo — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:51:49 +0000

but the wardrobes were different!!!

By: uhhh.....

uhhh..... — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:44:05 +0000

Chronology:FAIL
LOTR was the earlier film; Lucas was teh copycat here.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000489/

By: Nubnut

Nubnut — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:13:42 +0000

Would’ve been funnier if you had shown Emperor Palpatine instead I think.

By: bewbs

bewbs — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:05:02 +0000

TL;DR

Looong caption = Less funny

By: ydobon

ydobon — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:03:04 +0000

FOOLst!