Wasn’t even a bit creepier, like, “this is the kind of sound a man makes when he is stabbed”?
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Probably. Christopher Lee could have made a Starbucks order sound creepy.
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My understanding was Peter Jackson was coaching him on his death scene (extended edition only), telling him to cry out in pain, and Christopher Lee asked “Do you know what it sounds like when a man is stabbed in the back? Because I do”.
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I heard it was worse than that. Rather than telling Jackson how to stab someone, Lee told him the sound a man makes when you stab him.
@HaroldHill and @chenille
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When an enthusiastic interviewer questioned him about his SAS past, Sir Christopher leaned forward and whispered: “Can you keep a secret?”
“Yes,” the interviewer replied, bristling with excitement.
“So can I,” replied Sir Christopher.
From SAS and Gurkhas to Dracula and Saruman: The unique life of Sir Christopher Lee.
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Can confirm this.
I was in Germany for work, and my travel companion who is fluent in the German language (but clearly not fluent in German culture) started to sing that in the presence of our German colleagues.
He didn’t even get through “Deutschland” before they immediately shut him down saying very insistently, “no no no, we don’t sing that anymore”.
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My guess is the Brits airlifted her behind the lines and she was a honeypot gathering intelligence from all the German officers
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Dr. Strangelove is proving to be disturbingly prophetic
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The “Able Archer” war scare of 1983 came very close to this.
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Survivalist Nazi techbro eugenic harems, you mean?
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I just can’t get enough.
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Apparently, ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer, Denis Healey, took a group of British teenagers on a cultural visit to German. He was pretty fluent in German, and so took on the role of translator between the youths and their host, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Every time Healey addressed Schmidt, he used the German title, “Reich Chancellor”; and, every time, Schmidt and his entourage blanched.
After the lunch, one of the Germans thanked Healey for translating, but pointed out that Helmut Schmidt’s title was Chancellor, and not as Healy had been calling him, Reich Chancellor. “We have not had a Reich Chancellor since 1945.”
I don’t know how true this is, but it makes me smile. Healey and Schmidt were fast friends for many years.
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The correct title is Bundeskanzler (Federal Chancellor).
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