As far as I know, Fleming never approached Lee to play Bond. He did offer him the role of Dr.No but it was too late since Joesph Wiseman was already cast.
It's hard to believe this man is a descendant of Charlemagne, an Ex Nazi hunter, played Dracula, Saruman, a Bond villian, Count Dooku, became a Knight, and even released a heavy metal album in his 80s..
More than most people know or realise. LRDG and SOE (more commonly referred to as the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Conduct). His RAF career was just a front for what he was really upto.
I love the way Scaramanga so casually steps over Hai Fat's body... an ice-cold killer. I don't think anyone but Christopher Lee could have played the character so perfectly.
1:25 "That's no problem." Always liked his cold demeanor. Scaramanga was a memorable villain, no doubt thanks to the brilliant Christopher Lee (R.I.P.) who gave him a personality. According to Lee himself Scaramanga was just a "thug" in Ian Fleming's novel and he was grateful the producers reworked the character and allowed him to make his own interpretation of him. Lee was a cousin of Ian Fleming's too. It's not hard to see how Christopher Lee made such an impression on everybody who saw him in any role. He was always professional regardless of the role he was given and the films he appeared in. That's how he will be remembered.
Agreed. Overall, 'The Man with the Golden Gun' isnt a particularily great Bond-Film, but Christopher Lee as Scaramanga keeps it together and makes it worthwhile. One of the best Villains of the entire Series.
True. Scaramanga was memorable but it's a real shame he was underutilized and that the whole energy crisis theme was unlikely to have concerned somebody like him. As such the whole Solex plot could have been cut altogether.
@ Wez Marauder. You are right. One of the absurdities in the Bond film ''TMWTGG'' is why would the character Francisco Scaramanga who is a professional hitman want or have any need for an industrial laser powered by a Solex agitator? And why in the film did Scaramanga bump off the character Hai Fat to come into ownership of Hai Fat's business and island? It is also absurd that Scaramanga would come into possession of Hai Fat's island and business after Scaramanga bumped off Hai Fat with no attempt by Hai Fat's employees to stop Scaramanga from taking over Hai Fat's business and island.
Scaramanga is quite clear as to why he needs the Solex: to make a ton of money selling it to the highest bidder. As to the business ownership, if Scaramanga says he's in charge, who's going to be brave (or foolish) enough to disagree?
Scaramanga is best Bond villain in my opinion, just because It feels like he is really a person that might actually succeed with his plans and might eventually kill Bond. I love how calm and confident is he, unlike other villains which are nearly screaming "AHH IM GONNA DESTROY THE WORLD AND YOU CAN DO NOTHING ABOUT IT!!11", this one felt like a worthy opponent to 007. Hats off to Sir Christopher Lee!
I liked that about him too. He was unlike the other villains who were boring and shallow; he could draw you in with his lethal charm, and on more than one occasion, I couldn't help but notice how Bond even seemed unnerved - even afraid - of him because he had met someone who stood on the same level with him.
@@UltimaKeyMasterHe also only sees him fiddling with what looks like a thick pen and a particularly fat lighter until it's completely assembled. It doesn't look like much of anything! A great prop.
Scaramanga is literally a mirror image of James Bond, both are highly skilled trained assassins, but one works official for a Government, (MI6) and the other an independence hired assassin. Its just that Scaramanga would love to test his skills against Bond.
Got to hand it to him, he gave Bond a fair - perhaps TOO fair - of a chance in their duel. An even playing field is something NONE of the other villains would have done.
Christopher Lee brings such menace to the role of Scaramanga, menace that was lacking in the Scaramanga of the book. Just look at Scaramanga's reation when Hai Fat tells him "Take this... return it to the plant and don't leave there without my permission."
Bond8789 Christopher Lee had much to do with changes made to Scaramanga after was offered the role. He helped make changes that made him a cold and deadly professional killer that admired James Bond but wants to go against him.
AnimaniacsToonsN1 it was 1973 when The Man With Golden Gun was filmed and released in 1974 when Lee was 51 years old as he was born in 1922 and Roger Moore was 46
As much as I love Count Dooku I have to admit that Francisco Scaramanga was far more menacing than Dooku. Lee was much younger and had more energy decades before. Had the Jedi faced a younger, more aggressive villain "Revenge of the Sith" would have been about Scaramanga conquering the Republic.
@@LoganSewell83 There's a whole *thing* in the novelization about what he thinks that'll be like... ...though, in the same few chapters, he also realizes that Lord Sidious has no loyalty at all to him, and he, personally, has been allowed to come this far to be a great enemy who needs slaying... ...but *then **_again_* , well. Hmm. Thinking about where that would really go. Was about to say one thing, but now I'm on, see the above video?
I love how it's never outright stated (outside of external Bond fan resources) that the Trigger is Scaramanga's Left Cuff Link, and even though there is never a shot of him removing it or attaching it to the gun, he is missing the left one when he shoots Hai Fat.
Zack Stark LOTR was great and he was too. My point being he didn't need to be in it to save the day like Episode 2. He was aussome in a imho bad movie (like 1 and 2 are pretty close in badness). Too bad he wasn't in 3 for more but he wasn't totally needed except to be axed off (something LOTR 3 did in the deleted scenes but not the main pic... stupid).
jhibbitt1 well he wasn't awful in 007 hell imho he is one of the better Villians but not everyone thinks so and idk if it make my top 5 of 10 best 007s.
This is my favorite James Bond movie it's amazing and Sir Christopher Lee is an amazing actor I dont think anyone could have pulled this role off better.
One of my favourite scenes in any film, ever. great script and acting. Lee is a master. Oh, and what a beautiful suit. Impeccable dressing by Lee and Moore in this wonderful Bond.
Bawookles I have seen more James Bond movies than any other series and Christopher Lee's "Scaramanga" was my favorite bad guy. I learned something from him: if an actor truly enjoys playing a particular character, the audience will notice and enjoy the movie even more. It also does not surprise me that I've seen him in more movies than any other actor, even Roger Moore doesn't come close! Movie history lost one of the greats. I'm still shocked that he passed away.
Yes, it's clear to him Hai Fat either underestimated Bond or simply is incapable of dealing with Bond himself. Therefore he has become a liability to Scaramanga. Whether he was going to try and (fail to) kill Bond again or lie low in order not to jeopardize his future investment was irrelevant to Scaramanga hence he was going to kill him in any case like you say. Either way Scaramanga correctly assessed that Hai Fat might have been a powerful crime syndicate boss in the past but he has lost the plot in his old days. He understands that Hai Fat's expiration date is long overdue and he therefore "retires" him knowing what little loyalty he had to him and his organization was misplaced and of no importance anymore. Hai Fat naturally is no fool either and now understands he misjudged Scaramanga thinking he hired a mere hitman who willingly would work for a contract without questioning him. His personality and personal ambitions has attracted too much attention to Hai Fat's organzation. "I now regret having even *considered* your services." Scaramanga is too volatile and at this point so he'd best get out of the way and "stay at the plant". Hai Fat's final mistake was thinking that him being the boss of a huge crime syndicate would make him untouchable for a mere hitman like he think Scaramanga is. It doesn't dawn on him until the very moment Scaramanga points his golden gun straight at him. We as the audience see Scaramanga playing along to Hai Fat's orders knowing he is assembling his golden gun. As such it's obvious Hai Fat's perception outside his own biased reality and him still bossing Scaramanga around at this stage conveys the message that he's "past it" and is a goner. An effective little scene that is underrated and overlooked in the James Bond films.
I'll miss Mr. Lee so much, so much Respect and Chrisma he possessed that many today don't seem to have at all. Thanks so much for the Wonderful memories and contributions to the creative World 🌎 of arts 🎨 & entertainment you gave. 1922 - 2015 😢🙏⭐️🕊
When I played GoldenEye 007 for N64, I always wondered about the peculiar design of the Golden Gun. It looked more like a minimalistic toy or something else rather than an actual gun. Turns out it's assembled from different objects. Interesting and quite original concept.
But in the novel, the Golden Gun was originally a .45 revolver. Perfect Dark's DY357-LX is the closest we can ever get to that. And, the Gold PP7, merely his and Bond's guns turned into one.
1:25 "That's NO problem." *evil smile* Christopher Lee is Ian Fleming's (the author of the James Bond novels) cousin btw and they both had a past in the British intelligence during WW2. Anyways, Lee was thankful they improved the character from the novel in which he was just a "thug" (Lee's words) into a much more vicious and sinister character. Sort of the anti-Bond. Not until Christopher Walken (another Christopher hehe) played Max Zorin did a villain have a great one-liner for a kill.
Konkoly Adam yes if have seen the movie at all instead of a clip it was a pen, lighter, trigger was made from cuff link he removed. The bullets were made out of gold by a gunsmith and Gun was made that way as he is professional hitman and could get away easily after killing someone.
The story that became "DR. NO" was originally written as a screenplay for a TV pilot. Ian Fleming specifically created the villain as a role for his cousin, Christopher Lee. When the project fell through, Fleming turned the story into his next novel. Later, when legal problems tied up "THUNDERBALL" (also created for a film project that fell through), "DR. NO" was substituted as the first Eon film, probably because it, too, had started life as a film script. It's unfortunate that Lee was not hired at that point to play Dr. No. I've read that by that time, his salary was more than Eon wanted to pay! They were always cutting corners where they could... ask Sean Connery. While Lee did not play the German-Asian "Dr. No", he did play Asian villains in both "THE TERROR OF THE TONGS" from Hammer, and 5 "FU MANCHU" films from Harry Alan Towers. "GOLDEN GUN" is (along with "DIAMONDS" and "MOONRAKER") my 3 LEAST-favorite "007" films. Lee may be the best thing in it, though as a fan of the novel, the character of Francisco Scaramanga is NOTHING whatsoever like the villain in the book! I've long thought the perfect actor to play that role, had they done the book "right", would have been Fernando Lamas.
In the original book, he's actually a swaggering egotist with a heavy build, a crude way of speaking and a yen for -- well, for guns. ...that having been said, it's not as if the man in the film-version is what you'd call a better person underneath.
@@andrewmihovich4252 no.... Scaramanga from the book was tall- thin and very Latino. He was an unrefined thug, yes; but he worked well as a foil for Fleming's Bond, with his love of savage violence (kneecapping 098, for example).
@@Thicc_Cheese_Dip Not disagreeing with any of the second part. ...Was thinking of, _The description in Records was exact, but it had not caught the catlike menace of the big man, the extreme breadth of the shoulders, and the narrow waist, or the cold immobility of the eyes..._
That gun is cool, but I find the book's surreal choice of weapons even cooler: a gold-plated Colt Single-Action Army firing silver-jacketed solid gold dum-dums, and a .32 gold-plated derringer firing a poison-tipped bullet as a backup weapon.
What's so underrated about this scene is how he's holding the gun but he's leaning in the chair to angle himself to shoot him in the heart... small yet profond detail.
Scaramanga assembling his gun reminds me of the times in school where we will use stationaries (pencils, rulers, etc) to assemble imaginary guns to shoot at each other.
I love how Sir Christopher Lee made Scaramanga an equivalent of 007 on this movie instead of being the thug that was in the book itself. Sir Christopher definitely gave Scaramanga a whole new layer of class and sophistication.
Good grief! If I didn't already know that was Christopher Lee playing Scaramanga, I would never have recognized him at all! his voice sounds so different nowadays!
There's a tale there were between two and three "golden guns"...an assembled one, the three pieces and the one that's being put together. Lee had such a difficult time assembling it, another actor's hands had to be seen putting it together so Lee could only handle the final "gun".
i just love the concept of his gun, completely hidden, you check him and see what? a cigarette casing, lighter and a pen? why you're not gonna bother taking that away, it cant do no harm right? perfect assassination weapon imo
It was hand-crafted by expert gunsmith and same applies to ammunition. It is efficient assassin's weapon, but very indiscreet as bullets lead to his trail. It would also have very loud noise as 4,5mm golden mullet would have to go very very fast to be as lethal as Scaramanga is. He is expert marksman, but if bullet he shot can't pierce skin it won't help.
I can see why Fleming wanted Lee to play Bond...
+SolarDragon007 true
He would've been just as great playing Hugo Drax or Kamal Khan.
+Th. Noatak Excellent observation. And, for the record, Kamal Khan's my favorite Bond villain. I thought Louis Jourdan was superb in the role.
James Haynes Louis Jordan was fantastic.. i love the moment when he said: "you have a nasty habit of surviving mr bond!" ... just classic
As far as I know, Fleming never approached Lee to play Bond. He did offer him the role of Dr.No but it was too late since Joesph Wiseman was already cast.
The one Bond villain who has his own one-liner.
"He always did like that mausoleum... put him in it."
Franz Sanchez - "Launder it"
Numerous bond villains have much more famous one liners.
"Mr. Bond is on his way to the bottom of the South China Sea. He can be my new anchorman!"
"Look after Mr. Bond. See that some harm comes to him." -Hugo Drax
@@SirMrShanks How many of those one-liners are from the guy doing the deed?
Mas Ameeda: What happened?
Dooku: Mr. Palpatine has just resigned. I'm the new Chancellor. He always did like that Sith urn. Put him in it.
Haha, good one.
Not bad.
Good shit lmfao
That’s really a good one
Would be sick as hell to see dooku rule the galaxy
"He always did like that mausoleum. Put him in it!"
I always heard the line as "He always did like that Horse, Liam. Put him in it."
"Mr. Pfat has just resigned."
@@makeit7579 It's actually Fat
He made the mistake of stating he regretted scaramangas employment.
It's actually spelt Fatt, not Fat.
Christopher Lee is definitely top 5 actors of all time
***** Rip Torn is great, but not one of the greatest actors of all time.
Justin Li to me he was the greatest actor of all time
Agreed 🤝
What a presence on the screen.
No doubt.
It's hard to believe this man is a descendant of Charlemagne, an Ex Nazi hunter, played Dracula, Saruman, a Bond villian, Count Dooku, became a Knight, and even released a heavy metal album in his 80s..
and was a cousin of ian fleming
Fucking with Christopher Lee is fatal in 100% of cases
More than most people know or realise. LRDG and SOE (more commonly referred to as the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Conduct). His RAF career was just a front for what he was really upto.
What About Dooku and Saruman?
@@Kravenrogue and the Jabbawock
Unless you're Peter Cushing.
Unless you have a manakin of yourself.
The way he says "There's no problem" with that grin is just so unsettling.
I love the way Scaramanga so casually steps over Hai Fat's body... an ice-cold killer. I don't think anyone but Christopher Lee could have played the character so perfectly.
1:25 "That's no problem." Always liked his cold demeanor. Scaramanga was a memorable villain, no doubt thanks to the brilliant Christopher Lee (R.I.P.) who gave him a personality. According to Lee himself Scaramanga was just a "thug" in Ian Fleming's novel and he was grateful the producers reworked the character and allowed him to make his own interpretation of him. Lee was a cousin of Ian Fleming's too.
It's not hard to see how Christopher Lee made such an impression on everybody who saw him in any role. He was always professional regardless of the role he was given and the films he appeared in.
That's how he will be remembered.
Agreed. Overall, 'The Man with the Golden Gun' isnt a particularily great Bond-Film, but Christopher Lee as Scaramanga keeps it together and makes it worthwhile. One of the best Villains of the entire Series.
True. Scaramanga was memorable but it's a real shame he was underutilized and that the whole energy crisis theme was unlikely to have concerned somebody like him. As such the whole Solex plot could have been cut altogether.
@ Wez Marauder. You are right. One of the absurdities in the Bond film ''TMWTGG'' is why would the character Francisco Scaramanga who is a professional hitman want or have any need for an industrial laser powered by a Solex agitator? And why in the film did Scaramanga bump off the character Hai Fat to come into ownership of Hai Fat's business and island? It is also absurd that Scaramanga would come into possession of Hai Fat's island and business after Scaramanga bumped off Hai Fat with no attempt by Hai Fat's employees to stop Scaramanga from taking over Hai Fat's business and island.
Scaramanga is quite clear as to why he needs the Solex: to make a ton of money selling it to the highest bidder. As to the business ownership, if Scaramanga says he's in charge, who's going to be brave (or foolish) enough to disagree?
@@greenmonsterprod I doubt that he would desperately need money from the Solex. He does say that he gets a million dollars per contract.
Scaramanga is best Bond villain in my opinion, just because It feels like he is really a person that might actually succeed with his plans and might eventually kill Bond. I love how calm and confident is he, unlike other villains which are nearly screaming "AHH IM GONNA DESTROY THE WORLD AND YOU CAN DO NOTHING ABOUT IT!!11", this one felt like a worthy opponent to 007. Hats off to Sir Christopher Lee!
I don't recall Red Grant or Alec [Sean Bean] or Mr Silva or the like being like that....Granted Lee was the best thing out of this awful movie.
Scaramanga a fellow Brit Bond confronts
I liked that about him too. He was unlike the other villains who were boring and shallow; he could draw you in with his lethal charm, and on more than one occasion, I couldn't help but notice how Bond even seemed unnerved - even afraid - of him because he had met someone who stood on the same level with him.
Well...as he said himself: "One bullet is all I need!"
I think he was the only villain that bond was scared of
I like how he just decides to kill Fat, and starts assembling his gun while the man looks at him doing it at least twice
To be fair, even when he's fully confronted with it, I think anybody would go ".......okay, that is NOT a gun-" and blammo.
@@UltimaKeyMasterHe also only sees him fiddling with what looks like a thick pen and a particularly fat lighter until it's completely assembled. It doesn't look like much of anything! A great prop.
@@kirbyis4ever Plus look at his hand positioning when Fat is looking at him, very subtly covering it to stop him seeing the assembly
Why’d he kill him though is what I don’t understand
1:56 Christopher Lee walks out into the sunlight. No wait, that's impossible!
2 years late, but considering the fact that he played Dracula in the Hammer film series, that would be accurate.
A villain who actually respected 007
Yeah call the police lol
Scaramanga is literally a mirror image of James Bond, both are highly skilled trained assassins, but one works official for a Government, (MI6) and the other an independence hired assassin. Its just that Scaramanga would love to test his skills against Bond.
@@joshuagrover795 thats the mirror front for the shell diamond
Got to hand it to him, he gave Bond a fair - perhaps TOO fair - of a chance in their duel. An even playing field is something NONE of the other villains would have done.
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Galadriel : “What happened”
Saruman the white : “Gandalf has resigned, I’m the new high wizard. He was always fond of that hobbit hole, put him in it”
genius comment
Christopher Lee brings such menace to the role of Scaramanga, menace that was lacking in the Scaramanga of the book. Just look at Scaramanga's reation when Hai Fat tells him "Take this... return it to the plant and don't leave there without my permission."
+Bond8789 Scaramanga "upgrades" himself to chairman - with a bullet to his former boss!
Bond8789 Christopher Lee had much to do with changes made to Scaramanga after was offered the role. He helped make changes that made him a cold and deadly professional killer that admired James Bond but wants to go against him.
He was like “It’s on, Fat!”
I actually like the book's version of Scaramanga. The implied sexual attraction to Bond should've been played up in the movie.
@@Thicc_Cheese_Dipeh it would have been too much back then. He wants to kill him not screw him…..then again
1:25 "Oh shit, he's got a gun. Maybe I should try running away...nah."
1:51 "That guy obviously murdered my boss. Maybe I should do something...nah."
You can't escape the world's best marksman.
Well, now Hai Fat should change his name to Lie Low 😂 pardon the pun
You don't run when a man has a gun pointed at you. You'd be shot the moment you make a move.
+jediritta Don't you mean Lo Fat? Actually your suggestion would be written Lai Lo. Hey, if you've pun one, you've pun 'em all!
+Sanjay S And Hai Fat is hardly "faster than a speeding bullet!"
WOW Count Dooku when he was Young.
AnimaniacsToonsN1 it was 1973 when The Man With Golden Gun was filmed and released in 1974 when Lee was 51 years old as he was born in 1922 and Roger Moore was 46
As much as I love Count Dooku I have to admit that Francisco Scaramanga was far more menacing than Dooku. Lee was much younger and had more energy decades before. Had the Jedi faced a younger, more aggressive villain "Revenge of the Sith" would have been about Scaramanga conquering the Republic.
they didn't even have lightsabers back then
Mr Lee Count Dooku Sir The great 👍 Late Christopher Lee
@@LoganSewell83 There's a whole *thing* in the novelization about what he thinks that'll be like...
...though, in the same few chapters, he also realizes that Lord Sidious has no loyalty at all to him, and he, personally, has been allowed to come this far to be a great enemy who needs slaying...
...but *then **_again_* , well.
Hmm. Thinking about where that would really go. Was about to say one thing, but now I'm on, see the above video?
I love how it's never outright stated (outside of external Bond fan resources) that the Trigger is Scaramanga's Left Cuff Link, and even though there is never a shot of him removing it or attaching it to the gun, he is missing the left one when he shoots Hai Fat.
Old comment but I just wanted to add that you can see him re-attaching his cuff link at 1:45
This film is enormously underrated!
RIP old boy, you will most certainly be missed by all. Your place in cinematic history will be remembered and your legacy will live on.
Christopher Lee is brilliant. Period.
Rip Christopher Lee!
Idk in 007 but he was great in Star Wars 2 and nearly saved the movie imho.
Mathew Clemence that's the tip of the iceberg in what he was great in
Zack Stark LOTR was great and he was too. My point being he didn't need to be in it to save the day like Episode 2. He was aussome in a imho bad movie (like 1 and 2 are pretty close in badness). Too bad he wasn't in 3 for more but he wasn't totally needed except to be axed off (something LOTR 3 did in the deleted scenes but not the main pic... stupid).
jhibbitt1 well he wasn't awful in 007 hell imho he is one of the better Villians but not everyone thinks so and idk if it make my top 5 of 10 best 007s.
DemocraticSocialist01 lo.
RIP Christopher Lee
The way he just casually builds it
This is my favorite James Bond movie it's amazing and Sir Christopher Lee is an amazing actor I dont think anyone could have pulled this role off better.
RIP Christopher Lee :(
I may not be a fan of the movie, but Christopher Lee will make me watch it over and over again
One of my favourite scenes in any film, ever. great script and acting. Lee is a master. Oh, and what a beautiful suit. Impeccable dressing by Lee and Moore in this wonderful Bond.
Sir Christopher Lee was the greatest villain actor of all time. RIP
Bawookles I have seen more James Bond movies than any other series and Christopher Lee's "Scaramanga" was my favorite bad guy. I learned something from him: if an actor truly enjoys playing a particular character, the audience will notice and enjoy the movie even more. It also does not surprise me that I've seen him in more movies than any other actor, even Roger Moore doesn't come close! Movie history lost one of the greats. I'm still shocked that he passed away.
Bawookles That's a big statement. But thinking about it, I must say it's true.
largol33t1 shocked? do you realize the man was more than 90 years old, right? it was natural and expectablbe. RIP Sir Christopher Lee.
largol33t1 I'm more surprised he lasted this long, he fought actual Nazis, I was convinced he found the secret of longevity by acting in cinema.
Fernando Rosas he was 93 when he passed away in 2015
Lee reaches for a part of the gun even before he argues with Hai Fat. He was likely going to kill him in any case.
Yes, it's clear to him Hai Fat either underestimated Bond or simply is incapable of dealing with Bond himself. Therefore he has become a liability to Scaramanga. Whether he was going to try and (fail to) kill Bond again or lie low in order not to jeopardize his future investment was irrelevant to Scaramanga hence he was going to kill him in any case like you say.
Either way Scaramanga correctly assessed that Hai Fat might have been a powerful crime syndicate boss in the past but he has lost the plot in his old days. He understands that Hai Fat's expiration date is long overdue and he therefore "retires" him knowing what little loyalty he had to him and his organization was misplaced and of no importance anymore.
Hai Fat naturally is no fool either and now understands he misjudged Scaramanga thinking he hired a mere hitman who willingly would work for a contract without questioning him. His personality and personal ambitions has attracted too much attention to Hai Fat's organzation. "I now regret having even *considered* your services." Scaramanga is too volatile and at this point so he'd best get out of the way and "stay at the plant". Hai Fat's final mistake was thinking that him being the boss of a huge crime syndicate would make him untouchable for a mere hitman like he think Scaramanga is. It doesn't dawn on him until the very moment Scaramanga points his golden gun straight at him.
We as the audience see Scaramanga playing along to Hai Fat's orders knowing he is assembling his golden gun. As such it's obvious Hai Fat's perception outside his own biased reality and him still bossing Scaramanga around at this stage conveys the message that he's "past it" and is a goner.
An effective little scene that is underrated and overlooked in the James Bond films.
marinetti i
Fat was just a convenience. Nothing more.
@@HolyknightVader999 I often think fat is an inconvenience. Hard to run and the like
RIP Christopher Lee: 1922-2015!
R.I.P Christopher Lee, you will be missed by many.
He basically plays his character as an anti-Bond. He is like the evil antithesis to Bond. Someone who you believe is 007's equal.
RIP Christopher Lee. A great loss to the world!
I'll miss Mr. Lee so much, so much Respect and Chrisma he possessed that many today don't seem to have at all.
Thanks so much for the Wonderful memories and contributions to the creative World 🌎 of arts 🎨 & entertainment you gave.
1922 - 2015 😢🙏⭐️🕊
When I played GoldenEye 007 for N64, I always wondered about the peculiar design of the Golden Gun. It looked more like a minimalistic toy or something else rather than an actual gun. Turns out it's assembled from different objects. Interesting and quite original concept.
But in the novel, the Golden Gun was originally a .45 revolver. Perfect Dark's DY357-LX is the closest we can ever get to that. And, the Gold PP7, merely his and Bond's guns turned into one.
1:25
"That's NO problem." *evil smile*
Christopher Lee is Ian Fleming's (the author of the James Bond novels) cousin btw and they both had a past in the British intelligence during WW2.
Anyways, Lee was thankful they improved the character from the novel in which he was just a "thug" (Lee's words) into a much more vicious and sinister character. Sort of the anti-Bond.
Not until Christopher Walken (another Christopher hehe) played Max Zorin did a villain have a great one-liner for a kill.
RIP Christopher Lee, one of the finest actors to have graced our screens and a true English gent.
That last line. So badass.!
Whether it was his gun, light saber, or fangs, he made a sinister bad guy.
Hai Fat: I paid you a small fortune.
Scaramanga: And this gives you power over me?
We can agree that Scaramanga is just an evil version of James Bond
Mirror image of each other as highly skilled trained assassins.
Well yeah, Bond is a professional good guy. Scaramenga is a professional bad guy who’s tired of taking lives for peanuts
That's pretty much the point of him, even in the original novel. He's an anti-Bond villain.
probably my fave bad guy in james bond films
R.I.P. Sir Lee :(
Im the UK, if you are a Knight of the Realm, you are addressed by your first name - hence Sir Christopher and not Sir Lee.
@@charleschuckfinley3304 Yanks think they know everything
It would be Sir Christopher Lee like Sir Sean Connery and Sir Roger Moore
What about if someone had an MBE, does that still go after the name or before it if it's a surname?
Did he just builded the gun from a lighter and a pen? Wow creativity!
Konkoly Adam yes if have seen the movie at all instead of a clip it was a pen, lighter, trigger was made from cuff link he removed. The bullets were made out of gold by a gunsmith and Gun was made that way as he is professional hitman and could get away easily after killing someone.
A lighter, a pen, a cigarette case, and a cuff link as the trigger. If only Q could've come up with something so ingenious.
You mean "assembled".
@@sdp271 I'd say a watch with an unbelievably powerful electromagnet is more ingenious than a gun made out of metal objects.
@@sdp271 Exactly.
My favorite scene in the entire series.
He was such a great villain
A wonderful script, and the showpiece scene in a vastly underrated film. Lee is sublime as Scaramanga.
I went years without realising Christopher Lee was in this, no wonder he was so amazing.
Am I the only who wants to see a functional Golden Gun instead of a prop? Though I'd love a Golden Gun prop...
+Tsukiyomaru Zero look it up here someone made a functional gun replica of this
HAHAHA... when the guy falls from the bullet, it sounds like he wheezes from the smoke rather than any wound....
That is true, even though the shot is instantly fatal, like it should be.
@Samba Warrior lung
The story that became "DR. NO" was originally written as a screenplay for a TV pilot. Ian Fleming specifically created the villain as a role for his cousin, Christopher Lee. When the project fell through, Fleming turned the story into his next novel. Later, when legal problems tied up "THUNDERBALL" (also created for a film project that fell through), "DR. NO" was substituted as the first Eon film, probably because it, too, had started life as a film script.
It's unfortunate that Lee was not hired at that point to play Dr. No. I've read that by that time, his salary was more than Eon wanted to pay! They were always cutting corners where they could... ask Sean Connery.
While Lee did not play the German-Asian "Dr. No", he did play Asian villains in both "THE TERROR OF THE TONGS" from Hammer, and 5 "FU MANCHU" films from Harry Alan Towers.
"GOLDEN GUN" is (along with "DIAMONDS" and "MOONRAKER") my 3 LEAST-favorite "007" films. Lee may be the best thing in it, though as a fan of the novel, the character of Francisco Scaramanga is NOTHING whatsoever like the villain in the book! I've long thought the perfect actor to play that role, had they done the book "right", would have been Fernando Lamas.
What a man! Such class and elegance! It's hard to find people like him nowadays, it seems to me that new generations have become very vulgar.
In the original book, he's actually a swaggering egotist with a heavy build, a crude way of speaking and a yen for -- well, for guns.
...that having been said, it's not as if the man in the film-version is what you'd call a better person underneath.
@@andrewmihovich4252 no.... Scaramanga from the book was tall- thin and very Latino. He was an unrefined thug, yes; but he worked well as a foil for Fleming's Bond, with his love of savage violence (kneecapping 098, for example).
@@Thicc_Cheese_Dip Not disagreeing with any of the second part.
...Was thinking of, _The description in Records was exact, but it had not caught the catlike menace of the big man, the extreme breadth of the shoulders, and the narrow waist, or the cold immobility of the eyes..._
Couldn't have put it better! My dad dresses up real smart. 82. They even nickname him 007 in the pubs. Old fashioned gent. Rare breed these days...
Best gun ever and one of the coolest Bondvillains of all time ! :) I love to use it on the Golden Gunmatches on GoldenEye Wii ! :D
I seriously want that gun.
Nice. I'm not sure if stores in the us sold them or not
I have it. Or at least, a 3-D printed prop replica. And I love it.
I do too, but the closest you could get to it is the gold Desert Eagle AE .50.
That gun is cool, but I find the book's surreal choice of weapons even cooler: a gold-plated Colt Single-Action Army firing silver-jacketed solid gold dum-dums, and a .32 gold-plated derringer firing a poison-tipped bullet as a backup weapon.
Who wouldn't?
What's so underrated about this scene is how he's holding the gun but he's leaning in the chair to angle himself to shoot him in the heart... small yet profond detail.
1:49 Looks like Bond isn't the only one who can come up with one-liners after killing!
Scaramanga assembling his gun reminds me of the times in school where we will use stationaries (pencils, rulers, etc) to assemble imaginary guns to shoot at each other.
In the end analysis, it just a gun, no more or less deadly than any other gun.
But but but...it’s GOLD!
That can easily get pass security, a cigarette case, cigarette lighter, pen and a cufflink, very ingenious.
Actually it is deadlier than most other guns. 1 shot will instantly kill you. Have you seen Goldeneye 007 or Perfect Dark?
The dying cough at the end was ironic, given that he was effectively shot with a cigarette lighter! 🤔🏆
That slow glance up at 0:52...that's when he makes the decision.
What airport security thinks I’m going to do with a pen, cigarette case, lighter, and a cufflink:
I love how Sir Christopher Lee made Scaramanga an equivalent of 007 on this movie instead of being the thug that was in the book itself. Sir Christopher definitely gave Scaramanga a whole new layer of class and sophistication.
"Why is he pointing his lighter at me?"
Great , high class. , super star❤
May you are resting in peace , mr.Lee .
Best Bond villain ever: Lee is Bond’s mirror opposite here: just as refined but evil.
" I'm the new chairman of the board." Christopher Lee doing hostile takeovers like a boss.
"So you have chosen death."
Christopher lee you always say u try your best, well my iconic lovable legand u always delivered your best.
" You didn't seriously think that an Asian Gangster could contend with the will of Saruman"
“You didn’t think a common thug such as yourself could counter skills of a sith, did you? Sky walker wasn’t so arrogant.”
"I have dined in worse circumstances and in worse company. "
When he started bad mouthing Sacrmanga like that, I KNEW he was about to bite the bullet!
Sacrmanga was a worthy adversary of James Bond!
Awesome! The classiest villain ever! And Mr. Ian Fleming's cousin.
Sir Christopher, what a great actor. RIP!
Full of elegance, charm, grace!
Rip a true legend
"He always did like that mausoleum; put him in it" - Coldest shit ever! 😂
Good grief! If I didn't already know that was Christopher Lee playing Scaramanga, I would never have recognized him at all! his voice sounds so different nowadays!
Shadowkey392 yes, aging made his voice even deeper.
Thank you, Christopher Lee.
There's a tale there were between two and three "golden guns"...an assembled one, the three pieces and the one that's being put together. Lee had such a difficult time assembling it, another actor's hands had to be seen putting it together so Lee could only handle the final "gun".
i just love the concept of his gun, completely hidden, you check him and see what? a cigarette casing, lighter and a pen? why you're not gonna bother taking that away, it cant do no harm right? perfect assassination weapon imo
It was hand-crafted by expert gunsmith and same applies to ammunition. It is efficient assassin's weapon, but very indiscreet as bullets lead to his trail. It would also have very loud noise as 4,5mm golden mullet would have to go very very fast to be as lethal as Scaramanga is. He is expert marksman, but if bullet he shot can't pierce skin it won't help.
The new series need to bring back Scarmanga and make him Bond’s constant archenemy.
R.I.P. Christopher Lee
Descanse em Paz mestre
Christopher Lee should have been James Bond.
Francisco Scaramanga is my favorite villain in the entire 007 saga..in this movie he did all the killing.
This is the time when count dooku still a killer with the gun not a lightsaber
What a presence he had
My favorite bond villain and my favorite actor also Lee is related to the writer of James Bond
Mr Sauron has just resigned. I am the new dark lord. He always did like that volcano. Put him in it.
RIP, Sir Christopher Lee
James Bond opens the curtains, James: eat sunlight you unholy demon! Scaramanga: No it burns!
Rest in Peace my dear God, we all love you :'-)
0:53 "You're trying to push me around, aren't you? Now, I'll teach you the last lesson!"
that gun is sick
That man was pure elegance..
great actor Mr. lee.
We are going to miss you.
Just pure coolness!
Christopher was definitely a cool guy
GREAT ACTOR, SUPERB CHARACTER