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00:00That's what's so interesting about monsters.
00:11Most monsters are victims.
00:22How do you do?
00:23I'm Christopher Lee.
00:30Tall, handsome, arrogant, imperious, powerful.
00:34Ooh, he must be scary to meet.
00:37He went from tiny parts in swashbuckler movies in the early 50s to working with George Lucas
00:44and working with Peter Jackson.
00:45I mean, the most respected directors in the world.
00:48He put that in perspective with his wartime experiences, and so what?
00:56It was very intense.
00:58It marked him.
01:01There is some mystery attached to his work during the war and immediately after it.
01:06He was involved with a lot of sabotage and targeted assassinations,
01:10which, of course, the British government doesn't know anything about.
01:15The British film industry was at its zenith, particularly after the war.
01:19There was a great hunger to create new stars.
01:28Everyone will always remember him as Dracula.
01:33Great things were expected of him, and here he was playing monsters.
01:38It had got him recognition, but it also was the sort of thing that he could never leave behind
01:43that many people thought was all he could do.
01:45He once said to me that he pitied me because I had seen so many of his movies.
01:48He wanted to move on from that.