LOTR bloopers: Christopher Lee's funny wind STRUGGLES on top of Orthanc!

[@kingdorm2001]

"Your staff is BROKEN." "Aaaooah..."

[@Shadow977]

"Peter. Do you know what kind of a sound happens when someone's staff breaks? Because I do." ~Christopher Lee before filming this scene, probably.

[@mcspazatron240]

​@Shadow977 i came to make a similar joke😂

[@archmagosdominusbelisarius8836]

He got scared😂

[@smaakjeks]

It's adorable!

[@kod1ac]

RIP christopher lee

[@markjosephbacho5652]

Bernard Hill too.

[@ShaunHall-i7e]

What a great life!

[@VikzeLink]

Makes sense it'd be windy atop that tower though

[@ComedyBros5]

Exactly, it played in for natural realism!

[@neatwheat]

Ian McKellen totally acting there 😅

[@lucbloom]

“You see, I stand where they tell me to stand. Do you know how I know what lines to say? It’s written down in the script. It’s not real, it’s called “Acting”!

[@markjosephbacho5652]

RIP Sir Christopher and Sir Bernard.

[@Krcnnaa]

I love Ian McKellens and Christopher Lees voices. So melodic and soft, I honestly think they could convince me to do anything, like in the book. And McKellens accent. Beautiful.

[@ianvanterpool7046]

I feel the same about Patrick Stewart 😂

[@Swordsman1425]

Must be a weird experience being in costume acting your lines for the camera while the character you're talking to is sitting in a chair wearing street clothes off-camera.

[@Hulavuta]

even weirder to be acting opposite a green screen where the character hasn't been put in yet, I imagine

[@juliadove1006]

@@HulavutaIf you’re lucky you get a tennis ball on a stick at the approximate height and position of the not actors eyes!🤣

[@merickful]

That is acting! To bring a believable performance when everything around you is unbelievable! They may be off camera in shorts and sunglasses, but them being there for the actor on screen speaks to the dedication of all. Amazing!

[@Goblin_deez.]

New respect for pornstars

[@klausolekristiansen2960]

Film actors are used to that.

[@helikos1]

"Saruman, your staff is broken" Gandalf said calmly.

[@Goblin_deez.]

I made the same sound when my staff broke

[@Sleeping_Insomiac]

😂

[@benja1378]

Your name doesn't make it any better 😂

[@stormwolf2224]

Sir Christopher Lee the only one to have met J.R.R.Tolkien

[@juanramaroto6691]

And a veteran of WWII, the clip of him telling Peter Jackson how a man who’s just been backstabbed would sound like for this same scene is pure gold

[@reddragon_2002]

Yes, Sir Christopher Lee played all his roles superbly. Great man😢

[@Zelmel]

My favorite Christopher Lee facts are either the fact that he has multiple metal albums he voiced and that he corrected Peter Jackson on how a man sounds when stabbed in the back. From experience during WWII when he was in intelligence operations.

[@ms0824]

Still amazes me how awesome these films still are.

[@elPiCOdeBry0]

Saruman the STINKY!!!

[@eldritchyarnbeing3295]

"do you know what happens when a man is called stinky, peter? because i do."

[@waffle8364]

I think the wind was a blessing rather than a curse. It made it seem like they were on a truly high tower which as many know have high winds

[@patc2296]

I swear, both Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Christopher Lee have the most amazing deep and elegant voices in the film industry 😃.

[@TheItalianiancommenter]

Christopher Lee was such a legend of the big screen may he rest in peace

[@tomstanziola1982]

Christopher Lee's acting was always on point!!! 👏👏👏👏✌️

[@3prasg57]

Casual Gandalf

[@thudthud5423]

Saruman (in a calm voice): "Can we not take council together, my old friend?" Pippen: "What is he saying? Is he whispering? Gandalf, ask him to..." Gandalf (to Pippen): "Silence, Hobbit!" (Looks up to Saruman on top of Orthanc; shouts): "You! Have! To! Speak! Up!"

[@nepntzerZer]

this isnt funny. you are not funny. please stop it.

[@DiegoGarcia-dy5qm]

The stuff one learns from this page simply put in two words; A blessing.

[@entmooted]

"Your staff is broken" "AUGHOUAH"

[@jinkazama9017]

Ian McKellen: "WILL YOU GO AND TELL YOUR MASTER, THAT I HAVE BEEN CHARGED BY GOD WITH A SACRED QUEST. IF HE WILL GIVE US FOOD AND SHELTER FOR THE NIGHT, THEN HE CAN JOIN US IN OUR QUEST FOR THE HOLY GRAIL."

[@junibug6790]

"WHERE'D YOU GET THE COCONUT FROM?"

[@limesebastian]

Well I don't think he'll be very keen.. You see he's already got one.

[@corpsebrood6669]

I swear, Christopher Lee was just built different

[@crypto66]

I laughed at that scene. Must've used some kind of wizard magic to converse with each other from the top and bottom of a tower. Orthanc is 500ft -- that's three colossal titans if you have no sense of scale like me.

[@Lakibdishma]

Could you convert that to cart titans?

[@crypto66]

@@Lakibdishma 38

[@ieldore]

@@Lakibdishma Approximately 13.1 cart titans

[@Lakibdishma]

@@ieldore wow that's a tall tower

[@ieldore]

@@Lakibdishma It's also 1,603 of Eren's heads

[@KibblezanBitz]

Of all the extended edition scenes it this one I hate not being in the theatrical edition.

[@blastfromdass4310]

Peter Jackson's excuse was "the movie will already be very long so we need to cut things out" peter, what's a couple more minutes?

[@Filmy_Zoy]

I watched the extended version of all the three movies only...

[@jcrews8582]

IKR?!? If there was ONE part from the extended edition of Return of the King that I could’ve added back in for the theatrical release, it’d be Saruman’s final scene!

[@juanramaroto6691]

Agreed, if they’re gonna cut the final part with Saruman invading The Shire, you need to give him a proper ending like this, not just “well, wizard’s locked in tower hahaha it’s done boys”.

[@tomkot]

The tower is 500 feet high, and they are speaking as if they are standing next to each other.

[@juanramaroto6691]

A wizard did it. Well, two wizards indeed.

[@christopheredelweiss7724]

When actors are also playing while on the job We'll miss you Christopher Lee...

[@SgtMclupus]

Christopher Lee; one of the most badass actors in existence (his death in this scene being proof of that) will be missed! He played many "Bad guys", but did it with heart and conviction few has! Awesome actor indeed

[@Sabotage1628]

Gandalf super chill "Saruman mate ya sticks broke"

[@sergiodambrosio363]

Cutting off the scene with the final confrontation between Gandalf and Saruman (and Saruman's death!) in the version of the movie shown in theaters, to me has always seemed an absurd thing. Nonsense! Saruman was one of the main adversaries and, even though the movie was already very long, this was not a part that was redundant. It was very important, to show how he ended. It would not have been a problem, to have 10 minutes more in movie, I think... Great movies, anyway, all the first three! Surely! Greetings from Italy!

[@Visibletoallusers12]

Legends, rest in peace.

[@RainAngel111]

Honestly the wind really added to the effect of him standing atop the tower. I always thought that was a bit of dramatic over exaggeration though, to act as though they'd be able to hear each other from so far away. In the books he speaks from a window. It makes him seem a lot more cowardly than this scene portrays.

[@lionparcelpalagan7515]

Rest in peace, Legend.

[@marycanary86]

the way theyre sat in chairs with hats on like B) while poor sir christopher is being eaten alive by his wig lmaoooo

[@marko_g_korenski]

Chris is LEGEND ❤

[@kwerk2011]

Wind machines seldom required in Wellington

[@Somnogenesis]

Very good point! They don't call it "Windy Welly" for nothing 💨

[@suspensesmith]

"Filmed in two different locations." You mean they didn't build a mile high tower?

[@captainroast5889]

Sir Chirstopher Lee to Peter Jackson: “Do you know what sound a Wizard makes when his staff is broken? Because I do.”

[@geraldstiling3735]

Even after all the awards🏆 were handed out and the cheering died down👏🏼. Peter Jackson went back to the editing room 🎬to do the blue 🔵 ray films 📽️

[@veramae4098]

I thought Chris Lee did the best acting in the trilogy,

[@Angel28366]

This scene isn't in the fellowship. In fact it's not in any of the LOTR movies. It's a deleted scene from return of the king.

[@javiersds8081]

And in the final cut Saruman just disappears.

[@bokoblinlogic1619]

Not in the extended version

[@samcrorie]

Look in the dictionary under "badass" and there's a picture of Christopher Lee. RIP

[@mikec5916]

So you have chosen death..

[@rhyswong8976]

Gandalf now has a hat. A straw hat. Saruman laughs.

[@aimatis1310]

And then they cut all of it out😂

[@SoonGone]

And they cut the scene for the theatrical release. I remember going to see it back then and wondering wtf happened to Saruman?

[@iggydee]

And it was cut in the theatrical release.

[@cataphract9132]

It was an absolute crime that they cut Sarumans death from theatrical cut.

[@Wonderwut]

This part in the book is eild cause Sauroman had such a sliver tounge even aragorn belives that Gandalf is gonna turn trader and Gandalfs like f off b

[@GeoffreyBronson]

It's a good scene but I really dislike how the actors at the bottom aren't looking up high enough

[@eibhlinniccolla]

saruman? 🤨 your staff is broken! ☝🏻🤓

[@threekeysmusic]

“Chris-toffer.”

[@philappenzeller683]

So where’s the blooper?

[@ShaunHall-i7e]

Peter Jackson! ❤📽️

[@RiccardoSacco-d8t]

But I hated how such à bad ass died so easly

[@poponachtschnecke]

Why was he holding a broom? Did he never have a real staff?!

[@enriquetorres2962]

From what I read they did have "hero" staffs for both wizards, that means the most detailed realistic props but were only used for closeups. So he's probably using a stand-in that would be digitally altered in post production.

[@Somnogenesis]

You think Isengard cleans itself...?!

[@TheKaMeLRo]

I always wonder why the tower is so small and how he got on top of that😅

[@tanikokishimoto1604]

I figure interior stairs?

[@earendil261]

High winds actor

[@irsmrtnow1204]

This was all BTS no bloopers. Liar liar

[@bri_____]

I completely understand why they removed it from the movies, However, the final chapter in the book where sarauman & wormtongue threaten the shire, is a better ending for the character - in my opinion 🙂

[@afjer]

Cool. But that wouldn't have killed him and he didn't fall off the tower in the book.

[@JakeSmith-st6vp]

Who the hell is Christ Offer?

[@Somnogenesis]

Or "Sauroman", for that matter...

[@AntonBruns]

Actually that is the scene I dislike the most actingwise and is pretty much the only one 😅

[@OroborusFMA]

I found this entire part of the story (as they changed it) embarrassing and lame.

[@DolphLundgrensDolphinDungeon]

Great actors and director. Just not very good wizards. They're just old men in robes, don't even have a good story. Not reclusive, eccentric characters, buried in books, mastering magic over centuries, having more knowledge than any average human. They never really acted like wizards

[@atoning2009]

who the fuck is Christof-erlee

[@ShadowMoon878]

RIP Sir Christopher Lee and Sir Bernard Hill