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Christopher Lee

posted 18 years ago by Feawen-1
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What did you think of Christopher Lee?

[–] owais2010 18 years ago

Christopher Lee is a versatile actor and here he shows why. He really performed it very well, seems to have read about M. A. Jinnah.

[–] rainleaf 18 years ago

christopher lee is awesome, as always.

[–] its_me_zaz 18 years ago

i have not seen the film but he does look like Jinnah. i admire his courage and commitment for doing the role.

[–] ContinentalOp 16 years ago

He does look a lot like Jinnah; most likely why he was caste in the role.

How tall was Jinnah? Christopher Lee is six-foot-five, I believe.

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[–] maxx-20 16 years ago

i do agree. He played well.

[–] ContinentalOp 16 years ago

Actually, I surprisingly have not see quasi-racist extremists criticising the film for casting Lee in the role of Jinnah. Such arguments are silly as 1) Europeans and Pakistanis are both Caucasian, Indo-European and just generally have the same types of features due to the climate not being that different to parts of Europe.

Plus, Christopher Lee looks a lot like Jinnah. It would be a wast not to cast him; I have not seen any Pakistani actors or anyone else who look as much like him as Lee does.

Also, this isn't really relevant but what colour hair did Jinnah have when he was young? It looks like dark brown to me but I am just going off black and white photographs.

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[–] Governor_Frontbottom 15 years ago

what colour hair did Jinnah have when he was young? It looks like dark brown to me but I am just going off black and white photographs.

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[–] ContinentalOp 15 years ago

Yes that does sound somewhat odd, but dark brown shows up different to black on black and white photographs.

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