{"id":52984,"date":"2024-07-14T01:00:27","date_gmt":"2024-07-14T05:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=52984"},"modified":"2024-07-13T09:57:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T13:57:30","slug":"qotd-method-acting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/07\/14\/qotd-method-acting\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Method acting"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Fortunately, pop Wonka is played by Christopher Lee &mdash; or, as one of my kids exclaimed, &#8220;It&#8217;s Count Dooku!&#8221;, that being the name of his splendid turn in <em>Star Wars<\/em>. Lee is having a grand old time at the moment, doing ten minutes in every blockbuster around. My favourite moment in the <em>Lord of the Rings<\/em> movies isn&#8217;t actually in any of the movies, but in one of those &#8220;the making of&#8221; documentaries that appears on the DVD. It&#8217;s the scene where Saruman gets stabbed by Grima Wormtongue, and Lee explains to director Peter Jackson that the backstabbing sound isn&#8217;t quite right, because in his days with British Intelligence during the war he used to sneak up and stab a lot of Germans in the back and it was more of a small gasp they made. Jackson backs away cautiously.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Steyn, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steynonline.com\/index2.cfm?edit_id=26\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Charlie and the Chocolate Factory&#8221;, <em>The Spectator<\/em><\/a>, 2005-07-30.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fortunately, pop Wonka is played by Christopher Lee &mdash; or, as one of my kids exclaimed, &#8220;It&#8217;s Count Dooku!&#8221;, that being the name of his splendid turn in Star Wars. Lee is having a grand old time at the moment, doing ten minutes in every blockbuster around. My favourite moment in the Lord of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,28,5,41,230],"tags":[122,690,193],"class_list":["post-52984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","category-media","category-military","category-quotations","category-ww2","tag-movies","tag-specialforces","tag-starwars"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-dMA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52984"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90391,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52984\/revisions\/90391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}