Christopher Lee?

[GulPlum]

sam wrote:
> Hi, gang.  I'm new here, but I just heard about the possible 
> casting  of Christopher Lee as Dumbledore in PoA, and I was 
> wondering what everyone else thinks about it.

Welcome aboard! (for future reference, just out of curiosity, are you 
a male Sam or a female Sam?) 

As for Christopher Lee, firstly he himself has discounted the rumour 
and refuses to comment on it (other than to say that he has not been 
approached, and considers the rumour to be in bad taste so soon after 
Harris's death).

My own view is that this fan-generated rumour (together with the Ian 
McKellen one) have originated with fanboys who can't see beyond 
pigeonholes. These same people objected to Richard Harris's casting 
in the first place on similar grounds (I have seen nothing wrong with 
Harris in principle; the fact that he clearly didn't take any trouble 
to work out what made the character tick and thus played him wrongly 
is beside the point). 

My ideal choice would be to take an unknown septagenerian rather than 
any of the other big names that have been doing the rounds (Connery, 
Hopkins, Attenborough, O'Toole, any of whom could have played the 
part). I certainly don't see Lee playing Dumbledore, not because he 
wouldn't be able to (on the contrary, I think he'd be great!) but 
because he'd play the part very differently to Harris. The same, in a 
different direction, goes for McKellen.

-- 
GulPlum, a male soft fruit. :-)