Remembering George Sanders
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Remembering George Sanders
45 yrs since he died tomorrow
Village of damned was a great movie
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Excellent as the 1st Mr.Freeze.
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My favorite Mr. Freeze, maybe my favorite episode overall. The episode had a very James Bondian feeling to it. The use of the heat lamps was so 60's spy feeling to it. I just loved it.
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I agree, he was the best Freeze!
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I have to wonder something about George Sanders. The story says that his suicide note said "I'm bored." HOW could somebody like that be bored!?
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Age had caught up with him. He basically said, "I've seen it all, I've done it all, and frankly I'm bored." Had he been younger and healthier, he'd have gone & on being a scoundrel forever. But he was in bad heath. Zsa Zsa in her later years in interviews I saw, she referred to him as the only one she really loved. She said she could forgive him anything.Gorshin Romero wrote: ↑Tue Apr 25, 2017 8:09 pm I have to wonder something about George Sanders. The story says that his suicide note said "I'm bored." HOW could somebody like that be bored!?
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Pardon the pun, but he offered one of the more chilling examples of a villain.
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Sanders--the greatest live action Mr. Freeze. Serious, calculating and a believable menace. He was not the silly cartoon characters as portrayed by Preminger and Wallach.
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Truer words were never spoken.BATWINGED HORNET wrote: ↑Wed Apr 26, 2017 7:59 am Sanders--the greatest live action Mr. Freeze. Serious, calculating and a believable menace. He was not the silly cartoon characters as portrayed by Preminger and Wallach.
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I think part of the reason that Sanders' portrayal is the best is because the backstory is also part of the plot. With Preminger, it's just to humiliate Batman, while Eli Wallach's portrayal was more buffroonish--which is related to the fact that comedy had taken over the show by that point.
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I believe he had been depressed for like 30 yrs so it was not something recent.
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To me it was like Preminger and Wallach played an entirely different character tan Sanders.BATWINGED HORNET wrote: ↑Wed Apr 26, 2017 7:59 am Sanders--the greatest live action Mr. Freeze. Serious, calculating and a believable menace. He was not the silly cartoon characters as portrayed by Preminger and Wallach.
Sanders Freeze loathed his current existence Wallach and Preminger seem to enjoy the cold. Sanders liked Gourmet food and drink, one of Preminger's brought him frozen reindeer meat for a midnight snack. The revenge factor was also dialed down . Preminger's attempts to ruin Batman's reputation could be interpreted
as just an effort to get Batman out of the way rather than vengeance.
Sanders was the best.
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Indeed it was sad that he ended his life. If I'm not mistaken, didn't Walter Slezak (Clock King) also end his life? Having had two family members commit suicide, I am most sensitive to this subject.
Sanders indeed was the "coolest" (pun intended) Mr. Freeze. As a child watching the series, to me he was the most boring but scary one I suppose. As an adult viewer however, his portrayal and interpretation of the character, which was previously known in the comics as Mr. Zero I believe, was spot on.
One thing that I still don't get though, why did he make like 20 replicas of himself and Batman? What was his goal in doing that? Best thing about Sanders' Mr. Freeze was that device that could turn parts of the room from blue to red, from cold to hot. That was a riot!
Sanders indeed was the "coolest" (pun intended) Mr. Freeze. As a child watching the series, to me he was the most boring but scary one I suppose. As an adult viewer however, his portrayal and interpretation of the character, which was previously known in the comics as Mr. Zero I believe, was spot on.
One thing that I still don't get though, why did he make like 20 replicas of himself and Batman? What was his goal in doing that? Best thing about Sanders' Mr. Freeze was that device that could turn parts of the room from blue to red, from cold to hot. That was a riot!