#lord summerisle

[jestersketch]

I'm almost certain someone has done this before but

[catboyrightsdefender]

christopher lee serving absolute cunt as lord summerisle in the wicker man (1973)

[fanofspooky]

Favorite horror movie characters 3/♾️

Lord Summerisle - The Wicker Man

[horrorsmashorpass]

[orgyofthedamned]

lord summerisle fancam!!!!! idr who made this but thank you for making it its been sitting in my camera roll for years 😭💛

[schlock-luster-video]

On November 7, 2015, The Wicker Man was screened at the Night Visions Film Festival.

Here's some new Christopher Lee art!

[saturnidsart]

is lord summerisle the original tumblr sexyman? pls discuss

[junewongapologia]

I think it's a common misconception that Granda Summerisle invented the island's religion - he didn't! In and out of universe! Howie reads about the May Day rituals in a book that describes them as taking place all across Britain! Lord Summerisle describes his grandfather as "giving [the people] back their joyous old gods"! Extensive research was done re Paganism to write the story!

Granda Summerisle effectively revived a dead religion, he didn't invent one from scratch.

[womanfredvonkarma]

Rewatching The Wicker Man (1973), it's really striking to me how much the ritual is for Lord Summerisle's own benefit as much as anything else. In fact, I would argue that, in some sense, the sacrifice is for and to him (as he himself blurs the distinction in Aphrodite's case).

Just as the ritual is meant to appease both Nuada and Avellenau, both gods and men, both Lord Summerisle's hedonistic thirst for life and the people of the island's hunger for both produce and worship (Summerisle the man, the people of Summerisle, and the island of Summerisle itself), so too I think Lord Summerisle's motivation is double: both expediency and love. The film leaves it ambiguous whether he believes or not in what he preaches, and I think he does and does not. As a politician and a zealot, he believes in the way a really good actor has to believe in what he's doing, and he's both. Because he loves the drama of it most of all, I'd say, and the difference between a ritual and a play is so thin.

He loses himself in it! He does, and he looks so thrilled when he's singing and burning Howie. His hair flares out in a corona and he's wearing yellow and his head overlaps with the sun in one shot. The sacrifice is for himself because he's the sun.

[gizarrte]

am i the only one who thought Lord Summerisle and Miss Rose had a lil smth going on considering they sang a really bawdy song?

[oneinathousand]

If Lord Summerisle had a Tumblr blog:

If anybody ever tried to ask him about what happened to Sgt. Howie he'd block them instantly.

[catboyrightsdefender]

I think I could turn and live with animals. They are so placid and self-contained. They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins. They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God. Not one of them kneels to another or to his own kind that lived thousands of years ago. Not one of them is respectable or unhappy, all over the earth.

The Wicker Man (1973)

[fanofspooky]

“Come. It is time to keep your appointment with the Wicker Man.”

[papsiguesss]

Me: *Waking up peacefully on Saturday morning*

My brain: Lord Summerisle and Grand Moff Tarkin should fuck.

Me:

Me: Well okay then.

[closetofcuriosities]

The Wicker Man - 1973 - Dir. Robin Hardy

[baheret]

[image ID: a sketchbook page-spread, containing black-pen sketches of moments from a scene in The Wicker Man.

the right page contains:

a portrait of Christopher Lee as Lord Summerisle, dramatically lit, with his face half in shadow.

two snails mating, their heads entangled.

Edward Woodward as Sgt. Howie, lying in bed, clutching his own arm with his left hand. his head is entirely in shadow, with none of his features visible.

Edward Woodward as Sgt. Howie, viewed from the back. the left side of his face as visible. he leans on the bed as he prays, wearing a harsh expression.

at the top, some messy hebrew text in cursive script, containing general impressions regarding the scene. the words "נא לזכור", which open the paragraph, are underlined.

the left page contains:

a zoomed-in view of a snail's skin, showing its texture. it is labeled, in the same loose hebrew script, "תקריב עורו הרירי של אחד החלזונות המזדווגים".

the same two snails mating, from a different angle - one looms over the other's shell.

Sgt. Howie viewed from the back, again posed for prayer. his face is turned to look directly at the camera, and he is lit intensely, heavy shadows obscuring the left side of his face and hiding the details of his expression.

a zoomed-in view of Lord Summerisle's left eye, which is primarily in shadow. it is labeled - "תקריב עינו של הלורד סאמראייל הצופה".

the same two snails mating, their heads entangled. it is hard to separate the two figures from each other as they are in intense shadow.

to the right, boxed text reading: "בוהק הוא הרושם הבולט ביותר בכל תמונה". the first word is underlined.

at the bottom, hebrew text containing general visual impressions from the sketching process. next to it, some title options, written as a list. /.End ID]

preparatory studies. referenced from the gently johnny/song of myself scene from the wicker man.