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Ariel
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A fine actor who brought presence to the screen. So many good films. I can hardly believe it.
Rest in peace. ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
(What is the matter with this year?)
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A great actor indeed; he could sneer for England.
RIP.
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Blimey. So 45 is the age when people you admire and think of as not old, start to die every week. Time to see if the VHS still works and look at 'Dogma'.
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Close. 46 for me.
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I need to re-watch the "Barchester Chronicles" this evening -- he was such a wonderful, slimy Obadiah Slope. I also loved him as a totally different character in "Sense and Sensibility."
Truly one of top-three favorite actors.
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Lucky you. I'm 58, which is ten years younger than my Dad was when he died (men in my family have lousy life expectancy) and just a year younger than Willie Rushton was when he popped his clogs.
Maybe the 27 club has been replaced by the 69 club.
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
Maybe the 27 club has been replaced by the 69 club.
Careful! for at least 2 reasons. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Pine Marten
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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
I need to re-watch the "Barchester Chronicles" this evening -- he was such a wonderful, slimy Obadiah Slope. I also loved him as a totally different character in "Sense and Sensibility."
Truly one of top-three favorite actors.
Obadiah Slope was the first part I remember seeing him play. I can hear him now: 'Slope...'...<sigh>
Another one gone. How sad. RIP Mr Rickman
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Harry Potter and Sense and Sensibility are now basically unfilmable.
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Paul.
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Everyone's talking about Die Hard and Harry Potter but I like him in Sense and Sensibility and Galaxy Quest.
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Originally posted by Pine Marten:
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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
I need to re-watch the "Barchester Chronicles" this evening -- he was such a wonderful, slimy Obadiah Slope. I also loved him as a totally different character in "Sense and Sensibility."
Truly one of top-three favorite actors.
Obadiah Slope was the first part I remember seeing him play. I can hear him now: 'Slope...'...<sigh>
Another one gone. How sad. RIP Mr Rickman
Same here. Can't believe that was about 33 years ago!
What's the consensus on Truly Madly Deeply these days - great movie or sentimental schlock? I loved it, and thought Rickman was great in it. "The sun ain't gonna shine any more..." ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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I loved it too, though don't know whether I would now. Remember him as a very good Elliott in Private Lives in the West End c 2001, too.
[ 14. January 2016, 17:34: Message edited by: Albertus ]
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Originally posted by Paul.:
Everyone's talking about Die Hard and Harry Potter but I like him in Sense and Sensibility and Galaxy Quest.
Yes, I'm getting a bit tired of him being described as a screen villain. He was great in those roles, but he did so much more. I loved him in 'Dogma'.
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Another loss. Come on 2016, you are screwing with us, and it isn't funny.
I think I first noticed him in Harry Potter. He was superb in that, and his ability to characterise was superb.
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Originally posted by Adeodatus:
What's the consensus on Truly Madly Deeply these days - great movie or sentimental schlock? I loved it, and thought Rickman was great in it. "The sun ain't gonna shine any more..."
If any other two actors were the principles, if would have been treacle.
Rickman's character was such a whiney little grouch, but I still totally understood why (forgot her name!)missed him so much.
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Snape? Snape is dead?? I watched the whole series of films in caption and from the first movie, I visualised him in all my reading.
PS -Anyone have him in the Death Pool?
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I first noticed him as Slope in The BArchester Chronicles and kept an eye out for him ever after. I loved Truely, MAdly, deeply I hope it gets shown again on TV soon.
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Ariel
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Originally posted by Paul.:
Everyone's talking about Die Hard and Harry Potter but I like him in Sense and Sensibility and Galaxy Quest.
He was great in Galaxy Quest. I also liked him as the Sheriff in Robin Hood.
But there was just something about his first appearance in the first Harry Potter film. He commanded the scene from the moment he strode in, surveyed the classroom, flicked a hand at the windows and the shutters all immediately banged shut, and you knew there was a personality, without him even saying a word. He could do non-verbal expression brilliantly. The raised eyebrow, The Look, he had it. And of course that voice.
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Kelly Alves
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Agreed. And I agree that he totally defined Snape.
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Originally posted by Pine Marten:
Obadiah Slope was the first part I remember seeing him play. I can hear him now: 'Slope...'...<sigh>
Another one gone. How sad. RIP Mr Rickman
He had the sexiest voice - even made Obadiah Slope attractive.
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Banner Lady
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Oh that voice.
Thank God we have it in so many wonderful films to remember.
The last time I felt so sad about a great screen presence gone from us was when Yul Brunner died.
RIP Alan.
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Piglet
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I hadn't realised until someone mentioned it on FB that he was the voice of Marvin the Paranoid Android in the film of The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but now that I know, it makes perfect sense.
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He was great in Galaxy Quest.
YES!!! It's a really funny movie, and much more touching than one would think. He was terrific.
Boy, will I miss him. I have loved him in every role I've seen him play, and what a voice!
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Arabella Purity Winterbottom
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Barchester Chronicles, where he was outstanding in an already outstanding cast (Geraldine McEwan as Mrs Proudie!). When I first read Harry Potter, before any film had been cast, I heard Obadiah Slope played by Alan Rickman as Snape.
Galaxy Quest, which is simply one of my favourite films.
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe - I remember crowing when I heard he was playing Marvin because it was just too perfect a piece of casting.
He was a pretty good Blue Caterpiller in Alice in Wonderland, too.
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He was a pretty good Blue Caterpiller in Alice in Wonderland, too.
That's what I saw him in recently. Brilliant, perfect.
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I read the Harry Potter books before the films were made--at least, the ones that were written. So I had pictures in my mind of all the characters that were well established.
When I re-read the books after seeing the movies, there were only two characters who I began seeing in my mind as the movie versions instead of my original imaginings. One was Professor Minerva McGonagall and the other was Severius Snape.
I shall miss him.
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Albertus
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Originally posted by Albertus:
I loved it too, though don't know whether I would now.
I just checked. It's beautiful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAS8LhgYp2M
Funny thing is- slight tangent- Juliet Stevenson is great on film, but I've seen her twice on stage in rather different things- The Duchess of Malfi and private Lives (not opposite Rickman) - and her overacting was appalling- in fact we walked out of Private Lives because of it.
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jedijudy
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Daughter-Unit and I were in shock this morning when we heard the news. Alan Rickman was an amazing actor in everything he did.
Rest in Peace, Mr. Rickman.
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Loved him as the sheriff in Robin Hood. He made that part perfect.
RIP.
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Really? I rather thought he was chewing the scenery in that film, though it was a stinker.
He was much better in Michael Collins.
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Originally posted by Ariel:
...(What is the matter with this year?)
And it's barely begun!
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Ariel
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Someone posted this on Facebook so I thought I'd share it here for those who'd appreciate it.
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Ariel
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You can just hear him say it, can't you!
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Kelly Alves
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I have never seen a meme event like the last couple days.
Regarding" the voice"-- there is a cute clip from Family Guy featuring Rickman's answering machine. Rickman keeps calling it to leave stern reminders to himself about errands and such.
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Really? I rather thought he was chewing the scenery in that film, though it was a stinker.
Perhaps it was because he played opposite someone who might as well have been part of the scenery.
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I liked this one.
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Firenze that's brilliant.
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You can just hear him saying it, can't you?
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Kelly Alves
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Originally posted by Pine Marten:
Obadiah Slope was the first part I remember seeing him play. I can hear him now: 'Slope...'...<sigh>
Another one gone. How sad. RIP Mr Rickman
He had the sexiest voice - even made Obadiah Slope attractive.
I'm just gonna go on record as agreeing with this.
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Thanks Firenze, that's brilliant.
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I liked this one.
Oh, yes, that one! And very much mug- and t-shirt worthy.
He was wonderful as the full range of who Snape was. And the Sheriff of Nottingham.
I just checked out his IMDB page. (Great pic, BTW.) I've never quite gotten up the nerve to see "Sweeney Todd", but it might be worth it to see him in it. Didn't realize that was him in "Dogma", "Quigley", and "Die Hard". The IMDB page has a nice bio, plus lots of trivia and quotes. (E.g. JK Rowling envisioned him as Snape, when she was writing, but he almost didn't get the part. And Rickman really liked living in America!)
May he and all who care about him find peace.
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Pigwidgeon
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He had the sexiest voice - even made Obadiah Slope attractive.
I absolutely agree about his sexy voice. But Obadiah Slope attractive? I beg to disagree. And he shouldn't have -- Slope was a horrid person.
(I've been rewatching "Barchester" the last couple of evenings -- great mini-series based on wonderful books.)
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For those of you who would like to hear Alan Rickman's voice again - but for a good cause - you might want to look at this
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Arabella Purity Winterbottom
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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
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Originally posted by justlooking:
He had the sexiest voice - even made Obadiah Slope attractive.
I absolutely agree about his sexy voice. But Obadiah Slope attractive? I beg to disagree. And he shouldn't have -- Slope was a horrid person.
I almost can't watch the Slope scenes because he's so brilliantly awful.
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JK Rowling envisioned him as Snape, when she was writing, but he almost didn't get the part.
We had a family trip to the Harry Potter studios just before Christmas and spoke to someone who had worked on the props and costumes. He told us that Alan had said he wanted to be part of Harry Potter but didn't want to be a villain so J K Rowling took him aside and told him Snape's backstory, which was something only she knew at the time. It gives fresh insight to watch the films again, knowing that Alan knew what he did.
This is slightly different to what I've read on the IMDb site, have I missed something, GK?
[slight tangent] The Harry Potter studios are wonderful and well worth a visit if you get the chance. Even Mr Nen enjoyed it, and he at that time had not read any of the books or seen any of the films.[/slight tangent]
Nen - currently rewatching 'Truly Madly Deeply' in instalments and getting through some tissues.
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Oh, well done, Nen!
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Originally posted by Nenya:
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Originally posted by Golden Key:
JK Rowling envisioned him as Snape, when she was writing, but he almost didn't get the part.
We had a family trip to the Harry Potter studios just before Christmas and spoke to someone who had worked on the props and costumes. He told us that Alan had said he wanted to be part of Harry Potter but didn't want to be a villain so J K Rowling took him aside and told him Snape's backstory, which was something only she knew at the time. It gives fresh insight to watch the films again, knowing that Alan knew what he did.
This is slightly different to what I've read on the IMDb site, have I missed something, GK?
Per the trivia part of his IMDB page:
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Despite being author J.K. Rowling's first choice to play Snape in the Harry Potter films (she actually envisioned him when writing the character), he was only given the role in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) after Tim Roth (the studio's preferred choice) backed out to star in Planet of the Apes (2001).
(Several paragraphs later.)
Not long after he started to play Severus Snape in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001), J.K. Rowling told Rickman some character secrets about Snape that would not be otherwise revealed until the last book. Most significantly, for over seven years, Rickman was one of the very few people other than Rowling to know that Snape had been in love with Lily Evans (later Potter) when they were students at Hogwarts, and both Snape's protection of and antagonism toward Harry came from that. Rowling said that she shared this information with Rickman because "he needed to understand, I think, and does completely understand and did completely understand where this bitterness towards this boy, who's living proof of [Lily's] preference for another man, came from." When the directors of the films would ask him why he was playing a scene a certain way, or delivering a line in a particular manner, Rickman would simply reply that he knew something they didn't.
(And down in the Personal Quotes section.)
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