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Katre · Apr 27, 2004, 08:53 AM

I like Rickman. But the way the film industry works, there is a depressing tendency for him to get type cast as comic Grand Guignol villains. As such, he is always equal to himself, (unforgettable as the Sheriff of Nottingham or the sleazy political spinmaster in Bob Roberts) but underused IMHO. He is capable of so many more dimensions, and is never so good as when he is cast against type.

My favorite performance by him though is as the revenant cellist in Anthony Minghella's Truly Madly Deeply, we have a delightfully nuanced comic portrayal, seductive enough
to get called back from the dead by the grief of his distraught widow, but also sufficiently annoying, flimsy and full of ticks, as to teach her to dispense with his memory and get on with her life.

So what do you guys think, do you think there's more to him than just a villain?

voodoo · Apr 27, 2004, 08:54 AM

Alan Rickman is so unbelievably cool. !

gorickey · Apr 27, 2004, 08:55 AM

Originally posted by Katre:
So what do you guys think, do you think there's more to him than just a villain?

I could see him playing "Donkey" in Shrek 3 yes...

awcopus · Apr 27, 2004, 09:02 AM

I like this turn in Sense and Sensibility.

Sherwin · Apr 27, 2004, 09:05 AM

Originally posted by Katre:
So what do you guys think, do you think there's more to him than just a villain?

Watch Dogma.

philzilla · Apr 27, 2004, 09:06 AM

right, that's it. i'm stopping work and watching Die Hard, right now.

gorickey · Apr 27, 2004, 09:11 AM

Originally posted by philzilla:
right, that's it. i'm stopping work and watching Die Hard, right now.

"Ho-Ho-Ho"...

Diggory Laycock · Apr 27, 2004, 09:23 AM

"'Vere are my detonators, Maclean?"

voodoo · Apr 27, 2004, 09:41 AM

What is it... Potter?

rjenkinson · Apr 27, 2004, 09:50 AM

quigley down under = tom selleck vs. alan rickman

-r.

MacGorilla · Apr 27, 2004, 10:06 AM

Alan Rickman is awesome. Casting him as Snape was a stroke of genius.

mitchell_pgh · Apr 27, 2004, 10:16 AM

He plays a good guy in Harry Potter... well, kind of...

fizzlemynizzle · Apr 27, 2004, 10:19 AM

Originally posted by MacGorilla:
Alan Rickman is awesome. Casting him as Snape was a stroke of genius.

Well.. With Alan Rickman playing Snape, Jason Isaacs playing Lucius Malfoy, and Kenneth Branagh having played Lockhart.. what evil English dudes are left to play Voldemort??

voodoo · Apr 27, 2004, 10:33 AM

Originally posted by fizzlemynizzle:
Well.. With Alan Rickman playing Snape, Jason Isaacs playing Lucius Malfoy, and Kenneth Branagh having played Lockhart.. what evil English dudes are left to play Voldemort??

Ian McDiermid?

Oisín · Apr 27, 2004, 10:39 AM

Originally posted by fizzlemynizzle:
Well.. With Alan Rickman playing Snape, Jason Isaacs playing Lucius Malfoy, and Kenneth Branagh having played Lockhart.. what evil English dudes are left to play Voldemort??

Rowan Atkinson?

andi*pandi · Apr 27, 2004, 10:59 AM

I always liked Truly Madly Deeply.

Alan Rickman is very very cool.

benign · Apr 27, 2004, 11:07 AM

Just like connery and caine before him, he plays himself.
Americans really eat that sort of thing up.

voodoo · Apr 27, 2004, 11:10 AM

Originally posted by benign:
Just like connery and caine before him, he plays himself.
Americans really eat that sort of thing up.

Wow. So he's cool in real life as well!!

benign · Apr 27, 2004, 12:07 PM

Originally posted by voodoo:
Wow. So he's cool in real life as well!!

and scandinavians it seems...

voodoo · Apr 27, 2004, 12:08 PM

Originally posted by benign:
and scandinavians it seems...

u bet

Demonhood · Apr 27, 2004, 01:15 PM

Originally posted by fizzlemynizzle:
Well.. With Alan Rickman playing Snape, Jason Isaacs playing Lucius Malfoy, and Kenneth Branagh having played Lockhart.. what evil English dudes are left to play Voldemort??

Jeremy Irons?

The Ginger Rat · Apr 27, 2004, 02:00 PM

Originally posted by fizzlemynizzle:
Well.. With Alan Rickman playing Snape, Jason Isaacs playing Lucius Malfoy, and Kenneth Branagh having played Lockhart.. what evil English dudes are left to play Voldemort??

Tsk, tsk- how could you forget David Warner? He's *always* the sneering smartass baddy!

benign · Apr 27, 2004, 02:57 PM

Originally posted by Demonhood:
Jeremy Irons?

His performance in the ''78 Sesame Street Special' was scary.

Spheric Harlot · Apr 27, 2004, 04:16 PM

Originally posted by Sherwin:
Watch Dogma.

Seconded.

Meta-what?

webcookie · Apr 27, 2004, 08:29 PM

Alan Rickman!! *faint*

Altix · Apr 27, 2004, 08:32 PM

Alan Rickman - the master of deadpan humour.

Katre · May 1, 2004, 01:51 PM

Originally posted by benign:
Just like connery and caine before him, he plays himself.
Americans really eat that sort of thing up.

Wow, really? Say what you will about Sean Connery and i actually agree, but aren't Rickman's roles in Die Hard and Galaxy Quest or Closetland for example quite different? I for one would never blame him for always "playing himself".
And if you believed him then the role closest to him in real life would be Truly Madly Deeply.
But whatever, it's great that you know him so well!

bewebste · May 1, 2004, 01:57 PM

Originally posted by Ois�n:
Rowan Atkinson?

Timo · May 1, 2004, 03:45 PM

Originally posted by MacGorilla:
Alan Rickman is awesome. Casting him as Snape was a stroke of genius.

yeah, and his campy, over the top style with it is fantastic. He looks like he's really having fun.

voodoo · May 1, 2004, 03:57 PM

Originally posted by Timo:
yeah, and his campy, over the top style with it is fantastic. He looks like he's really having fun.

I'm sure he is. He's the kind of guy who likes life. Very positive vibes emanating from him. Yep.

agentz · May 1, 2004, 06:54 PM

I think Alan Rickman is fantastic.

I spoke to him on the phone a couple of times a few years ago and his voice was instantly recognisable, unlike some other celebs I have met/spoken to IRL who sound totally different when they're not acting.

Timo · May 2, 2004, 01:08 AM

Originally posted by voodoo:
I'm sure he is. He's the kind of guy who likes life. Very positive vibes emanating from him. Yep.

oh I don't get the positive vibes thing at all. I think the guy might very well be a complicated, not-so-nice guy. But one having a really good time.

Freeflyer · May 2, 2004, 04:50 AM

A few years ago he played Hamlet in Liverpool. I went down about an hour after the box office opened and they'd sold out completely. That would have been a great production to watch, I'm sure. The reviews were consitently good.

Gutted to have missed it, he doesn't do much shakespear these days.

J.

voodoo · May 2, 2004, 06:59 AM

Originally posted by Timo:
oh I don't get the positive vibes thing at all. I think the guy might very well be a complicated, not-so-nice guy. But one having a really good time.

He's always struck me as having fun no matter what he does. Even if it's just a mundane B-movie part. I'd invite him to a party ..

willed · May 2, 2004, 11:06 AM

Originally posted by fizzlemynizzle:
Well.. With Alan Rickman playing Snape, Jason Isaacs playing Lucius Malfoy, and Kenneth Branagh having played Lockhart.. what evil English dudes are left to play Voldemort??

Christopher Lee - the official face of Evil since 1950.

hagheid · May 2, 2004, 03:21 PM

Originally posted by willed:
Christopher Lee - the official face of Evil since 1950.

I think Bill would be upset to hear this?

Katre · May 3, 2004, 05:15 AM

I think Gary Oldman is a nice adition to the cast aswell. Here's hoping that the next Harry Potter will be good, because the less said about the previous films the better.