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RIP Alan Rickman, AKA Hans Gruber, Severus Snape (variety.com)
TigerPlish writes to note Variety's report on the death of actor Alan Rickman, who died after a short bout with cancer, and was surrounded by friends and family when he went. Rickman may be most familiar to you as Hans Gruber in Die Hard (especially in his final scene), or as Harry Potter's Snape, but his film career was long, crossing genre lines and extending into five decades.
By Grabthar's Hammer, by the suns of Warvan, you shall be avenged
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Alan Rickman was also noted for his long-lasting partnership away from the limelight.
RIP Alan!
Gotta love Rickman as the alcoholic Metatron in Dogma. Hopefully where he is now he's actually allowed to swallow the tequila.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
I thought I was on Slashdot, but I appear to have stumbled into a celebrity news site.
It may be newsworthy, but it's covered everywhere else.
That scowling hump, Harry Potter, would have never owned the magical BFG9000 (aka Elder Wand. Seriously, who could lose to Voldemort packing that kind of heat?) if it wasn't for Snape's selfless act.
...Galaxy Quest ought to rate higher than Die Hard here...
Alan Rickman has played a number of iconic roles in his lifetime. That man has played a persona that has been part of my life in every decade of my being. Very appreciated, and certainly missed.
Now I'm off to see if there's a pub.
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He was great as the sheriff of nottingham, 90's robinhood wouldn't have been nearly as good without him. RIP
For me, Sir Alexander Dane from Galaxy Quest is his most defining role.
For another well-acted movie that pairs him with Sigourney Weaver check out Snow Cake.
I'll miss Rickman, he was an actor that I'd watch pretty much anything he was in because I'd enjoy watching him in it.
So it will hurt more, stupid.
Snape dies!
I think the obvious one was Die-Hard and his Hans Gruber is still the best movie villain. He was a great choice for Snape.
I have a warm place in my heart for him as:
- Meteatron in Dogma
- Alexander Dane in Galaxy Quest
- Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
and, of course, as Marvin the Paranoid Android in The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
RIP. You will be missed.
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There's a massive difference between Dweeb Culture and Nerd Culture.
Dweeb Culture is the one that's infatuated with shit like magic, dwarfs, elves, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, anime, and other fantasy nonsense.
Nerd Culture is focused on math, science, technology and engineering. The focus is on the real world, not on fictional shit that somebody made up.
Those who are part of the Dweeb Culture are the ones who dress up like animals and go to anime or Star Trek conventions, while writing fan fiction to jerk off to.
Those who are part of Nerd Culture are busy building spacecraft, designing computer hardware, writing computer software, or doing scientific research.
Nerds don't give a fuck about Harry Potter.
This will all end in tears.
We've lost Lemmy, Angus Scrimm (The Tall Man from Phantasm), David Bowie, and now Alan Rickman.
The world is changing, quickly.
Be afraid, be very afraid!
I first became aware of/noticed Rickman in Closet Land, a very dark psychological thriller in which he played a good-guy sadistic interrogator. Thought he was brilliant. RIP.
I mean, not a single eulogy to him mentions this role. He alone was the one saving grace of Robin Hood Prince of Thieves.
"Why a spoon, cousin, why not an axe?"
"Because it's DULL you twit, it'll hurt more!"
Can't for get that classic either.
Dropped off a building.
Stabbed by Robin Hood.
He played Rasputin (we all know how that went...)
Bitten by a snake.
Now cancer...
Poor dude just couldn't win!
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
Now, let's not forget Kevin Costner's mullet: what would 90's robinhood been without that...?
Not the beloved Hans from the classic comedy 'Allo, Allo'.
Better.
Both of them seem to make any movie they are in watchable.
Just think of "Highlander" without Connery or Rickman's Sheriff of Nottingham.
If they made a movie of the Seattle phone book and Rickman or Connery are in it i'd go watch it.
At least he didn't bother with an english accent. Now here something to think about, if there was no 90's robin hood there would have been no men in tights...that's a world no one can live in.
While Galaxy Quest was probably my favorite non-Harry-Potter movie that had Alan in it, Quigley Down Under ranks pretty close to it. "Oh, by the way, you're fired."
1. "Gentleman, you ask me for miracle and I give you the F.B.I." - Hans Gruber 2. "I'd like to tear his heart out with a spoon!" - Sheriff of Nottingham "Cousin, why a spoon?" "Because it's dull you twit, it'll hurt more!" - Sheriff of Nottingham
A friend of mine was with the audio crew for Galaxy Quest and when some of the stars were touring and in NYC he invited me to go with him to see them at a party. Met Rickman (and the others) - nice guy. And he lit up when I mentioned that I'd remembered him from one of the early episodes of Smiley's People (1982).
Said everybody wanted to talk about Galaxy Quest & the Die Hards & Sense and Sensibility &c, but "NObody EVER talks about Smiley's People, and I LOVED doing that episode and working with Sir Alec Guinness (who had then recently passed away)!". I liked him.
_I_ met Snape BEFORE he was Snape!
The best line in the movie: "That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, -- and call off Christmas!!!"
Without Rickman, that movie would have been as entertaining as Waterworld...
Don't talk to me about life!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Thank you, Mr. Rickman!
He also did the narration on "The Bell" from Tubular Bells II:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok7WG_Nikvw
Though for the music video they went back to the narrator for the first Tubular Bells album.
This is the Alan Rickman I recall. Legend has it that his part was cut back as he completely overshadowed Fishboy's Robin Hood in pre-release test screenings.
New Zealanders are well balanced with a chip on each shoulder. One represents Australia, the other the rest of the world
... the Angel Metatron. Get with the program.
Does anybody know Aaron Ramsey here ? He's a famous welsh football player. Every time he scores a goal, a celebrity dies. Alan Rickman is just another one in a rather long list including Osama bin Laden, Whitney Houston, and lately David Bowie.
...he was an exceptional actor!
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I'm surprise it doesn't seem it was mentioned that he was the voice of Marvin in "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" movie...
Lord of the Rings is literature -- high art, by a distinguished scholar. It is not just a great work of the English language, it is a great work by any standard in any language. Like all literature, you are free to find it boring. However, one must respect his creation of thousands of years' worth of history, legend, and myth, three to five languages (depending on how you count them), and the personal struggles of a few dozen principal characters in the backdrop of an epic war. As a feat of world-building it may never be equaled. As a narrative it has few flaws.
It is extremely foolish to disdain art because it is popular, or to say it is worthless simply because you deem it so. The entire rest of the world disagrees with you, which should be enough of an argument for any purpose.
"Unlike some other Robin Hoods, *I* can speak with an Englsh accent!" ... ah that's probably my favorite line from that movie.
The first part he played that comes to my mind, even before any of his HP performances, is Juliet Stevenson's not-so-dead cello-playing husband in this movie.
.. with lots of Lens flares .Whens that JJ remake of Lost in Space coming out? Carrot Top isn't getting any Younger
Snape was my favorite out of the entire story, books and films both.
"Always."
That one word says it all for me. That's why he's my favorite.
I'll miss Rickman. Any film he was in was better than it would've otherwise been.
The "Civilized World" jumped the shark ca. 1973.
He a Nerd/Dweeb terrific character with Computers way before it was cool.
I think my favorite line was King Richard: "Take him away! Put him in the Tower of London... make him part of the tour!"
And his American accent. Robin Hood just isn't Robin Hood unless he's American...
Looking on the plus side, we all know that celebrities die in threes. Within a week we've lost David Bowie and Alan Rickman, both aged 69, so clearly this set of three has a common theme of "male celebrities aged 69". You know who else is a male celebrity aged 69? Donald Trump.
Just sayin'
I always though Rickman's over-the-top cartoonish portrayal of the Sheriff ruined that movie. It was like having a Disney sidekick. Of course, Costner's lackluster performance of Robin wasn't helping. Other than that one role, I thought Rickman's other work was "brilliant." God I hate using that term as much as the Brits hate "Awesome."