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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.
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
...Galaxy Quest ought to rate higher than Die Hard here...
So it will hurt more, stupid.
You made this all up. What a dweeb!
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For chrissakes, he just alienated about 85% of all the Geeks I know. Galaxy Quest is one of the best Star Trek movies ever made, and in no small part because Rickman's ability to deliver cutting dialogue was second to none. Only Kevin Spacey could rival Rickman for the heart-stopping put down.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
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.
There are certain actors whose ability to deliver their lines transcends the lines themselves. Rickman was one. It didn't really matter what he was playing, the voice alone was worth the price of admission. Christopher Walken is another one. I've seen him in the shittiest little films, but whenever he's on screen, somehow it just works. I'd put Samuel L. Jackson up there as well. Only he could make a movie as awful as Snakes On A Plain interesting.
Rickman will be missed. Most of us know him from Harry Potter and Galaxy Quest, but he was more renowned in Britain for his theater work.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
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!!!
Indeed ... "I see you've managed to get your shirt off" is one of the best lines imaginable.
And if Sigourney Weaver saying "I mean, this is unreal. They're gonna start eating each other out there." isn't a brilliant send-up of rabid Trekkies, I have no idea what is.
Galaxy Quest is a brilliant movie, and Rickman was about the most perfect for that character you could imagine.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
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!
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.