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Five Curtain Calls. Five.
14/1/16 07:56It shoulda been a million. Shoulda been enough to keep him here.
Alan Rickman is gone. I saw him on stage in Dangerous Liaisons back in the 80s (before Die Hard) from a seat so cheap I was practically bumping my head on the ceiling. It didn't matter--his physicality, and his voice, created Valmont indelibly (and sexily). And then there was Die Hard. And Truly, Madly, Deeply. And that insane turn in Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves. And the Metatron in Dogma. And Snape. And his turn with Emma Thompson in Love Actually. And and and...
His Colonel Brandon in Sense and Sensibility, a miracle of gravity and love and generosity and quiet anguish. And that voice ("Give me some occupation, Miss Dashwood, or I shall run mad." He was not a handsome man, but it didn't matter, because he was intelligent and sexy, and deeply talented.
There's a lovely candid photo of Rickman and Daniel Radcliffe in one of the later Harry Potter films (Half Blood Prince, maybe?) with RIckman in his full Snape drag, standing over Radcliffe. They have both cracked up about something, and Rickman's face, despite the makeup and the ropy black wig, is alight with humor and friendship.
I hate mortality.
Alan Rickman is gone. I saw him on stage in Dangerous Liaisons back in the 80s (before Die Hard) from a seat so cheap I was practically bumping my head on the ceiling. It didn't matter--his physicality, and his voice, created Valmont indelibly (and sexily). And then there was Die Hard. And Truly, Madly, Deeply. And that insane turn in Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves. And the Metatron in Dogma. And Snape. And his turn with Emma Thompson in Love Actually. And and and...
His Colonel Brandon in Sense and Sensibility, a miracle of gravity and love and generosity and quiet anguish. And that voice ("Give me some occupation, Miss Dashwood, or I shall run mad." He was not a handsome man, but it didn't matter, because he was intelligent and sexy, and deeply talented.
There's a lovely candid photo of Rickman and Daniel Radcliffe in one of the later Harry Potter films (Half Blood Prince, maybe?) with RIckman in his full Snape drag, standing over Radcliffe. They have both cracked up about something, and Rickman's face, despite the makeup and the ropy black wig, is alight with humor and friendship.
I hate mortality.