RIP Alan Rickman

[Sylvia]

I think this is NOT true -- Brian Blessed just tweeted about Alan Rickman today

https://twitter.com/brianblessed/status/687654172657881089

Alan Rickman was a joy to work with on Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, a riviting and magnificent actor. RIP
7:15 AM - 14 Jan 2016

 

[liv]

Oh man, what is it this week?

I loved Snape, he made that role come alive... how he precisely pronounced each word for emphasis... or casually smacked Harry on the head... so great.

RIP, Mr. Rickman, you will be missed.

 

[falling_dance]

Another British actor, Brian Blessed, who voiced the title role in the Disney animated "Robin Hood", as well as having done much award-winning work on the British, Canadian and American stages, also has died.

https://twitter.com/brianblessed/status/687654172657881089

Brian Bedford passed away yesterday.

 

[skatingfan5]

Brian Bedford passed away yesterday.

Thank you for clearing up the misunderstanding.

 

[PeterG]

My three favourite Alan Rickman performances...

A Little Chaos

Snow Cake

Truly Madly Deeply

(Hankies recommended.)

 

[susan6]

Oh man, what is it this week?

I loved Snape, he made that role come alive... how he precisely pronounced each word for emphasis... or casually smacked Harry on the head... so great.

RIP, Mr. Rickman, you will be missed.

"Turn to page three hundred and ninety four."
I've wished sooooo many times that I could treat some of the lazier of my chem students the way Snape did. But I couldn't do it justice (...and I would be fired).

 

[Cachoo]

My three favourite Alan Rickman performances...

A Little Chaos

Snow Cake

Truly Madly Deeply

(Hankies recommended.)

I've never even heard of "Snow Cake." Thanks for posting it.

 

[PeterG]

I've never even heard of "Snow Cake." Thanks for posting it.

Hang out in the movies thread. We'll take ya places!!

 

[Artemis@BC]

He also directed a wonderful, understated little film called The Winter Guest. He had some great talent to work with there (including Emma Thompson and her mother, Phyllida Law), but it still showed a great deal of sensitivity.

His only other directing gig (that I know of) I didn't love nearly as much -- A Little Chaos. But that was because of the script, not the direction.

 

[Aussie Willy]

Oh no. Loved Alan Rickman. Hans Gruber is still one of my all time favourite villains. And he was the only good thing in Robin Hood.

 

[escaflowne9282]

Oh no!

RIP Severus

 

[dinakt]

Such sad news. He was a wonderful actor.

 

[Alixana]

My three favourite Alan Rickman performances...

A Little Chaos

Snow Cake

Truly Madly Deeply

(Hankies recommended.)

Many, many hankies. But his performances are SO worth the swollen red eyes and runny nose. (And a teeny shout out to Alexander Dane aka Dr. Lazarus -- I loved him in Galaxy Quest!!)

 

[VALuvsMKwan]

I think this is NOT true -- Brian Blessed just tweeted about Alan Rickman today, so ..... I am very much hoping that you misinterpreted something you heard or read.

My sincerest apologies - Brian Bedford is the actor who passed. Above quoted post corrected. Thank you, falling_dance - I had not seen your correcting post above.

http://jezebel.com/brian-bedford-voice-of-disneys-hottest-cartoon-fox-ha-1753035866

http://www.playbill.com/news/articl...r-at-stratford-and-broadway-dies-at-80-379395

 

[Artemis@BC]

Not to turn a memorial into something political but ... I found this quote from Billy Bragg interesting:

"It's not only the timing of his death and the fact that he too was 69 that links him to David Bowie. Both were working class kids from council estates who went to art school where they gained enough confidence in their own creativity that they were able to go on to find fame and fortune. Is it still possible for working class kids to realise their potential in such a way? The art schools are almost gone, those that survive now charge a fortune. The social mobility that Rickman and Bowie experienced is increasingly stifled."

 

[skatesindreams]

A lovely tribute from Daniel Radcliffe:
http://www.upworthy.com/daniel-radc...ickman-contains-a-lesson-for-all-of-us?c=ufb1

 

[taf2002]

The last time I was as affected by a celebrity's death as I have been Alan Rickman's was in 1973 when my movie star crush died. I'm not blasé about anyone's death but usually if it's someone I don't know in RL I'm not really saddened. This death has really hit me hard. At age 69 he should have been around for maybe 20+ more years to give us lots more wonderful performances. Cancer sucks.

 

[TOADS]

I also enjoyed his performance in Quigley Down Under..

Since I am 69, I find the passing of Alan Rickman and David Bowie a little unsettling.....

RIP Alan Rickman....

 

[Artemis@BC]

One of his last works: this PSA.

It's really hard for me to accept that he's gone when I keep discovering new work from him ...

 

[overedge]

Not to turn a memorial into something political but ... I found this quote from Billy Bragg interesting:

"It's not only the timing of his death and the fact that he too was 69 that links him to David Bowie. Both were working class kids from council estates who went to art school where they gained enough confidence in their own creativity that they were able to go on to find fame and fortune. Is it still possible for working class kids to realise their potential in such a way? The art schools are almost gone, those that survive now charge a fortune. The social mobility that Rickman and Bowie experienced is increasingly stifled."

This is a great quote, and very true. The same could also be said of Ray Davies, Pete Townshend, Rod Stewart, Bryan Ferry....the 1960s art schools in England opened up a LOT of possibiities for their students. Even for the people who skipped out all the time and never graduated, or who never went on to be professional artists.

 

[jlai]

This is a great quote, and very true. The same could also be said of Ray Davies, Pete Townshend, Rod Stewart, Bryan Ferry....the 1960s art schools in England opened up a LOT of possibiities for their students.

Not to make this political, I find the social upward mobility issue to be true in general, not just in art.

 

[Johnny_Fever]

So sad. I didn't know he was fighting cancer. I too loved him in Sense and Sensibility and thought he was a great villain in Die Hard.

Rickman was the quintessential villain. Die Hard wouldn't have been Die Hard without him. "The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture." - Alfred Hitchcock

 

[Allskate]

He really was great at playing villains. But, it sounds like, in real life, he was wonderful to those around him:

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1so6djn

 

[Vagabond]

Not to turn a memorial into something political but ... I found this quote from Billy Bragg interesting:

"It's not only the timing of his death and the fact that he too was 69 that links him to David Bowie. Both were working class kids from council estates who went to art school where they gained enough confidence in their own creativity that they were able to go on to find fame and fortune. Is it still possible for working class kids to realise their potential in such a way? The art schools are almost gone, those that survive now charge a fortune. The social mobility that Rickman and Bowie experienced is increasingly stifled."

Not to turn a memorial into something political, but Billy Bragg is an old fuddy-duddy.

In the early 1960's, fewer than ten percent of the British population aged 18-25 pursued tertiary education. The percentage now is above forty percent. Social mobility in the U.K. is vastly greater now than it was fifty years ago.

 

[skatesindreams]

He really was great at playing villains. But, it sounds like, in real life, he was wonderful to those around him:

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1so6djn

This made me cry.
The poster; and many others, I'm sure, will carry Alan with them, always.

 

[floskate]

Not to turn a memorial into something political, but Billy Bragg is an old fuddy-duddy.

In the early 1960's, fewer than ten percent of the British population aged 18-25 pursued tertiary education. The percentage now is above forty percent. Social mobility in the U.K. is vastly greater now than it was fifty years ago.

To be fair tertiary education as a whole is a much bigger sphere than the specialist art school style vocational tuition that Billy Bragg is specifically referring to. As someone who was once lucky enough to be given funding to train in a leading London drama school - funding that was always very difficult to come by even 20 years ago- and now teach in one of the few remaining accredited performing arts schools within the UK; I concur with Bragg that fees are extortionate, grants are rare to non-existent (and the competition for them is insane) and he is essentially correct that social mobility within certain areas has now become more difficult. I have known so many over the years give up on their artistic dreams out of financial necessity and of those I currently teach the majority are almost exclusively from quite privileged backgrounds.

 

[taf2002]

I usually love thread drift but please don't.

 

[Vagabond]

To be fair tertiary education as a whole is a much bigger sphere than the specialist art school style vocational tuition that Billy Bragg is specifically referring to.

But that's just it. Art schools have, in many respects, been superseded by art and design courses at universities. The David Bowies and Alan Rickmans of the future may well be in such programs right now.

I usually love thread drift but please don't.

The poster who quoted Bragg knew exactly what she was doing. So, for that matter, did Bragg, when he made his comments. If you don't want to watch the thread drift, don't read this thread.

 

[taf2002]

 

[Lorac]

He really was great at playing villains. But, it sounds like, in real life, he was wonderful to those around him:

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1so6djn

Lovely testimonial there. Daniel Radcliffe also commented how Alan Rickman came to see everything he was in on both sides of the pond because he was so supportive of young actors and actresses. He mentored so many and their - and our- lives are richer for it.