Religion and Ethics Forum
General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Shaker on January 14, 2016, 01:13:34 PM
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What a thoroughly shit start to a new year - Alan Rickman has died of cancer aged 69, someone else I hadn't even known was ill:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35313604
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Went to see him in Liaisons Dangereuses, was absolutely stunning.
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He was good in the Barchester Towers series and Harry Potter.
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Noooooo. :(
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Dear Shaker,
A brilliant baddie, RIP Mr Rickman.
Gonnagle.
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Obadiah Slope
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcwNdUkNCik
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The sun ain't gonna shine any more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ52td1GMT0
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Can't even remember what I first saw, or heard him in; he has been such a permanent fixture for so long now. British theatre and film will be the poorer for his loss.
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John Sessions does a superb Alan Rickman on QI some years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc3OyvbJkj4
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It's all in the voice - him and James Mason. Wonderful, dare I say it, yes I will, sexy voices.
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It's all in the voice - him and James Mason. Wonderful, dare I say it, yes I will, sexy voices.
The lad's not wrong. But put Burton (of course) on the list:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgF1fzCqu-k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAua7Q9WuXw
The second one - reading from Christopher Fry's 1938 verse drama The Boy With a Cart - has a pause before the final four words that gets me every time.
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Just been discussing both Alan Rickman and Bowie with the kids over dinner. It might just be me but I find the fact that the deaths of two 69 year olds have touched three youngsters so deeply rather moving.
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Just been discussing both Alan Rickman and Bowie with the kids over dinner. It might just be me but I find the fact that the deaths of two 69 year olds have touched three youngsters so deeply rather moving.
Rickman I can understand; not his stage work, not even Die Hard or Truly, Madly, Deeply, but for a youngster his recent appearance in the Harry Potter films is why he'd be familiar. That I get.
Bowie is more surprising - I'd have leapt to the conclusion that for most youngsters it would have been "David who?" and for the minority tangentially aware of him, something of the oh-some-old-bloke-who-was-big-years-ago (and even the most fanatical Bowie fan would if they were honest have to concede that the very best work by which he will be remembered stems mostly from the 1970s). It takes an older-than-their-years, particularly switched-on youngster to know about both and to be aware of their stature in the arts.
Speaks volumes for your parenting, Rhi :)
This has reminded me that I was just about to listen to Heroes, one of my all-time favourite tracks and potentially the greatest rock tune ever (next to, or alongside, Gimme Shelter) and I just can't bring myself do it :(
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Yeah, he was good in Die Hard. That's what I'll remember him for, Hans Gruber.
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Saw him years ago in Stratford when he was part of the RSC. Superb voice and a fine actor. Sad to see he has died.
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Can't even remember what I first saw
Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves for me. He was the best thing in that film by a mile. Then Hans Gruber: You asked for miracles, I give you the F B I.
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Holly Gennero McClane: After all your posturing, all your little speeches, you're nothing but a common thief.
Hans Gruber: I am an exceptional thief, Mrs. McClane. And since I'm moving up to kidnapping, you should be more polite.
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:'(
Just heard.
I remember him best in Dogma and Harry Potter.
Another of my favourites dies :(
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This has reminded me that I was just about to listen to Heroes, one of my all-time favourite tracks and potentially the greatest rock tune ever (next to, or alongside, Gimme Shelter) and I just can't bring myself do it :(
I understand that Rickman had a pretty good singing voice as well!!