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Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dies Aged 69

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Re: Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dies Aged 69

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Post by logfromblammo »

tempodox wrote: post #89
lionize wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Everyone who dies has probably used a smart phone or the internet so lets start the avalanche!

Well, everyone who has ever lived has also died.

You have that backwards. Everyone who has ever died had previously lived.

Besides that, all people still currently living have not died.

Re: Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dies Aged 69

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Post by spike021 »

venomsnake wrote: post #19
celticninja wrote: post #4

As a bad guy he was amazing, Hans Gruber, Sheriff of Nottingham and Snape are probably the finest examples of his work in this area but he was never limited to just the bad guy he just played them so well when he did.

While the three of them were antagonists, I would not qualify them as bad guys or villains. The only really bad guy I can remember he was playing was the judge in Sweeny Todd.

Agreed for Snape's character.

Re: Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dies Aged 69

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Post by pjc50 »

Patient0 wrote: post #65
arethuza wrote: post #52

"By Grabthar's hammer, by the suns of Warvan, you shall be avenged!" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_Quest

My favourite bit of that movie (Rickman plays Sir Alexander Dane, a proud thespian whose once illustrious career has been destroyed by Galaxy Quest typecasting him into this humiliating role): Jason Nesmith: You WILL go out there. Sir Alexander Dane: I won't and nothing you say will make me. Jason Nesmith: The Show Must Go On. Sir Alexander Dane: ...Damn you.

.. riffing on not only Patrick Stewart and Alec Guinness, but also Rickman himself going from Serious Theatre to Hollywood action movies.

Rickman clealy had a lot of fun playing villains; apparently he improvised or re-wrote most of his lines in Robin Hood, making it hilarious.

Re: Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dies Aged 69

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Post by sp332 »

tempodox wrote: post #89
lionize wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Everyone who dies has probably used a smart phone or the internet so lets start the avalanche!

Well, everyone who has ever lived has also died.

Well there are still >7 billion people that don't fit your categorization, which means only 93% of people who have lived have died. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-li...

Re: Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dies Aged 69

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Post by celticninja »

venomsnake wrote: post #19
celticninja wrote: post #4

As a bad guy he was amazing, Hans Gruber, Sheriff of Nottingham and Snape are probably the finest examples of his work in this area but he was never limited to just the bad guy he just played them so well when he did.

While the three of them were antagonists, I would not qualify them as bad guys or villains. The only really bad guy I can remember he was playing was the judge in Sweeny Todd.

Really? Gruber was an out and out thief and murderer who used terrorism as a front for his plans.

The Sheriff was also a proper villain, doing whatever he could to try and ensure he ended up on the throne.

I concede on Snape.

Re: Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dies Aged 69

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Post by Angostura »

drzaiusapelord wrote: post #77
paulpauper wrote: post #36

between david bowie and this, cancer seems to be the midlife killer of choice . Much process has been made in heart disease, but cancer? Not so much. Once it's spread, you're dead. (2 years usually)

How is 69 "midlife?" 40's is midlife. These guys hit their midlife in the 1980's. Bowie's midlife was 'Let's Dance' not 'Blackstar.' Rickman's midlife was 'Die Hard' not 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.' I suspect we're looking at these guys with their dyed hair, fit bodies, plastic surgeries, etc and thinking they're much younger than they truly are. These are 70 year old. They're old, old men. They died only…

Umm, my father wasn't an old man at 70. Neither was Bowie or Rickman. My father is old at 92.
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