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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 melling »

kunai wrote: post #7

Bowie on Monday, now Rickman on Thursday. Both were 69. Both were fighting cancer. And both were veritable giants both on and off stage. I feel like someone's gutted me of emotion and left me cold and numb — which is kind of funny considering I've never met or spoken to either. It's truly a wonder how much celebrities and great artists can shape us and shape our society. Today has been a dark, dark week for the world…

Hopefully, we get a successful "Cancer Moonshot". The war on cancer is almost 50 years old.

I was recently surprised to learn that pancreatic cancer is becoming treatable, at least in some cases:

http://www.cancermoonshot2020.org

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

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Post by fenomas »

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.

John Sessions told an anecdote on QI where a child asked Rickman why he always played villains, and he responded "I don't play villains... I play very interesting people".

Video: https://youtu.be/5BYeI6Cn6dk?t=46s

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

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Post by venomsnake »

kunai wrote: post #7

Bowie on Monday, now Rickman on Thursday. Both were 69. Both were fighting cancer. And both were veritable giants both on and off stage. I feel like someone's gutted me of emotion and left me cold and numb — which is kind of funny considering I've never met or spoken to either. It's truly a wonder how much celebrities and great artists can shape us and shape our society. Today has been a dark, dark week for the world…

And Lemmy a week before. It has been a reaper's gale month for some of the finest artists in the world.

Rickman will be missed. He managed to put a lot of life into any story.

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

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Post by rwmurrayVT »

Pxtl wrote: post #8
dovdov wrote: post #5

I guess my generation came to the age where we start losing our child-, teen-, and adulthood stars. At least we still got the Kardashians and EDM. /s RIP Hans Gruber :')

What's wrong with edm?

Nothing.

GP likes to believe his generation was God's gift to Earth and seems to forget the generation above his probably didn't like rock and roll. Classic baby boomer.

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

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Post by venomsnake »

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.

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