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Post by Nikan on Jan 12, 2021 16:15:03 GMT
Snape, really...
Thoughts? Favorite films and performances?
Dissing Stanislavski:
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Post by thomasjerome on Jan 12, 2021 16:23:50 GMT
Usually I'm not blown away by his work or range. I feel like "Die Hard" and "Harry Potter" films convinced people that he's better than he actually was but still a very charismatic presence with some fine performances to his name. Enjoyed him in "An Awfully Big Adventure', "Sense and Sensibility" and "Closet Land". I appreciate that he tried to do comedy in "Galaxy Quest" and "Dogma" but he's hardly the MVP in any of those movies.
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Jan 12, 2021 16:28:01 GMT
Can't comment fully now, but just wanna say his Best Supporting Actor BAFTA win for Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is so fucking awesome.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 12, 2021 16:55:49 GMT
Like him particularly his very "outside the box" performance in Truly, Madly, Deeply
He's maybe the most obvious UK example of a guy who could be seen as being far greater maybe even than his reputation (and he has a big reputation) if you just gave him better roles - that his talent actually outweighed his career.......
He was exactly between the great 60s UK actors (Hopkins, Finney, Caine etc) and the 80s class - DDL, Fiennes, Oldman.......and you could theoretically have seen him rivaling all the people like him in his particular UK age class - Irons, Pryce, Kingsley but no one would ever rank Rickman with them as far as I see it (maybe Pryce).......except the people he acted opposite..........co-stars always raved him.
Very much a singular figure among UK actors......and in how he's perceived - never Oscar nodded, but nodded 4 times for BAFTAs (with a win) in 6 years....that is unlikely to happen again I would think without an Oscar nod - and that doesn't include Die Hard even (!?!)
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Post by Nikan on Jan 12, 2021 17:42:05 GMT
He's maybe the most obvious UK example of a guy who could be seen as being far greater maybe even than his reputation (and he has a big reputation) if you just gave him better roles - that his talent actually outweighed his career... Yeah I suppose US loved seeing him as a villain only and that sort of limited the range he got to show to the mainstream... He made an unremarkable character in 'Love Actually' fairly memorable. |
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Post by TerryMontana on Jan 12, 2021 18:16:48 GMT
Oh, I really like him!! He was one of the best English actors in the 90s and 00s.
Some of his best work imo, just from the top of my head: Sense and Sensibility, Sweeney Todd, Robin Hood and Love Actually.
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Post by hugobolso on Jan 19, 2021 2:24:23 GMT
He was Great un Sense and Sensibility.
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