Alan Rickman (21 February 1946 – 14 January 2016)
January 16, 2016 5 Comments

21 Feb 1992 — British actor Alan Rickman — Image by © Didier OlivrÈ/Corbis
“If you want to know who I am, it is all in the work.”
“I don’t play villains, I play very interesting people.”
“When I’m 80 years old, I’ll be reading Harry Potter. And my family will say to me, “After all this time?” And I will say, “Always”. (Alan Rickman)
My first introduction to Alan Rickman was through seeing “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves” (1991) at a young age on a VHS. Rickman was the perfect villain there, impersonating Sheriff George of Nottingham with such passion, zeal and enthusiasm, he becomes a truly feared man, and I do not think that impersonation would ever leave me, so powerful it was. Then, of course, we also have Rickman’s “great villains” in “Die Hard” (1988) and “Quigley Down Under” (1990). I have always admired people playing villains. Unlike action-heroes or “goodies”, villains in films are people whom no one likes, but they are very important as without them, there will not be any praises for the glorious heroes. It also takes real acting skills to play a villain, and Alan Rickman could do so not just superbly and convincingly, but with that originality in his presentation that would be simply enviable.
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