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Alan Rickman IS Snape

#1 Post by Buffacuse » Wed Feb 18, 2009 5:03 pm

Just watched Prisoner of Azkaban again...I don't know if there has ever been a better casting decision.
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#2 Post by tlynn78 » Wed Feb 18, 2009 5:33 pm

ditto, ditto, ditto.

No one could be a better Snape. No. One.

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#3 Post by tubadave » Wed Feb 18, 2009 5:39 pm

I agree, and I say that knowing that the best is probably yet to come. Snape's biggest moments in the entire series happen in Half-Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows.
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#4 Post by macrae1234 » Wed Feb 18, 2009 6:23 pm

He is great whether as a villain Die Hard, Quigley Down Under, Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, Rasputin Golden GLobe win light comedy Love Actually docudrama Something the Lord Made or Snape in Harry Potter
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#5 Post by 5LD » Wed Feb 18, 2009 6:39 pm

Alan Rickman played Broadway in Private Lives when I lived there.

OMG. Even more fabulous in person.
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#6 Post by lilyvonschtupp26 » Wed Feb 18, 2009 7:35 pm

amen. he is awesome. I can't wait to see the next movies. he will have his finest moments. he was also in one of my favorite movies, Love Actually.
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#7 Post by Thousandaire » Wed Feb 18, 2009 8:13 pm

What's a snape? Is it like a snipe?
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#8 Post by secondchance » Wed Feb 18, 2009 8:17 pm

I posted this once before a long time ago, but must again in this thread.

Most have never heard of this movie, but it will blow your socks off. Rickman steals your heart in this very unusual tearjerking yet comedic love story.

PLEASE rent it - you won't be sorry. (and do not read about the plot - just enjoy it.)

Have seen it at least a half dozen times, and loved it each time.

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#9 Post by SportsFan68 » Wed Feb 18, 2009 8:59 pm

I posted a while back that the reason the Harry Potter books came along when they did was so that Rickman could play Snape. I couldn't find that post; musta been on the old Bored.
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#10 Post by SportsFan68 » Wed Feb 18, 2009 9:01 pm

I dunno -- I love him so much as a villain, I dunno if I can stand seeing him in a romantic role.
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#11 Post by secondchance » Wed Feb 18, 2009 9:04 pm

He plays somewhat cantankerous, so you'll still love him in it. :)
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#12 Post by a1mamacat » Wed Feb 18, 2009 9:06 pm

SportsFan68 wrote:I dunno -- I love him so much as a villain, I dunno if I can stand seeing him in a romantic role.
The Emma Thompson version of Sense and Sensibility casts him as Colonel Brandon.

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#13 Post by SportsFan68 » Wed Feb 18, 2009 9:07 pm

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SportsFan68 wrote:I dunno -- I love him so much as a villain, I dunno if I can stand seeing him in a romantic role.
The Emma Thompson version of Sense and Sensibility casts him as Colonel Brandon.

Pretty well done
Now that, I think I can handle. I wouldn't recognize him as Snape.
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#14 Post by SportsFan68 » Wed Feb 18, 2009 9:08 pm

Second Chance wrote:He plays somewhat cantankerous, so you'll still love him in it. :)

:D Probably. I guess I can't imagine hating him in a role. I voted him the best villain ever after I saw Quigley, and someone who's that good can probably play anything. Sorta like Donald Sutherland.
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#15 Post by tlynn78 » Thu Feb 19, 2009 10:43 am

Have seen it at least a half dozen times, and loved it each time.

It's called: TRULY, MADLY, DEEPLY
I better not, I'm more than half in love with him already.


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#16 Post by wintergreen48 » Thu Feb 19, 2009 11:40 am

Of course, the role for which he should have won an Oscar was Galaxy Quest.
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#17 Post by ulysses5019 » Thu Feb 19, 2009 11:41 am

wintergreen48 wrote:Of course, the role for which he should have won an Oscar was Galaxy Quest.
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#18 Post by ulysses5019 » Thu Feb 19, 2009 11:45 am

wintergreen48 wrote:Of course, the role for which he should have won an Oscar was Galaxy Quest.

With lines like this I think you're right:

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#19 Post by Sisyphean Fan » Thu Feb 19, 2009 11:48 am

Second Chance wrote:I posted this once before a long time ago, but must again in this thread.

Most have never heard of this movie, but it will blow your socks off. Rickman steals your heart in this very unusual tearjerking yet comedic love story.

PLEASE rent it - you won't be sorry. (and do not read about the plot - just enjoy it.)

Have seen it at least a half dozen times, and loved it each time.

It's called: TRULY, MADLY, DEEPLY
Since you said don't read the plot, I won't explain/spoil any further than asking if this is the one with Juliet Stevenson? If so, I agree GREAT MOVIE!

It probably battles for second with Die Hard as my favourite Rickman (after Dogma).
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#20 Post by secondchance » Thu Feb 19, 2009 1:50 pm

Sisyphean Fan wrote:
Second Chance wrote:I posted this once before a long time ago, but must again in this thread.

Most have never heard of this movie, but it will blow your socks off. Rickman steals your heart in this very unusual tearjerking yet comedic love story.

PLEASE rent it - you won't be sorry. (and do not read about the plot - just enjoy it.)

Have seen it at least a half dozen times, and loved it each time.

It's called: TRULY, MADLY, DEEPLY
Since you said don't read the plot, I won't explain/spoil any further than asking if this is the one with Juliet Stevenson? If so, I agree GREAT MOVIE!

It probably battles for second with Die Hard as my favourite Rickman (after Dogma).
Yes! That's the one. Any Rickman fan should see it. Would you consider it a chick-flick? I think it's an everyone-flick. :)
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#21 Post by SportsFan68 » Thu Feb 19, 2009 2:45 pm

Sisyphean Fan wrote:
Second Chance wrote:I posted this once before a long time ago, but must again in this thread.

Most have never heard of this movie, but it will blow your socks off. Rickman steals your heart in this very unusual tearjerking yet comedic love story.

PLEASE rent it - you won't be sorry. (and do not read about the plot - just enjoy it.)

Have seen it at least a half dozen times, and loved it each time.

It's called: TRULY, MADLY, DEEPLY
Since you said don't read the plot, I won't explain/spoil any further than asking if this is the one with Juliet Stevenson? If so, I agree GREAT MOVIE!

It probably battles for second with Die Hard as my favourite Rickman (after Dogma).
1. Snape.
2. Quigley
3. Die Hard

I've never seen Dogma, dint know he was in it.
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#22 Post by macrae1234 » Thu Feb 19, 2009 4:56 pm

DId you know that Rickman was not the first choice to play Snape in the Potter movie he got the role when
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#23 Post by SportsFan68 » Thu Feb 19, 2009 5:10 pm

macrae1234 wrote:DId you know that Rickman was not the first choice to play Snape in the Potter movie he got the role when
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Tim Roth currently playing Dr Lightman on Fox's Lie to Me
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Rickman was JKR's first choice, so that's all right.

Roth woulda been like Michael Gambon as Dumbledore. He's OK, but he's not perfect like Harris was. Kinda tough to play somebody after you've died, of course. :(
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#24 Post by Sisyphean Fan » Thu Feb 19, 2009 5:12 pm

Second Chance wrote:
Sisyphean Fan wrote:
Second Chance wrote:I posted this once before a long time ago, but must again in this thread.

Most have never heard of this movie, but it will blow your socks off. Rickman steals your heart in this very unusual tearjerking yet comedic love story.

PLEASE rent it - you won't be sorry. (and do not read about the plot - just enjoy it.)

Have seen it at least a half dozen times, and loved it each time.

It's called: TRULY, MADLY, DEEPLY
Since you said don't read the plot, I won't explain/spoil any further than asking if this is the one with Juliet Stevenson? If so, I agree GREAT MOVIE!

It probably battles for second with Die Hard as my favourite Rickman (after Dogma).
Yes! That's the one. Any Rickman fan should see it. Would you consider it a chick-flick? I think it's an everyone-flick. :)
I don't like chick flicks, so I wouldn't consider it as such. However, some people's definitions vary. I like a nice tearjerking sobfest just as much (if not more) than the next person, but I don't generally like romantic comedies and those are what I call 'chick flicks'.
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