The most tragic British loss in recent times is of course the passing of esteemed actor Alan Rickman. Hans Gruber to some, Professor Snape to others, the wicked supervillain from Love Actually to all: He was a titan onscreen. And quite the little gossip hound off-screen. Madly, Deeply The Diaries of Alan Rickman a posthumous compilation of Rickman is diaries, will be released by U.K. publisher Canongae on October 4. Rickman began writing in 1992 amounting to 26 volumes up to his death in 2016. Vulture has rounded up excerpts of Rickman being especially charming, opinionated, and candid in his writing. Below tidbits we learned from the non-Horcrux diary of Alan Rickman .On August 23 2000, Rickman accepted his role in the first Harry Potter film. The next day he writes that he was feeling a bit nothing about HP which really disturbs me.
He writes that the first movie acquires a scale and depth that matches the hideous score by John Williams on the night of the premiere. The day got off to a fabulous start with the screen guillotining on to my head a sudden swift blackout followed by day long melancholy he writes on July 30 2003. Alfonso Cuarón director was quietly ballistic with me. I love him too much to let it last too long so I wailed offset and we sorted it out.
We should all be so lucky to walk into a party and have this exact initial reaction at least once in our lives Tim Spall thank God.On March 10, 2008, Rickman writes The line take out your wand’ reduces Helena Bonham Carter to helpless mirth and will be a bit of a Waterloo come Thursday.
He calls the 2008 BAFTAs meaningless because they did not nominate Sweeney Todd. Then he thinks the Alice in Wonderland remake was absolutely ravishing strange and deep and complex and beautiful. He was a much more rigorous movie critic in the 90s and early aughts.
In the Line of Fire is an unbelievable Die Hard rip-off. Adversaries on the phone to each other, falling from a skyscraper etc etc. He says he went into Last Action Hero with no axes grinding but it is a very bad movie Forrest Gump prompts a long, dark night of the soul: I had sworn I would not go. I went and it was as horrific as I had thought but in a totally different way. A clear attempt had been made to dilute the sentimentality but along the way the film has its cake eats it and spits it out with Vietnam, ‘unnamed viruses etc.
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