The Sheriff dispatches forces to Robin’s family home in Locksley Castle, and then the next moment his supply lines are raided. It’s structured so that watching Rickman conceive of a strategy should add tension to the scenes of Robin gaining allies, but they end up playing for laughs as the Sheriff watches all of his tactics crumble. The Sheriff and Robin don’t actually trade blows until the film’s final moments, so for the most part Rickman is left on his own in Nottingham Castle concocting villainous schemes. “They love him for it?” His confusion is priceless. “Robin Hood steals money from my pocket, forcing me to hurt the public,” he proclaims. It’s hilarious watching the Sheriff attempt to explain Robin Hood’s appeal, ponderously musing as to how he’s disrupted his operation of Nottingham.
It wasn’t just that Rickman was playing for camp, but he pointed out the tired mythology.
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I didn’t know Alan Rickman, but I knew all those characters.RELATED: Exclusive: Here’s What the 'Galaxy Quest' TV Show Would Have Been About I know many of you feel the same way, and it’s a comfort amidst a weird sadness. It’s a rare and wonderful thing, I think, to witness a person with such empathetic ability in so many roles, with so much power that he wasn’t merely an actor. Just as David Bowie’s music and performances were the backdrop to moments of importance in people’s lives, Alan Rickman’s art and gift for portraying different shades of humanity developed my own imagination as I read, or re-read a character. I suspect there are a plethora of words to describe his talent, and I’m feeling unworthy of the task of coming up with even three of them. Sometimes his acting was based solely on stiffness and nostril flares.Īnd even when not acting, it was hard to look away. The man could work ten emotions with awkward hair, one sneer…Īnd the part where he broke people’s hearts. He spent a large portion of Prince of Thieves raping, threatening to rape, killing or beating people, and could still be desperately ridiculous enough to make me laugh. Shakespeare, Austen, JK Rowling, ancient fables, and on and on. He was always adding – never detracting – from the depiction, and his roles ranged all over the place in terms of literature. Talent that compelling is a gift to watch, especially when portraying fictional characters adapted for screen. Rickman was a master of the subtle “WTF?” He could mix sneering confidence, careful neutrality, and scorn, and I still wanted him to keep talking. Rickman was, of all things, an excellent villain. We discuss the redemption of the villain and the reformation of the bad guy fairly frequently in romance, as some of our favorite, enduring characters have a moral ambiguity or a straight up villainous past. In 27 years, he played some of the most memorable roles, from Colonel Brandon to Hans Gruber to Severus Snape to the Sherriff of Nottingham in the otherwise ridiculous Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Lesson acquired: it’s never too late to do the thing. In the rapid stream of sadness and detail today, I learned that Rickman started his film acting career at age 42 – go on with your bad self, sir. I think the majority of reactions echoed mine: NO. For the second time this week, checking Twitter resulted in a gut-punch of sadness with the news that Alan Rickman passed away today at age 69.
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