A lovely film too, with a brilliant score.Ĩ.
It’s a more upbeat, warm role than we’re used to seeing him play on the big screen, and it’s smart casting to put him in a part that he’s not, on paper at least, the most obvious choice for. And what a performance of measured restraint Rickman delivers. That makes him part of the love triangle for Marianne’s (Kate Winslet) affections, putting him in competition with Greg Wise’s John Willoughby. In Ang Lee‘s version of Sense and Sensibility–adapted by and starring Emma Thompson–Alan Rickman gets to play Col. As it stands, he didn’t, nor was he ever recoginized by the Academy with a single nod. This starring part in a Jane Austen adaptation is the role that, by the logic of the Oscars, Rickman was most likely to get an Academy Award nomination for. Smith’s push to cast him was richly rewarded. It works though he comes in, does his work, makes an impression, and moves on. In casting terms, certainly, and the involvement of Alan Rickman led to the writer-director warning long time collaborator Jason Mewes that he “didn’t want to piss off that Rickman dude.” Wearing 100-pound wings and taking on the role of Metatron-the voice of God–Rickman isn’t in the film too much and tends to be disgruntled when he is. Kevin Smith‘s fourth film in some ways remains his most ambitious. But what amongst his film roles (and we’ve focused on films that got a theatrical release) are our favorites? Glad you asked… 10. One of the finest British screen actors of his generation–and a few others too–the late great had a varied career, taking in memorable Hollywood villains to smaller independent fare. Because we are human beings who like things that are good, it goes without saying that we love Alan Rickman.
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