Comments on: Truly, Madly, Deeply

By: ErisGuy

ErisGuy — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 16:14:21 +0000

Strange that poem, half Communist, half romantic.

By: ErisGuy

ErisGuy — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 16:11:07 +0000

I enjoyed Rickman best in Bottle Shock, which also features Pine, Farina, Pullman, and Sandoval.

By: Qae

Qae — Sun, 17 Jan 2016 17:51:05 +0000

I expected very little from this particular film, but was pleasantly surprised. Rickman (and, to be fair, Helena Bonham-Carter) elevated this version of ‘Sweeney Todd’ and made it worth watching.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omD3m-xwBWk

By: blert

blert — Sun, 17 Jan 2016 07:28:16 +0000

Turner Classic Network is broadcasting “Sense and Sensibility” in his honor.

I LOVED him in Diehard.

I also loved it when he “cancelled Christmas.”

What a wonderful actor.

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Sun, 17 Jan 2016 01:32:07 +0000

Ann:

I’d say “honey AND a hidden stiletto blade, both at once.”

By: Ann

Ann — Sun, 17 Jan 2016 00:19:36 +0000

There's a good piece on him in the Telegraph, which says he "hailed from working-class roots". That surprised me; I would have guessed an aristocratic lineage. I think this tribute by Helen Mirren is just right: "He was utterly distinctive, with a voice that could suggest honey or a hidden stiletto blade, and the profile of a Roman Emperor."

By: Orson

Orson — Sat, 16 Jan 2016 23:14:32 +0000

Yes, “Truly, Madly, Deeply” is his best picture.

The villainous man I loved to hate the most – or at least played them the most memorably – is now well and truly gone. And gone too soon.

Some of life’s best, most meaningful dialogs are with the dead. Such a paradox – isn’t it? And turning the stuff of life like that into a rom-com was truly inspired.

Here are a couple of appropriate lines from “Truly”:

Jamie [Rickman]: I blame the government.
Nina: What?
Jamie: The government.
Nina: What’s the government got to do with anything?
Jamie: I hate the bastards.
_ _ _

Nina: You’re dead and you’re still into party politics?