"Gathering of the Clans"

[Just-Legal]

*sneaks in and steals Alan*

Gimmie Snape or gimmie death...

 

[MathGirl]

Okay, I gotta ask. Who the hell is Alan Rickman? I don't watch current movies. Am I really missing something?
MG
Ps. Who is Snape?

 

[Quasimodem]

Okay, I gotta ask. Who the hell is Alan Rickman? I don't watch current movies. Am I really missing something?
MG

Ps. Who is Snape?

If you only watch movies on TV, you will have seen Alan Rickman as the Australian ranch owner in “Quigley Down Under,” or the terrorist, Hans Gruber, in the original “Die Hard”

Hans: “I wanted this to be professional. Efficient, adroit, cooperative, not a lot to ask. Alas, your Mr. Takagi did not see it that way, so he won't be joining us for the rest of his life”

Alan Rickman seems to be typecast as the actor to be trusted with any “over-the-top” role.

Snape? A creature of HP fame, I presume.

I need a rest, I just read this thread as: "Gathering of the Clams"

 

[MathGirl]

I need a rest, I just read this thread as: "Gathering of the Clams"

Dear Quaz,
Darn, I made a typo when I started the thread. "Clams" is what I meant.
MG
Ps. I only watch movies I rent. I refuse to watch commercial TV, and HBO, etc. don't play movies I want to watch when I want to watch them. I must get a DVD player. I have to watch DVDs on my computer, and it ain't much of a screen.
Pps. Since I've never seen any of those movies, I still wouldn't know ARickman if he chased me down the street. Is my development irreparably arrested by this?

 

[Guest]

Alan Rickman seems to be typecast as the actor to be trusted with any “over-the-top” role.

Wroooonnnng. He's a very fine actor who managed to make a few extra bucks in Hollywood. He's excellent and subtle as Col. Brandon in Lee's "Sense and Sensibility". He has a voice to match an opera singer's in texture and timbre and its use. He directed a very fine film, "The Winter Guest" starring Emma Thompson just a few years ago. He ranks above any American actor I can think of at the moment.

He's an "intelligent" actor (as in "intelligent" singer or dancer) and that's the key for my attraction to any man.

Perdita

 

[Guest]

I still wouldn't know ARickman if he chased me down the street.

MG: whether chasing you or whatever, if you see this man call my cell (PMing the no. to you).

Perdita, your very good pal and adoring fan

p.s. I chose this pic for the caption; that's E. Thompson with AR.

 

[Quasimodem]

The Rickman Canon

Hans Gruber - terrorist in “Die Hard”
Elliott Marston - homicidal rancher in “Quigley Down Under”
Interrogator - sadistic policeman in “Closet Land”
Jamie - the ghost of a dead boyfriend in “Truly Madly Deeply”
Sheriff of Nottingham, - the pawn of a witch in “Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves”
Sinclair - husband of an incestuous woman in “Close My Eyes”
Franz Anton Mesmer - unorthodox practitioner of "animal magnetism" in “Mesmer”
Grigori Rasputin - the infamous "mad monk" in “Rasputin”
Eamon de Valera - the political opportunist in “Michael Collins”
Metatron - the snarkiest messenger God never sent in “Dogma”
Alexander Dane/Dr. Lazarus - spoofing Leonard Nemoy & himself in “Galaxy Quest”

And now Rickman has a continuing role as Snape in the Harry Potter series,
so how did I ever come up with the idea that Rickman is usually cast in a role
that permits/demands scenery chewing?

 

[Guest]

Rickman canon cont.

Thanks, Quaz. I just recalled "Blow Dry", a UK film; not a porn flic, AR is a hairdresser.

Perdita

 

[Quasimodem]

The Rickman Canon Continued, continued.

The voice of Joe - in “Hjælp, jeg er en fisk”
aka “Help I'm a Fish”

John Gissing - a contemporary comedian in “The Search for John Gissing.”

An unfortunate appearance in the Miramax-produced vanity-short “Standing Room Only.”

Harry - in “Love Actually” a UK film set for “limited” release, Nov. 21, 2003

 

[ffreak]

So why are Brit (as opposed to Irish, Scot, and Welsh) actors so good at portraying evil characters?

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Quasi, having read braille (a good book, but with a lot of bumps in the plot), I can tell you a Playboy centerfold (as opposed to the cheaper knock-off publishers who use a single pass on their pictures) has distinct layers of ink giving the contures of a woman's body richness in texture.
(I still don't think it was funny for them to replace my magazine with a Playgirl - took years to get over the trauma - I thought she had a tail).

 

[Quasimodem]

So why are Brit (as opposed to Irish, Scot, and Welsh) actors so good at portraying evil characters?. .

Rickman is not a Brit.

Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman was born to Irish and Welsh parents in 1946. He attended the Royal College of Art wishing to become a graphic artist. At age twenty-six, Rickman won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. His first major film credit was the lead villain, Hans Gruber, in the film “Die Hard.”

 

[ffreak]

Well, I beg your pardon. So the question becomes, why do the actors from the British Isles (there that's supposed to include everybody from England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and even the Islands) make such good villains?

 

[Quasimodem]

The same way one gets to the Met

 

[Guest]

Just posted a new thread on this.

Perdita

 

[Guest]

So why are Brit (as opposed to Irish, Scot, and Welsh) actors so good at portraying evil characters?

Sorry, I can't help myself. I know you posted a kind of correction, stating anyone from the British Isles.

'Brits' are not just English people, they are Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish.

I am a Brit, but to be more specific an English Brit. Sean Connery is also a Brit, but he is a Scottish Brit. Alan Rickman is a Brit, he's a Welsh/Irish Brit, but a British national nonetheless.

I know, it is confusing, but bear with me. The correct geographic name for our group of countries is The British Isles (which includes Ireland in its entireity.) The correct name, politically is Great Britain, but this only includes Northern Ireland, as it is under British sovereignty. Eire (Southern Ireland) is a completely seperate country. NI, Wales, Scotland and England are all 'ruled' by the Parliament in Westminster. However, Scotland, Wales and NI also have their own devolved parliaments. The Scottish parliament has more powers than that of the Welsh, and the NI Assembly has been disbanded, because of lack of agreement between the parties involved. Then we have the Duchy of Cornwall, that has ancient rules. There's also the Freemen of London, the Commoners of The New Forest. Confused yet?

If you have any more questions, just ask.

Literally politically correct,

Lou
(I knew my politics 'A' level would serve a purpose. )

 

[ffreak]

What about the folks on the outlying isles? (isle of man, the orkneys, and other ancient roosts)

 

[MathGirl]

Minor leagues

The same way one gets to the Met

Dear Quaz,
Yes, that's the usual way. After signing, the player generally works his way up through class A, AA and AAA ball until finally making the Mets. The Mets have a good farm system.
MG

 

[Guest]

What about the folks on the outlying isles? (isle of man, the orkneys, and other ancient roosts)

Ok, you asked...

The Isle of Man is part of England, although it does have its own laws and even currency, I think.
Jersey, Guernsey and the other channel Isles are also part of England, although they have their own laws, system of taxation and currency.
The Orkneys, The Shetlands and other 'northern' isles are part of Scotland.
Anglesea (sp?) is part of Wales.
The Scilly Isles are part of Cornwall, so also part of England.
The Isle of Wight is part of England.

Any more?

Lou

 

[MathGirl]

Huh.

The next time someone objects to my sidetracking a thread, I'd like to point out that this one originally concerned hairy Scots in skirts slinging telephone poles and yelling "Hoot Mon, Angus."

The difference, of course, is that I have absolutely no objections to the thread veering off course.
MG

 

[ffreak]

So, what do the mainlanders call these motes of self rule, lovey?

(see I'm trying to get that RP accent down - see perdita's thread on UK villains)

 

[Guest]

So, what do the mainlanders call these motes of self rule, lovey?

(see I'm trying to get that RP accent down - see perdita's thread on UK villains)

Islanders? I dunno really, we all have mutual respect for each other. We do still fight with the Scots, though. The Borders are a bloodbath. I ventured up that way a year or two ago and got haggis hurled at me.

Lou

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

We do still fight with the Scots, though. The Borders are a bloodbath. I ventured up that way a year or two ago and got haggis hurled at me.

Lou

They threw HAGGIS at you? How uncivilized. That's an indigestable weapon of mass disgustion. Isn't there something in the Geneva Convention outlawing the use of HAGGIS? I think it comes under the section on chemical warfare or maybe terror weapons.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[ffreak]

So did the Scots invent the sport of throwing telephone poles around because the Romans built that puny wall as a border? Or was it their way of thanking the Romans for providing a place to duck while they laughed their kilts off watching the apoplectic looks on the faces of men seeing denuded trees hurtling in the air at them?

trying to get back on track while ducking out of the way

 

[MathGirl]

Originally posted by Rumple Foreskin That's an indigestable weapon of mass disgustion.

Dear Rumple,
I believe that the mere threat of airborne haggis has kept the Scottish tourist trade depressed for several generations.
Hoot mon,
MG

 

[oggbashan]

So, what do the mainlanders call these motes of self rule?

They ignore them most of the time. There is no generic term for the other parts.

The technical term for the parts of the British Isles which are ruled by Queen Elizabeth II is "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". She is also the ruler of the Channel Islands and such colonies as we have left - Gibraltar, Ascension Island, St Helena, The Falkland Islands and their dependencies, Tristan Da Cuna etc. Then she is the Head of the Commonwealth. The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is just one of the leaders who recognise her as the Head of the Commonwealth which is an association of equals.

Og (who is British, born at Lys Arfwyn in Holyhead (Caer Gybi) on Holy Island off Anglesey (Yns Mon) which is part of Wales (Cymru) of English parents who were freemen of the City of London, descended from freemen and who has had residential status in Gibraltar and Australia and now lives in Kent which was an independent kingdom that signed a separate peace treaty with William the Conqueror in 1066 and therefore had laws which differed from the rest of England)

PS. The varying titles of the King or Queen can lead to anomalies. When the UK declared war on the German Empire in 1914 the town of Berwick on Tweed was neither English or Scottish so it was included in the declaration of war. When the peace treaty was signed they forgot to include Berwick on Tweed so it stayed "at war" with the German Empire until the 1980s when they twinned with a German town and decided it was about time to end World War 1.