Rickman’s casualness is the unwitting emblem of this silly, but enjoyable, Hollywood romp from yesteryear. You’ve got to chuckle at Costner not even trying to obscure his Yank accent the Sheriff of Nottingham’s ‘witch’ is a feature nicked directly from Macbeth and Alan Rickman plays his villainous Sheriff brilliantly – almost like a proto-Blackadder character, anachronistically commenting on the ridiculous conventions of the heroic story he finds himself in. ![]() In a way, the film’s shamelessness is probably its best quality. Then there’s Kevin Costner looking like he just stepped out of a salon, and there are also huge and incredulous jumps in continuity – such as Robin switching from his Crusades escape to suddenly being in a twee boat arriving under the white cliffs of Dover! The first jarring feature of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is its cheesy, Disneyfied score by Michael Kamen. By slightly upping the ante in terms of historical accuracy, a more cerebral music score, and a marginally more mature attitude to its dramatic and romantic themes, Gladiator made fare like Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves seem particularly arch and shallow (incidentally, it’s interesting that Scott was to go on and make his own Robin Hood picture with more than a little prompting from the legacy of his Gladiator). Ridley Scott’s Gladiator, which followed a decade later, forever changed the landscape of this genre. Particularly with hindsight, even accepting it was only intended as a populist, big-budget historical epic, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves can’t help but look hopelessly dated. He appeared as the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), for which he received the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. alan rickman harry potteralan rickmanharry potterseverus snapecolonel brandon. This was a time when the “Two Kevins” (director, Kevin Reynolds, and actor, Kevin Costner) ruled the roost, and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves was the zenith of their dominance, sandwiched in-between break-out Oscar winner, Dances with Wolves, and flawed epic, Waterworld, which commenced their respective career downturns. Rickman's first cinema role came when he was cast as the German terrorist leader Hans Gruber in Die Hard (1988). Chose him as the first because its the 7th aniversary of his death today. Review: This film – incredibly a whole 25 years old now – stands as an exemplar of just how bizarre the landscape of Hollywood filmmaking can look with a couple of decades’ perspective. ![]() Robin is made an outlaw (“Robin Hood”) as the Sheriff hunts him down, so Robin befriends marginalised folk in Sherwood Forest. Synopsis: Robin of Locksley (Kevin Costner) returns from The Crusades only to find his father dead and his land tainted by the corrupt Sheriff of Nottingham (Alan Rickman). I’m afraid I didn’t get on with the film much, but Rickman’s own performance was beguiling: witty and self-aware.Actors: Kevin Costner, Alan Rickman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio The last time I saw him on screen was in cameo, as the French King Louis XIV, in the period drama A Little Chaos, which he also directed. ![]() Alan Rickman’s Alexander Dane wonderfully sent up the whole thing - and sent himself up as well. Rickman is wonderful at suggesting this Shakespearian actor’s rage and self-hate at getting no proper work and getting sucked into the lucrative fan world, wearing the stupid costume and make up at these fan-conventions and wearily saying his catchphrase: “By Grabthar’s hammer, by the suns of Warvan, you shall be avenged!” Galaxy Quest came out before the 21 st century world of Comic-Con and fan-power and it came out before all stars accepted the career importance of dressing up in lycra and being a superhero or supervillain. Alan Rickman passed away in 2016 at the age of 69 following a battle with cancer. Rickman is the fantastically self-important British actor Alexander Dane, who plays Dr Lazarus of Tev’Meck, a character with Spock-like levels of intellect.
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