Film Thoughts

[Heather Moore]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
> "Joywitch M. Curmudgeon" wrote:
> 
> > 3.  Like Ebony, I now understand what Amanda and her ilk see in
> > Snape.  While I am still a card-carrying member of SUAVE (Snape's
> > Unquestionably A Vampire Evil)  I will now admit, publically, that
> > Snape (at least when portrayed by Rickman) is also very sexy.  The way
> > he swoops into the Potions classroom and makes his speech took my
> > breath away.
> 
> It's not that he's sexy. I can't explain this, but he is compelling. I
> want to talk to him for hours, and have him care that I exist, far more
> than I want to give him a shampoo. The ambivalence in him, and the
> complexity, is just alluring.
> 
> But welcome! We always knew you had good taste--anyone who eats children
> can't fail to appreciate Snape on some level.
> 
> --Amanda
 

  Oh, pshaw. It *is* that he's sexy in the movie - admit it.  It's the Alan Rickman Effect. Previous examples:

1) German terrorists: not sexy. Alan Rickman as what's-his-face in Die Hard: sexy.

2) Filthy, cartoonish, devil-worshipping 13th Century usurpers: not sexy.  Alan Rickman as the Sheriff of Nottingham: sexy. 

3) Dead cello-playing corpses: not sexy. Alan Rickman as Jamie (Truly, Madly, Deeply): sexy.

4) Fascist propaganda-collecting torturers: way not sexy. Alan Rickman as The Official (Closet Land): sexy (WHY? WHY? But even Madeleine Stowe starts exhibiting signs of Helsinki Syndrome in this amazing, difficult film.)

5) Morose, over-the-hill, naive-trophy-wife-seeking retired 19thC Army officers: not sexy. Alan Rickman as Colonel Brandon (Sense & Sensibility): yowza. 

Somehow, he has the knack for bringing out a bizarre attractiveness in some very unpromising characters. I think it's his voice and his mastery over gestures.

 So.... Snape in the books, *decidedly* unsexy; not even close. Alan Rickman as Severus Snape == hey, they're going to have to work some sort of miracle outdo him in casting Sirius Black.