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Alan Rickman Interview 1992 (Toronto)




Intervistatore: Questo non è stato il caso con – come si dice il suo nome? Minghella, perché potrei fare un errore di pronuncia con quel nome, il che sarebbe un peccato.

AR: Minghella, è il suo nome.

Intervistatore: É uno scrittore fantastico. Deve essere stato molto elettrizzante vedere quel copione.

AR: Sì, lo è stato. Era un lusso su tutti i livelli, a) perché era scritto meravigliosamente, b) era davvero un… uhm ... non trovo la parola ... ma la parte era comunque interessante, si trovava in aree che forse non ho visitato troppo spesso, ma –

Intervistatore: Il fatto che interpreta un uomo morto, dice? Quello è ...

AR: Il genere di cose dolci e amorevoli e cose simili, sa non si deve necessariamente fare tanto nel film anche perché Juliet Stevenson ed io abbiamo lavorato tanto in teatro insieme ed è stato fantastico poter prendere una stretta amicizia e metterla sullo schermo, in un certo senso.

Intervistatore: Non riesco a credere che questo sarebbe stato limitato alla sola televisione.

AR: Beh, voglio dire che è uno dei punti di forza della televisione britannica, che si vede diminuire i fondi mentre noi parliamo. Ma è ancora uno dei suoi punti di forza, le aree di una rassegna chiamata screen 2, della BBC2, e settimana dopo settimana man mano che la stagione va avanti si trovano interessanti lavori realizzati da giovani registi e giovani scrittori e grandi attori. Riguardo a questo, credo che in qualche modo abbiamo sentito qualche profumo della parola “andare”. Perché so circa una settimana fa, uno scopre più tardi, ci sono state conversazioni del tipo “beh, forse dovremmo ricominciare da capo e metterlo in 35mm”. Si dà il caso, che sia stato gonfiato dai 16mm. Ma non so, credo che ne stessero parlando abbastanza presto perché c'era qualcosa che avrebbe forse avuto un pubblico più ampio.

Intervistatore: Il personaggio di Jamie in questo film - è un bravo ragazzo! E lei non hai avuto molte parti - penso sia uno dei motivi per cui ero un po’ preoccupato a parlarne con lei, perché la sua reputazione sembra essersi sviluppata secondo le linee del tipo spaventoso.

AR: Beh, solo perchè un paio di film hanno fatto un sacco di soldi; se lei mette due film che hanno fatto un sacco di soldi contro non importa quanti anni nel British theater, ottiene una cosa piuttosto sbilanciata per me. Ma è così. Ma questo è quello che succede quando due film ricevono un sacco di pubblicità.

Intervistatore: Mi pare giusto. Devo dire, però, che leggendo ritagli di interviste fatte con lei dove l'intervistatore si riferisce a lei come "appena percettibile," non mi sono trovato esattamente pieno di aspettative.

AR: Beh, non saprei. Forse il fatto d’esser sordi è un problema loro?

Intervistatore: (ride) Abbiamo una clip da “Truly, Madly, Deeply”, è d’accordo ad ascoltarla? Questa è la scena della vasca. La vuole introdurre lei? La lascio fare.

AR: Beh, fondamentalmente è la storia di Nina, il cui amante è morto due anni prima, e lei non riesce a superare la cosa e continuare la sua vita, credo. Le manca così tanto che lei non riesce a sbloccare la sua vita e lui torna indietro. Torna con un secondo fine e questa scena si svolge dopo che lei pensa che lui sia scomparso. Perche lei è l'unica persona che può vederlo o sentirlo.

Intervistatore: Devo dire, Alan, che lei sembrava davvero uno spettacolo in quella vasca da bagno con quella roba su tutto il viso.

AR: Non è un’attrice che annega nel proprio ego.

Intervistatore: No, non lo è, ed è semplicemente così brava. Ora, ha preso lezioni di violoncello?

AR: Ho seguito molte lezioni di violoncello, sì. Non riesco a immaginare perché qualcuno debba scegliere di suonare il violoncello, perché può avere un suono bellissimo, ma ti tocca anche trasportare quella dannata cosa in giro per Londra, da casa tua a quella della persona che ti dà lezioni ed è pesante e scomodo. Quindi, perché scegliere quello quando si può scegliere il flauto? Dico io.

Intervistatore: O l’ottavino? Ancora meglio! Ora, se Pablo Casals avesse visto questo film, il che è improbabile, visto che è ...

AR: Mi avrebbe visto suonare, o avrebbe pensato di vedermi suonare la musica giusta, ma Pablo Casals potrebbe essere laggiù a guardare i video con l’altra gente...



GOOD MORNING AMERICA – INTERVIEW (1991)
(June 1991)



AR: Sì ... beh è, suppongo, è un po 'come dire, "Joan Lunden, bionda”, mi capisce? É vero, ma non è l'intero quadro.

JL: Non è l'intero quadro, sì. Beh, in ogni caso, è stato il protagonista di “Truly, Madly, Deeply”, giusto? Li ho detti nell’ordine giusto?

AR: Truly, Madly, Deeply o qualsiasi avverbio tu voglia usare. Sì, è una storia d'amore, um...

JL: E lei è il protagonista romantico.

AR: Sì, ma ha un problema: è morto...

JL: Oh cavolo. Lei è il protagonista romantico ed è un fantasma. Vediamo ora un breve duetto, con una stonatura, mi hanno detto, leggermente contagiosa, ascoltiamo.

AR: OK. (Inserire clip duetto romantico stonato qui)

JL: Ok, com’è passare da questo piccolo film romantico ad una pellicola epica da 50 milioni di dollari? Passando dall’uno all’altro?

AR: Io sono la stessa persona ed ho lo stesso, um, approccio con il lavoro, sa, leggi il copione e speri di star guardando un altro attore che ti guarda di rimando e recita le battute. In uno sono stati investi molti più soldi –

JL: - già-

AR: -ma l’altro era particolarmente un piacere perché Juliet Stevenson ed io abbiamo lavorato molto insieme a teatro e quindi è stata una possibilità di lavorare insieme in un film, uh, e ci conosciamo molto bene, quindi non è possibile sfuggire...

JL: Aiuta? Ritiene sia d’aiuto il fatto di conoscersi? Non so mai se questo è un bene o...

AR: Beh, recitando in una storia d'amore, aiuta di certo, perché puoi osare, non ci sono giochetti da fare -

JL: Porta via un po' di imbarazzo-

AR: - e questa storia aveva davvero bisogno di un’interpretazione onesta, uhm, ...

JL: Quindi escono entrambi nello stesso periodo, “Truly, Madly, Deeply” e, naturalmente, questo fine settimana, “Robin Hood: Principe dei Ladri”. So che deve andare a Londra per uno spettacolo, grazie per averci dedicato il suo tempo.

AR: Il piacere è mio, grazie.
 
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http://articles.latimes.com/2011/nov/20/en...ickman-20111120

Alan Rickman on Being a Storyteller and Artist

Like many actors and artists, Alan Rickman is a complex mix of passions and personality. He talks about his love and respect for writing, and the insecurity and self-criticism that so many creative people experience.

He has portrayed many powerful and intriguing characters, including Severus Snape in the Harry Potter series. In this video about Deathly Hallows: Part 2, he acknowledges author J.K. Rowling for “laying out such a kind of sure roadmap” with her writing of Snape. “You know what’s right and what’s wrong.”



Loving the language

In his article Alan Rickman: Truly, deeply appealing (Los Angeles Times, November 20, 2011), Patrick Pacheco says “What really excites Rickman is the English language.”

“It’s so rich and cruel and beautiful, like a fireworks display, and yet it can be so subtle and so crude,” says the 65-year-old classical actor and director. “Marry that to the stage and something mysterious happens. Don’t ask me what. It’s magical.”

He is currently playing Leonard, “the caustic and embittered novelist at the center of Theresa Rebeck’s new play, ‘Seminar,’ on Broadway.

“Theresa’s writing is incredibly demanding,” he says in silky tones that belie his British working-class roots. “She’s like a Restoration comedy writer. It’s high style. The words are extremely well chosen, and sometimes you wish that word had not been chosen right next to that word because the equipment’s a bit rusty.” …

The article continues:

“I can only see my limitations,” he says with a resigned laugh. “That’s just who I am. I was working with [director] Peter Brook once on Shakespeare’s ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ with Glenda Jackson, and he said, ‘The thing is, you’ll never be as good as the text.’ And that came as a kind of relief, really. I’m fascinated by my friends in the acting profession who can’t wait to get out there. I’m not on that list.”

Rickman’s wry insecurity is all the more surprising given his professional image as an assured, sexy and often enigmatic figure with a penetrating gaze and the ability to deliver the most innocuous phrase with sneering contempt. “I don’t see it at all like that. They [his characters] are just people to me,” Rickman says. “I’m a lot less serious than people think.”

Sam Gold, the director of “Seminar,” says: “Alan obviously has the ability to play imposing and intimidating characters, but what makes him special is his deep, deep well of empathy. You see the humanity.”

Emma Thompson wrote in an email that during her frequent collaborations with Rickman, “It’s very difficult not to giggle, we laugh a lot, often in the wrong places.” Their most recent one is the BBC teleplay “The Song of Lunch,” which aired recently on PBS, in which Rickman plays an alcoholic poet trying to rekindle a love affair.

The actress, who wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for “Sense and Sensibility” and starred with Rickman in that movie, noted that his performance in that film as Col. Brandon “… was everything I wanted for the role — virile yet sensitive, powerful yet quietly, slightly dangerous and miles more interesting than he is in the book…. There’s no one like Alan for a rich, mysterious inner life.” …

But whether he is playing Hans Gruber, Le Vicomte de Valmont, Severus Snape or John Gabriel Borkman, Rickman sees his primary duty as that of “storyteller.”

“I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word” — here he pauses before adding with a roll of the eyes — “a jouuuuuurney.

“It might not be great, it might not be perfect, but it does answer the human need to sit there together and to be told a story.”

Rickman discovered just how powerful a story can be with the Harry Potter films.

He’s especially grateful for their youthful following. “I suppose if I plan to work well into my 80s, I’ll need them,” he quips.

Daniel Radcliffe, the movies’ Harry Potter, is now appearing on Broadway in “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.” He calls Rickman “an invaluable and incredibly generous” mentor.

“When I first met Alan, I was completely intimidated by him,” he says. “We had some very intense scenes together. At times, he’d actually scare me. But while he was always so strong and powerful, I also came to know him as self-deprecating, vulnerable and silly.”

Watching him onstage, says Radcliffe, is to see a “virtuoso” in action. “He’s taught me that acting onstage demands a ruthless honesty, listening very carefully in a way that you lose your self-consciousness. When I was in ‘Equus,’ Alan actually cut short a vacation in Canada to return to see me for a second time and then took me out and gave me some simple, practical and yet profound advice. I’ve a very self-effacing attitude toward what I do, probably from a place of guilt for having so much success so young, but Alan has a deeply felt respect for the importance of acting.”

Rickman says the Potter epic provided a novel acting challenge. “It was tricky, because only three of the books had been written when we started. Though I had a clue about what his final story might be, it was only the smallest clue, and therefore there was a sense of playing two things at once, just in case you have to shift. ” Asked whether he was happy with the evolution of his character, Rickman said he thought that “Potter” author J.K. Rowling got it “dead right.”

Now, he is looking forward to the release of the comic film caper “Gambit,” in which he costars with Cameron Diaz and Colin Firth. “God knows, we put ourselves out on the line with that, comedically,” he says a bit nervously. “It’ll be interesting to see how that turns out on the screen.”

He hopes to do more comedy, seeing the ridiculous as a reflection of the human condition. “I think there should be laughs in everything,” he says. “Sometimes, it’s a slammed door, a pie in the face or just a recognition of our frailties.”

For Rickman, it’s all part of the job description. The accompanying fame, money and acclaim all strike him as rather “obscene.”

“Our abilities are nothing we can really take credit for,” he says. “Yes, there’s training. But I’ve worked with some great actors who didn’t train at all. You do your job, push your abilities as far as you can take them and hopefully, you can actually do something with this” — here he again pauses before adding — “this accident.”

That’s an appealing thought, isn’t it? – “Push your abilities as far as you can take them.”

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Altro interessante articolo segnalato da Erika

www.avclub.com/article/truly-madly-...celebrit-230997



On Truly, Madly, Deeply,
Alan Rickman, and the death of celebrities


In Scenic Routes, Mike D’Angelo looks at key scenes, explaining how they work and what they mean.

Qui la traduzione




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When a celebrity dies, the feeling of loss we experience isn’t always rational. Gene Hackman is still alive, for example, but unless you know him personally, or enjoy reading his novels, he might as well have passed away a decade ago, when he retired from acting. Nonetheless, I’ll feel sad when he’s no longer around, and it won’t have much to do with any meager hope I currently possess that he might appear on screen again. (He’s consistently stated this is not going to happen.) By the same token, Alan Rickman’s unexpected passing last week hit me hard, even though I hadn’t been excited about anything he’d done since Galaxy Quest. I never really gave a damn about Harry Potter, and the last three films I saw him in—Gambit, Lee Daniels’ The Butler, and CBGB—were varying degrees of dismal, his own performances included. Everything I treasured about Rickman was as accessible to me as it had been the day before. Yet I still felt as if something had been taken away from me, and I desperately wanted it back.

As it happens, one of Rickman’s greatest roles directly addresses that sense of grief—albeit as it pertains to the death of a loved one, rather than that of a famous person you don’t actually know. Anthony Minghella’s debut feature, Truly, Madly, Deeply (1990), had been a powerfully cathartic experience for me long before Rickman died, or before anyone close to me had died. For whatever reason, I was utterly wrecked, at the tender age of 22, by its story of a ghost who finds his bereaved girlfriend’s pain so unbearable to witness from the hereafter that he feels compelled to return to her, for reasons that only become clear in the movie’s final scenes. Revisiting the film for the first time in ages on the day Rickman died, I found it even more intensely moving, for obvious reasons. But one scene in particular also helped me to understand why I sometimes get weepy about the death of total strangers. Rickman’s talent was only a part of my sadness; ironically, though, it was his talent that made me realize that. Take a look:


Qui la clip a cui viene fatto riferimento:

www.avclub.com/article/truly-madly-...celebrit-230997

This clip immediately follows the magnificently staged scene in which Jamie (Rickman) first reappears to Nina (Juliet Stevenson), which I would have included here if not for time/fair-use concerns. Her initial reaction to his presence is as violently emotional as it would likely be in real life, and Minghella quickly jumps forward to a bit later, when Nina has managed to get some semblance of a grip again. Nonetheless, Stevenson—whose work throughout Truly, Madly, Deeply is astonishing—never loses sight of how bizarre this situation is. She prods Jamie’s body to reassure herself that she isn’t imagining him. When she heads out to lock the back door (which turns into bringing in the laundry), she hasn’t taken more than two steps before she looks back to see if he’s still there, and squeals with glee when she sees that he is. Even when he steps out onto the back porch a moment later, Nina visibly giggles to herself slightly, as if she’s ecstatic to see him all over again. And all of these gestures give additional weight to Jamie’s simple statement: “Thank you for missing me.” The film has spent about half an hour establishing how much Nina had missed him by this point, but there’s something deeply poignant, all the same, about this semi-formal exchange.

It also triggers a story that Jamie wants to tell, about a little girl named Alice he knows in whatever place or dimension he’d inhabited before returning. (This scene also includes the movie’s only exposition on that subject, which Minghella expertly sidesteps, because it doesn’t matter. There’s perhaps no more satisfying answer to the question “Do you go to heaven, or what?” than a lightly amused “I don’t think so.”) Rickman, who was almost exclusively known to moviegoers as Die Hard’s evil Hans Gruber at the time, demonstrates in this monologue just how much tenderness his sonorous voice can generate. And this time, it dawned on me that the reactions of the living children’s parents—who probably never met Alice, and know about her death only from the plaques in the park—echoes my own reaction to the loss of someone like Rickman. Even if he’d never given another performance that meant as much to me as this one does, he serves as a sort of avatar for the people in my life whose absence would crush me. That’s almost certainly why James Gandolfini’s death upset me more than most: While I admired his work, he also reminds me a little of my dad, another large Italian guy. Celebrities, who occupy a strange middle ground between people we don’t know at all (whose deaths are mere statistics) and people we know intimately, are a sobering reminder of what could befall us at any moment, and of how lucky we are.

Of course, there’s more than one ghost associated with this scene now. As beautifully as Rickman delivers the speech about Alice, it was Minghella who thought it up; his sudden death in 2008, at age 54, deprived the world of numerous potentially terrific films. His final feature, Breaking And Entering (2006), was overly ambitious and somewhat maudlin, but it was also his first wholly original screenplay since this one (though I do love his adaptation of The Talented Mr. Ripley), and it demonstrated again—as do his early stage plays—how incisive he can be when it comes to the travails of long-term relationships. While this scene is primarily about Nina’s astonishment and giddiness, and then about Jamie’s gratitude, Minghella also immediately begins sewing the seeds of Jamie’s hidden agenda. I don’t want to say too much about where the story goes, lest that diminish the experience of folks who haven’t yet seen the film. Suffice it to say that Rickman was ideally cast on multiple levels, including the faint touch of haughty superciliousness that emerges when he complains about Nina’s crummy, cold flat and chides her for having “red bills” (which I gather from context refers in England to second notices sent when a payment is overdue). Because Minghella remained behind the camera, I don’t feel the same illusion of knowing him that I do with actors, but it was still bittersweet to realize anew that the agile mind behind this film no longer exists.

In the end, though, revisiting Truly, Madly, Deeply on the day Rickman died achieved what I’d hoped. Jamie is a structuring absence for over 30 minutes, seen only in photos (plus a flashback of him playing the cello in the opening-credits sequence) but referred to constantly. His subsequent reappearance takes on a metatextual force, and Nina functions as a stand-in for the viewer who feels the world is a lesser place without Rickman (and so many others) in it. “Thank you for missing me,” he says. We do. We will.

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In un eccesso di autolesionismo in questi giorni mi sono guardata Truly, madly, deeply...

Gran bel film, scritto - e recitato, ça va sans dire :wub: - benissimo (Juliet Stevenson e Alan sono bravissimi entrambi, e in completa sintonia e affinità): è un'alchimia di intelligenza, tenerezza, ispirazione, gusto per la vita, passione per gli esseri umani che hanno l'avventura di avventurarsi su questo mondo (fantasmi e no!) e per le loro tribolazioni...

Sguardo molto dolce, non convenzionale, giocoso e buffo anche, con una Londra di fine '80 inizio '90 da amare: però...

è anche lievemente straziante...

mi ci sono sciolta a livelli da "adesso-mi-raccolgo-con-il-cucchiaino..."

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Trovata questa fan art su DeviantArt con il testo spagnolo/inglese della poesia di Neruda...

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Come ti capisco Marina! Anch'io sono riuscita a trovare e a vedere questo film solo dopo la morte di Alan... :cry:
 
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CITAZIONE (UnforgivenSweetie @ 19/1/2017, 23:43) 
è anche lievemente straziante...

Giusto lievemente quando lui la vede felice, con il suo nuovo amore.
E lui è davvero felice per lei... :cry: :cry: :cry:
 
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CITAZIONE (UnforgivenSweetie @ 19/1/2017, 23:43) 
In un eccesso di autolesionismo in questi giorni mi sono guardata Truly, madly, deeply...

Complimenti vivissimi per il coraggio, Marina, hai detto bene... "in un eccesso di autolesionismo" :P
Sono d'accordo con te sul fatto che sia un gran bel film ma, per quanto mi riguarda, credo sia molto meglio lasciarlo dov'è per ora... :(
 
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Ciao!

Vi segnalo una cosa che forse potrebbe interessare più di una di noi:

è uscita una nuova versione in dvd e blu-ray (ebbene, sì) di Truly, Madly, Deeply

a cura della BBC
è uscita l'8 marzo scorso

questi i contenuti speciali:

Film Intro by Anthony Minghella
Audio Commentary by Anthony Minghella
Interview with Anthony Minghella
Original film trailer

In inglese, con sottotitoli

si trova in commercio su Amazon UK

Tra l'altro: c'è scritto che il film è stato restaurato e masterizzato dalla copia stampa originaria 16 mm

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