requiescat in pace

[freenarnian.livejournal.com]

Long before he embodied Severus Snape in Harry Potter, my tiny 6-year-old heart was majorly crushed and forever shaped by his portrayal of Colonel Brandon in Sense & Sensibility. (My family teased me about this for years.) (Also, one of our dogs may or may not be named Brandon because of it.) Alas, this dashes any hopes I might've had for one day seeing him cast as our beloved Magus, but he'll live on as such in my imagination.

I'm so very sad. What a legend. RIP, Alan Rickman. <3

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[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

I was so sad to hear of his death. Such a wonderful actor, and my perfect Magus.

[filkferengi]

:(

[maidenbeckah.livejournal.com]

I couldn't believe it when I learned he had died. Like you, I first knew him as Col. Brandon, and I still can't separate the two in my mind. :'(

[an-english-girl.livejournal.com]

Never will I understand why they cast a chap twenty years too old to play Snape. But you're right: he would have made a brilliant magus. Imagine when Gen's abducting him in QoA!

[kaeyko.livejournal.com]

To this day, my brother always brings up the fact that Alan Rickman was Colonel Brandon whenever he needs to name a role for him.

(It's mostly because when we watched Sense and Sensibility, we thought it was hilarious how Colonel Brandon abruptly leaves after walking in with his horsewhip and my brother called them "car keys of the Victorian era", which automatically made him much cooler than Willoughby. Also, Charlotte Palmer calling Willoughby "insufferable" and needing to plant some "very tall trees" to block his house from sight and Thomas Palmer's (Dr. House) dull "You'll do nothing of the sort".

Also, we agreed that Colonel Brandon is probably the best man to appear in whole book. And against all the men in Pride and Prejudice.)