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anisha_inkspill 's review for:
Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman
by Alan Rickman
funny
reflective
medium-paced
The first movie I saw with Alan Rickman was Die Hard. In this diary he describes it as “Real energy, perfect camera work, wit and style.” I completely agree, it’s a fantastic movie, and one I’ve seen twenty odd times.
It was only when I read this diary that I realised how many movies and plays Alan Rickman had been in. I’ve seen only a couple of his other movies, one of these is Truly, Madly, Deeply, a funny, beautiful, poignant movie about the ghost of a dead husband not ready to leave his widowed wife. It’s the title of this movie that got my attention of this book.
But what grabbed me about this book were the first few pages. I liked the short, snappy style; how events were condensed to a single sentence or a string of words. And every now and then the observations it made were amusing and insightful.
Up to about 30% this was a riveting read and I was really enjoying it but then page after page, with no change in rhythm or style, the novelty started to wear off. It started to pick up around 75%, Alan Rickman directing A Little Chaos, where I also liked there was more information than with the others of the movie being shot.
In the appendix with the earlier diaries, Rima Houghton, his widow, explains that Alan Rickman made occasional diary entries between 1974 and 1982 (this totalled to 15 pages), and from 1993 to the end of his life his diary entries were more frequent.
Maybe I would have liked this book more if more was shared of Alan Rickman’s experience on working on a movie or a set; but there were entries after entries that were mostly a list of names. Sometimes this would be accompanied with wonderfully worded observations.
Though I still think it’s worth a read if you enjoy this kind of style of writing, but if you're wanting to find out more about Alan Rickman, or like me, you want to more about the working process of a movie or theatre, then I’m thinking you’re going to be left disappointed.
It was only when I read this diary that I realised how many movies and plays Alan Rickman had been in. I’ve seen only a couple of his other movies, one of these is Truly, Madly, Deeply, a funny, beautiful, poignant movie about the ghost of a dead husband not ready to leave his widowed wife. It’s the title of this movie that got my attention of this book.
But what grabbed me about this book were the first few pages. I liked the short, snappy style; how events were condensed to a single sentence or a string of words. And every now and then the observations it made were amusing and insightful.
Up to about 30% this was a riveting read and I was really enjoying it but then page after page, with no change in rhythm or style, the novelty started to wear off. It started to pick up around 75%, Alan Rickman directing A Little Chaos, where I also liked there was more information than with the others of the movie being shot.
In the appendix with the earlier diaries, Rima Houghton, his widow, explains that Alan Rickman made occasional diary entries between 1974 and 1982 (this totalled to 15 pages), and from 1993 to the end of his life his diary entries were more frequent.
Maybe I would have liked this book more if more was shared of Alan Rickman’s experience on working on a movie or a set; but there were entries after entries that were mostly a list of names. Sometimes this would be accompanied with wonderfully worded observations.
Though I still think it’s worth a read if you enjoy this kind of style of writing, but if you're wanting to find out more about Alan Rickman, or like me, you want to more about the working process of a movie or theatre, then I’m thinking you’re going to be left disappointed.