Die Hard Villain: Alan Rickman (Our Professor Snape:-(

Alan Rickman died On Thursday at the age of 69. A veteran actor, Allen was trained to work for The Royal Shakespeare Company, famous for starring in the contemporary play Dangerous Relationship in 1985, which he brought to Broadway two years later. The film version of Dangerous Relationship was starred by John Markovich, and although Allen did not appear in the film, he still brought a large number of impressive screen roles to the audience in the following time, such as Professor Severus Snape in Harry Potter, who continued to appear on stage and write the screenplay. But for a small city dweller like me (and seems to be for many), Alan Rickman always appears as the character of hans Gruber, the mysterious villain of the 1988 action film Die Hard, who laughs and teeth.

The plot of "Die Hard" is inconsequential, but it's fast-paced: Bruce Willis plays a New York police officer who visits los Angeles city at Rich Square, where his divorced wife's office is located. The reunion of the two at the Christmas party is ruined by Gruber and his minions, who initially appear as terrorists, but in fact their purpose is simple: just for money, a total of 640 million. Gruber kidnaps everyone, leaving Willis alone to escape the building, thinking of foiling the villains' plans.

All of the above is enough to give you an overview of this movie. The greatness of "Die Hard" lies in its rhythm, but it is also lost due to the smoke-filled scenes of gunfire and the bad collapse scenes. We may remember scenes of crazy moves, like shattered glass, but overall, the whole movie is frighteningly tedious and silent. Of course, other action movies can't have so many characters wandering around the unnamed hallways of an office building, whispering softly. The film revolves around Gruber, played by Rickman, and compared to the oily and slippery Willis, Gruber is straightforward and the spirit that leads the tone of the film. Gruber's composure was eerie, and when bored with the damage he had done with his hand, he read the first line of his schedule to the silent hostages, as if to remind himself of the robbery he had planned that day.

Gruber doesn't have the typical backstory of evil—he didn't act to avenge the death of his brother, father, or wife. The most hilarious moment in the film is when Gruber is on the phone with a hostage negotiator, groubber asks for the release of several political separatists from around the world who have been imprisoned, and he tells his subordinates that these separatists are all he sees in Time magazine. "Do you think they're really going to do that?" His men asked him. Gruber's answer felt like a personal mission statement: "Leave him alone." He was an inexperienced thief who didn't even care much about money. Gruber liked good suits, read magazines, and occasionally misquoted Plutarch. It is unprecedented for such a wise man who has no concern for money to execute civilians with machine guns. Through Rickman's silent rendition, Gruber seems to have been framed by a strange fatalism, as if he had been expecting his own failure and death. Who cares?

Although Gruber is a nihilistic nameless person, he is also an unforgettable character in this film. "Die Hard" made Bruce Willis famous, and Rickman became the classic villain of the undocumented generation in action movies. Rickman himself disagreed with the public perception of Gruber. He said, "I'm not playing a villain, I'm playing someone who has a desire for life and realizes them once a decision is made." What Rickmann said was not the character's backstory: When Hans Jr. was in Berlin, there was no one to care for, no one to take care of. Gruber's purpose, in the end, is nothing more than the most basic human desire: to see, to want and ultimately to get. But it shows Gruber's excessive pursuit of specificity: decent makeup, indifferent treatment, emotional poverty, a cautious smile without losing malice, and "sound as if it were coming through a water pipe." Gruber's elaborate beard, slightly comical names and elaborate death scenes (Rickman himself performed stunts, from the initial 20-foot drop to the subsequent 30-foot, 40-foot, which was a mystery for many years) have left other action movie villains untouchable. Gruber's first screen role as Rickman's "electrocution" is eye-catching. Rickman later quipped that the producers hired a lesser-known person to play a lesser-known role because the producers had already spent all their budget on Willis. Imagine that gruber's role would be almost impossible to play by someone else, and Rickman was so intriguing that he never played a similar role again.

Gruber's image became a cultural ivy because its memorable and ready-to-call lines were tested by the impact of cable television, which was quite different from Willis. For example, "I only count to three, not four"; "He will not join us for the rest of his life". My favorite line was his confession through the walkie-talkie and Willis, where Gruber tried to figure out the identity and character of the adversary: "You know what my name is, so who are you?" Another American who watched too many movies as a child? Or an orphan born of another bankruptcy culture, thinking of John Wayne, Rimbaud or Marshall Dylan? ”

Gruber may have been a playboy in Europe, but Rickman clearly didn't resent American audiences watching Die Hard. Rickman is a serious actor who treats his roles strictly and strives to empathize with them, and audiences benefit from this. Even with some comical roles in other films, Rickman's performance is still unforgettable. Such as the science fiction burlesque "The Visitor to the Galaxy", the political satire "Born to Win", the romantic comedy "True Love Supreme", and the wizard professor who starred in "Harry Potter". The crossfire in Die Hard, conversations about access codes and bearer bonds, and other scenes unique to the eighties give Hans Gruber a complete picture. In view of this, I don't think it was the sentimentality of the audience that made the Twitter a lot of calls for Gruber to escape with the money.