Who could have known?
Who could have known that esteemed and hallowed British actor Alan
Rickman would have passed away last week, along with David Bowie? Both after battling forms of cancer.
I first became aware of Alan Rickman when my dad made us
watch Die Hard on VHS. Before Die Hard,
the most effective villains were either Emperor Palpatine or the Nazis, not
even counting Darth Vader because he redeemed himself in the end. All other villains, in my limited child-hood
knowledge of movies, mostly came from the earlier Bond films and many made the
most bone-headed moves that would later spawn the Austin Powers parodies.