He is such an attractive man, I have no idea why they give him that nasty mustache and limp, greasy looking hair. Good movie though. lol
shareSome of us are quite fond of that moustache;)
Anyway he is supposed to be dead.
Personally I think Rickman looks better with facial hair.
shareEven with the mustache, I still see him underneath, though he looks better in the movie rather than the still photos from it.
Also, as the above poster stated, he is supposed to be dead. Maybe it was my imagination, but he looked worse as the film went on, as though it was taking so much effort to stay around that he was "aging" rapidly. His eyes got darker, his complexion grayer, etc.
It was not your imagination when you believed Alan Rickaman's character Jamie got grayer and darker and aged rapidly, and I will explain why these changes took place. In the beginning of the film, Jamie is more ill than he realizes, and despite treatment in a hospital, his strep throat infection quickly and unexpectedly becomes fatal.
Nina suddenly is left alone by Jamie's death, and she embarks on the usual roller-coaster ride through the five stages of grief: shock and unbelief, bargaining with God, anger, denial, and acceptance. Her memory of Jamie and her refusal to let him "go" keep him "alive" in her mind AND in the apartment as Jamie's ghost remains to help her grieve. As Nina progresses from denial to acceptance, Jamie and the other ghosts decompose to such a nasty condition that Nina must accept the fact that Jamie really is gone. Jamie and the other ghosts fade away as Nina recovers enough to find love with another man.
Sheila Beers
IIRC, it wasn't strep. IIRC, he was in the doctor's office and they stuck a tube down his throat and he died from the tube.
http://currentscene.wordpress.com/tag/jane-austen-odyssey/
I do not know what you mean by IIRC, but I am not sure how literally some things in this movie can be taken. Just sticking a tube down the throat would not cause death unless the person was allergic to something like latex rubber in the tube or if the person somehow aspirated or if the tube ruptured something in the throat and the person hemorrhaged. For a throat infection itself to be fatal, it would have to be something like strep or diphtheria. Again, a lot of this is subject to interpretation.
Sheila Beers
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That's all you have to say after watching this movie? Lame. Shallow and lame.
shareShallow may be, but he did look pretty awful. Michael Maloney didn't look that great either. Or come to that, Juliet Stevenson.
Maybe the stylist was having an off day/week/year, or perhaps that's what fashion looked like in the early 90's. OMG
Or maybe the film doesn't need any extremely good-looking people because the film actually has a story to tell.
shareI have never seen Alan look less than gorgeous, and this is among my favorite movies.
shareOMG! Ponies!
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