alan bates
Dec. 29th, 2003 01:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I just heard that Alan Bates died last night. How much he gave me - from the madness of King of Hearts, to the glory of Oliver's Travels, which turned me on to Alan Plater - a gift in itself.
(Wouldn't he have made an amazing Denethor?)
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Alan Bates as...
Date: 2003-12-29 01:18 pm (UTC)Wouldn't he have made an amazing Denethor?
He did a magnificent turn as Claudius in Mel Gibson's film version of Hamlet. I can easily see him conveying the nobility of the Denethor Tolkien described (Pippin's observations of him and Gandalf together are very interesting) whilst still giving us the undercurrents of pride and despair that warred within Gondor's last Ruling Steward. There was no subtlety to the Denethor I saw in PJ's RotK (or TTT-EE).
~Nessime