Quintus 5,399 Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27224995RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,734 Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 RIP Mr. Hoskins. He was a wonderfully versatile actor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted April 30, 2014 Author Share Posted April 30, 2014 A very warm actor, who could turn on the intensity and danger on a whim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,734 Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 A very warm actor, who could turn on the intensity and danger on a whim.Indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 I remember his best from his wonderfull role in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. And the excellent sparring match he had with Dustin Hoffman in Hook.RIP. publicist 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmmusic 1,896 Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 oh, sad news..Who framed Roger Rabbit and Hook are among my favourite movies!!Would like to watch Mona Lisa and the Long Good Friday too, which i think are more critically acclaimed movies. publicist 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnald 378 Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 The Long Good Friday remains the best British gangster film ever made. Often imitated, never bettered. Harold Shand appearing on screen to this music...one of THE great film entrances: He made a great Iago also in a BBC adaptation. Tremendous actor. RIP Bob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Who Framed Roger Rabbit will always be the film I remember him by. Great role, great acting, great movie. Shame to lose him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Great actor.RIP Hoskins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt C 456 Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Loved him in Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Mrs. Henderson Presents.Sad to lose him, he was a good actor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 A great character actor. Sad to see him go. RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,250 Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Horrible news. Hoskins was a wonderful and uniquely recogniseable actor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedBard 71 Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 There goes another great actor from the world.I also remember him from Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Hook.He will be missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trent B 337 Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Drink the drink! That sucks he died he was as a good actor and I too loved him in Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Hook. He'll be missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uni 306 Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Fantastic actor, both as character and lead. He'll be missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbellamy 6,340 Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 A very warm actor, who could turn on the intensity and danger on a whim.Yes, I was just watching his Pennies From Heaven mini-series a couple weeks ago and he was a great creep, but one who was always teetering on the edge of a certain naivete. Wonderful balancing act. RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 An utter legend, and a lovely bloke. He gave his greatest performance in Neil Jordan's MONA LISA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 I can't remember a movie that didn't profit from his stocky-but-intense persona. MONA LISA and LGF are special highlights. RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 I don't think I've seen a bad or ineffective performance from him, ever.He was frightening in Nixon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trent B 337 Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 I never saw Neverland but it's cool he reprised his role as Mr. Smee for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,505 Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Bye bye Smee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Fun interview with Bob Hoskins and Ian Dury, who died in 2000. Mr. Brown 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Brown 91 Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Sad news. Great actor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,064 Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 RIPKarol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2014/apr/30/bob-hoskins-dies-felicitys-journey-mona-lisaBob Hoskins: forget Mona Lisa, Felicia's Journey was his masterpieceBob Hoskins' appeal lay in a chirpiness forever on the edge of explosion. Yet his most powerful hour came playing a man with genuinely unsettling intent beneath that cuddly exterior[...]In 1999, his moment arrived. His best performance, in my view, was as Joe Hilditch in Atom Egoyan's Felicia's Journey — a role with all the emotional force, unsentimentality and power to disturb that Hoskins showed in Dennis Potter's work for the small screen. The film is adapted from a novel by William Trevor, and Hoskins plays Joseph, a decaying bachelor who lives in a big, musty, fusty house in Birmingham: he owes his income and this place to his mother, a telly chef from the Fanny Cradock age. Joseph befriends a young runaway, Felicia (Elaine Cassidy), a 17-year-old girl who has come to the city from Ireland. With subtle intensity, Hoskins shows how Joseph is part predator, part victim: he does not have overt designs on young Felicia, but clearly wants something from her, something that he cannot explain to her, to us or to himself. His stare is deeply unsettling: is it malevolent? Is it indicative of a man in pain, in need of someone to confess to, or a man taking a good long look at a world with which he has become entirely disgusted? Egoyan was the right director for Hoskins — not requiring from him sentimental comedy or trad gangsterism, but something more, something opaque and complex.A 'deeply unsettling stare' … Bob Hoskins in Felicia's Journey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glóin the Dark 1,229 Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 I had a look on YouTube earlier today for a clip from Felicia's Journey with a view to posting here; the only decent one I could find was a bit too spoilery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbellamy 6,340 Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 Here's a before-and-after animation composite for Who Framed Roger Rabbit? World class make-believe, right here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,493 Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 What's all this we stuff? They just want the rabbit. Trent B 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trent B 337 Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 Here's a before-and-after animation composite for Who Framed Roger Rabbit? World class make-believe, right here.Agreed. Bob Hoskins and cast did a good job when it came to 'screen time' with the animated characters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red 75 Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 I never saw a performance from him that I didn't like. Great character actor. Like a lot of people my age he'll be most immortalized for Roger Rabbit and Hook. He'll always be my favorite Mr. Smee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,403 Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 Bespin and Quintus 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wycket 36 Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 Will always remember him from Roger Rabbit and Hook, and unfortunately Super Mario Bros. Its a pretty terrible movie, but was oft watched when I was younger so its probably the first image of him my mind goes to. I'm going to have to watch Mona Lisa and The Long Good Friday soon to try and rectify that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trent B 337 Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 Ya Super Mario Bros. definitely was a horrible movie. Hell, I grew up watching the original cartoon show and played the original NES game for hours....the movie though made me cringe big time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 I grew up with Mario and loved the movie. Awful goodness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,493 Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 Oh my God! I feel completely awful now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corellian2019 388 Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 Wow, that's a great piece of artwork, similar to the Egon drawing commemorating Harold Ramis. Rest in power, Bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,719 Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 The last shot in "The Long Good Friday" is an absolute masterclass of emotions! Add to this, Francis Monkman's superb score, and you have one of the finest scenes in British movies, ever. Sharkissimo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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