As I continue with my Alan Rickman movies (I've recently seen What the Lord Made, Michael Collins and am now working through The Barchester Chronicles where he plays a wonderfully repulsive Slope) I'm trying to figure out how he becomes each character and not just Alan Rickman playing at being the character, which is how it seems with a lot of actors. Johnny Depp and Robert Duval also have the knack of becoming the characters they portray. It's wonderful to watch.
Rickman's voice is quite distinctive, he has certain gestures, mannerisms, eye and mouth movements that seem to show up in each role yet, somehow, they become part of the character.
It makes me think about how writers create characters, for really, a character is nothing more than black marks on a white page (assuming the story is printed in black and white) yet those marks can conjure up characters in the mind that stay there for years. Some writers have mastered the art, though I suspect it is a new challenge with each story.
My outdoor garden is doing pretty well. I cooked some mustard greens the other day, the yellow squash plants are doing well and there are quite a few small, green tomatoes doing their best to grow and ripen.
As to the other 'garden', it is not growing a well as I would like, but it is growing.
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