That voice. That rumbling, grumbling growl whose vague menace is a reminder that humans are, at their core, animals. Alan Rickman’s voice—though “voice†doesn’t feel like quite enough for the instrument able to produce that singular and simmering baritone—allowed him to play, time after time, quintessential villains: the Sheriff of Nottingham, Rasputin, Elliot Marston, Hans Gruber. Those roles, after his death, may well be what Rickman is best remembered for: the “complicated villain.†The “sensual screen villain.†The villain “you couldn’t help rooting for.â€