Written by Mr. Mouseburger 18th Oct 2005
Kindly submitted by Fantasteeek
You just can't keep a good man down!
Lured to a house by Prince Yusupov the Mad Monk is offered cream buns that he wisely declines. However greed gets the better of him, and Ol' Raz decides to eat three of the cyanide-filled cream buns. No effect!
The Prince then disappears and fetches back poisoned wine which Raz duly quaffs down. Still no effect!!
The Prince, who is mighty shaken by now, finally shoots Rasputin several times. When the Prince bends down to check the body that the doctor proclaimed as dead, he is somewhat perturbed to be grabbed by the throat by our resolute monk.
Rasputin manages to stagger out of the buildingm in to the snow and make good his escape. Before he can escape the grounds though, he is shot several times more whilst trying to climb the gates. Much to the relief of the Prince, the mad monk finally expires.
Or does he?? To dispatchg of the corpse, Rasputin's body is finally flung over a bridge, but when it is eventually retrieved, Rasputin's lungs are full of water, meaning he was still alive when he hit the water.
Mr. Rickman achieves all this with some fine RADA-trained staggering!
Note from Mouseburger: I have categorised Rasputin as a Goody (Major). Although he is not a nice chappie, as the story is about him, I feel it only fair to cast him in a more favourable light than history (and Boney M) have.
I remember watching this scene and thinking: "This is one stubborn monk. God, won't he *ever* die?!" Alan Rickman's acting was simply brilliant as Rasputin. This part had been made for him. When Rasputin did die, I was overcome with both sadness and relief. Sadness that someone like Rasputin (even though he is a womanizer and sometimes an unpleasant man) has died (and died in that way), and relief that he did die. Overall, the whole movie, and that dying scene, was a phenomenal work of art.
Boney M WTF?! How about "Ambivalent"?
yes Ambivalent (Major) it is.
Shouldn't freezing count, I thought it was icy water.
romanovs has got a noble girl baby.they sent the baby to rasputins relatives in the wine basket (under the botles) They were take her bulgaria and they were give her a turkish family(bektashi religions((she did not make,join rutiels all her lifelong).the turkish family grove her.one day she maried and her husband and their 6 suns,2 douthers went in turkey 1953 and she died in turkey. she said again and again “I am gallers princess”all her lifelong may be feodravna may be one of the OTMA members was mother ofthe baby who can belive but god knows