It's been a while I've been on the Harry Potter sub-reddit and I was looking for some stuff when I noticed this post, you may know of the art-breeder thing, it can make a character resemble with their book counterpart based on their description, and this is book Snape made with art-breeder by u/a_n_s_i_t
Here's the original post
I don't know how accurate it got him, but this is a good one in my opinion. I was wondering when people talk about how Rickman was too good looking to play Snape, and the unflattering feature Snape is described with is his hooked nose, yellow uneven teeth and greasy hair, how are you going to find an actor looking like that?
I always see a character as to their book description, and it's how I visualise them whenever someone mention them, even if Rickman is not how I see him, he was the perfect Snape and the best casting choice, but I remain convinced Tim Roth or Adrien Brody would have been a great Snape. If Alan Rickman was younger then it would've been the best casting choice accurate to the book in any medium ever I'd argue, regardless of anything I loved Alan Rickman's Snape, Imelda Staunton's Umbridge and Helena Carter's Bellatrix.
But I was confused about something else also, the thing is, I like Snape as flawed, iniquitous and villainous character and he is my favourite character for that, and I don't like him one bit as a person but I don't understand why saying something good about the character is such a big deal, do people who like him need to be told he isn't good and his true intention or something about his infatuation, or all the evil and irremediable stuff he has done? It's like I can't like Snape without having the opinion he's a good person which I don't even have but whenever I say he is my favourite character, there's always some people who are so certain that I have the same opinion as all other Snape fan which got ridiculous at a point and I left the Harry Potter sub-reddit because of their threat's and personal attack's, I don't even know if I should call myself a fan or not for the sole reason as of he's my favourite character, but all the opinion I have of him as a character is quite negative and unfavourable.
I haven't been here for a while but I can't tell if it's quite the same around here as well.