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Hannibal Rising - The Movie

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I passed on reading Thomas Harris' "Hannibal Rising" when it was released last month based on extremely bad reviews and a co-worker whom said she was really not enjoying the book. I was pretty bummed because Harris is one of my top 3 favorite authors of all-time.

Entertainment Weekly even called the book "mostly unreadable" when selecting the five worst books of '06

All hope may not be lost, though: On February 9, the movie hits the big screen. Here's the trailer. Totally check it out:

http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/mf/frame...09716945&f=1809716945&mspid=1809806354&type=t

22-year-old Gaspard Ulliel, of that brilliantly creepy 2001 foreign film "Brotherhood Of The Wolf" is playing the young Dr. Lecter and looks quite capable.

Trivia: This is the same exact date that "Silence Of The Lambs" opened to in 1991 and "Hannibal" premiered on in 2001. The movie execs made tons from these two films and are probably hoping Feb. 9 will work magic once again.

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Studios don't choose January and February as release dates for their best movies. The first part of the year is pretty much the dumping ground for all of the movies that they didn't want to release during the lucrative Summer (blockbuster) and Fall (prestige picture) seasons of the previous year.

So it doesn't seem like the studio has a lot of faith in this movie and based on the reviews for the book, it's probably with good reason.

They got lucky with Silence Of The Lambs and Hannibal being released at this time.
 
well i liked the last three. but i was surprised when he released this one. kind of thought that red dragon would be the last one

well i guess some people don't know when to end a story, too bad.
 
I liked Hannibal Rising, the book, a great deal. The characters shed so much light on the story behind Red Dragon, Silence..., and Hannibal.
The story was slow, and interspersed with strange beauty, such as the presence and rarity of Hannibal's uncle's widow, Lady Murasaki. The exotic flowers they exchanged, the Haiku....all relieved the dramatic tension of the atrocities done to the Lechter family by the Nazi deserters and their successors.
The systematic punishments of the villians as Hannibal sought them out and outsmarted them were exciting and dramatic. I understand the further stories of the good doctor much better from having read this book, which for the first time reveals an understandable and even sympathetic rationale for the violence in the succeeding stories.

Yes, it is slow reading. I, for one, deliberately read it slowly for its sensitivity to beautiful language, and for many examples of rich, unusual imagery.
 
Who are we to say how many and what kind of books may be written. This sounds to me like an infringement of authors rights. Don't buy or read the books, but for freedom's sake, don't try to dictate who can and cannot write ...oh, a hundred books about Hannibal Lechter.
Another thing: not all three books deal with the same subject. Red Dragon, the first to be released did not portray the same fiend as did "The Silence of the Lambs," which was both critically and financially successful. And was Hannibal the protagonist of "Lambs,",or was Clarice Starling, portrayed so memorably by Jodie Foster in the excellent movie of Silence? Hannibal, the sequel to Lambs, portrayed still another Hannibal Lechter. All of them were fascinating, albeit somewhat wierd. But hey, wierd is not always bad.
 
When we say this, no one is demanding that anyone stop writing. We're just saying that if he continues, they probably won't be well received and detrimental to the characters he's created.

And we know that the three books don't deal with the same characters and that they all portray Hannibal differently. Red Dragon introduces us to him and then to his wicked nature, Silence of the Lambs spins him as the wicked genius who manages to help in something crucial to save lives, and Hannibal portrays him as his final evil and his love of Clarice. And I believe all of the books reveal his history and torrid past.

So what need is there for a 4th one?
 
Hannibal Rising isn't bad; it's readable, and it attempts to throw light on what made Hannibal turn into what he became.

However - I think it was a mistake to do that.

The chilling thing about the character in the other books was that we didn't know what could cause a person to become such a monster. Fear of the unknown. To dissect his childhood and formative years, just turns him into another serial killer. The mystique and dread is gone.

I'll still go see the film - but I think this one has run its course.
 
I've never been a big fan of novelists who keep writing about the same character. Of Thomas Harris' books (Black Sunday, Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal and Hannibal Rising) only his first book wasnt about Lecter. Smacks of a guy either chasing the money, or someone who hasn't had any fresh ideas in 25 years.

And the big problem with this kind of book is that it de-mystifies someone to a point where they just arent scary anymore!
 
Thanks for the info and trailer. I, too, didn't pick up the book after learning the film was to be released before I would get around to reading it. I will check out the film.
 
Just saw the movie : a good one. I'd say second, after "Silence of the Lambs".

Gong Li is amazingly mesmerizing. Gaspard Ulliel is good too : he really looks like a young Anthony Hopkins...

I'm hungry, now... where is my meal ?... hep ! you !... come here !... your cheeks are... mmmmmmm..... :badgrin:
 
Silence of the Lambs was great, and I'm tempted to see this new movie because the guy playing Hannibal looks hot. ) I'm skipping the book entirely because Harris started forgetting how to write somewhere between Red Dragon and Lambs. Hannibal was a complete train wreck of a novel. I know Harris has to be a cash cow, but damn... get an editor to at least pretend to look at it.
 
saw a preview for this recently...interesting enough for me to check it out
 
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