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I am. I read the book years ago and saw Manhunter, so I feel obligated to check this one out. I've read more bad reviews than good, so I'm not expecting to be delighted. I have serious doubts about the wisdom behind casting Edward Norton as Will Graham....he's just too weasely. Ralph Fiennes as Francis Dolarhyde? Um, no. And are we going to see quietly menacing Hannibal Lecter or unintentionally-hilarious self-parodying Hannibal Lecter? I'm assuming the latter. Still, I hope to be entertained. |
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I do not think I will be able to watch it. I still can't get over the scene with liota sitting there with his head cut open and hannibal frying a peice of his brain and feeding to him. I just do not think I can.... |
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Ralph Fiennes did a good job with Dolarhyde, though he wasn't nearly muscular enough. Dolarhyde is supposed to be this enormously powerful man with gigantic muscles. I won't give anything away, but there's a scene in which he flexes his back, and it's supposed to be an awe- and fear-inspiring scene, but because Fiennes' back is only as muscled as any regular guy (ok, actor), the scene has a...different effect. You could see what a sad person he was. That's another difference between this story and the others with Lecter....you feel sorry for Dolarhyde. The book is even better at evoking your sympathy for the guy. And call me sick, but I was disappointed that they cut out the love scene between Dolarhyde and Reba. That's important! It shows his buried humanity. |
Go see it! I want to participate in a discussion! |
Let me say that it involves a pre-capture Hannibal Lecter. And you know how refined he is. |
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No, it wasn't that great... I am not asking you to see it on its own merits. But I want to discuss it, OK? OK???? :) |
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What's the deal w/Dolarhyde's deformity? As far as I can tell from "Manhunter", he's a really big guy with a harelip and poor social skills. I liked "Hannibal" okay---I just thought it was cheesy that they wimped out on Harris's ending. I mean, Clarice Starling bounces back and stands up for this institution that has fucked her up the poop-chute? YEAH. AS IF... |
Dolarhyde had a cleft palate and other problems that weren't surgically corrected till he was a grown man. His mother gave him away at birth, the kids in the orphanage or foster home were really mean to him, his hard-assed grandmother found him and took him home with her to the old-folks home she ran. A few people are kind to him, but something happens to make him think they're laughing at him, so he goes and kills all the chickens in the coop, and he feels much better. That gives him a taste for killing. He had a few speech impediments, and wouldn't say the S sound normally. When he becomes the Dragon, his impediments are gone. I'll watch Manhunter tonight. I thought this was interesting -- in the little interview extras on the DVD, Tom Noonan (played Dolarhyde) said he would not let anyone on the set see him, except for Joan Allen (Reba). He stayed in different hotels, took different flights, worked on a different schedule, etc. from all the other actors, because he didn't want anyone to become comfortable with/around him. He would sit in his trailer in the dark, and when the director came in to talk to him, they would both sit in the dark. Noonan has kind of faded out of acting, and one of the catalysts for that decision was when he was in the grocery store and the woman in the line behind him recognized him and ran screaming. That hurt his feelings. |
PPS. I seem to be developing an unexplainable attraction to William Petersen. |
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