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Interview with Anthony Hopkins in Real Media about HANNIBAL
Hey folks, Harry here... Seems that AOL has gotten their paws upon some EPK footage of Anthony Hopkins on the set of HANNIBAL... as well as an interview... You see 3 or 4 different looks for him... you hear him doing Lecter lines... and you hear his personal philosophy on Lecter's seemingly supernatural abilities. Very very cool... You have to see and hear it just for his few Lecter moments... I CAN NOT WAIT to see this. I want it to rule badly!
CLICK HERE TO GO CHECK IT OUT!!!
thanks goes to DISTURBED for tracking down the link!
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I am SO hoping this pik will rule. I heard the book didn't get all that great reviews.
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That is just too fucking cool. I cannot wait to see this movie (can you believe I haven't read the book yet?). Anyway, I'm hoping that Hollywood gets the messege about sophisticated horror films. As anyone can see from the packed theater houses screening 'The Exorcist', there is an audience out there with a hunger for some substance. I saw 'Exorcist' at Mann's Chinese in Hollywood with the best damned audience in history... these people are out there,... they do exist! Not everyone will be entertained by 'slash and stalk' retreads like that godforsaken peice of cinematic horse-shit 'Urban Legends: Final Cut'. Ridley, Anthony... make us proud!
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I just got to meet Anthony Hopkins (when I did, he insisted on being called Tony) yesterday. He did a Q&A session here at my school, Boise State University. He stated a few times that his favorite character that he has played was Hannibal Lechter, and even did a few of his lines in the same voice, with the same look. It was REALLY creepy in person, especially when he's staring right at you! He gave a rave review of his working with Ridley Scott and Julianne Moore, and then tried to calm down the people that may have freaked out a little by telling them that in this one Hannibal only does the bad stuff to the bad people, or "as Hannibal likes to call them, the 'terminally rude.'" All in all, a great time was had by all. Just thought I'd share.
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The book seemed to polarise opinion, despite being a massive success. The first chapter, the fbi drug bust, was in IMHO one of the most gripping action sequences ever written.
The section in Florence is awesome ly tense cat and mouse stuff. Mason Verger is trully disgusting , I can't wait to see Gary Oldman in this role. The part most people had an issue with was the ending. I won't spoil it, but it is a tad bizarre, as Ridley Scott said 'a little hard to swallow'. However, looking back on it i think it was an interesting way to end the book, and very creepy. The way Harris describes the action, as if he was narrating something actually happening, was well done and I just hope that Ridley comes up with something special.
This is Bluelou Boyle signing off...'You got me in a vendetta kind of mood...' -
... wasn't the ending rewritten for the film? From what I read the end of the film won't be nearly as creepy as the end of the book ...
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im just hoping - and i assume this will happen - that scott and his compadres come up with something so subversive to what the general public expect that it blows everyone out of the water. I know that's what the book did to me. I'm a hard core horror fan, no question, and i couldn't believe what Harris did in his book. It blew me away. All power to him. Ballsiest move i've seen in a while. All of the establishment that was let into the horror trend when "Silence.." became a - deservedly - mainsteam hit were obviously expecting a "Gone with the wind- polite-oh so clever-and acceptable" follow up to hike up the book charts and make Marion and Dale feel oh so daring in their uptown manhattan penthouse pad. So what does Harris do - he pulls the rug out from under them and creates scenes so unexpected and daring that they make even jaded horror fans gasp and reel. And we know Ridley isn't adverse to the odd spot of controversy. Or David Mamet. And Hopkins and Moore are two of the most uncompromising actors working today. I can't wait. You guys may not care what i think but as long as they keep in the spirit and tone of the book - it's going to be a gothic fairy tale of EPIC proportions. Roll on Valantines day !!!!!
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I put it up at my hannibal site, http://www.geocities.com/hannibalspalace
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So far, so good. All the omens look great. The shoot went smoothly, both Hopkins and Scott sound very happy. Yes!! I like the preceding note about the Exorcist, it's true we need edgy, intelligent horror films. Hoping Hannibal will be a worthy successor to Silence of the Lambs (but less, much less politically correct).
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this movie should be greatly entertaining. A psychological murderer. Reminds me of a batman villian they way the police and the criminal have a back and forth, the villian here almost WANTS to get caught too! Very interesting. more hannibal stuff would be appreciated. :)
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I know ALL police and criminals have a back and forth, but ... something feels alot like The Joker or the riddler with ol' Hannibal. My parents were going to get me the book, but decided not to, too bad my dad knows about books.
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I have read the book quite some time ago now, I know I finished it by May and have passed it along to friends ever since. We all seem to have the same reaction, the book is so-so but it should be a good movie. When I was reading the book I remember seeing the teaser for it in theatres and not being to impressed. That was because there are a lot of really dull moments in the book that will most likely not appear in the movie. I was surpised that somebody that commented on this site liked the section in Florence, that is exactly the chapters I'm talking about. But I really doubt they'll play a lot in the film because not only is it a departure from what's going on with Sterling but it goes on for a mere 100 pages. Overall I just thought the book was O.K., but as more and more rumors fell in about the film I have to say I'm looking forward to it. Anthony Hopkins was the first good news but than there was Jodie Foster backing out. But, in my opinion, the news got better as Julianne Moore, an equally great actress and is on a series of great movies including Magnolia, is now taking over. And than it was confirmed Ridley Scott is taking the directors chair and that is really cool itself. I think visually and acting wise this will be a great film. It all comes down to the script and I'm very curious on how it's going to play. Some parts of the book were just born to be shown in a film, the opening of course. But some parts will most likely be changed around a lot and I'm curious as well as for the ending. I hope some of you that haven't read the book didn't read Cyber Tooths message, for he could of just easily gave away the ending for the film. What happened over the months was when Jodie Foster got the script the ending was the same as in the book as in the script and she was very displeased and said she wanted a different ending. They rewrote it but she still denied it. So they looked around and got Julianne Moore. As far as the script goes it may be the same as the ending or they could of revised it. If Jodie Foster made it clear she didn't like the ending they could of easily agreed that it needed to be changed and kept the revised version instead. Either way it should be interested as it all comes out and I have a feeling we'll see another trailer in the next couple of months.
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*SPOILER warning*
What no one seems to be addressing is the actual end of the book finding its way into the movie; that is, NOT the cannibalism scene, but the subsequent scene where Lecter and Starling hook up.
To me, that was much more shocking and fascinating than practically anything that preceded it (I think Ms. DuPont once rightly characterized it as a sudden shift from horror story to gothic romance), and was one of the most violently debated (and hated) plot points when the book came out. To put it bluntly, Hannibal and Starling end up totally in love (just took a little drug therapy for Starling to realize it) and happy together in South America. Whether this will make it into the film remains to be seen -- but it would be very, very interesting if it did. -
Welcome back! What took you so long? Peace.
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The cannibalism sequence is in the Feb. 9 dated script. However, Clarice is true to herself... take that whatever way you want.
And, the ending of the movie (which I find a little unsatisfying...and I hope they made on-set changes) leaves it open for a third encounter between the minds of Clarice M. Starling and Dr. Hannibal Lecter, MD. -
..if only to see Oldman as Mason Verger and Ray Liotta as Krendler. I just finished the book, and it was interesting reading it with the actors in mind.
Anyway, I heard somewhere that the charater of Mason's sister has been excised from the script...bummer, because she was part of a pretty interesting subplot.
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The way I read it, it seemed that (SPOILER)
Clarice wasn't totally awar that she was eating brains because she was drugged and hypnotized....so it wasn't like she did it of her own free will. Or am I mistaken? -
Haven't read the book (but I've read Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs) but I was wondering if Jack Crawford is in it, and if so who's playing him? Dennis Farina or the fella from Silence of the Lambs (Scott Glenn?) or someone else entirely?
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Oct 01, 2000 11:24:48 PM CDT
FEB 14th WILL BE ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED DAY FOR THIS FILM L
by geekbasher 3.0
All I can say, Is I cannot wait!! Hannibal will open HUGE! Any other movie opening that day will Flop, That other horror movie VALENTINE will be clobbered!! I personally think Julianne Moore will Rock as Clarice and I am sure the movie will have it's share of creepy moments and suspense filled sequences, We will not be disappointed! I mean it is Ridley who is directing this freak show! I cannot wait to see the ending!
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The first record incident of cannibalism took place around 300 B.C. when a group of marauding Sumerians were overpowered and eaten by a barbarian tribe known as the Hormel. A few Sumerians lived to tell the tale by promising to deliver more of their tasty countrymen to the Hormel war chiefs. Since then, cannibalism has been with us ever since. It was particuarily en vogue in the noble houses of Carthage around 30 B.C., when the young lord Slymjym would hold enormous banquets consisting of his friends and neighbors. Probably the most notorious case of cannibalism in the new world is that of the Donner party in the old west. We've all learned about that in history class, and are all familiar with the image of Tubby Donner trundling out of the mountains in springtime, picking his teeth.
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Well, I read both SOL and HANNIBAL and loved them both, but the style of HANNIBAL really was different...and I liked it...both Gothic horrow and Gothic romance, in a way. I also loved the scenes in Florence--and found absolutely nothing dull about that part of the book. I've been to Florence each year for the past decade and I could see in my mind's eye every single scene in the book, from Inspector Pazzi petting the snout of the bronze warthog at the straw market, to the grisly murder at the Palazzo Vecchio.
I was reading Hannibal on the plane to Italy last year, and finished it just before I arrived in Florence...only a short time after the shooting ended there. I have a friend, Roberto Chiavini, who runs a game store just a half-block from the Cathedral. He told me that one of the scenes shot at night has his store in the background. He was watching and said it had to do with a gypsy who was trying to pickpocket someone. If you read the book, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
And what a chilling ending. I hope they don't change a thing. To me, it sets up another sequal...as you can, for the first time, sense that Clarice has "unsettled" Hannibal. Sure, she was drugged...but you know (or hope) she is becoming herself again...and Hannibal sensing danger, as well as fascination.
And I DARE them to film Oldham as Verger just as he is described in the book, and I DARE them to film a certain meal shared by Hannibal and Clarice. It can be done, but it'll take the creative fx of HOLLOW MAN to do it. And yeah, too bad if the sister is gone from the script; what a piece of work she was, but something has to go. Anyway, can't wait to see it. -
I read Both Books ...loved the first .....and the movie.
The second book was ok...right up till the stupid unbelievable ending....hope its changed for the movie...
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...I think that BasherwillRite or whatever he called himself is off his rocker! Maybe he's got a very special relationship to his hamster? I mean, c'mon.... Hannibal is supposed to make tou go .... Oh, Hanibal the Cannibal. And even if someone has a dumb name in a project that is NOT reason enough to not feel interested when ANTOHNY HOPKINS is acting and Ridley Scott is directing and everyone around you thinks the story will be dark, deep, creepy, twisted and psychological superior. For all I care they could have called one of the characters involved Chris Colombus (and YES, that have been a dumb name ever since 1492, I'd still be psyched! I think that Basher here really didn't have anything to post but felt that he was obliged to post something anyway. But he could at least have done better than popping up a hamster-thing (Hey, Basher, you have been to that godawful "The Klumps", haven't you!?)
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To the three other guys out there who actually bother to read & read this book: did you get the idea that Harris had his tongue planted firmly in cheek from page 1? For God's sake, man-eating pigs and transsexual weightlifting sperm thieves? All I could think of while reading it was, "This is a spoof." I think Harris said, "OK, these fuckers are so jaded to violence, and so willing to make my antihero a hero, i'm going to give them the most ridiculously over-the-top grand guignol they ever read!" (Look it up). You can't have taken the book seriously; I hope the film makers agree.
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I agree that the book seems to be written with tongue planted firmly in cheek. Bu tmy biggest problem is that I started this journey reading "Red Dragon," the actual first book of the series, NOT "Silence of the Lambs," which many believe is the first of the series. "Red Dragon" remains one of the scariest books I've ever read. Unfortunately, HANIBAL was never scary. It was silly at times, with silly characters like the aforementioned weight-lifting, sperm-stealing lesbian, and Mason Verger, who just seems ridiculous. My main problem with it, thought, was exactly what Anthony Hopkins said: He only killed bad people. Hopefully the movie will be better.
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