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...career, it also catapulted him from character actor to bona fide movie star. The movie won five Oscars--including Best Actor (Hopkins), Best Actress (Jodie Foster) and Best Picture--and took a huge bite out of the box office. A decade later, the slickly subdued, eerily serene Dr. Hannibal Lecter still inhabits our nightmares because Hopkins knows that as an actor, "the quieter you are, the more terrifying...
...With two wary studios (Universal and MGM) sharing the cost of the rocky production, everyone else involved with Hannibal has been rather tense for quite some time. As soon as Silence became a hit, legendary producer Dino De Laurentiis, 81, began his vigil for novelist Thomas Harris' next Hannibal Lecter book. De Laurentiis had "first negotiation, last refusal" rights for any movie containing the Lecter character, as he had produced Manhunter, the 1986 adaptation of Harris' Red Dragon, in which Lecter made his first screen appearance in the form of actor Brian Cox. Manhunter didn't perform...
...good man's frustration in abiding by the stern moral rules that he set for the tribunal. In melodrama, of course, the villains always win; they're the ones who get to strut. Thus Brian Cox, as Goering, has his drollest mass-murderer role since he played Hannibal Lecter in the 1986 Manhunter; and Herbert Knaup (of Run, Lola, Run) is a handsomely conflicted Albert Speer...
NATURALIZED. ANTHONY HOPKINS, 62, Oscar-winning British actor; as a U.S. citizen; in Los Angeles. Sir Anthony the Yank (LECTER THE DEFECTOR, cried one British headline) will be a dual national...
...busy as the ear; she embellishes the story without disfiguring it. There's room in her bestiary for fine performances, a pretty collision of histrionic styles. Cumming preens, Lennix schemes, Lange smolders. Then all cede to Hopkins, who, in the suitably grisly finale, serves up Titus as Hannibal Lecter with a noble vengeance. Rare and well done...