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...movie, directed by Peter Webber (Girl With a Pearl Earring) and written by Thomas Harris, author of the novel, is a devolution and devaluation of Hannibal Lecter, the genius-madman-gourmand Harris created in Red Dragon (1981, filmed as Manhunter in 1986 and remade as Red Dragon in 2002) and developed in The Silence of the Lambs (1988, filmed in 1991) and Hannibal (1999, filmed...
...readers and viewers of the third novel (Hannibal) know, Lecter grew up a pampered aristocrat in Lithuania, fond of his parents, immensely devoted to his younger sister Mischa. In the last months of World War II, his parents were killed in a Nazi air strike and he and Mischa were held for possible ransom by looters. Near starvation and desperate for food, the looters killed, cooked and devoured the girl. The suggestion is that Lecter's life became a twisted mission to punish all malefactors and dispose of them exactly as his sister...
...Harris wants to shift the audience's take on Lecter from horrified fascination to pity, or sympathy, or empathy. Hannibal Rising is his most explicit defense: not guilty by reason of insanity, with its roots in a childhood trauma. [That's plausible,] but a lot less interesting than the grownup spectacle of the super-Mensa, super-crazy Hannibal in the first two books. To explain Hannibal is to remove the reason for his tenacious, voracious hold on readers: his otherness - odious and seductive, and unexplainable - by delving into his past. As the good doctor himself argued (in Silence): 'Nothing happened...
Before he developed a taste for liver—with fava beans and a nice chianti, of course—Hannibal Lecter was a just a disturbed young man. Stepping into the iconic super-villain role is French actor Gaspard Ulliel, star of “Hannibal Rising,” the latest installment from Thomas Harris’ book series. Ulliel admits that tackling such a legend is “a bit scary,” but knows he can make Hannibal his own. “People are going to walk into the movie looking for similarity...
...serum, even though any evidence gathered under such conditions is imprecise and cannot be used in a court of law. Kohli has admitted under the influence of the drug that he consumed the livers of his victims, a chilling detail that has earned him the nickname Noida's Hannibal Lecter. Criminal psychologists caution that he may just be exaggerating his crimes for notoriety or some other reason. In press reports, Pandhar's son Karan has defended his father, saying, "He is just a suspect. He is not a monster...