Word: lecter
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...crazed Frasier Crane as he desperately tries to avoid the company of his fellow characters, whom he despises almost as much as he hates himself. Hugo belongs on the same gnarled family tree as Lolita's Humbert Humbert as well as--somewhere deep down in the root system--Hannibal Lecter. They fascinate because they reconcile exquisite refinement with total loathsomeness with an ease that suggests some chilling, unspoken connection between...
...Christensen gives a virtuoso performance, tossing off perfect sentences seemingly at random, delivering them with a sneer that makes them more delicious. Surveying a windblown Sunday morning, Hugo writes, "The Hudson Valley quivers in this Sabbath-morning light; the sky is a blinding bowl of leaves and birds." Dr. Lecter couldn't have said it better...
...ABOUT CLARICE STARLING AND HANNIBAL LECTER? Oh, absolutely. [Laughs.] Which one's Hannibal...
Good novels don't often make good movies. The communion of author, character and reader is usually lost in translation. But Thomas Harris' Lecter stories have been blessed with caring midwives: four films and not a lemon among them. The trick, which Red Dragon pulls off in smart fashion, is to take sensation seriously, to find its root in loneliness and love...
...role because he was impressed with her work in Breaking the Waves. But Watson also felt that Red Dragon was just mad, bad and dangerous enough for her. "If you're going to do it," she says, "this is the way to go, isn't it? In a Hannibal Lecter movie...