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...different story altogether. In 2001, he inherited a program in shambles. Despite amassing a 10-6 record in the Big Ten in his second year in Ann Arbor, the Wolverines were not eligible for postseason play because of a rules violation that dated back to the days of Chris Webber and the Fab Five...
Rather than fall into a state of chaos, however, the University was able to rebound after the end of the war. After the relatively calm administrations of Joseph Willard, class of 1755, (1781-1804) and Samuel Webber, class of 1784, (1806-1810), the university entered what has been called the “Augustan Age of Harvard.” Under the administration of John Thornton Kirkland, class of 1789 and president from 1810-1828, the Law School (1817) and the Divinity School (1819) were formally established. Kirkland also removed a brew house, wood yard, privies, roaming sheep...
...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...
...this could conceivably be of interest if the movie had the dash, the wit, the silky threat of the mature Hannibal Lecter. But he's missing, as is Anthony Hopkins. So Webber takes his cue for pacing and tone from the young Hannibal. Alas. As played by Gaspard Ulliel, he's just a gawky, monosyllabic adolescent. You get hints of Hannibal's empathy - his gift at mind- and heart-reading - and the briefest pass at his fascination with culinary matters. But this Hannibal is hardly even a rough sketch for the later Lecter. Indeed, he's virtually unrecognizable...
...similar mask when we first see him in The Silence of the Lambs. The other, just preceding Hannibal's first murder, is the flash of a smile before his face goes blankly ferocious and he proceeds with his butchering. But these are two moments in two hours, and Webber has no other epiphanies to offer. As Girl With the Pearl Earring showed, his tone is contemplative; he has neither the skills nor the taste for the spasms of violence or sexual displays that would zazz up the movie. Poor Hannibal Rising: it lacks even redeeming prurient interest. What...