Omar,
This should provide an overview of the character and perhaps how popular
he has become, at least in Western Europe & its Northern European
progeny. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal_Lecter
I just finished the first two seasons of the TV series (Canadian as
far as I know) on Netflix. The Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen is
especially compelling. Anthony Hopkins in the earlier movies seemed so
good that no one, Mikkelsen included, thought he could match him, and
yet Mikkelsen took the role and did, making it something that Hopkins
never did. Especially notice from the article, "Fuller commented on
Mikkelsen's version of Lecter: "What I love about Mads' approach to the
character is that, in our first meeting, he was adamant that he didn't
want to do Hopkins or Cox. He talked about the character not so much as
'Hannibal Lecter the cannibal psychiatrist', but as Satan
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satan> – this fallen angel
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_angel> who's enamoured with mankind
and had an affinity for who we are as people, but was definitely not
among us – he was other."
Lawrence
On 4/5/2015 6:54 AM, Omar Kusturica wrote:
Who is Hannibal here ? Not the historical Hannibal, I take it.
O.K.
On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 3:48 PM, Adriano Palma <Palma@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:Palma@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Thank you to L Helm
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Hannibal’s Cookbook
I knew before I searched
There would be one, the
Evil in each of us
Demands food.
I prefer a warning,
An aroma to smell
And pull away from,
But the narrative appeals,
And I watched the first
Two seasons seeing his
Good, his greater
Good taking those filled
With unseemly bents
And baking them like Ortolan
Buntings. Hannibal is above
The need for an external ethic.
I on the other hand am
Not, fearing his cuisine
As I might cocaine,
Weak as I am I need
A convincing hindrance.
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