SPOILERS FOR "HANNIBAL RISING" (2007), SEASON 1 OF NBC'S HANNIBAL, AND HANNIBAL RISING AND HANNIBAL BY THOMAS HARRIS
In this episode:
- Back to just Fio and me (thanks again, Cleo!). And we're trying out something new with the opening! Let us know if you like it or if change makes you go into the fetal position (hoo, boy; wait 'til the end of this episode).
- Discussion of the 2007 adaptation of Thomas Harris' novel Hannibal Rising, including Gaspard Ulliel's performance as the young Hannibal Lecter, Rhys Ifans and his band of Nazis, Thomas Harris' screenplay, and what material they might use in NBC's Hannibal.
- David Bowie is like cheese and bacon.
- I want a comic/gifset of the movie's conversation with Fio. No, this is not a contest, it's just something I really, really want to see.
- Here's the gorgeous forest shot Fio and I appreciated.
- I make another comparison to The Phantom of the Opera.
- We ask the hard-hitting questions: Did this movie need to be made? Does Hannibal's motivation make sense? How disappointed would we be if David Bowie wasn't in Season 2 of NBC's Hannibal?
- Fuller's version will probably be ridiculously coherent.
- The problem of origin stories, and the pacing of novels vs. the pacing of movies
- Poor Abigail. Poor, poor Abigail.
- This is the way our discussion of Hannibal in film ends. (You know the rest.)
- We finish up with a few updates on the future of the podcast.
- Part of me is still trying to figure out the whole cannibalism-begets-cannibalism thing. Is it like, "Well, if I was willing to eat my sister, then everyone else is fair game"?
- I totally forgot to mention all of the ways you can contact us at the end of this episode. Whoops. Well, there's our sidebar up there; you can find links for email and everything there.
- Intro: "Howl" - Beware of Darkness | YouTube | iTunes |
- Outro: "Goldberg Variations BWV 988 - Aria" - Johann Sebastian Bach (performed by Kimiko Ishizaka) | Free Download |
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ReplyDeleteOn mute Hannibal: I think it's in the book "Silence of the Lambs" (but it might be in "Red Dragon") that Lecter's voice is described as sort of rusty from disuse because he hadn't talked for like two years. At least not to Chilton, because at one point he was just fed up with his nonsense and didn't even want to play anymore, which is part of why Chilton is so ticked off that Lecter is so chatty with Clarice.
ReplyDeleteSo maybe Thomas Harris was referencing that with Hannibal not talking for a while in "Hannibal Rising?" Idk because I haven't seen or read it, but I just thought that was interesting.