Todd Mason said: A new RED DRAGON is indeed in the offing; I
rather preferred the unspectacular MANHUNTER as a version of
RED DRAGON to the hamming of Anthony Hopkins and the
dumbing-down generally of THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS in the
film version of that one. Haven't read nor seen HANNIBAL
yet.
*********** I thought SILENCE OF THE LAMBS was spectacular.
HANNIBAL is not quite on the same level as SILENCE, but its
still a good book. There are parts in it that really shine.
In one part Hannibal is in a miserable environment and he
withdraws into his mind, and there's a mansion that he lives
in here. And there are paintings he can look at and
appreciate the details, and there are books he can read. The
impression it gives is of a breathtaking level of genius
beyond my imagination. But in this many-roomed mansion, there
are doors to rooms that he dare not open, for fear of what
lies behind. This novel way of suggesting an absolutely
stunning level of intelligence, mixed with the knowledge and
fear of the darker regions of the mind, just knocked my socks
off.
And the ending blew me away. WAHOOOO!!! Thomas Harris, you
kick butt, dude! The ending was so revolutionary, so much of
a breach of everything we hold holy about the good guys, such
an ultimate transgression of truth, justice, and the American
Way, that they pitched it and wrote a more conventional
ending for the movie.
miker
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