Todd and Miker,
Re your comments below:
> 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.
While I rather liked the film version of SILENCE OF THE
LAMBS, I did prefer MANHUNTER, and, moreover, prefered Bryan
Cox's version of Lector to Hopkins's
(which struck me as Cox-influenced), and, on balance, Dennis
Farina's version of the head of Behavioral Science.
Curiously, I preferred the novel SILENCE OF THE LAMBS to RED
DRAGON. Go figure.
> 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.
I happen to like Truth, Justice, and the American Way.
I don't really find the fact that Harris decided to
revolt against those verities a point of literary merit. Call
me reactionary.
JIM DOHERTY
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