Seán’s Movie Music Magorium: Hannibal
Based upon the Thomas Harris novel of the same name, and released in 2001, just over ten years after The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal is the much-anticipated follow up to the characters of the Academy-Award winning Silence. Directed by Ridley Scott, this movie is a horse of a different colour. It deals more directly with the character of Hannibal Lector than the original, as he lives now in Florence. Clarice Starling returns, now a ten-year veteran, to be manipulated by corrupt politicians and police forces in the hunt for Lector. The climax, involving Lector and Starling and a heavily made-up Ray Liotta, differs from that in the book and is a very different offering from Silence. That is one word that must be kept in mind while thinking of this film as a follow up to that one – different. This is a violent film. This is a follow … There’s more
