This is the story of the monster Hannibal Lecter's formative years. These experiences as a child and young adult led to his remarkable contribution to the fields of medicine, music, painting and forensics. We begin in World War II at the medieval castle in Lithuania built by Dr. Lecter's forebear, Hannibal the Grim. The child Hannibal survives the horrors of the Eastern Front and escapes the grim Soviet aftermath to find refuge in France with the widow of his uncle, mysterious and beautiful Japanese descended from Lady Murasaki Shikibu, author of the Tale of Genji. Her kind and wise attentions help him understand his unbearable recollections of the war. Remembering, he finds the means to visit the outlaw predators that changed him forever as they battened on helpless during the collapse of the Eastern Front. Hannibal helps these war criminals toward self-knowledge even as we see his own nature become clear to him.
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Open up the trailer link and in the bottom right hand corner of your broswer the video downloader is there, press it and you will have the Hannibal Rising trailer.
havent seen the film yet but have read the book and hopefully in the film they have managed to get across the same sort out things,
the things that influenced him when he was younger, his experiences, the story about him and his sister which i dont think has been mentioned in any of the films so it will explain a lot to those who have just seen the films.
also i have been told that the actor playing the younger him is bloody brill and he was cast because he actually looked like he could kill someone.
I thought Silence of the Lambs, Red Dragon, Manhunter were great. Hannibal wasn't too impressive but still interesting. I haven't seen this yet. Not too excited though.
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hannibal was ok but they screwed around with the ending so much it pissed me off, what happens in the film isnt anything remotely like what that happened in the book which was a way better ending,
I saw it, and I'm undecided as to how much I liked it. Coming off reading the book a month earlier, I found myself comparing too much what was on screen to what was on the page (and what wasn't.) They made subtle changes to leave it more open-ended too; prior to the opening, Dino De Laurentiis made headlines about wanting to do more young Hannibal stories. If you read the book, Thomas Harris ties up everything neatly to how he begins spending his residency at John Hopkins in Baltimore - De Laurentiis wants to spend more time on his relationship with Lady Murasaki; hence, another film. This is being greedy.
Still, I'm curious enough to watch the film again, to get the associations out of my head. I had the same problem watching Red Dragon the first time, comparing every scene to Manhunter, but eventually I was won over.
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silence of the lambs= awesome
hanabial=kinda shitty
red dragon=awesome
hanaibal rising=havent seen it yet but looking forward to it just sad that hopkins wont be in it or is he?
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