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    1. Wild that Osama bin Laden (styled Usama bin Laden) appears in 2001's HANNIBAL through a photo on the FBI website. The film came out a mere seven months before the September 11th attacks.
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    HANNIBAL just doesn't quite work: there's some spark missing that THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS has. Julianne Moore doesn't work as Starling but I'm inclined to blame Ridley Scott's direction since Anthony Hopkins is flatter than SILENCE as well.
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      Plus despite actually filming in Florence, which should be a slam dunk for beautiful cinematography, Scott's camera makes the city look washed-out, bland, and empty, no better than filming it on a studio backlog.
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        Crucially Scott simply doesn't have the capacity for the queerness that the story and characters demand. He can't (won't?) explore the queering that Hannibal (and Clarice) indulge in. A recent @tender_subject episode discussed this better than I can.
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          *studio backlot
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            Expanded on some of these thoughts on HANNIBAL (2001) on Letterboxd. letterboxd.com/simonxix/film/hannibal/
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