An Appreciation of Julianne Moore, Ridley Scott, Ray Liotta, Anthony Hopkins, and their movie Hannibal (2001).

 

 

 

I prefer Ms. Moore in the sequel to Ms. Foster in Silence of the Lambs, and not only because the former's beauty appeals to me more; in fact I loved Jodie Foster in the earliest DVD I have of hers -- Candleshoe -- and liked her very much in the Civil War story - Sommersby - not to mention Taxi Driver. No, there's something in the movie Hannibal that would have required Jody Foster to reach a place where she simply doesn't belong, but the more beautiful, and yes, I believe more talented, Julianne Moore lives there, effortlessly. Which can be forgiven, considering how much Foster's life has been filled with real-world terror. On the other hand, why should we need to forgive any Hollywood person to appreciate her?   Ms. Moore seems to me to have the ability to don a role and lose herself in it like Charlize Therone does, without her "essential" self showing thru, unlike the thousands of Hollywood notables of both sexes whose immutable personalities do show thru.

 

 

 

Along the frenzied way, serial killer-cannibal, medical Doctor Hannibal Lecter has extremely appropriate lines explaining why the FBI hates Clarence Starling; Lecter taunts Agent Starling by characterizing the FBI as just another Washington D.C. institution composed of second-raters concerned with their images and not their jobs, etc.; and so Hannibal has larger political implications than Silence had, the latter's politics being basically a 20^th century's (strong) woman's statement putting rednecky cops in their place. The good Doctor also floats effortlessly in the art world of Italy, speaking good Italian and posing as a curator at a Florentine gallery. And" there are enormous pigs, from Sardinia, meant to eat the Doctor but diverted to de-face, as it were, a revenge-seeking, rich-b*tch, earlier victim.  

 

But enough (cry enough).

 

Net-flix the DVD "Hannibal" or buy it -- it's presently on sale at Amazon.com for about ten bucks. Especially if you share three or more of my foregoing judgments. I guarantee you won't be bored; in fact you will be very properly chilled.

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