Ever since watching The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal for the first time a couple months ago, I've become a little obsessed.
Right now I'm reading the books, starting with Red Dragon (by Thomas Harris). I watched the movie the other day and it was brilliant!
It could be that I'm obsessed with Sir Anthony Hopkins. He is PURE GENIUS! The way he portrays Dr. Lecter, is remarkable. I find the character likable. Lecter is genius as well. I'm a fan.
That might be odd to admit. He is a murderer, but he's smart.
I'm surprised that it took me this long to find these books. A few months ago I've ventured into a new book genre (for me) and that's Mystery/Thriller. These books fall right into that, and after watching the Hannibal movies, I'm wondering why I didn't go after the books. I feel like I should have known that The Silence of the Lambs was a book to start off with. But I'm enjoying the books as I get into them.
The last thing I'd like to mention about this whole experience: I usually have a difficult time reading a book AFTER watching the movie. Usually when I find out that it's a book I try to read it BEFORE I watch the movie, but here I just couldn't wait. I have no problem picturing/thinking of Hopkins as Lecter while reading. Usually the movie ruins the book for me because I end up picturing the actors as the characters. My imagination doesn't get to run wild on it's own without any outside help from the movies. The Twilight books were great, but the movie (I've only watched Twilight) has ruined it for me. Edward was so hotter when I thought him up myself.
But these books, I don't mind it. It's rare. Usually I'm forcing myself to get through the books after I've watched the movie. Or I'm skipping the book altogether and I watch the movie or just stick with the movie. I find no difficulty with this. I think of these books as a diary after watching the movies. I wanted more of the Lecter story (more movies) so in a way these books feed that hunger, as it were.
OMG CONGRATS ON GETTING ENGAGED! I always knew you were older than me, but for some reason it still seems strange that you're already getting married. It's hard to have a good grasp of age on the internet...unless you're dealing with a thirteen-year-old brat. I could sense them from a mile away. *shifty eyes*
ReplyDeleteI've always been too terrified of the Silence of the Lamb movies. Is that the movie where the guy says something about fava beans? My dad did that to scare me once when I was super little and I've never gotten over it. But in general, I hate scary things. I know it's not considered "Horror" exactly, but I think it makes it scary that the situation could actually take place in real life. I'll take monsters over serial killers any day.
I HATE reading books after seeing the movie. I find reading much more enjoyable than watching, so I hate knowing the ending to a book. Except for Harry Potter, which I could reread every summer for the rest of my life, I have a hard time reading books where I already know what happens. I like the surprise, you know? This is going to sound weird, but I was really pissed when my English teacher told my class what happened at the end of Pride and Prejudice. It's a classic and I probably should have known what happened anyway, but still.
Don't worry about admitting you like Hannibal Lector. I'm not afraid to admit that I absolutely admire some criminals. I'm enamored by early 1900s mafia stuff. I had a t-shirt with Al Capone on it ('twas really ghetto, but whatever) and have read a million biographies on other mobsters. Sure, they weren't good men, but they were smart and skilled at there, um, business.
I'm not exactly sure why I had you send your response to my email. You can always comment at Flmaora. I usually don't respond to comments until I blog again (which takes forever sometimes), but I'll make exceptions for yours since are comments are more of a conversation anyway. I don't do that with most people because it's more of a "I respond to your blog, you respond to mine" type deal.
ReplyDeleteSee, Chuckie doesn't really scare me much. I've never seen the movie, but my mom told me the entire premise (as she unfortunately does with any movie she sees) and I'm not bothered...which is odd, because my room is full of dozens of dolls and stuffed animals.
I never really understood the reasoning behind changing the ending to books when they're made into movies. I understand that some things need to be changed because certain things don't translate well to film and it needs to be shortened, but the entire ending? Damn Hollywood.
Books scare me less than movies too. Maybe it's the lack of visual? I have a vivid imagination so you think it could be worse, but I guess no matter how vivid of an imagination you have, there's always the choice to make it less graphic and everything is somewhat foggy.
How are you? You posted some tweets that didn't sound too fabulous. D: