The Reel Rejects - HANNIBAL (2001) IS DELICIOUSLY TWISTED!! MOVIE REVIEW!! First Time Watching!!

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Starting point is 00:01:57 dude my fellow juject uh we just watched hannibal you and um i have never seen you squirm to the extent that you squirmed there oh i've never seen brains being cut open and eaten so yeah that was squirm worthy i feel i hear you i hear you um talk to me about how you felt about this movie and especially in comparison to the first one i mean it was definitely i enjoyed it first and foremost i think i like the first one a bit more but there was definitely the contrast i do like the the cat and mouse that was going on in terms of like going after him and i think what i liked about the first movie so much was just how he was able to size up people and the way he was able to dissect them not figuratively you know what i mean but just the way he was able to read people it was just one of my favorite

Starting point is 00:02:53 things it's not the gruesome stuff it's everything else about that the character. I love. The smarts, the brilliance. Yeah. Oh, he's so, and but again, also too, as you pointed out, I love his, his, his charmingness and his elegant taste and, you know, he's, uh, all that. And I feel like we did get a lot of that here. But also, too, I think the contrast that I did like from the first movies, obviously in the first movie, he's caught the whole time. And it's about his escape. And it's such a brilliant way, I thought as well. But in this movie, It's all about trying to get him and just how he's naturally, you know, adapting to life as a man who is on the top 10 wanted list. So I thought that was an interesting aspect and way to go about it.

Starting point is 00:03:42 But like, yeah, it definitely does not feel like it's in a sequel or the same movie as the first one, which is fine. There's a lot of sequels I've watched from like that did not feel like it was in vain. And I like that. I like ambitious writers and directors who were like not privy or not kind of prisoner to. I have to do the exact same thing. So for that, I did like. But there were definitely a few nuances that I would have, that I was missing rather from the first one. But I did like that this was doing its own thing as well.

Starting point is 00:04:15 And I thought Anthony Hopkins gave a great performance again. I don't know if it's the powerhouse performance from the first one, but it was still a great one. It's hard to, you know, give that same. incredible intense performance obviously the script was calling for a lot of different things too i thought julian more like i said during the reaction she had the impossible task of and i'm very curious what happened with jody foster because she was incredible yeah definitely look incredible in the first movie i thought julian more did a fantastic job doing the impossible task of filling in for her i thought she was you know stoic when she needed to be and uh emotional and very vulnerable and also

Starting point is 00:04:55 she was headstrong, she was very direct, and she was a badass. And I just like how nothing got over her head and no one, no bullshit was put past her. And she, like, was a character that I really resonated with. And she really could, in a world where you can't see anyone standing tit for tat with Hannibal Lecter, I really feel like she did feel that role. And she gave a really good performance. But, yeah, what about, yeah, sorry. I feel a lot of the same ways that you do, except what's interesting is that he did back.

Starting point is 00:05:25 her because he's in the house while she's asleep and had every opportunity to kill her and he doesn't and then later on when he she gets shot he lifts her up from the pigs and he carries her out and saves her and then later on when he traps her in the fridge and he can kill her or at least chop off her arm and he doesn't and i think that that go ahead no I'm sorry, I don't mean to cut you off. You are 100% correct. I think my only retort to that is she had the opportunity to kill him as well in the pig pen and she chose to save him because she wanted to take away his freedom in that moment.

Starting point is 00:06:05 Well, she is not a serial killer. Agreed, agreed. None of that's the point that I'm trying to make. The point I'm trying to make is that I think that this was a really good sequel because I really love that he is choosing to keep her alive while she is choosing to keep him alive. for completely different reasons. She feels a duty based on her morals and her career.

Starting point is 00:06:34 And he, it's not about his morals or his career, it's about her. And I think that's such an interesting dynamic that this movie explores that the first one wasn't able to explore as much because it was their introduction. So while I do believe that the first story is stronger, because I think that it was just so fascinating the psychological elements of it. I think that this is a really great sequel

Starting point is 00:07:01 because it's about the two of their journey and like one of your favorite movies of all time, Jaws, like the brilliance of waiting to reveal the shark, this movie waits to bring them back together. We wait for so long, the suspense, the tension, it all builds, and we wait for that much. moment that they do come together and then when they do it does not disappoint so i really really enjoyed that i think that uh it looked great i think that it sounded great i think that the performances

Starting point is 00:07:33 were great and i i just think it wasn't as psychologically thrilling as the first which is why that has the edge but in terms of follow-ups i have a lot of really positive things yeah no that's there's some really good points you make and i do agree like their relationship is very fascinating. And again, her moral obligation and her civil duty to the job, even though it keeps getting her, like, screwed over, you know, even though she's doing such a great job of doing it. It's about doing what's right. Yeah, it's about doing what's right also, too. I think she gets a cathartic feel from it, too, because it's what her father did. And, you know, she's honoring her. And he talks about that. Yeah, for sure, for sure. And I think, too, an interesting aspect to it as well, because obviously

Starting point is 00:08:17 it feels like he's clearly like infatuated so much with her which is again such an interesting aspect all films she is chasing and looking for him obviously to bring him in and it's interesting that the reveal is that he ends up coming to her because she is in trouble due to the fact that gary oldman's character is like on the hunt and search for him and is willing to use her as bait for him knowing that he is so infatuated with her so yeah yeah no you're all right aspect was wild. I had a good call out by you that I just did not, I did not see in that photo.

Starting point is 00:08:53 I was like that didn't even look like him. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I mean, I could not, the first scene we got with him, like the makeup only threw me off and the voice. I was like, I could not tell from the voice for sure, but then once we got that photo,

Starting point is 00:09:05 I thought that was Gary Olden, but I definitely did not look in the cast. I just knew Julian Moore and Ray Leota were in this film and that Sir Ridley Scott directed it, but that was definitely a cool reveal and he did an incredible job. I'm looking at the looking to pull up the trivia and we will be getting to the patron questions so shout out to our patrons we will get to you guys we'll close out with those thank you to everybody who sent in things I was going to say too I thought it was an interesting aspect as well this film how it plays along you know the aspect of with officers or FBI agents that corrupt side especially with like you got ray leota working with Gary Oldman's character and you also there's a And the Italian one who wants the money.

Starting point is 00:09:49 But you see in his case, like, he's just extremely desperate. Yeah, but that it's... It's not right. I'm not defending it in any way. And also, too, like, Clarice gave him two warnings, like, of the night of, like, to try and, like, help him see the... But also, too, that goes to show you, like, why in the end, like, her conviction is usually correct doing why she's doing the moral and right thing.

Starting point is 00:10:14 And why, like, doing things like the... corrupt way is usually not the right way like look where it ends up look where ray leota and look where the italian cop end up in in a box six feet under i guess hung or with your brains eaten out and specifically with hannibal he says he appreciates civleness and they're not i do want to get to some of this because then we got to keep it pushing but um just as quickly answer our jody foster of it all according to i mdb after years of being actively involved in getting this sequel made during no less than 15 drafts of the screenplay, Jody Foster ultimately declined to participate in the sequel. She issued a statement at the time clearly to no benefit of this movie, saying, I have been

Starting point is 00:10:57 offered more money than ever in my career to make this film. Wow. But who cares if it betrays Clarice, who has become like a person to me in the end? Ironically, Foster had to fight tooth and nail for years to land the role of Clarice in the silence of the lambs. So she really felt like this betrayed Clarice. Huh. And did you feel like it betrayed? I didn't because I think that she, her whole purpose is that she does, she wants them behind bars.

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Starting point is 00:13:11 Jody Foster knows her character very well, but I personally didn't feel that a trade clothes either. This is interesting. as well, Sir Anthony Hopkins wrote a screenplay for a sequel to this movie most likely titled Hannibal Ending, which would have

Starting point is 00:13:26 involved Starling, killing Lector, however, this was never used. Curious. I wonder I didn't know Anthony Hopkins was a screenwriter. I mean neither. The part of Mason Verger was originally offered to Christopher Reeve, based on his work as a wheelchair-bound police officer

Starting point is 00:13:44 and above suspicion, which was released six days before the horse riding accident that left Reeve paralyzed for real. Not having read the novel, Reeve showed initial interest in the role, but ultimately declined upon realizing that Verger was a quadriplegic facially disfigured child

Starting point is 00:14:02 rapist. Had Reeve taken the part, it would have been his last film appearance before his death in 2004. Yeah. Ray Leota was cast after he kept running into Sir Ridley Scott at the gym. Oh.

Starting point is 00:14:18 Leota asked Scott if he had any parts for him, and Scott immediately thought he'd be great as Krenler. Hmm. And then he had him doing some fitness scenes, so it makes sense. Julian Moore is afraid of cows. She said her scene with the cows scared her more than anything else in the movie.

Starting point is 00:14:35 Wait, didn't she just drive by in the car? I guess. Okay, because I didn't remember seeing her first. Maybe she walked out by the... Right. Okay, dokey was ad-libbed by Sir Anthony Hopkins. it became a catchphrase for Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Okay, dokey. You notice that twice.

Starting point is 00:14:50 Sir Anthony Hopkins was paid $20 million for his work on this movie. Damn, 20 million. Good for him. Gary Oldman based Mason Verger's voice on Catherine Hepburn. I got to go back and watch some Catherine Heppern stuff. He also spent five hours a day in the makeup chair. I was going to say that felt like it was at least minimum three to four hours. Yeah, that makes sense.

Starting point is 00:15:13 That transformation was wild. I'm scrolling down to see if I can see any of the spoiler ones. I would be careful with the spoilers because it might be on the next one. Will you pull up any of the Patreon questions before? Oh, yes, yes, yes. I will be careful with them. Okay, let's get Patreon. Okay.

Starting point is 00:15:32 Anything that I see briefly about whatever, I won't even read in my mind. This one says, the idea of eating a living person's brain as punishment is a reference to Dante's, Dante Inferno, where Count Eugolino does this to Archbishop somebody in hell. This makes sense because Dr. Henel Lecter is depicted as a Dante expert in this movie.

Starting point is 00:15:57 Interesting. Special animatronic puppet of Ray Leota was used for some parts of the brain-eating scene. Yota has said that he's not exactly sure which shots are him or the puppet. I wasn't I saying like this looks really convincing. It looks so good. Paul Krenler's brain

Starting point is 00:16:12 was made of two sheep's brains put together. Brain Surgent was on set through the scene to help with accuracy. Yay. That's all look at so that I don't get spoiled. Shall we hit some of these Patreon questions before we get out of here? Sounds good. Thank you so much to our patrons.

Starting point is 00:16:28 Patreon.com slash the real rejects if you want to be able to ask us questions yourself. Love getting these from you guys. Let's start with Kevin B. Kev B says Ridley Scott described Hannibal Lecter as pure and motivated by a kind of personal morality focused on retribution and punishment rather than insanity. After seeing the film, do you think Lecter's actions are driven more by a twisted sense of justice or by pure evil? How does this affect your perception of him as a villain? I think it's kind of both.

Starting point is 00:16:57 You know, and we kind of talked about that during, throughout the film, like, there's times where, like, there's people that he's taking out and, like, yeah, I can see his motivation. And I'm glad he's actually taking out this person. And there's an actual good, yeah, I was going to say, just keep talking my dude. I know what I'm doing. And there's actually a good sense of motivation for like why I would want him to take this person on. And then there's times where he's just eating people. I don't want him actually doing that. But yeah.

Starting point is 00:17:26 But I think there's that moral graybound too. And that's why I find the character so damn fascinating. Yeah. I think they kind of answered in this when they say his preference is to kill people he thinks are rude. But it's not his only people he's killed. You know, anybody who comes after him except for Clarice, he tends to kill. So I don't think it's just retribution and punishment. I think that part of it is who he is.

Starting point is 00:17:51 But he does have his own twisted sense of morality, but it's certainly not mine. Mike Joyce also with the question, let's see, have you watched the show, Hannibal? That would make for an interesting follow-up to complete your Hannibal Lecter journey. I would highly recommend it. Mads Mickelson is great as Hannibal Lecter. I've been hearing about the show forever. I'm obviously the TV person. Greg sent us a text today being like, possibly, who knows?

Starting point is 00:18:13 So we'll see all these reactions do. If Red Dragon and these two do well, then possibly we might be able to go see the Hannibal show. Apparently Hannibal came out in 2013, the TV show, so immediately after. I would love to do that. Mads Mickelson is a fantastic actor. Also, I think there's a prequel movie as well, to my knowledge. I think it's called Hannibal Rising.

Starting point is 00:18:36 So maybe we could also do that. I don't know. Let us know in the comments if you'd like to see that. But I would definitely love to see the show. Logan Nelson, thank you for this. If a person like Hannibal Lecter exists, brilliant, cultured, utterly monstrous, is it more terrifying to believe he was born that way or that anyone under the right conditions would become him?

Starting point is 00:18:54 In other words, is evil like Hannibal a rare mutation or is a potential seed in all of us just waiting for the right mix of genius trauma and detachment to grow? What are your thoughts? I feel like I've always been under the belief that you are a product of the environment around you and the environment you take in. So that would be more of my take personally. I don't feel like you were born a certain way and destined to become that evil. So I think I'm leaning more towards, you know, the conditions around him and what he takes in.

Starting point is 00:19:33 I think it's a combination of nature and nurture, you know, like some people are born the way they are. Some people are born gay. Some people are born with certain preferences. some people are born straight some people are born to ultimately be tall short have diseases you know like people are born in all different ways so it's not beyond the realm of possibility to think some people are born with brain trauma or brain uh differentiations but additionally i think parenting is super important your environment is really important and that there's always um room for that to be the most important.

Starting point is 00:20:10 So I don't think it could have been any of us, but I do think it could be some of us and some people probably avoided that by having the right upbringing. Yeah. The thought of that there are people out there like this is so creepy. Any final words before we get out of here and see them again for Red Dragon?

Starting point is 00:20:30 No, I think this was, like you said, a really good follow-up to the Sons of the Lambs. I think it explores the relationship between Clarice and Hannibal in a methodical and interesting way. Hello, Clary. Yes. I think this was also an interesting film as well for Sir Ridley Scott to pick right after Gladiah because that was a lot, that film won a lot of Academy Awards.

Starting point is 00:20:54 Kind of had that slow, the frame rate thing that he uses. Yeah, yeah, for sure. So I really enjoyed it again. I think you said it really well that I don't know if it hit the strides in terms of the psychological thriller nature. that the first film did. Having so all that, I still really enjoyed the performances

Starting point is 00:21:12 from Anthony Hopkins from Julianne Moore. I did miss having Jody Foster in there. Me too. While still enjoying Julianne Moore. Me too. And yeah. But did you enjoy Julian more or did? Ha ha ha ha.

Starting point is 00:21:25 I'm sure she never has heard that before and heard of the life. I mean, they're both amazing. Yeah, no, she did really good job. I'm curious if she's in the next one. Yeah, me too. We don't know. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:21:36 I mean, I could see this being the end of her storyline, but also too I could see it also like there's just this running thread like I will never be rid of Hannibal Lecter and I've got to put this man away so I'm curious well I'm excited to watch Red Dragon and I'm excited to watch it alongside you guys so don't forget that that will be coming out probably in one week from now whenever this dropped probably on a Thursday that's just my prediction all right later rejects

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The Reel Rejects - HANNIBAL (2001) IS DELICIOUSLY TWISTED!! MOVIE REVIEW!! First Time Watching!!

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