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posted March 24, 2011 03:27 PM            

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I have to write a rhetoric on a movie and picked Hannibal Rising, but I keep hitting a block. Any thoughts on either the book or movie?

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posted March 24, 2011 03:53 PM            

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i havent seen that one...if it were any of the other hannibal movies i could help you

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posted March 24, 2011 04:05 PM            

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Just Hannibal's character in general...what do you think?

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posted March 24, 2011 04:24 PM            

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hes very classy, sophisticated and really smart, highly educated....minus his sadistic, man eating nature, i bet he would be a really cool person to talk to

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posted March 24, 2011 06:53 PM            

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He'd be cool to talk to if he isn't hungry.

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posted March 24, 2011 09:56 PM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
He'd be cool to talk to if he isn't hungry.

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I don't think the movie did the book justice.

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posted March 24, 2011 09:58 PM            

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He reminds me of me..

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posted March 27, 2011 10:22 PM            

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*bump*

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posted March 27, 2011 11:16 PM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
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Why thank you Randall

I finished the rhetoric. Does it make sense to say that he was perfect before he remembered Mischa's death because he was mostly emotionless? And that emotion screws up perfection?

And the actor that played him was toooo cute

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posted March 28, 2011 04:10 AM            

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I think Hannibal has a severely confused moral code. On one hand, he is a very pure and powerful being. He has an extremely sensitive sense of smell and an acute photographic memory. He possesses an immense intellect and is incredibly charismatic.

I'm not sure what happens in Hannibal Rising, but I've read Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal. I know about his backstory to a degree, that he watched his sister being eaten by Nazis or something to that effect.

I think that Hannibal isn't entirely evil...Rather, he is disgusted by the evil and moral vacancy in the world. So he has turned on it.

He is godlike, possessing superhuman traits. When Starling comes into play, we get to see his softer side.

I read Hannibal as being a wünderkind who lost his way early in life.

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posted March 28, 2011 07:49 AM            

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Interesting guest to have at a dinner party

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