I truly respect how well he can switch off from being Anthony Hopkins and become Hannibal Lecter. Such a convincing transformation into a totally different character. The eyes, the voice, the mannerisms. A true talented pro. And an amazing man in real life.
+Myles Goldman that actually crossed my mind when I saw him in the Silence of the Lambs. well specifically when he first meets Clarice and starts dissecting her, "While you can only dream of getting out, getting anywhere, getting all the way to the FBI..." that Sinister grin on his face really screamed the Joker.
He was cast as Alec Trevelyan in GoldenEye when the character was written as an older mentor figure, but he dropped out last minute and the role was rewritten and recast with Sean Bean.
He's always been on another level. Just another category of its own. It's simply useless to compare him to his peers. He has none. A true master of his craft.
I normally don't get into these type movies, like my wife does anyway, but Silence of the Lambs was one of my favorite movies, and it scared the hell out of me! Both, Mr. Hopkins and Jodie Foster were both frickin amazing !
***** you know I'm almost 100% Italian and I dont feel that way at all. Pacino had many bad on screen moments, good ones too but lots of bad ones, I didnt like de niro as much as pacino and Hopkins, Lee, and Eastwood were all consistent actors.
***** aw man i freaking loved Eastwood movies. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly has got to be my favorite western of that era of film making, got the whole Dirty Harry collection, Grand Torino, A Fist Full Of Dollars and the Sequel and many of the films he directed.
I can't believe Hannibal's introduction standing in the middle of his cell was Anthony Hopkins idea. That's fucking brilliant. That's one of my absolute favorite parts of the film. It was very affective in being scary.
Wow. Premonition,anyone? Anthony played Hitchcock recently in a film with the same title and here Ferguson tells him that Hitchcock would be proud of his performance as Lecter. How cool
he is such an intelligent man! i bet when he was discussing whether Alfred Hitchcock would be pleased or not, he would never have been dreaming of playing him in a biographical film. couldn't think of anyone but hopkins to do a better job
Sometimes, I think the "Fonzie Effect" is going on. People didn't want to talk to Henry Winkler - they wanted to talk to the Fonze. Anthony Hopkins is brilliant, and he commands enormous attention on his own. But I think that many of us want to see an interview with Hannibal Lecter - a interview with the character he played. This, of course, is because of the wonderful portrayal.
I came to this video after watching Dico Cavett's interview of Anthony Hopkins..I couldn't help but compare both the interviewers..This persons seems so confused while asking the questions especially the one where he asks Hopkins to deliver a dialogue..Talking about the actor himself i must say that I admire his body language.. It's so calm , controlled and well, well-mannered! He just seems like a wise old man whom you would feel like confiding in..
The scene with the big cage they had actually filmed another scene to cutaway with young Clarice and the lamb, but when Demme saw the performances of Jodie and Anthony he decided to leave it out because they were so powerful.
I had a dream about Hannibal one time. I was in his house visiting with him, afraid the whole time he was going to eat me. But gradually I began to wonder if it was really Anthony Hopkins. I wasn't sure, so I was a nice to him as I could be just to be on the safe side.
2:19 That's very interesting to see Anthony Hopkins body language/mannerisms in this interview. The way he's sitting is exactly like Hannibal. The way he rests his elbow while elegantly hanging his hand down.
I know, I hate pointing it out but the reporter says 'revelant' instead of 'relevant' and you can actually see Anthony notice it, I felt sorry for him, realising that he's going to have to do all the intelligent thinking in the discussion.
Trivia: Did y'all know that Anthony and Jodie barely interacted with one another during the filming? The camera angles were such that they were barely able to be in the same room. Kinda blows my mind that a lot of the scenes where they chat the one speaking was alone during the filming. Reflections in the plexiglass of his cell was one such problem.
I liked all the lead performances, but this wasn't scary for me. I wasn't worried when Hannibal escaped, I just thought it was a clever albeit unlikely plan. I wasn't worried when Buffalo Bill had the night vision goggles on at the end, I was laughing.
Hugh Jass Saw? I never watched that shit. Scream? It wasn't scary, either, but at least the first one was entertaining. I'll admit, it really didn't help this movie that I've seen every episode of Monk; so whenever Buffalo Bill spoke, I just heard heard Captain Stottlemeyer.
@@YOSUP315 Yes at the time when the movie came out it was pretty much the only one of its class, and no one knew who that Buffalo guy was. He was unknown and the movie was truly horrific. It's refreshing to see Ted Levine in other things, definitely makes him less scary, but nonetheless brilliant! But EveryOne Loved Hannibal even then.
When he was hannibal, i thought he is a very smart man who did some bad stuff, n probably he born with that thing (any thing it is) that make him eat ppl. I feel sorry for him.if the character was real n i meet him,i won't judge him, i won't beat him, i treat him like a normal man. But the other hannibal in that series is a literal evil, worse version of human being, scary and disgusting. If the character was real, all of us should leave our houses, find him n end his life. Everybody on the planet.
