Always love when one old TV comedy show reruns and it has a scene where you have from radio "how to prepare brain" and a man with hangover cant shut the radio off , and you get really detailed instructions how to prepare to cook brains . before he puts the radio in freezer . Cow , sheep and pig brains were still on menu in fancy restaurants in 1980s , after the mad cow thing , i think those were dropped off the menu in many places . Just look out sesos in Spain , thats brain , you can get it in tacos and quesadillas and in France , sautéd cerveaux , fried brains with some garlic .
I think, when I read the books by Thomas Harris, the most shocking thing is that Hannibal is described so admirable in every possible imaginable way except eating people, and while reading it, the people he is killing are the worst scum imaginable, so .. Hannibal becomes a hero in your mind... That is the most sickening of it. Also, in the authors note, there is written something like "Inspiration for the good character were friends of mine. Inspiration for the deprived parts of human mind were depths of my own soul." Think about it for a while.
Yes; which to me only made sense if Clarice had at least *partially* broken, and accepted Lector's view of 'good/evil'. As Lector himself said, her self-view was that she was the sheep-dog/guard-dog that protected others; 'running away' with him would require a _serious_ alteration in that view! There was, to me, no sign of that.
@@ephennell4ever I don't know. There's a lot of real life people that don't ever give a sign about what they're going to do. I mean even the happiest of people have dark secrets or sad lives. I mean, even the most open of people don't tell their own mother everything, you know. Gotta keep some things to yourself.
@@cassiemichael7414 - I wasn't talking about showing what she was planning/thinking about doing; I was saying there was no sign of her having the sort of psychological 'break' that would be necessary for her to 'run off' with him.
Sometimes during modern brain surgery, the patient is kept awake and only the scalp is anesthetized (like Hannibal said, your brain itself does not feel pain) because the surgeon needs to know that important parts of the brain are not being damaged, and the patient will be asked to read or even play a musical instrument during the surgery to make sure that only the damaged part of the brain is being operated on.
Her :"This could be a love movie. " Me: "Oh honey. It *IS* the books are so much more than the movies. He loves her with such passion it's unbelievable. Especially considering how he treats almost everyone else.
If you want to complete the Hannibal film saga; then watch Red Dragon next. It's actually a prequel to the events from The Silence of the Lambs and Anthony Hopkins reprises the titular role once more. There's also Hannibal Rising which is an origin story, although Mr. Hopkins doesn't star in that since he's portrayed much younger.
Actually it used to be a thing, in certain parts of Asian cultures; it has mostly died-out, due to various factors - at least one of which was that it was discovered that certain diseases were easily spread that way!
Ellie’s face when Pazzi’s guts hit the pavement says it all. I shave no idea how she managed to look beautiful; shocked; disgusted, and about to burst into laughter all at the same time.
In the novel Clarice runs off with Hannibal and the book ends with the two of them watching opera and Hannibal has stopped killing people finally finding a kind of peace with Starling. Crazy book they obviously could t do that for the movie.
Or the fact that Verger was killed off by his lesbian sister with an electric eel shoved down his throat, but they ended up getting rid of the character in the movie and changing Verger's death. I hated that.
Hannibal hasn't stopped killing people. The line about an Iron Rule amongst the Staff, not interrupting them before certain time in the Morning? That's to give Dr Lector time to dispose of the leftovers. I never bought the ending of the Book. No matter what Daddy Issues she had. She was incorruptible.
@@downunderrob The movie changed the book ending. The book came first. SO, that's more canon. Just because you don't like it, doesn't mean it's not what happened. It just like how some people can't except certain things about other movies made from books. But, you're the first one that's the opposite, you can't stand the book ending. Have you read the book of I Am Legend? The ending in the book was far better. If you don't know what I'm talking about, read it. It's fascinating. I usually prefer the book endings. Or if it's a movie script, then the original draft. You'd be surprised how much better the originals usually are to the changed and edited versions that come later.
In the last of the novel "Hannibal", Claris, who is stunned by medicine, is brainwashed in ethics at the end of the dialogue with Lecter, and is in sync with Lecter's thoughts. In the end, Claris and Lector become a married couple and go to Europe. This is a novel about the original author Thomas Harris, who fell in love with Jodie Foster, who played Claris in The Silence of the Lambs, and wanted to tentatively consign "Lecter-Harris" to marry Jodie. .. Her hated Jody declined the offer and was replaced by Julianne Moore. The ending was also changed.
It's one of my fav movies, the chemistry between Hopkins and Moore was out of this world! And the kiss!!!! Dear God, I would run with him and flood the streets with blood hahaha. I didn't recognize Gary Oldman, did you? Amazing performance!
In the novel, he purchases both a Harpy and a Civilian. Both brutal, but the Civilian especially so. The Civilian was designed for some specialist US law enforcement department who couldn’t carry firearms, so it’s designed for combat use. The Harpy, on the other hand, is a fishing knife.
Here's the Synopsis of what really happened in the book the movie was based on.... Seven years after the Buffalo Bill case, FBI agent Clarice Starling witnesses her career crumble around her. During a botched drug raid, Starling kills a meth dealer who was holding a baby. Fugitive serial killer Hannibal Lecter, who has been living in Florence, Italy under an assumed name, sends her a letter of condolence and requests more information about her personal life. Desperate to catch Lecter, the FBI tasks Starling with apprehending him. She meets with Barney, a former orderly of Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. When Barney asks Starling if she ever feared Lecter visiting her, she replied that she did not, as "he said he wouldn't". Meanwhile, Mason Verger, a wealthy, sadistic pedophile whom Lecter disfigured during a therapy session years before, plans to get revenge by feeding Lecter to wild boars, using Starling as bait. He is aided by corrupt Justice Department agent Paul Krendler, Starling's nemesis. Rinaldo Pazzi, a disgraced Italian detective, pursues Lecter in the interests of collecting Verger's bounty on him. However, Lecter disembowels and hangs Pazzi in reference to the lynchings of the Pazzi conspirators. After killing one of Verger's men, Lecter escapes to the United States, where he begins pursuing Starling. The novel briefly touches upon Lecter's childhood, specifically the death of his younger sister, Mischa. The two were orphaned during World War II, and a group of deserters killed and ate Mischa, something that haunts Lecter. Barney briefly works for Verger, meeting Verger's sister and bodyguard Margot, a lesbian bodybuilder whom Verger molested and raped as a child. Her father disinherited her after learning of her homosexuality. Margot, who is infertile, tells him that she works for her brother because she needs Mason's sperm to have a child with her partner, Judy Ingram, and inherit the Verger family fortune. Verger's men capture Lecter, and Starling pursues them. When Starling catches up to Lecter, she is able to cut him free before succumbing to tranquilizer darts shot by one of Verger's men. The boars are unleashed by Lecter; they feed on the henchmen that Starling had already shot dead or incapacitated but ignore Lecter when they smell no fear on him. In the confusion, Lecter carries the unconscious Starling to safety and escapes. At the same time, Margot releases one of the henchmen and kills another, then obtains Mason's sperm by sodomizing him with a cattle prod and murders him by shoving his pet moray eel into his mouth. Lecter, who had briefly treated Margot after her brother abused her, had urged her to blame the murder on him, so she leaves a piece of Lecter's scalp at the scene. Using a regimen of psychoactive drugs and behavioral therapy in the course of a series of therapy sessions, Lecter attempts to help Starling heal from her childhood trauma and her pent-up anger at the injustices of the world. One day, as a favor to Lecter, Margot Verger lures Krendler to a park where Lecter is waiting. Lecter is able to capture Krendler and proceeds to lobotomize him during a dinner in which he and Starling eat Krendler's prefrontal cortex before Lecter kills him. After the dinner, Starling partially undresses and offers one of her breasts to Lecter. Lecter goes down on a knee before Starling, accepting her offer. The two then become lovers and disappear together. Three years later, Barney and his girlfriend go to Buenos Aires to see a Johannes Vermeer painting. At the opera, Barney spots Lecter and Starling; fearing for his life, he flees with his girlfriend. The reader then learns that Lecter and Starling are living together in an "exquisite" Beaux Arts mansion, where they employ servants and engage in activities such as learning new languages and dancing together and building their own respective memory palaces, and is told that "Sex is a splendid structure they add to every day", that the psychoactive drugs "have had no part in their lives for a long time", and that Lecter is "satisfied" with the fact that Mischa cannot return. They ignored some important plot elements that were in the book, and they changed up the ending in the movie.
People recommend watching Red Dragon, but you ought to watch Hannibal rising too, which explains the origin of Hannibal and why he's such a psychopath and cannibal
Hannibal Rising is only worth watching for completionist purposes. It isn’t great. Hannibal Lecter never needed to be explained. Thomas Harris rushed the novel out because Dino Di Laurentiis, who owned the film rights to Hannibal and Red Dragon and was desperate to milk his cash cow again, threatened to film a prequel Hannibal movie with or without Harris’ input.
This story had elements of horror, drama, action and romance. Hannibal is very much of an old school romantic. He just happens to be a cannibal. He also has a moral code and is very ethical in his own way. Everyone he killed deserves to die.
I'm not quite sure if I would eat raw monkey brains but breaded and deep fried veal brains or roasted veal brains mixed with scrambled eggs are great! 👍 Once I even invented a dish using it with well spiced spinach. I folded it in and made it into mini soufflés. It turned out really good. A couple of years ago I also had lamb brains in a tomato based sauce when I was on vacation in Rome. Delicious! 🤤
In the book, they did fall in love and go off together, many people believe that is why jodi foster refused to do the sequel. So the script was changed and Foster still refused to the part
Psychological thriller. Horror. Dark romance. I'm glad you picked up on the romance part of the story. A lot of people don't want to admit that there are romantic elements to the story. I kind of wish they combined the alternate ending with the ending but that Clarice left with him. Which is closer to the book ending. The book also leaves the ending a bit ambiguous. Is Clarice brainwashed? Hypnotized? Or did she consciously choose Hannibal? She knew her career was ruined. She'd been cast aside and thrown under the bus by her superiors. Multiple times. After the farm debacle and being saved by Hannibal. She would have been viewed as tainted or involved some how. There really wasn't anything left for her in her current life. So did she choose herself for once and her happiness and decided to enjoy a life of leisure with Hannibal? Maybe she did.
17:00 when i watched this movie once and that particular scene came, i was eating dinner well, it was like a snack, i was eating corn from a aluminium dose. And i was watching the whole scene but when i chew the corn i was asking my self: What am i doing here ? Eating infront of such a disgusting scene. Then i just kept eating. After that, i don't like to remember this scene, watching your reaction now reminds me of that time and its slightly disturbing now didn't seem such a big deal back then. Also, great movie XD 21:22 I also have heard that story before with the monkey and the...delicatese. 21:53 I also agree i don't wanna be on this Planet anymore. Animalic and beastly planet.
Ellie -- I bet you would like Gone Girl (2014). It's a psychological thriller, but I don't remember it being gross at all. The Usual Suspects (1995) was also very, very good.
Hello guys! Greetings from Australia!! Now you should see "Red Dragon", the prequel to "Silence of the Lambs"! It's gives you a lot more back story about how Hannnibal originally got captured etc. It is REALLY good - probably better than "Hannibal"! You guys would LOVE it!! Another excellent psychological thriller! Love your channel and reactions!!
The handling of that backstory was bizarre. Ted Tally, who adapted Silence of the Lambs, changed a bit from the book so that Buffalo Bill had killed Benjamin Raspail instead of Hannibal, but then went on to also adapt Red Dragon and added a whole scene that wasn't in the book where Lecter kills Raspail. Continuity-wise, it's something of a mess. I personally always preferred the Manhunter adaptation of Red Dragon, even if the soundtrack feels really dated.
I think the movie Red Dragon is a better film. But there isn't much Anthony Hopkins. However, you get Ralph Fiennes and Philip Seymore Hoffman instead. Good trade off
16:47 Ellie, you alright, baby? You look like your head's about to explode! Like one of those "shouldn't you be sitting on the toilet after eating a lot of cheese" facial expressions. (I remember watching this in theaters and having an insane laughter at this part. Not "ha-ha funny" laughter, but nervous "Lord help me, I think I'm crazy too!" laughter.)
I must admit when I was young in the 70's, my father not often but sometimes, would buy veal brain from the butcher, and our family of four would eat it and it was without much tought or disgust, it seemed as normal as eating any comestible parts of animals... My father was quite adventurous tough, he bought beef hearts, kidneys, liver, blood sausage on a regular basis, so we ate all those things... I remember my mother who was an awful cook, hated to prepare brain, because she had to take out little filaments before blanching and finally saute them in butter... The taste is almondy, but the texture is strange... I also took a culinary course and still have the recipes to prepare such things, never since tough have I touched any of those, and the scene at the end of the movie disgusted me like everybody else! When you think about it, any animal sourced products is disgusting, if people visited slaughter houses and really knew what is in hot-dogs or the likes, I'm sure many would turn vegetarians... It's in the human psyche tough, when we're hungry and eat, we mostly don't think about these things, and if you were really starving, who knows what human instinct would win, death by starvation or disgust? Sorry for the food observations, but I think it's an integral part of Hannibal Lecter's mystique...
I think part of why so many would turn vegetarian if they saw slaughter-house procedures might be because we are so out of touch with our food sources today. For most of human history individuals often killed and prepared their own game from animals they hunted or raised themselves. The mass-production meat factory farms have changed a lot of the dynamics. I think if more people hunted their own game, respected and understood where their meals came from there would be far less disguste towards the subject. There was once a dignity to hunting, especially among the Native Americans, they had an honor code about it. It wasn't just a "sport" to them. It was an all-natural, renewable source of food, cordage, clothing, lighting, housing construction, and weapons/tools making resource all rolled into one. We've lost much of that with fast food and mass farming. I think most vegans find disgusting that which they often misunderstand. There's something beautiful about having the skill to walk the earth and live off its natural resources, meat and plant, in a healthy and renewable way. They're disgusted by mass factory farming and unfortunately attribute that to all animal products and means of obtaining them.
@@thesanfranciscoseahorse473 Thank you for your observations SeaHorse, I completely agree with you, what I find appauling today tough is industrialized production of food is a necessity for providing to a PORTION of the global population, after WW2 population exploded and today we have countries exceeding 1 billion and cities exceeding 20 millions, that is pure heresy! If resources were equally distributed, no way everybody would eat meat, much less eat 3 meals a day... They are now overfishing, hunting species faster than they can reproduce, burning forests to grow more produce, and polluting the air, rivers and ocean for production of goods to satisfy the needs of about 1 people in 3, the earth can not expand all it's resources to satisfy so many people, I'm afraid the next wars won't be for idiolgy, but for ressources...
It's both a horror and a psychological thriller. I love this film!!!!!!!!!!! Thankyou for doing this reaction, you are both so sweet. Much love and much respect to you both.
The legend of the Wendingo is that men in the snowy mountains would eat human meat to keep from starving, and that turned them into Wendingos, who preyed on humans and ate them.
Brian Cox was the first ever Hannibal Lecter Manhunter, but i don't think you got see hannibal lecter wearing his mask ? and sean conroy was going to play hannibal lecter but he turned it down for some reason ?
Actually the original version of "Red Dragon" was "Manhunter" with Michael Petersen who plays the FBI profiler that captures Hannibal. I know Anthony Hopkins plays Hannibal & Ed Norton plays the FBI profiler in "Red Dragon" but "Manhunter" was a better movie IMO.
The movie-type? A psychological horror-thriller. Very few are made, for two reasons ... -1- if it's going to be really good, it's going to be both complicated and the characters have to be interesting, even when they're disgusting or evil (or both); it's _very_ hard to do all of that *really* well. -2- because they're complicated and have at least a couple characters that are disgusting/evil, most people won't be that interested in it ... unless the story is *amazingly* good/fascinating - like the Hannibal Lector books/movies. If I may point something out: humans have 'eye-teeth', also called 'canines', that only animals who's background includes eating meat have, so you could say that nature has made us so that we may eat meat. And if you don't have at least some animal-flesh in your diet you'll likely end up with dietary deficiencies - unless you eat an _extremely_ wide variety of fruits/vegetables/nuts. To me this supports the modern cliché of *"My ancestors spent hundreds of generations clawing their way to the top of the food-chain, and I'm not giving up my spot!"* Admittedly, it can be argued that if you wish to claim that position at the top of the food chain, you should be at least *willing* to kill what you wish to eat, even if you don't actually *typically* kill what you eat. I decided quite a while ago that I would be willing to do so; although there are things I will not eat because I believe that killing those particular animals ... violates certain beliefs of mine, and since I wouldn't kill them myself, eating them would violate my standard of "Don't eat what you aren't willing to kill to eat." I do hope you understand my reasoning, but if you don't ... well, I at least hope you won't hold it against me, and think I'm some sort of 'killer-savage'! P.S.- hopefully you did _not_ stab-out your eyes after this ... that would be a crying shame! 🥺
Can't wait to see both of your reactions to the 'Cooking scene' and the 'boy on the plane scene'! :D 5:47 - The dog's clever! He knows not to fuck with an Alpha-Predator!! edit: lol your faces during the entire 17th minute was priceless!! >XD If you thought this was difficult and disturbing to watch, there are SO MANY horror films I've seen that I'm definitely not recommending!! Hannibal's a bedtime story in comparison. The Homies react to Rob Zombie's 31, anyone? Not a bedtime story, but still not the best/worst! :D
it was more of a horror movie then a thriller that Part 1 and 3 are. When u get over the first shock its a fitting end. But the movie ended different than the book. in the book Hannibal cuts her hand off.
“It’s so disgusting”
How I laughed knowing they hadn’t even gotten to the brain eating scene mwuhahah
holy CRap, ELLE was just about in Shock and couldnt speak in that "dinner" scene wow
Always love when one old TV comedy show reruns and it has a scene where you have from radio "how to prepare brain" and a man with hangover cant shut the radio off , and you get really detailed instructions how to prepare to cook brains . before he puts the radio in freezer .
Cow , sheep and pig brains were still on menu in fancy restaurants in 1980s , after the mad cow thing , i think those were dropped off the menu in many places .
Just look out sesos in Spain , thats brain , you can get it in tacos and quesadillas and in France , sautéd cerveaux , fried brains with some garlic .
Ellie seemed excited to see Mason get fed to the pigs when Hannibal suggested it
I think Hannibal is hurtles underrated. All everyone remembers is the brain scene, but the movie as a whole is a great film.
That was Gary Oldman playing the part of Mason Verger with the peeled off face. Gary Oldman is amazing.
It's crazy how much unrecognition he gets in roles because he blends in so well. Even when he's not in make up.
Wtf I had no idea it was him I've never even checked to see who it was😲👍
Another favorite unrecognizable performance (for me) is Ed Norton as the masked leper King Baldwin in 'Kingdom of Heaven'.
@@Curraghmore and Sammy Bagel Jr. in Sausage Party.
"You'd never find a more romantic man than that." Oddly enough, given a psychopathic approach, you're not wrong lol.
He is the opposite of a psychopath. An extreme opposite
I love how Ellie just sinks into herself when Lecter really horrifies her.
I think, when I read the books by Thomas Harris, the most shocking thing is that Hannibal is described so admirable in every possible imaginable way except eating people, and while reading it, the people he is killing are the worst scum imaginable, so .. Hannibal becomes a hero in your mind... That is the most sickening of it. Also, in the authors note, there is written something like "Inspiration for the good character were friends of mine. Inspiration for the deprived parts of human mind were depths of my own soul." Think about it for a while.
I like how you said aww he's cooking her dinner I was like yeah just wait
LMAOO FR
16:53 Ellie's reaction is the greatest reaction that has ever been recorded, she just couldn't look away.
That was amazing. She kept turning her head away, but her eyes stayed glued to the screen.
when the people who sleep naked show up on pajama day
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Ikr? Her eyes just look so hypnotizing. 😆😆😆😆
My mental trick to not suffer in gore scenes is to know that they are cinematographic tricks, nothing is real to be scared and impressed.
To this day, I still argue Hannibal did the most gangster act ever: he cooked up & fed a man his own brains, for F'n with the woman he loves.
The novel's ending actually has Hannibal and Clarice run away together
Was just about to leave the same comment. Wanted to make sure noone else did first though
I think the films SILENCE and HANNIBAL were so much more enjoyable than the books.
Yes; which to me only made sense if Clarice had at least *partially* broken, and accepted Lector's view of 'good/evil'. As Lector himself said, her self-view was that she was the sheep-dog/guard-dog that protected others; 'running away' with him would require a _serious_ alteration in that view! There was, to me, no sign of that.
@@ephennell4ever I don't know. There's a lot of real life people that don't ever give a sign about what they're going to do. I mean even the happiest of people have dark secrets or sad lives. I mean, even the most open of people don't tell their own mother everything, you know. Gotta keep some things to yourself.
@@cassiemichael7414 - I wasn't talking about showing what she was planning/thinking about doing; I was saying there was no sign of her having the sort of psychological 'break' that would be necessary for her to 'run off' with him.
Sometimes during modern brain surgery, the patient is kept awake and only the scalp is anesthetized (like Hannibal said, your brain itself does not feel pain) because the surgeon needs to know that important parts of the brain are not being damaged, and the patient will be asked to read or even play a musical instrument during the surgery to make sure that only the damaged part of the brain is being operated on.
Oh, you must watch Red Dragon, the prequel to The Silence of the Lambs, which came out the year after Hannibal. It’s very good.
I think "Red Dragon" is the worst Lecter film, especially since it's a poor remake of the great "Manhunter."
@@porflepopnecker4376 - Well, bully for you, Porfle Popnecker. I still think it's rather good, and from the same screenwriter as Silence of the Lambs.
@@porflepopnecker4376 I think this one is the worst. I can't get past so many stupid elements of this movie.
Her :"This could be a love movie. "
Me: "Oh honey. It *IS* the books are so much more than the movies. He loves her with such passion it's unbelievable. Especially considering how he treats almost everyone else.
If you want to complete the Hannibal film saga; then watch Red Dragon next. It's actually a prequel to the events from The Silence of the Lambs and Anthony Hopkins reprises the titular role once more. There's also Hannibal Rising which is an origin story, although Mr. Hopkins doesn't star in that since he's portrayed much younger.
Anthony Hopkins actually returned to his sinister form in Red Dragon.
In Hannibal he was more like an Anti-Hero.
Manhunter was a better version.
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Yes and no. The Will Graham character was superior in Manhunter.
@@molasorrosalom4846 Hugh Dancy is the only true Will Graham. And Mads portrays Hannibal even better than Sir Anthony.
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I don't know, Anthony in Silence of the Lambs, won an Oscar for that role
I knew seeing them react to the end of this was going to be gold.
5:37 animals know when a stronger predator is around , they submit
Perfectly stated.
Dogs are pack animals. They know the alpha when they see it.
When he feeds that guy a peice of his own mind, Brains 🤢🤮 sure was Brain food 😂🧠
Punny joke
funny thing - he feed him his own "bad manners" ))) I love Hannibal)
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Yeah, really gave him a piece of mind.
I think the monkey eating brains Ellie mentioned is a temple of doom spoiler movie. Lol
Also there was a scene where people are killing and then eating the little monkeys brains in one of those faces of death tapes back in the day.
Actually it used to be a thing, in certain parts of Asian cultures; it has mostly died-out, due to various factors - at least one of which was that it was discovered that certain diseases were easily spread that way!
"I want to go and stab my eyes after this movie." Uh, don't do that.
You ladies still have to watch Red Dragon.
Ellie’s face when Pazzi’s guts hit the pavement says it all. I shave no idea how she managed to look beautiful; shocked; disgusted, and about to burst into laughter all at the same time.
In the novel Clarice runs off with Hannibal and the book ends with the two of them watching opera and Hannibal has stopped killing people finally finding a kind of peace with Starling. Crazy book they obviously could t do that for the movie.
They might had If this movie came out in post twilight era
Or the fact that Verger was killed off by his lesbian sister with an electric eel shoved down his throat, but they ended up getting rid of the character in the movie and changing Verger's death. I hated that.
Hannibal hasn't stopped killing people. The line about an Iron Rule amongst the Staff, not interrupting them before certain time in the Morning?
That's to give Dr Lector time to dispose of the leftovers.
I never bought the ending of the Book. No matter what Daddy Issues she had. She was incorruptible.
@@downunderrob The movie changed the book ending. The book came first. SO, that's more canon. Just because you don't like it, doesn't mean it's not what happened. It just like how some people can't except certain things about other movies made from books. But, you're the first one that's the opposite, you can't stand the book ending. Have you read the book of I Am Legend? The ending in the book was far better. If you don't know what I'm talking about, read it. It's fascinating. I usually prefer the book endings. Or if it's a movie script, then the original draft. You'd be surprised how much better the originals usually are to the changed and edited versions that come later.
@@javierlopez9789 lmfao😆
The facial expressions had me dying with laughter!!!
Time has you dying, laughter doesn't kill.
i'm impressed ellie kept her eyes wide open for the entire dinner scene! (because one must partake fully of le banquet du grand guignol!)
14:49 She had no idea what was about to happen.🤣
11:53 "Like she went to the nest of the beast" - love it!
Loose translations can be quite illuminating.
6:35 Ellie: "I'm just in total shock about this movie."
Me: "Just wait. We haven't even got to the best part yet."
In the last of the novel "Hannibal", Claris, who is stunned by medicine, is brainwashed in ethics at the end of the dialogue with Lecter, and is in sync with Lecter's thoughts. In the end, Claris and Lector become a married couple and go to Europe. This is a novel about the original author Thomas Harris, who fell in love with Jodie Foster, who played Claris in The Silence of the Lambs, and wanted to tentatively consign "Lecter-Harris" to marry Jodie. .. Her hated Jody declined the offer and was replaced by Julianne Moore. The ending was also changed.
in the books, Lecter drugs her and brainwashes her to be come a cannibal with him and she goes to brazil with hiim at the end
"I want to go stab my eyes after this movie" LMAO.
The book is excellent - set almost entirely in Europe and steeped in local culture and mores. Remember - Hannibal only eats the rude!
It's one of my fav movies, the chemistry between Hopkins and Moore was out of this world! And the kiss!!!! Dear God, I would run with him and flood the streets with blood hahaha. I didn't recognize Gary Oldman, did you? Amazing performance!
THIS COMMENT IS MY FAV😭😭
If you have ever held a Spyderco Civilian in your hand, then you would know how Hannibal’s knife can cut that well. They really are amazing knives.
Actually, Hannibal's knife is a Spyderco Harpy. Close, though.
In the novel, he purchases both a Harpy and a Civilian. Both brutal, but the Civilian especially so. The Civilian was designed for some specialist US law enforcement department who couldn’t carry firearms, so it’s designed for combat use. The Harpy, on the other hand, is a fishing knife.
his reaction at minute 17:30 hahahah
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In the book they do fall in love. That's why J F wouldn't do the sequel, because they changed it.
The book is my favourite in the series.
So then my question is why did the filmmakers make these changes from the book to this?
Not only that... she asked for a second helping of Kramer's Open Face Sandwich.
wow really? I knew she didn't want to do the movie because of changes but didn't know that part
@@pablom-f8762 It's utterly absurd, but fun in its own weird way
Here's the Synopsis of what really happened in the book the movie was based on....
Seven years after the Buffalo Bill case, FBI agent Clarice Starling witnesses her career crumble around her. During a botched drug raid, Starling kills a meth dealer who was holding a baby. Fugitive serial killer Hannibal Lecter, who has been living in Florence, Italy under an assumed name, sends her a letter of condolence and requests more information about her personal life. Desperate to catch Lecter, the FBI tasks Starling with apprehending him. She meets with Barney, a former orderly of Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. When Barney asks Starling if she ever feared Lecter visiting her, she replied that she did not, as "he said he wouldn't".
Meanwhile, Mason Verger, a wealthy, sadistic pedophile whom Lecter disfigured during a therapy session years before, plans to get revenge by feeding Lecter to wild boars, using Starling as bait. He is aided by corrupt Justice Department agent Paul Krendler, Starling's nemesis. Rinaldo Pazzi, a disgraced Italian detective, pursues Lecter in the interests of collecting Verger's bounty on him. However, Lecter disembowels and hangs Pazzi in reference to the lynchings of the Pazzi conspirators. After killing one of Verger's men, Lecter escapes to the United States, where he begins pursuing Starling.
The novel briefly touches upon Lecter's childhood, specifically the death of his younger sister, Mischa. The two were orphaned during World War II, and a group of deserters killed and ate Mischa, something that haunts Lecter.
Barney briefly works for Verger, meeting Verger's sister and bodyguard Margot, a lesbian bodybuilder whom Verger molested and raped as a child. Her father disinherited her after learning of her homosexuality. Margot, who is infertile, tells him that she works for her brother because she needs Mason's sperm to have a child with her partner, Judy Ingram, and inherit the Verger family fortune.
Verger's men capture Lecter, and Starling pursues them. When Starling catches up to Lecter, she is able to cut him free before succumbing to tranquilizer darts shot by one of Verger's men. The boars are unleashed by Lecter; they feed on the henchmen that Starling had already shot dead or incapacitated but ignore Lecter when they smell no fear on him. In the confusion, Lecter carries the unconscious Starling to safety and escapes. At the same time, Margot releases one of the henchmen and kills another, then obtains Mason's sperm by sodomizing him with a cattle prod and murders him by shoving his pet moray eel into his mouth. Lecter, who had briefly treated Margot after her brother abused her, had urged her to blame the murder on him, so she leaves a piece of Lecter's scalp at the scene.
Using a regimen of psychoactive drugs and behavioral therapy in the course of a series of therapy sessions, Lecter attempts to help Starling heal from her childhood trauma and her pent-up anger at the injustices of the world. One day, as a favor to Lecter, Margot Verger lures Krendler to a park where Lecter is waiting. Lecter is able to capture Krendler and proceeds to lobotomize him during a dinner in which he and Starling eat Krendler's prefrontal cortex before Lecter kills him. After the dinner, Starling partially undresses and offers one of her breasts to Lecter. Lecter goes down on a knee before Starling, accepting her offer. The two then become lovers and disappear together.
Three years later, Barney and his girlfriend go to Buenos Aires to see a Johannes Vermeer painting. At the opera, Barney spots Lecter and Starling; fearing for his life, he flees with his girlfriend.
The reader then learns that Lecter and Starling are living together in an "exquisite" Beaux Arts mansion, where they employ servants and engage in activities such as learning new languages and dancing together and building their own respective memory palaces, and is told that "Sex is a splendid structure they add to every day", that the psychoactive drugs "have had no part in their lives for a long time", and that Lecter is "satisfied" with the fact that Mischa cannot return.
They ignored some important plot elements that were in the book, and they changed up the ending in the movie.
Your reaction is precisely what filmmakers dream of. And I mean that in a good way. Total suspension of disbelief.
“I want to stab my eyes after this movie” 😂😂😂🤩🤩 oh I am so looking forward to the dinner scene 😂😂😂😂
"This was the most disgusting thing i ever watched in my whole life"
The Human Centipede: "Hold my laxative"
Serbian Film: "That's cute."
Two girls, one cup.
People recommend watching Red Dragon, but you ought to watch Hannibal rising too, which explains the origin of Hannibal and why he's such a psychopath and cannibal
Hannibal Rising is a terribly TERRIBLY horrendous film! Stupid, boring and pathetic! Avoid at all costs!
Hannibal Rising is only worth watching for completionist purposes. It isn’t great. Hannibal Lecter never needed to be explained.
Thomas Harris rushed the novel out because Dino Di Laurentiis, who owned the film rights to Hannibal and Red Dragon and was desperate to milk his cash cow again, threatened to film a prequel Hannibal movie with or without Harris’ input.
In the book Clarice and Hannibal run off as lovers!
Ellie: "I'm using all my forces not to vomit now"
ME: 😝
This story had elements of horror, drama, action and romance. Hannibal is very much of an old school romantic. He just happens to be a cannibal. He also has a moral code and is very ethical in his own way. Everyone he killed deserves to die.
That black dress is stunning. One of the all time great film dresses. (Another would be Keira Knightley’s green dress in _Atonement_ .)
Your reactions to this were gold. Thanks for sharing.
“OHHHH…He cutted his guts …it won’t be possible to save him.”
“I want to go and stab my eyes after this movie.”
So you love it too?
I'm not quite sure if I would eat raw monkey brains but breaded and deep fried veal brains or roasted veal brains mixed with scrambled eggs are great! 👍
Once I even invented a dish using it with well spiced spinach. I folded it in and made it into mini soufflés. It turned out really good.
A couple of years ago I also had lamb brains in a tomato based sauce when I was on vacation in Rome. Delicious! 🤤
Hi girls, all it's left is to watch is Red Dragon and as a bonus: Hannibal Rising
Your reactions for this film are hilarious! The both of you need to watch "Red Dragon".
In the book, they did fall in love and go off together, many people believe that is why jodi foster refused to do the sequel. So the script was changed and Foster still refused to the part
Psychological thriller. Horror. Dark romance. I'm glad you picked up on the romance part of the story. A lot of people don't want to admit that there are romantic elements to the story. I kind of wish they combined the alternate ending with the ending but that Clarice left with him. Which is closer to the book ending.
The book also leaves the ending a bit ambiguous. Is Clarice brainwashed? Hypnotized? Or did she consciously choose Hannibal?
She knew her career was ruined. She'd been cast aside and thrown under the bus by her superiors. Multiple times. After the farm debacle and being saved by Hannibal. She would have been viewed as tainted or involved some how. There really wasn't anything left for her in her current life. So did she choose herself for once and her happiness and decided to enjoy a life of leisure with Hannibal? Maybe she did.
You guys would love the TV Series to this.
The pigs didn't attack Hannibal because he showed no fear, like with the dogs earlier. He's just that crazy.
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when i watched this movie once and that particular scene came, i was eating dinner well, it was like a snack, i was eating corn from a aluminium dose. And i was watching the whole scene but when i chew the corn i was asking my self:
What am i doing here ? Eating infront of such a disgusting scene. Then i just kept eating. After that, i don't like to remember this scene, watching your reaction now reminds me of that time and its slightly disturbing now didn't seem such a big deal back then.
Also, great movie XD
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I also have heard that story before with the monkey and the...delicatese.
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I also agree i don't wanna be on this Planet anymore. Animalic and beastly planet.
" I don't wanna live in this planet anymore" lol feeling the same Michelle
Thank you ladies for reacting to this! I fucking love this movie for so many reasons
Ellie -- I bet you would like Gone Girl (2014). It's a psychological thriller, but I don't remember it being gross at all. The Usual Suspects (1995) was also very, very good.
1:50 - You know it's a real shocker when Michelle is the one shouting and Ellie goes quiet...
Hello guys! Greetings from Australia!! Now you should see "Red Dragon", the prequel to "Silence of the Lambs"! It's gives you a lot more back story about how Hannnibal originally got captured etc. It is REALLY good - probably better than "Hannibal"! You guys would LOVE it!! Another excellent psychological thriller! Love your channel and reactions!!
The handling of that backstory was bizarre. Ted Tally, who adapted Silence of the Lambs, changed a bit from the book so that Buffalo Bill had killed Benjamin Raspail instead of Hannibal, but then went on to also adapt Red Dragon and added a whole scene that wasn't in the book where Lecter kills Raspail. Continuity-wise, it's something of a mess. I personally always preferred the Manhunter adaptation of Red Dragon, even if the soundtrack feels really dated.
Ray Liotta eating his own brain is a wild scene on multiple viewings.
Hannibal is his own genre.
I think the movie Red Dragon is a better film. But there isn't much Anthony Hopkins. However, you get Ralph Fiennes
and Philip Seymore Hoffman instead. Good trade off
Fiennes makes that film worth it.
“Fuck they made him so ugly.”
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Red Dragon next. You have to do it
16:47 Ellie, you alright, baby? You look like your head's about to explode! Like one of those "shouldn't you be sitting on the toilet after eating a lot of cheese" facial expressions.
(I remember watching this in theaters and having an insane laughter at this part. Not "ha-ha funny" laughter, but nervous "Lord help me, I think I'm crazy too!" laughter.)
@21:52 *Michelle having a Professor Farnsworth moment:* _I don't want to live on this planet anymore._
Please ladies, *_Red Dragon_* (2002) next.
I was dying laughing at your reaction to the brain part🤣
You ladies should check out Red Dragon (2002), it is a prequel to Silence of the Lambs and was quite good too.
I must admit when I was young in the 70's, my father not often but sometimes, would buy veal brain from the butcher, and our family of four would eat it and it was without much tought or disgust, it seemed as normal as eating any comestible parts of animals... My father was quite adventurous tough, he bought beef hearts, kidneys, liver, blood sausage on a regular basis, so we ate all those things... I remember my mother who was an awful cook, hated to prepare brain, because she had to take out little filaments before blanching and finally saute them in butter... The taste is almondy, but the texture is strange... I also took a culinary course and still have the recipes to prepare such things, never since tough have I touched any of those, and the scene at the end of the movie disgusted me like everybody else!
When you think about it, any animal sourced products is disgusting, if people visited slaughter houses and really knew what is in hot-dogs or the likes, I'm sure many would turn vegetarians... It's in the human psyche tough, when we're hungry and eat, we mostly don't think about these things, and if you were really starving, who knows what human instinct would win, death by starvation or disgust? Sorry for the food observations, but I think it's an integral part of Hannibal Lecter's mystique...
I think part of why so many would turn vegetarian if they saw slaughter-house procedures might be because we are so out of touch with our food sources today. For most of human history individuals often killed and prepared their own game from animals they hunted or raised themselves. The mass-production meat factory farms have changed a lot of the dynamics. I think if more people hunted their own game, respected and understood where their meals came from there would be far less disguste towards the subject. There was once a dignity to hunting, especially among the Native Americans, they had an honor code about it. It wasn't just a "sport" to them. It was an all-natural, renewable source of food, cordage, clothing, lighting, housing construction, and weapons/tools making resource all rolled into one. We've lost much of that with fast food and mass farming.
I think most vegans find disgusting that which they often misunderstand. There's something beautiful about having the skill to walk the earth and live off its natural resources, meat and plant, in a healthy and renewable way. They're disgusted by mass factory farming and unfortunately attribute that to all animal products and means of obtaining them.
@@thesanfranciscoseahorse473 Thank you for your observations SeaHorse, I completely agree with you, what I find appauling today tough is industrialized production of food is a necessity for providing to a PORTION of the global population, after WW2 population exploded and today we have countries exceeding 1 billion and cities exceeding 20 millions, that is pure heresy! If resources were equally distributed, no way everybody would eat meat, much less eat 3 meals a day... They are now overfishing, hunting species faster than they can reproduce, burning forests to grow more produce, and polluting the air, rivers and ocean for production of goods to satisfy the needs of about 1 people in 3, the earth can not expand all it's resources to satisfy so many people, I'm afraid the next wars won't be for idiolgy, but for ressources...
In the book Hannibal and Clarice end up together! It’s so cute😭
In the books Lecter is described as having swirling purple eyes and a demonic impression. Perhaps that is why animals avoid him.
From what Ellie describes she would like to see The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Hannibal has a prequel 'RED DRAGON'
The book follows the story very closely . . . until the end. The end is really unexpected.
That German cannibal, Armin something, said that human tastes exactly the same as Chicken.
Imagine if Hannibal fed you two the dude’s brain, would that traumatised both of you?
It's both a horror and a psychological thriller. I love this film!!!!!!!!!!! Thankyou for doing this reaction, you are both so sweet.
Much love and much respect to you both.
The legend of the Wendingo is that men in the snowy mountains would eat human meat to keep from starving, and that turned them into Wendingos, who preyed on humans and ate them.
In the novel they become lovers enjoying the good life.
Perfect reaction. Well done. ladies.
The books are different, but... that's almost always true.
Ok next should be Red Dragon if you want to watch more Hannibal goodness. Great reaction as always girls
Hanabial lecture is a one of kind character
You should see the series about Hannibal is even more superior to the movie and the movie is already good.
Brian Cox was the first ever Hannibal Lecter Manhunter, but i don't think you got see hannibal lecter wearing his mask ? and sean conroy was going to play hannibal lecter but he turned it down for some reason ?
Only 2 left,"red dragon"and"hannibel rising".about young Hannibal lector.
Ok, now Red Dragon
Watch the show Hannibal, it's amazing
Good reaction! I hope you react to the movie "Red Dragon" from the 2002
Actually the original version of "Red Dragon" was "Manhunter" with Michael Petersen who plays the FBI profiler that captures Hannibal. I know Anthony Hopkins plays Hannibal & Ed Norton plays the FBI profiler in "Red Dragon" but "Manhunter" was a better movie IMO.
@@John57945 I know i see both of them ..and in my particular opinion i prefered Red dragón from the 2002 ....👍🏻
He’s touching items to show the clerk what he’s selected to buy.
The movie-type? A psychological horror-thriller. Very few are made, for two reasons ... -1- if it's going to be really good, it's going to be both complicated and the characters have to be interesting, even when they're disgusting or evil (or both); it's _very_ hard to do all of that *really* well. -2- because they're complicated and have at least a couple characters that are disgusting/evil, most people won't be that interested in it ... unless the story is *amazingly* good/fascinating - like the Hannibal Lector books/movies.
If I may point something out: humans have 'eye-teeth', also called 'canines', that only animals who's background includes eating meat have, so you could say that nature has made us so that we may eat meat. And if you don't have at least some animal-flesh in your diet you'll likely end up with dietary deficiencies - unless you eat an _extremely_ wide variety of fruits/vegetables/nuts. To me this supports the modern cliché of *"My ancestors spent hundreds of generations clawing their way to the top of the food-chain, and I'm not giving up my spot!"* Admittedly, it can be argued that if you wish to claim that position at the top of the food chain, you should be at least *willing* to kill what you wish to eat, even if you don't actually *typically* kill what you eat. I decided quite a while ago that I would be willing to do so; although there are things I will not eat because I believe that killing those particular animals ... violates certain beliefs of mine, and since I wouldn't kill them myself, eating them would violate my standard of "Don't eat what you aren't willing to kill to eat."
I do hope you understand my reasoning, but if you don't ... well, I at least hope you won't hold it against me, and think I'm some sort of 'killer-savage'!
P.S.- hopefully you did _not_ stab-out your eyes after this ... that would be a crying shame! 🥺
Right next to Silence of the Lambs, Legends of the Fall together with Brad Pitt is Hopkins best movie imo
Think you guys should do the Omen for Haloween if you like psychological horror, or From Hell with Johnny Depp
Ellie is right about the eating of monkey brains. My girlfriend is from Shanghai, and she described it to me in much the same way.
Great ! You should watch John q , great movie.
16:52 is you two’s best reaction.
Ellie can't stop watching the brain eating scene.
that knife is Spyderco.. trully a good knife :)
Can't wait to see both of your reactions to the 'Cooking scene' and the 'boy on the plane scene'! :D
5:47 - The dog's clever! He knows not to fuck with an Alpha-Predator!!
edit: lol your faces during the entire 17th minute was priceless!! >XD
If you thought this was difficult and disturbing to watch, there are SO MANY horror films I've seen that I'm definitely not recommending!! Hannibal's a bedtime story in comparison.
The Homies react to Rob Zombie's 31, anyone? Not a bedtime story, but still not the best/worst! :D
Very good movie! my favorite of this saga.
it was more of a horror movie then a thriller that Part 1 and 3 are. When u get over the first shock its a fitting end. But the movie ended different than the book. in the book Hannibal cuts her hand off.
In the book Clarice and Hannibal hook up They run off to South America together