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after reading the last potter it seems she is following her origional plans for her books and only the tiniest nonconcequential influences of the films are sneaking through |
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I haven't read the book yet, but now I want to. I saw the movie the movies was pretty good. :)
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still though - it has to be a pretty powerful lure .. she now has a lot of caught on film substance to her imagery .. thats hard to ignore once you've seen it. i did catch a couple of things in the last book that were particularily descriptive ...that seemed to come from the movie .. i cant remember it all and it was so small it didnt taint my experience .. but they definately had to come from the filmmakers fleshing out of her vision .. this woman is going to be the richest person in the world if these things are done correctly .. |
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Personally, I think Harris has been going down-hill sense Red Dragon. RD is a wonderful book - intelligent, haunting, fast-paced - really the ideal "profiler/serial killer" book - which I suppose is why so many people have imitated it. SOL was a fair book, a bit bloated and under-developed, and the film was actually better than the book - tight, stream-lined, more impact. Hannibal was excessively bloated. But, contrary to Urgeok's opinion, I think Harris wrote the book to be unfilmable - a kind of "hey, try to adapt this psycho-philosophical babble" into a thriller. Of course, Demme wouldn't /couldn't do it - and Ridley Scott just wanted to show someone eating his own brain (which helped the film break records for opening of an R-rated film!).
I doubt there will be another Hannibal book - or that Harris will ever write anything of worth again. Maybe he'll go back to reporting for that newspaper in Waco. |
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unfilmable ?
i didnt think so at all .. every page was full of 'lets give the people what they want. (the movie audiences - not the harris fans) no book is unfilmable ... at least 3 or 4 Kurt Vonnegut's books have been adapted to film and they are far more complex and surreal than anything Harris wrote .. what made you think it was unfilmable ? |
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That said, there are clearly some "edge-of-your-seat" moments that seem very cinematic. |
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