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Show le Sr ~ is a FEBRUARY 14, 2001 WASATCH COUNTY COURIER B3 mid out we Net HeberCity - Hannibal Games) and Steven Zaillian (Schindler's List) separate her from Lecter for more Demme’s great 1991 PE A film, The Silence of the Lambs, contains a series of encounters psychopathic serial killer Hannibal Lecter (Anthony and young, tenacious Hopkins), FBI Agent Clarice Starling Jody Foster), which impart to Starling a hamiliating con sciousness of couy sweaters * chocolate traf. : killer pigs, stitches up her wounds and of Paul wonderful cards — — Justice Department boss (Ray Liotta), where he dresses her up like a Barbie doll and her hardscrabble,. white trash childhood. In order to defeat and debase his nemesis, whom he teases and tantalizes with bits of ambiguous information, -. Lecter locates the sources of her insecurity and then bores in on them. Yet it prise. We know that Clarice must eventually. throw off her fetters. 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Hannibai. which loose at Justice) he tries’ to — on Lecter. But, the sequel to Lambs, based on Thomas sloppily, he instead gets turned into hog slop himself. e That should be enough for a horror Harris’ movie of ordinary appetites, but since - aware, Demme and Foster refused to return for Hannibal, second novel in the series. It wasn’t difficult for them to get the pic- Lecter is billed as a cannibal with the ture that the more sensational aspects taste of a gourmet and the voracity ofa of the (435)654-4141 Prudential tion of an ultimate moral focus of Lambs, long been 44 West 100 South, Heber thrill—the _ ripping character becomes the have © Real Estate revenge. Verger, the only victim of is while being forced to scratch beneath | Lecter’s to have survived. physical con- the surface of her pain and vulnerabilitact, is5 reputed to have succumbed to ty that Starling finds . 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Clamor of the Swine 1 qo DT FORGE YOUR VANTIN 171 NORTH 100 WEST, HEBER The cannibalistic Lecter’s Saturday =‘ Hater rom the Moon psyche, glutton, the first two reels function as one long set-up for the sedate little dinbecome the raison détre for a film — ner party in the climactic scenes, sequel. With prospects for a crasser where Hannibal literally picks the and cruder screenplay, Hopkins’ _ brains of the Justice Department. © Hannibal — already larger than That sequence, of course, is what i is life—would move center stage, the bet- attracting -big buzz about the movie. ter to play to the middlebrow expectaNobody seems terribly excited about tions of a mass movie audience hung the direction of Ridley Scott (fresh up on the hypotheses of horror. - from the self-congratulatory Ee Hopkins, the only cast member to Gladiator), who is not.in the same _ sign on for the second film,.i is. (not <gur- ; league as, Demme, especially. when it prisingly) one of the few, reasons to see comes - Ae ‘subtlety and nuance. it. His performance retains its subtlety | Although he’s capable of original cineand economical scale, as. he quietly and ma and can.create a | mood (Thelma and creepily creates an aura of solemnity Louise, Blade Runner), Scott appears to. and dread while jokily endowing banal have settled here for high-grade phrases like “Okey-dokey” -with a ambiance (particularly in the Italian malevolent irony. But. these touches sequences in Florence, where seem to reverberate in a near vacuum, _ Hannibal hides out as the curator of an since Clarice Starling, played this trip #art museum) but low-grade suspense. with an almost irrational calm and self Demme gave the silent lambs of the assurance by Julianne Moore, seems original movie a voice; whereas Scott _like merelya guest in Hopkins’ movie. and his screenwriters are big-budget Moore (Magnolia, End of the Affair) is caterers for that broad trough of cinea wonderful actress, but she is sabomatic slop where an increasing number taged by the screenplay. Big-time of American moviegoers now noisily screenwriters David Mamet (House of demand to be fed. laid bare in the second book, would OPEN EVERY DAY EXCEPT TUES FORDDIN ANER Y. ie sae aton. fs 5: 30. Q: ‘Sunday Beach 1 la- 3p : fnteducihg ROBERT ai aka ee Avef CUBBERLY _ from San F rancisco. | Visit with us in. our Fowl rettindled ee room enjoying our new menu and beautiful atmosphere. 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