i am a big fan of thomas harris and i read all his novels at least 5 times and hannibal the book i really love the most. therefore the movie was my biggest disappointment and i really do not get it why some folks here give it a nine or even a ten. either their demands are very low or they haven not read the book or both. even if i hadn not read the book i would still consider the movie as absolute average and i would give it a five. the creepy and mysterious atmosphere from the novel doesn not appear one single time in the movie and when i saw it first in the cinema i even fell asleep. why was margot verger and a very important character and totally omitted. why was barney shown as a dumb ignorant whose only ambition is to earn money. and most of all and why was the psychological process starling went through in the end and caused by the drugs lecter applied to her and descended. not to speak about the fact that the ending was omitted and too and and totally changed. well and the reasons why jodie foster refused to play starling again are well known and i accepted it and although like surely many others i am very disappointed cause i identified starling with her. for stories like red dragon and the silence of the lambs or hannibal that possess such psychological depth and it is very important to identify with a character when theyre adapted for the screen and but as the germans say and that snow of yesterday. ridley scott did some incredibly good movies but with this one he doesn not live up to his name. jonathan demme had exactly the right feeling for the plot and the characters and their relationships towards each other in the silence of the lambs and he should have done hannibal and too. my only comfort is that i have seen the movie only two times and it long ago and thank god for that reason i am able not to see the scenes from the movie when i read the novel. i am so sorry but i really can not recommend it to anyone. 
i am a big fan of thomas harris and i read all his novels at least 5 times and hannibal the book i really love the most. therefore the movie was my biggest disappointment and i really do not get it why some folks here give it a nine or even a ten. either their demands are very low or they haven not read the book or both. even if i hadn not read the book i would still consider the movie as absolute average and i would give it a five. the creepy and mysterious atmosphere from the novel doesn not appear one single time in the movie and when i saw it first in the cinema i even fell asleep. why was margot verger and a very important character and totally omitted. why was barney shown as a dumb ignorant whose only ambition is to earn money. and most of all and why was the psychological process starling went through in the end and caused by the drugs lecter applied to her and descended. not to speak about the fact that the ending was omitted and too and and totally changed. well and the reasons why jodie foster refused to play starling again are well known and i accepted it and although like surely many others i am very disappointed cause i identified starling with her. for stories like red dragon and the silence of the lambs or hannibal that possess such psychological depth and it is very important to identify with a character when theyre adapted for the screen and but as the germans say and that snow of yesterday. ridley scott did some incredibly good movies but with this one he doesn not live up to his name. jonathan demme had exactly the right feeling for the plot and the characters and their relationships towards each other in the silence of the lambs and he should have done hannibal and too. my only comfort is that i have seen the movie only two times and it long ago and thank god for that reason i am able not to see the scenes from the movie when i read the novel. i am so sorry but i really can not recommend it to anyone. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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