Box Office Movies -- Hannibal Rising, Connections and Contradictions

Theatrical Release Feb 9, 2007, Wide
Directed by Peter Webber
Written by Thomas Harris
Director of photography, Ben Davis
Edited by Pietro Scalia and Valerio Bonelli
Music by Ilan Eschkeri and Shigeru Umebayashi
Production designer, Allan Starski,
Produced by Dino de Laurentiis, Martha de Laurentiis and Tarak Ben Ammar
Released by Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) and the Weinstein Company.
Starring with Gaspard Ulliel (Hannibal), Gong Li (Lady Murasaki), Rhys Ifans (Grutas), Kevin McKidd (Kolnas), Dominic West (Inspector Popil) and Richard Brake (Dortlich).
Running time: 121 minutes.
MPAA Rating R, for strong grisly violent content and some language/sexual references
Genre Dramas, Cannibalism, Coming Of Age, Thriller, World War II, Serial Killers, Teenagers, Psychology, Based On A Novel
Box Office Total: $22,127,340
Box Office Opening:$13,051,650
No. of Weeks in Top 10:2
Highest Ranking:2

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About The Novel
Hannibal Rising marks the first time in the award-winning series that best selling author Thomas Harris ("Red Dragon," "Silence of the Lambs") writes the screenplay – reaching back to explore the origins of Lecter’s rage, terror and savagery. This is the fourth in a series featuring his most famous character, Hannibal Lecter. The novel, a prequel to Harris' Lecter novels, chronicles the iconic serial killer's childhood and early adulthood. The novel was released on December 5, 2006 with an initial printing of at least 1.5 million copies and had a mixed response, many thinking that the book reduced Lecter to a simple psychological case. A CD version has also been released, with Harris reading the text.

Movie Synopsis
Hannibal Rising reduces the horror icon to a collection of dime-store psychological traits. In RED DRAGON we learned who he was. In SILENCE OF THE LAMBS we learned how he did it. Now comes the most chilling chapter in the life of Hannibal Lecter – the one that answers the most elusive question of all - why?

The story begins in Eastern Europe at the desperate end of World War II. For many it was no longer a conflict of nations but one of individual survival – at any cost. A young Hannibal watches from only steps away as his parents violently die, leaving his cherished young sister in his care. This horrific moment will soon pale in comparison to the atrocities he is forced to witness, changing him forever.

Alone and without any means of support, he is forced to live in a Soviet orphanage that once served as his family’s beloved home. He flees to Paris to find his uncle has died but his beautiful and mysterious Japanese widow, Lady Murasaki (Gong Li) welcomes him. Even her kindness and love cannot soothe the nightmares and sorrows that plague him. Showing a cunning aptitude for science he is accepted into medical school, which serves to hone his skills and provide the tools to exact justice on the war criminals that haunt him day and night. This quest will ignite an insatiable lust within a serial killer who was not born, but made.

Connections and Contradictions

• Hannibal Lecter's documented and actual birthdate and age where his sister died are not consistent. It is stated that he fabricated dates in order to avoid capture. In the novel Hannibal, he dreams of being six years old when his sister died; in Hannibal Rising, he is 12 when the tragedy occurs.
• No mention is made of Lecter's bizarre condition on his left hand called mid-ray duplication polydactyly, or a fully functional sixth finger (duplicated middle finger).
• In Red Dragon protagonist Will Graham says that, as a child, Lecter displayed sadism toward animals. In Rising, however, Lecter exhibits a degree of compassion to a group of swans and his family's horse.
• In Hannibal, Lecter dreams of seeing Mischa's baby teeth in a reeking stool pit after the deserters' men kill her. In Rising, he has similar visions, but when he later visits Mischa's remains before giving her a dignified burial, he notes that all her teeth are intact.
• A Dragunov Sniper Rifle is mentioned in the book multiple times. It is first mentioned in a sequence taking place in 1946 when Lecter is 13 years old, and then again in 1951 when he is 18. The Dragunov Sniper Rifle is based on the AK-47 and wasn't invented until 1958