Friday, May 31, 2013
Hannibal DVD and Blu-Ray Available for Pre-Order on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk
Amazon.com: DVD
Amazon.com: Blu-ray
Amazon.co.uk: DVD
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hannibal-Season-DVD-Mads-Mikkelsen/dp/B00CSVD196/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1369992210&sr=8-3&keywords=hannibal+dvd
Amazon.co.uk: Blu-ray
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hannibal-Season-Blu-ray-Mads-Mikkelsen/dp/B00CSVD1O6/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1369992286&sr=8-3&keywords=hannibal+blu-ray
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hannibal-Season-DVD-Mads-Mikkelsen/dp/B00CSVD196/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1369992210&sr=8-3&keywords=hannibal+dvd
Amazon.co.uk: Blu-ray
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hannibal-Season-Blu-ray-Mads-Mikkelsen/dp/B00CSVD1O6/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1369992286&sr=8-3&keywords=hannibal+blu-ray
Thursday, May 30, 2013
IGN: Hannibal Renewed for Season 2
NBC have renewed the series for Season 2!
“We’re so proud of Bryan’s vision for a show that is richly textured, psychologically complex, and very compelling,” NBC Entertainment President Jennifer Salke said. “There are many great stories still to be told.”
Season 2 will again be comprised of thirteen episodes and NBC notes it will not debut any sooner than midseason - meaning it's possible it could air in the summer next year.
*Updated with Full Press Release*
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. — May 30, 2013 — NBC has given a 13-episode
second-season renewal to its critically applauded drama “Hannibal.” The
new season will air no earlier than midseason.
“Hannibal” is based on the characters from the novel “Red Dragon” by Thomas Harris and was developed for television by Bryan Fuller, who also serves as writer and executive producer.
The announcement was made by NBC Entertainment President Jennifer Salke.
“We’re so proud of Bryan’s vision for a show that is richly textured, psychologically complex, and very compelling,” Salke said. “There are many great stories still to be told.”
Critics have strongly embraced the series. Alan Sepinwall of Hitfix.com said “Hannibal” “is the last of this season’s serial killer shows. It’s also, by a very wide margin, the best.” Jeff Jensen of Entertainment Weekly called “Hannibal” “finely acted, visually scrumptious and deliciously subversive” while Matt Roush of TV Guide said the show is “feverishly twisted, fascinatingly macabre and visually remarkable.”
The series stars Hugh Dancy as expert criminal profiler Will Dancy, who has a unique ability to peer into the mind of serial killers. Mads Mikkelsen stars as Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a psychiatrist who is helping with the cases and, unbeknownst to Will, is also a serial killer himself.
Laurence Fishburne stars as Jack Crawford, the head of the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit. Caroline Dhavernas and Hettienne Park also co-star.
Through its eight original telecasts to date, “Hannibal” is averaging a 2.0 rating, 6 share in adults 18-49 and 4.7 million viewers overall in “most current” results from Nielsen Media Research. ”Hannibal” is the youngest drama on ABC, CBS and NBC, with a median age for its audience of 45.7. It’s also an upscale drama, indexing at a 111 among adults 18-49 living in homes with $100K+ incomes (with 100 indicating an average concentration of those homes).
Additionally, “Hannibal” is heavily time-shifted, with its 18-49 rating growing by 75% going from next-day “live plus same day” ratings to “live plus seven day” results.
In addition to Fuller, Martha De Laurentiis, Jesse Alexander, Chris Brancato, Sara Colleton, Katie O’Connell, Elisa Roth, Sidonie Dumas and Christophe Riandee also serve as executive producers.
The series is produced by Gaumont International Television, Dino De Laurentiis Company and Living Dead Guy Productions, and co-commissioned internationally by Sony Pictures Television Networks.
Source: NBC
“Hannibal” is based on the characters from the novel “Red Dragon” by Thomas Harris and was developed for television by Bryan Fuller, who also serves as writer and executive producer.
The announcement was made by NBC Entertainment President Jennifer Salke.
“We’re so proud of Bryan’s vision for a show that is richly textured, psychologically complex, and very compelling,” Salke said. “There are many great stories still to be told.”
Critics have strongly embraced the series. Alan Sepinwall of Hitfix.com said “Hannibal” “is the last of this season’s serial killer shows. It’s also, by a very wide margin, the best.” Jeff Jensen of Entertainment Weekly called “Hannibal” “finely acted, visually scrumptious and deliciously subversive” while Matt Roush of TV Guide said the show is “feverishly twisted, fascinatingly macabre and visually remarkable.”
The series stars Hugh Dancy as expert criminal profiler Will Dancy, who has a unique ability to peer into the mind of serial killers. Mads Mikkelsen stars as Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a psychiatrist who is helping with the cases and, unbeknownst to Will, is also a serial killer himself.
Laurence Fishburne stars as Jack Crawford, the head of the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit. Caroline Dhavernas and Hettienne Park also co-star.
Through its eight original telecasts to date, “Hannibal” is averaging a 2.0 rating, 6 share in adults 18-49 and 4.7 million viewers overall in “most current” results from Nielsen Media Research. ”Hannibal” is the youngest drama on ABC, CBS and NBC, with a median age for its audience of 45.7. It’s also an upscale drama, indexing at a 111 among adults 18-49 living in homes with $100K+ incomes (with 100 indicating an average concentration of those homes).
Additionally, “Hannibal” is heavily time-shifted, with its 18-49 rating growing by 75% going from next-day “live plus same day” ratings to “live plus seven day” results.
In addition to Fuller, Martha De Laurentiis, Jesse Alexander, Chris Brancato, Sara Colleton, Katie O’Connell, Elisa Roth, Sidonie Dumas and Christophe Riandee also serve as executive producers.
The series is produced by Gaumont International Television, Dino De Laurentiis Company and Living Dead Guy Productions, and co-commissioned internationally by Sony Pictures Television Networks.
Source: NBC
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
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Monday, May 20, 2013
Pastiches: Back in the USSA
Back in the USSA by Eugene Byrne and Kim Newman.
A collection of seven short stories set in a shared alternative history where America have a communist revolution in 1917, and many things change, a number of events mirror the reality of what occurred in the USSR, others centre around fictional or proxy characters.
Hannibal Lecter appears as the head of the Department of Health.
Reddit: Gillian Anderson talks "Hannibal"
Gillian Anderson was asked how long she will be in "Hannibal"?
"For as long as HANNIBAL runs, and until Hannibal eats me, I will continue to do a few episodes a year. I think it's darker than even I can stomach, but it has its audience and it is so beautifully shot and the performances from Mads and Hugh and the whole team are just phenomenal and I am so happy they are getting the attention they deserve. Mads is SUCH a talented actor - it's almost like he wears his emotions on his sleeve, but not all the time - when he decides that he needs to, he has such access to his emotional life and it is just really incredible. He can do everything with just his eyes."
ANNOTATIONS OF ŒUFS
Hannibal Annotations – Œufs
FULL SCRIPT
A Note on the Episode Title
Time Index
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Event
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Notes
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00:55-01:20
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Will: “Sometimes...at night I leave the lights on in my little house. And ... walk across the flat fields. When I look back from a distance, the house is like a boat on the sea. It's really the only time I feel safe.”
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In Thomas Harris’ introduction to Red Dragon he states that “In the fall of 1979, owing to an illness in my family, I returned home to the Mississippi Delta and remained there eighteen months. I was working on Red Dragon. My neighbor in the village of Rich kindly gave me the use of a shotgun house in the center of a vast cotton field, and there I worked, often at night.
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Sometimes at night I would leave the lights on in my little house and walk across the flat fields. When I looked back from a distance, the house looked like a boat at sea, and all around me the vast Delta night.”
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01:20-01:30
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Hannibal: “You stood in the breathing silence of Garret Jacob Hobbs’ home, the very spaces he moved through.”
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From Red Dragon, Chapter 24
“Graham had tried hard to understand the Dragon. At times, in the breathing silence of the victims’ houses, the very spaces the Dragon had moved through tried to speak.
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01:40
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Hannibal: “You could sense his madness, like a bloodhound…”
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From Red Dragon, Chapter 2
“Madness came into this house through that door into this kitchen, moving on size-eleven feet. Sitting in the dark, he sensed madness like a bloodhound sniffs a shirt.”
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02:45-03:00
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Will: “Sometimes I felt like we were doing the same things at different times of day like I was eating or showering or sleeping at the same time he was.”
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From Red Dragon, Chapter 24
“Sometimes Graham felt close to him. A feeling he remembered from other investigations had settled over him in recent days: the taunting sense that he and the Dragon were doing the same things at various times of the day, that there were parallels in the quotidian details of their lives. Somewhere the Dragon was eating, or showering, or sleeping at the same time he did.”
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02:48-03:03
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Hannibal: “Like...you were becoming him.”
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From Red Dragon, where Francis Dolarhyde refers to his victims as “becoming” something other than themselves. He even refers to himself as he believes he is transforming into William Blake’s The Great Red Dragon.
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03:26-05:46
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Mother dies last
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From Red Dragon
Francis Dolarhyde visits families in the middle of the night and slaughters them, leaving the mother for last. Of course, this is for a different reason, but similar in concept.
Mommy issues.
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07:00
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Hannibal examines a fish hook that Will is tying.
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Fishing rods and hooks feature in the dénouement of Red Dragon and save Molly and Willy.
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14:25-14:35
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Hannibal: “Both my parents died when I was very young. The proverbial orphan until I was adopted by my Uncle Robertas when I was 16."
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More detail in Hannibal Rising.
Bryan Fuller hopes David Bowie will play Uncle Robertas in Season 2.
Taty points out that Robertas is the Lithuanian equivalent of Robert, notably, Robertas Antinis and Robertas Antinis, Jr. are the names of famous father and son Lithuanian painters.
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15:25-15:40
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Will: “We were poor. I followed my father from the boatyards of Biloxi and Greenville, to lake boats on Eerie.”
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From Red Dragon, Chapter 36
“Graham had been a poor child, following his father from the boatyards in Biloxi and Greenville to the lake boats on Eerie. Always the new boy at school, always the stranger.”
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18:20-18:40
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Will: “Most of the time in sexual assaults, the bite mark has a livid spot at the center, a ‘suck bruise.’ In some cases it does not. For some killers biting may be a fighting pattern as much as a sexual behavior.
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From Red Dragon, Chapter 3
"Most of the time in sex assaults the bite mark has a livid spot in the center, a suck mark. These don't. Dr. Princi mentioned it in his autopsy report, and I saw it at the morgue. No suck marks. For him biting may be a fighting pattern as much as sexual behaviour."
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22:20-22:30
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Beverly: “Ever heard of Willard Wigan? He’s this artist that does micro sculptures, like putting the Obamas in the eye of a needle.”
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Willard Wigan, MBE (born 1957) is an English micro-sculptor from Birmingham. His sculptures are typically placed in the eye of a needle or on the head of a pin.
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25:24-25:38
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Hannibal: “Has Christmas come early? Or late?”
Will: “It was for Abigail.”
Hannibal: “Was?”
Will: “I thought better of it. I wasn’t thinking straight. I was… I was upset when I bought it. Maybe still am.”
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From Red Dragon, Chapter 36
In the window of a jewelry store he saw a delicate antique gold bracelet. It cost him most of his paycheck. He had it wrapped and stamped for mailing. Only when he was sure he was alone at the mail drop did he address it to Molly in Oregon. Graham did not realize, as Molly did, that he gave presents when he was angry.
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29:50
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Hannibal: “Have you ever tried Psilocybin?”
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Is this the start of Hannibal’s attempt to convert Abigail into Mischa?
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31:30-31:40
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Will: “Capture-bonding. A passive psychological response to a new master has been an essential survival tool for a million years.”
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Capture-bonding is also known as Stockholm syndrome, the FBI's Hostage Barricade Database System shows that roughly 27% of victims show evidence of Stockholm syndrome.
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32:26
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Abigail drops the teacup.
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The teacup metaphor first appears in Hannibal, Chapter 73:
Dr Lecter was watching a film called A Brief History of Time, about the great astrophysicist Stephen Hawking and his work. He had watched it many times before. This was his favorite part, where the teacup falls off the table and smashes on the floor.
Of course, the teacup metaphor is expanded upon greatly and is applied to Hannibal’s love for his long-gone sister Mischa. The show Hannibal explores this later in relation to Abigail.
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35:00-35:16
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Bursting with love.
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A common phrase found throughout Red Dragon, referring to sexual tension implied between Francis Dolarhyde and his victims, including his mother figures.
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All Annotations of "Œufs" written by Damian Gordon, with the exception of the RED ANNOTATIONS which are contributed by Joshwa Walton.
Revised by Joshwa Walton 2015.
Sunday, May 19, 2013
ANNOTATIONS OF POTAGE
Hannibal Annotations – Potage
FULL SCRIPT
A Note on the Episode Title
Time Index
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Event
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Notes
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00:30-01:30
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Abigail Hunting
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Bryan Fuller noted on Twitter that the hunting scenes at the start of this episode were inspired by David Slade’s wonderful photography.
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14:00
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Freddie: “Let me help you.”
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From Red Dragon, Chapter 16
Freddy: “Let me help you, Jack. I can, believe me.”
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14:10-14:20
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Freddie: “A man named Will Graham ... works for the FBI, but isn't FBI. He catches insane men because he can think like them ... because he is insane.”
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From Red Dragon, Chapter 7
From a car across the street, his long lens propped on the window sill, Freddy Lounds got a nice profile shot of Graham in the doorway and the words in stone above him: "Chesapeake State Hospital for the Criminally Insane."
As it turned out, The National Tattler cropped the picture to just Graham's face and the last two words in the stone.
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16:40-17:00
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Abigail: “So killing somebody, even if you have to do it, it feels that bad?”
Will: “It’s the ugliest thing in the world.”
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From Red Dragon, Chapter 15
Willy: “Killing somebody, even if you have to do it, it feels that bad?”
Will: “Willy, it’s one of the ugliest things in the world.”
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20:50
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“CANNIBALS”
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Bryan Fuller tweeted a test image of Abigail’s vandalized home with Carrie and The Shining references:
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21:15-21:30
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Abigail: “I was sort of expecting a body outline in chalk or tape.”
Will: “They only do that if you're still alive and taken to the hospital before they finish the crime scene.”
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Chalk outlines are rarely used in reality, although they are so common in literature and television drama that they have become a trope. They may have occasionally been used in the 1930s and 1940s to allow the press to take pictures of crime scenes without having to show the body, but in modern times they couldn’t be used since they would contaminate forensic evidence.
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25:50-23:10
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Abigail: “So you pretended to be my dad.”
Will: “And people like your dad.”
Abigail: “What did it feel like? To be him?”
Will: “It feels… like… I’m talking to his shadow suspended on dust.”
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From Red Dragon, Chapter 24
“Graham filled his glass again and sat at the table by the windo, staring at the empty chair across from him. He stared until the space in the opposite chair assumed a man-shape filled with dark and swarming motes, a present like a shadow on suspended dust. He tried to make the image coalesce, to see a face. It would not move, had no countenance but, faceless, faced him with palpable attention.”
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27:55
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Hannibal covers up the stone in leaves
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Hannibal takes Nicholas Boyle’s blood off this stone and later places it in Marissa Schurr’s mouth, thus framing Nicholas for her murder. He may have done this in hopes to convince Abigail that Nicholas was the copycat killer, so that if Nicholas ever approached her, she would kill him.
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38:15-38:20
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Hannibal: “I can help you. If you ask me to.”
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A later reference in Season 3 Episode 1 Antipasto, when a flashback reveals similar circumstances between Hannibal and his psychiatrist in a flashback sequence.
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41:55-42:00
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Hannibal: “I’ll keep your secret.”
Abigail: “And I’ll keep yours.
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Is this Hannibal setting Abigail up to later attempt to brainwash her into thinking that she is Mischa?
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All Annotations of "Potage" written by Damian Gordon, with the exception of the RED ANNOTATIONS which are contributed by Joshwa Walton.
Revised by Joshwa Walton 2015.
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