From: DrAndreaCampbell-AT-cs.com
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 10:54:48 EST
Subject: Re: Hannibal, was lost dawg


I agree.  And I think both performances demonstrate sophisticated acting 
choices...in Hannibal he is playing a man who is essentially an animal ... 
and instead of playing him like an animal...emphasizing his horrid qualities, 
the ways he is dangerous and beyond the bounds of human mores...he plays him 
urban and charming and lets the discrepancy between the actions we see and 
the actions we know terrify us even more (with occasional moments where the 
other slips through) but in Instinct he plays a man who is in some sense more 
human than the humans...who has a higher sense of values or at least an 
awareness of his values...and plays him like an animal...causing us to 
experience the same preconceptions and go through the same learning curve as 
the Cuba Gooding character...again creating a discrepancy between what really 
is and what appears to be that makes the character more powerful.  In stead 
of going for the obvious in his characterization choices, he chooses more 
subtle approaches.
Andrea Campbell


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