The 'cannibal movie' genre has died out over the years after the 'Cannibal Boom' of the late 1970s and early 80s; especially since Cannibal Holocaust (1980). In recent years, Eli Roth revived the boom with the Green Inferno (2013).
Roth even commented that after showing Cannibal Holocaust to the Amazonian tribe he worked with, they found it "hilariously funny".
Detractors and critics of Cannibal Holocaust would agree that due to its acts of animal cruelty (yes, animals were really killed - most notable, a monkey was beheaded), excessive gore and obscenity, and stereotypical portrayal of an indigenous group (as savage cannibals), the movie is inappropriate in all senses. Director Ruggero Deodato was even charged with obscenity crimes under the impression that his found-footage themed film was in fact a snuff.
Silence of the Lambs (1991), as well as other Hannibal films and the original books, were the inspiration to Bryan Fuller's own take on Hannibal (NBC) - most recently adapting the Red Dragon arc for the show's third and last season before it was cancelled.
Though the show regrettable lacked the ratings it needed to continue airing, fans worked to trend the hashtag 'savehannibal' to reach out to the show's creator and actors - who all loved working on the show - to bring back another season. Though nothing was done immediately, Fuller says he does really want to create another season - further exploring Will and Hannibal's 'new-found love', though it would be after a few years, simply for that drama factor or resurrecting a story where it last left off.
A lot of similarities can be found between our opening and Hannibal; from the costume to cooking, though I wanted to give our opening more of a shocking pretense, which is why I favoured more evident killing than the subtleties found in the beginning of Hannibal.
What I favoured most abut Hannibal was the use of music - though the music is obscure at times, it is even more so simply by the fact that it isn't meant to be - one would never imagine a blissful scene of Hannibal fine-dining to the sequence of Bach's Aria to (in reality) be a blissful scene of Dr. Lecter fine-dining on human meat, simply because the music tells us otherwise.
As discussed in my character profile of the killer, his cleanliness and behaviour are inspired by the likes of Dr. Hannibal Lecter; the white shirt being a symbol of this cleanliness. Though I did not directly observe, compare, and take things specifically from Hannibal (I had a feel of the show and wanted to reflect that in our work), I found that watching it after (for the first time again since the last season ended), there were more similarities than I had expected; including the deep blue hue (though found in many horrors/thrillers), and the preparation of a heart, which was completely coincidental.
For comparison, I've placed our opening clip beside some shots from NBC's Hannibal, which paints a better picture of the similarities.
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