Hamlet 1948-Laurence Olivier 1964-Anthony Hopkins as Claudius 1990-Mel Gibson Hamlet has been produced in a variety of ways, but making a movie out of Hamlet is very different. When producing Hamlet on film there are some liberties that are taken for either artistic benefit or to keep it s...

The Movie Silence of the Lambs starring Jodi foster as agent Clarice Starling and Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal Lector was praised as an amazing horror thriller when it was released in 1991. In fact, the movie was even granted the highest honor a cinematic production can receive when it was v...

Red Dragon VS. Silence of the Lambs In both movies The Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon there are many similarities and differences. The Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon are both part of a trilogy. The Silence of the Lambs was the first to be released and Red Dragon was the last, howeve...

A couple of days before his sixty fifth birthday, Bill Parish, a business tycoon (Hopkins), starts to have premonitions about death. The recent heart attacks he has been having, which are accompanied by voices lead him to this premonitions. Although Bill Parish has always had a privileged life being...

The Silence of the Lambs took the Academy Awards by storm in 1992, winning all five major categories, direction, screenplay, acting and Best Motion Picture; beating the odds in more ways than one. Dark psychological thrillers rarely win Best Picture (the last occasion was back in 1940, Hitchcock&ap...

Critically consider the view that the media might contribute to the development of aggressive behaviour There has been an interest in the affects of violent media on the behaviour of children by psychologists. In 1993, Michael Medved published a book called 'Hollywood versus America'...

Final Analysis The two movies that were chosen for review and comparison were Man Hunter and Red Dragon. These two movies were the same story line and based off each other, Man Hunter, being the first of the two. Overall these two movies are far from being the same. One of the biggest d...