Today an idea of a screen play came into my mind. This dream is so horrendous I am not sure if I want to commit it to text. The dream is another sequel for the Hannibal Lecter character played by Anthony Hopkins. I guess my screen play idea would make for a third film for the series.
First, let me say, I really abhor all modern horror movies. All the gratuitous blood and violence is too much to take for a peaceful loving sane man such as myself. In a perfect world these movies would not be made and there would not be an audience of those who pay to watch them.
So that being said here is a screen treatment for a possible final Hannibal Lecter film:
The director of the FBI has a young daughter with cystic fibrosis. She is in need of a lung transplant. Those of you that follow the news are witness to what has happened in the recent news when a judge got involved in order for a young girl to overcome national transplant rules to allow her to get adult lungs to save her life. Here in this story we have a similar scenario only at this point in America Obama Care rules have fully kicked in. There are no recourses for bending the rules even for the director of the FBI. He is desperate to save his little girl's life.
It turns out our brilliant and demented Dr. Hannibal Lecter knows a way. Genetics and surgery are just a couple of his many talents and abilities. However, the man is the most sick and most dangerous serial killer in history. There is no way the director is about to let Lecter near his daughter! One of the director's close associates has a plan. This person knows how they can use Obama Care rules to their advantage. The intelligence community has been financing research in the field of optogenetics for years with the ultimate goal of creating the most effective mind control option in their tool box of dirty tricks. Optogenetics is a neuromodulation technique employed in neuroscience that uses a combination of techniques from optics and genetics to control the activity in individual neurons in living tissue. This is for real folks! Scientists are actually working on this and are making significant progress. The FBI director's associate proposes they can reprogram Lecter's brain. Lecter can be the first publicly acknowledged human study candidate for the procedure. They think they can turn him into a useful docile asset and remove his serial killer tendencies.
Well, Hannibal really hates what they are proposing, but he keeps this to himself. He looks at this as another opportunity to escape prison. He feigns willingness to go along with the surgery. The surgery gets done without incident. Lecter apparently is a changed man. He eventually is deemed rehabilitated by a federal judge and is given a new life as a doctor at a major medical facility in Dallas, Texas. Here he creates a cure for the cystic fibrosis that plagues the FBI director's daughter.
During Dr. Lecter's stay in Dallas, Hannibal, is confronted with many temptations to return to his old ways. The FBI has, as a precaution, assigned two agents with him at all times. The two agents pose as neuroscientists and they live with Lecter in his Dallas home. These two men are gay. They are more into each other than carefully watching Dr. Lecter. All through the film Lecter is able to overcome all the temptations that beset him. Until the final surprising ending. The audience is fully expecting Lecter to break with his new programing and eat the FBI agents in some fitting horrible manner. However, Hannibal has found a way around his new programing to satisfy his desire to eat people in a novel sick sadistic way. In the basement of his home he is secretly cloning human animal hybrids. In a box he has a small rat/human hybrid. The box has toys and books. The doctor has been teaching it how to read. He starts again with the reading lessons but his urge to tastes flesh proves too great. He picks up the being and bites its head off. Thus ends the movie.
The whole movie seems Hitchcockian in my mind. I would never watch it. I would get nightmares. It would certainly shock an audience. In the hands of right director it could be a well crafted suspenseful movie. However, I think most young movie goers would not like it. They prefer to be assaulted with blood and guts through an entire 2 hour movie. The scenario reminds me of the original sci-fi movie, 'The Fly'. The main character becomes a fly with a human head and is killed with a rock in a final scene, starring Vincent Price, as it screams "Help me!". Oh! That movie forever traumatized me! The final scene in this movie would be a homage to this film and another old classic: Stanley Kubrick's, A Clockwork Orange, (1971). That film dealt with a dystopian future where basically a gang member is psychologically reprogramed in a manner, not unlike, what is done to Lecter here.
My script would be more sophisticated than the typical Hollywood horror movie right now. It utilizes the old themes and updates where science is currently taking us. This is the sort of movie Hollywood rarely makes or does well these days. A case could be made that the Golden Age of movie making and television was within the 1960s and 1970s. The special effects may have been cruder but the storytelling was way better in my estimation. Movies generally today rely too heavy on CGI and forget about crafting a good story in my mind. We get highly polished turds today for movies in my view. Well, that's my rant for today. On with my day...
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