I'm most likely the only one.
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BedHeadTalks — 10 years ago(December 16, 2015 11:05 PM)
I love Pazzi! Yes, it has to do with how Giancarlo Giannini performed it so I did not want him dead but I did not want Pazzi to succeed either. I think he stole every scene he was in. Giancarlo Giannini outperformed Anthony Hopkins, and that is why we can empathise with him. The problem is that at the end Pazzi was helping a monster; obviously Hannibal is also a monster, but at least Hannibal doesn't hurt/sexually abuse children.
Vulgarity is no substitute for Wit- Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham -
Edward_de_Vere — 10 years ago(December 18, 2015 09:40 AM)
Another vote for how outstanding Giancarlo Giannini was in this role.
Giannini was one of this film's high points. I haven't had a chance to see Giannini in too many other roles, the only one that comes to mind was his part in a mediocre horror film called
Darkness
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AFriendOfMrWhite — 10 years ago(January 20, 2016 05:59 AM)
He was also on
Casino Royale
and
Quantum of Solace
, probably the only other movies besides
Hannibal
in which I saw Giannini. I remember being so glad to see him in
Casino Royale
the first time, "oh look, there's that splendid Italian actor!" -
kellymariekitty — 9 years ago(January 05, 2017 12:49 PM)
No I'm not going to bash you, I loved Patti, he was gorgeous and I really wanted him to bail out once he had the money.
I didn't want him to die at all, I thought and still think the actor is such an attractive guy. I love him -
Edward_de_Vere — 9 years ago(January 10, 2017 11:28 AM)
Giannini's posture and facial expression in his first scenes as Pazzi say so much about the character. You can tell that Pazzi is a cynical, defeated man who is less than happy with his position in life.
Shortly afterwards, we find out that that Pazzi is henpecked by a demanding, high-maintenance trophy wife and has been taken off a high profile case at work and demoted to investigating lesser cases, exactly in keeping with what the character's demeanor already told us.
Giannini put a lot of pathos into the performance, it's as if he was the only actor in the cast who took seriously what was otherwise over the top and almost campy sequel. -
palawanaddict — 9 years ago(January 20, 2017 10:13 PM)
Ohhhhh.. This is surreal. And here I am thinking I was the only one with this opinion.
I agree with EVERYTHING!
I've never really seen anyone steal any scene from the Great Sir Anthony. Until I saw Hannibal. Yes of course, the movie leads us to have sympathy for Pazzi .But in terms of acting ability and impact (and I can't believe I'm saying this) but he far outshines Hopkins in this movie.
There's another post on this board about the Italy scenes being the only interesting part of the movie. I believe the major contributing fact is Giancarlo Giannini. Without him, the movie became a lot less interesting.
Not to mention his gobsmackingly gorgeous looks swayed my all my attraction from Lecter to Pazzi. There just something about him. some magic.
and YES to the Pazzi-catching-Lecter idea. I wish the entire movie would've been Pazzi vs Lecter with Pazzi catching Lecter in the end and finally making love to Allegra - that lucky woman.
@shwacka2000 . Would love that too!
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shwacka2000 — 9 years ago(February 10, 2017 09:30 PM)
Thank you.
and YES to the Pazzi-catching-Lecter idea. I wish the entire movie would've been Pazzi vs Lecter with Pazzi catching Lecter in the end and finally making love to Allegra - that lucky woman.
This concept of Pazzi winning against Lecter has been increasing over the years, we really should make fanfiction stories about it.
hahaha
I guess that's how good Giannini is. He outperformed everyone in this film didn't he? Almost too good an actor.
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