Was watching Hannibal Rising the other night on TV, and it just had one of those movie cliché I really hate. Movie Cliché being like when someone’s trying to stop a bomb going off in a film, and they always stop it with one second remaining (usually after some argument over cutting either the red wire or the blue wire.) So in the film, you have terrible things happening to a young Hannibal Lecter during the second world war. And as a young man he flees across Europe to Paris to stay with his aunt (who is Asian). At this point in the film, you’ve seen Hannibal as a child screwed over by a group looters. As soon as I saw his Japanese aunty, I knew what was coming next. Ok, it was a very small scene, but when they cut to the montage of his aunt teaching him martial arts and sword fighting… I wince a little. In a Kung Fu movie or at least an action movie, I love that cliché moment. But in something written by Thomas Harris about a young Hannibal Lecter. A Yoda moment is so out of place. When has a serial killer\cannibal ever needed training, anyway? Did Ted Bundy have a black belt and nun chucks?
It’s not a terrible movie, apart from that one scene.
Bonus points if you can think of any other annoying cliché. Like a movie cop will always die one day from retirement and so on.
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