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I have said it before that as of now, I would keep myself away from any news regarding the personal opinion or how he would conduct however I do not exclude myself from watching his works and appreciate them to my heart’s content; he is a brilliant actor after all. And it was his performance that has drawn me to this fandom in the first place.

That being said, with every week passing by, I eagerly await the next episode of Hannibal. It’s quite a shame really though I haven’t been followed any news but as it turned out the very first week that Richard’s Francis Dolarhyde was due to make this appearance was the same week that AXN announced the new time-slot for Hannibal, so instead of spending my friday evening watching the good doctor and the cast, it was pushed off to the sunday evening–an eve before real life begins– instead.

I’m not really into detailing my reaction of every single week I see Francis on the screen. Truth be told, I fear that I could not find that many interesting things each week to keep me pouring my words out. Yet for the last week, I think Richard may make me feel enough to throw my own take in to the void

So here goes…

Like I have noticed and mentioned both on Tumblr and here that Richard makes me think that Human’s autonomy– muscles in particularly– is indeed quite interesting. The way he carefully move or flex each one certainly glues my eyes to the scene, though I’m not sure whether this is me being the usual ‘fangirl’ self.

(x) I swear I have never been this much conscious about his nose.

So Francis doesn’t really talk much because he doesn’t overly fond of being not completely like anybody else. He literally takes great pains to ensure that his pronunciation is as perfect or close to that as much as possible. So naturally we would see Francis communicates or conveys his thought and feeling through his body language and his eyes. I must confess that the close-up on Richard’s face, which is undoubtedly done so, so that the audience can get a better look of his expression so far does nothing for me other than makes me appreciating his nose even more. His prominent feature which I have never really given it much attention before, indeed come in the way of me viewing the mass murderer. I find this incident to be somewhat hilarious, truth be told.

Since Francis cannot really pronounce some sound quite clear as normal people do, due to his condition and seeing that Thomas Harris takes to a certain degree to establish this in the book, I’ve always wondered about Richard’s take on this. He is after all the man who obsessed about getting the ‘right voice’ for Thorin Oakenshield.

I must admit, I didn’t hear that clearly from my TV and I really couldn’t remember what Ralph Fiennes sounded like in the movie version. But I agree with what Rutina Wesley’s character pointed that to my ear, his pronunciation is fine, just a little bit off, but good nonetheless. I saw some of the headline saying that he didn’t use his ‘velvet baritone’ voice in movie. In my opinion, his voice came out as a harsh throaty kind of voice which is kinda fascinating in itself though I’m more interested in the accent that he chose for Francis. We all know that his accent in Into the Storm was somewhat problematic. Being non-native speaker and surely not an expert on it, I still cannot pinpoint whether his accent in that movie was legitimate as some claimed or just another ”good try but not quite right” imitation. Though I feel so far that his accent reminded me of Charlie Fox in Daredevil where there’s an instance I could sense that they are Brits in comparison to, say, Hugh Dancy who from what I think I have heard does an excellent job.

Seeing Richard as Francis Dolarhyde truly did give me at least some vaguely idea of what kind of actor Richard is. In my opinion, every single muscle movement, every single eye flick is deliberated. Here is a man who sees acting as a craft first and foremost not as an art. It is as if He had mapped out everything and proceeded to portray just as that. The guy basically creates the whole mannerism of Francis Dolarhyde. And I don’t know, I think for me, it still isn’t that much clear when you look at his other roles and read about how he write up a diary for that character. But I could totally see he did just that with Francis. I have nothing against it; it is really some good work.  I personally like the scene when he pulled off in front of the bus station hesitate for a bit trying the word in his mouth without producing a sound before managed to speak to Reba with a passable–or perhaps not in his mind– pronunciation. It was brilliant and we could really see his struggle. I really hope as the story continues to get thicken; we would see the instance of him totally lose it and mess up all the pronunciation.