RA quote from following interview:"I feel Dolarhyde is somebody that is tethered by his past. It’s like he’s trying to tread his path which is tied to his past, but it’s also shaping the way that his life is. His past is so damaged. It’s like a hair follicle. The reason hair goes curly is because the follicle is deformed. It’s exactly what Dolarhyde is going through. His world is emerging as something grotesque. What he doesn’t realize is he becomes a bargaining tool between Will Graham and Hannibal Lecter. In a simplistic way, the theme rumbling under the story is that Will Graham is trying to save him and Lecter is trying to draw him over the edge and to let him really embrace the darkness. Becoming the Dragon is something that Hannibal is drawing out of him. He wants to see this magnificent evolution, whereas Will Graham is trying to put it all back in this box. Of course, Dolarhyde doesn’t really know that."
RA quote ""It's down to Thomas Harris's writing," suggested Armitage. "He really explores this damaged child that he created in Francis Dolarhyde - and it doesn't track in a linear way so you learn about his crimes first, and then you retrace where they came from."
Another Dolarhyde article and RA quote:
"The original Manhunter is more frightening than any of the other movies. And it's something to do with the soundtrack and the graininess of the film; it's more crudely shot. But I didn't revisit it for this. I thought I might go back and look at it afterward, but I haven't. I think I feel like I've had a bit too much Francis Dolarhyde. There's only so much of him you can take."
Dolarhyde's tattoo is a kind of clothing to him, Armitage continues.
How much of the sexual aspect of Dolarhyde makes it onto the screen, given they're on NBC? "There's something about Dolarhyde which has a kind of innocence to him, which sounds odd considering how complicated and dark his world is, but it was always fluctuating between an innocent, childlike mind and a very complicated man. So I spent half this series semi-naked..."
QUOTE: The Divided Conflict
of Edith Wharton's Summer
by CAROL WERSHOVEN -- WHEN Bernard Berenson complimented Edith Wharton on her latest
novel, Summer, and expressed admiration for its predominant male
character, Lawyer Royall, Wharton replied, "of course he's the book."l
Wharton's statement has been largely ignored by critics who view the book
as Charity Royall's story, and who classify Lawyer Royall as an old windbag,
a pompous drunkard, or worse. 2 The popular interpretation ignores not only
Royall's central position in the plot, but Royall's central role in the novel's subtle
and unfolding themes. For Summer is not just Wharton's variation on the
old seduced-and-abandoned theme; it is a story of two protagonists, both of
whom must come to terms with their destructive illusions in order to lead adult
lives.
The ability to "look life in the face, "3 to confront reality without flinching
or evasion, was, for Wharton, an essential quality in mature conduct. She
repeatedly traced the conflicts of characters faced with the choice of escape
through evasion or a more painful but adult recognition of things as they are.
In the majority of her novels, Wharton chronicles this conflict through the use
of an outsider heroine, one who exposes the reality ofsituation and selfin confrontation
with a weak male. This male figure, unable to face the truths the
heroine reveals, rejects her. Such is the pattern of Ellen Olenska and Newland
Archer in The Age of Innocence, of Lily Bart and Selden in The House of
Mirth, as well as of Wharton's lesser known novels. 4 What is unusual about
Summer is, as Wharton herself noted, that a man, Royall, is at the center of
the book, that the conflict between suffocating illusions and painful but
liberating reality is not expressed through Wharton's customary plot structure.
Richard won the above Saturn Award as the best supporting actor in a fantasy film' He played Thorin Oakenshield in the 3 Hobbit films. Following is not his Thorin attire rather it's a fan's dream costume for him...
Thanks to www.richardarmitagecentral.com for making available a translation of a Polish interview with RA. He was asked about playing Francis Dolarhyde on 'Hannibal' Following is a quote from that interview(see link below)
"I think in fact 'Red Dragon' is a tragic love story....I've never played such a character and I will not ever again"
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