Dr Hannibal Lecter: Modern Day Man-eater

The ideas of man-eating monster have been around as long as our recorded history. They exist in forms of legends, novels, movies, and more recently, video games. In Greek mythology, there are various monsters known to eat humans alive such as the one-eyed Cyclops and the Sphinx. In modern literature, Bram Stoker wrote about Count Dracula, who consumes the blood of living people. But there’s probably none more famous, terrifying, and monstrous than the character from Thomas Harris’s novel Red Dragon, Dr. Hannibal Lecter.

            Unlike the monsters mentioned above, Dr. Hannibal “The Cannibal” Lecter has nothing monster-like in his appearance. Introduced and now featured in various novels and movie adaptations, he is a middle aged human psychiatrist with a lot of middle aged-man feature such as balding hair and slightly wrinkled skin. But unlike most middle-aged man, he is serial killer who is known to eat the flesh of his victims. Although never actually portrayed as a primary antagonist in any of the stories he appeared in, he never fails to deliver horror and nightmares in the mind of readers and movie watchers alike. First appear on the 1986 movie Manhunter portrayed by Brian Cox, he is best remembered from Sir Anthony Hopkins’s portrayal in the 1991 movie The Silence of the Lambs and 2002 movie Red Dragon.

            Sir Anthony Hopkins’s portrayal has been known to be more terrifying than the other three actors that have portrayed him. Both the novel and the movies always portray him as a classy and highly intelligent man with a near perfect sense of manner that needs to be kept in a prison with maximum security. However, there’s a certain aspect in Sir Anthony Hopkins’s portrayal that makes Dr. Lecter becomes more terrifying than in the other media. Hopkins is able to deliver to the audience a sense of psychopathic theme whenever his name is mentioned.

            To me, it is very interesting how recent trend is able to show a simple human character to be as scary as monsters, even more terrifying than nowadays interpretation of monster where they can be cute, adorable, and “cool” as showed in many movies such as Monster Inc., How To Train Your Dragon, Twilight, and Zombieland. Traditionally, monsters that posses deformed face, horns, fangs, and claws will scare people and keep them awake during night. But nowadays, such monsters would only scare kids.

Movies like Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday the 13^th, The Shining, and of course, Silence of The Lambs proves to be as scary as Alien and Night of the Living Dead which feature supernatural monster. Maybe putting human as a primary antagonist in horror movies become more terrifying than previously mentioned supernatural monster because these human “monster” is closer to reality than the earlier monster. The idea that our neighbor or our neighbor’s neighbor may be a serial killer that eats other people when nobody’s looking is terrifying. How I take it, it’s not how one’s appearance that makes him a “monster”, but what he does and how he does things that makes him a monster.

by Pierre Jobel Nursewan (16714036)

Comic Author by The Arif Setio Nugroho [16714036]

A story can be written using both words and graphics, and it is called a graphic novel or comics. As such, not only good writing skills are required in making comics, but also good drawing skills.

I have a friend, Pierre Jobel, who wants to be a comic writer because he likes reading comics and more importantly, he has creative imaginations in writing and drawing. His future dream is to work together with people from around the world as a co-writer. He wants to create his own comics in the future, and by working with people from around the world, he can learn a lot of cultural knowledges which can be applied to his own comics.

In order to achieve his dream, he is preparing himself from now because he knows that becoming a comic writer is not easy. He is learning how to write stories in an attractive, yet creative way because the story in a comic is mostly told through the dialogues between characters. Surely he needs to improve his writing skills to make him capable of writing an interesting and attractive comic to read.

He is also practicing to improve his drawing skills as the pictures in a comic serve as means of telling a story. It means that the quality of the pictures is very crucial in a comic. He improves his drawing skills by practicing drawing a lot and by watching videos about comics to learn more about comics. Before pursuing his dream, he plans to work first so he can be assured that he will be capable of sustaining himself just in case his comics cannot provide him enough money.

Unfortunately, my friend has some obstacles in his way to become a comic author. He feels that he does not have enought time to practice drawing because of his activities, such as studying, organization activies and college activites. In regards to his obstacles, I suggest him to manage his time better so he can practice writing and drawing a comic. In my opinion, he will become a good comic writer. He has creative imaginations and ideas. He also has good skills in writing and his drawings are really good. I sincerely hope he can achieve his dream of becoming a comic writer.

Comic Author by The Arif Setio Nugroho [16714036]

A story can be written using both words and graphics, and it is called a graphic novel or comics. As such, not only good writing skills are required in making comics, but also good drawing skills.

I have a friend, Pierre Jobel, who wants to be a comic writer because he likes reading comics and more importantly, he has creative imaginations in writing and drawing. His future dream is to work together with people from around the world as a co-writer. He wants to create his own comics in the future, and by working with people from around the world, he can learn a lot of cultural knowledges which can be applied to his own comics.

In order to achieve his dream, he is preparing himself from now because he knows that becoming a comic writer is not easy. He is learning how to write stories in an attractive, yet creative way because the story in a comic is mostly told through the dialogues between characters. Surely he needs to improve his writing skills to make him capable of writing an interesting and attractive comic to read.

He is also practicing to improve his drawing skills as the pictures in a comic serve as means of telling a story. It means that the quality of the pictures is very crucial in a comic. He improves his drawing skills by practicing drawing a lot and by watching videos about comics to learn more about comics. Before pursuing his dream, he plans to work first so he can be assured that he will be capable of sustaining himself just in case his comics cannot provide him enough money.

Unfortunately, my friend has some obstacles in his way to become a comic author. He feels that he does not have enought time to practice drawing because of his activities, such as studying, organization activies and college activites. In regards to his obstacles, I suggest him to manage his time better so he can practice writing and drawing a comic. In my opinion, he will become a good comic writer. He has creative imaginations and ideas. He also has good skills in writing and his drawings are really good. I sincerely hope he can achieve his dream of becoming a comic writer.

Welcome: an Uncreative Title

Welcome, u skrubs!

My name is Pierre, hence the title. And this is the blog where I put any of the stuff that I write, hence the title.
In other words, this is a blog where Pierre put his writings; hence the title.

Yea, it's uncreative. Hence the title (of this post)

Usually, I write my stuff in Indonesian and it's contents are usually fiction. However, recently a change have been made. From this point on, I will also upload articles written by me, in english. Why? Because of my teacher.

You see, my english teacher told me and my peers to upload any of our revised written articles into our blogs. The rest of the story is quite self-explanatory

So, enjoy my blog.