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Brian Cox as Dr. Hannibal Lecktor...

Posted by mpathus on March 3, 2008 at 14:42:32:
...in "Manhunter" didn't manner Lector's madness -- a different approach to insanity/menace was more to my tastes, although Hopkins did tone down his interpretation in subsequent films.
I always liked "Remains of the Day"; is it an example of mannered Hopkins performance?
I suppose not for the reason that you pointed out. His character was a man of few words and impecable restraint, and this manservant's means of expression was chosen by Hopkins to be physical pace, subtle gesture and most delightfully silence/pauses!
I think Lector is a stew best served cold, with a prodigious side of analytic intelligence, all to be lost at a moment of hysterical judgement -- and held in reserve -- not a character to telegraph anything by being scary.