I couldn't stop associating this song with Hannibal and juxtaposing these seemingly different aesthetics with the common cannibalism 💀

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Hey so I have never seen anything with Hannibal in it and I am kinda confused. I heard that he is this sort of legendary Jason Voorhees type of character( not personality but fame) and I saw that he is in shows and movies and played by different people and that TSOL was a sequel to the book? is there like a canon for his story and where do you start?

A couple months back I was listening to a podcast by Thomas Harris that was dedicated to talking about writing the perfect murder mysteries. In this podcast, he discussed the weapon of death, time of death, how to choose the right weather even for the story even, among other things. I can't seem to find the podcast now. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

Can anyone recommend some good scene packs? I want to try video editing, and while I have a few for the NBC show, I would like some for the films. I'm especially struggling to find any for Hannibal Rising. It would be a bonus if they were high-quality!

Thanks !!

Just finished a re-read of Hannibal, and one of those tiny little details stuck with me this time. (Massive over-analysis follows!)

In his letter to Clarice after the Feliciana Fish Market shooting, Hannibal writes:

Do you have a black iron skillet? You are a southern mountain girl, I can’t imagine you would not. Put it on the kitchen table. Turn on the overhead lights.

Mapp had inherited her grandmother’s skillet and used it often. It had a glassy black surface that no soap ever touched. Starling put it in front of her on the table.

Harris, Thomas. Hannibal: A Novel (Hannibal Lecter Book 3) (p. 33). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

Even the first time I read the book, that assumption struck me as odd, almost silly. Hannibal knew about her father's death, about her moving to her cousin's sheep and horse ranch, and about her landing in the Lutheran orphanage. Did he imagine that, of the few belongings she took with her, one of them was a nine-pound cast iron skillet?

You could argue that the Doctor was alluding to the notion that she would have included a cast iron skillet in her adult kitchen setup, almost instinctually, as a "southern mountain girl," but he then writes:

Look into the skillet, Clarice. Lean over it and look down. If this were your mother’s skillet, and it well may be, it would hold among its molecules the vibrations of all the conversations ever held in its presence.

So, he's at least entertaining the thought that she still has her mother's old cast iron skillet. Could it be something he thought she might have inherited later? We don't see any evidence that she was ever in contact with her mother again.

I bumped on this, originally, because the assumption seemed like a stretch for Dr. Lecter, the kind that he rarely makes in the novels.

I can understand his desire to offer Clarice a thoughtful lesson through the lens of the skillet, but this felt like one of those jigsaw puzzle pieces that almost fits, but not perfectly.

Then again, the game of deduction is not an exact one. Maybe I should cut Dr. Lecter some slack.

So recently I've been getting the idea to make "found footage" tapes from the villains of Red Dragon and Silence Of The Lambs as fanfic type stuff. Harris obviously did a wonderful job building the psychology and I had some ideas that'd fit well with that. Also in a franchise where we all like Hannibal so much I feel like there's more room to play with giving the other 'villains' more point of view time.

By the way, I'm trans myself so could probably handle the whole Jame Gumb/Buffalo Bill thing without it being too problematic with the implications.

Okay, so I’m reading through the Hannibal Lecter books and just finished ‘Hannibal’ (what a fucking odd ending, but that’s another days topic).

In the book, Hannibal, the doctor often retreats into a “mind palace”, where he seems to be able to walk around and remember everything in his life as if it is a physical place filled with filing cabinets of information. It’s important to note that the book treats this ability he has as if it is extremely reliable source of memory. Through this mind palace, he is able to walk to a room and find clarice starling’s address, for example.

In one of the chapters, he is on an airplane and looks to escape into his mind palace because flying sucks. When he does this, he recalls when he was six years old how his sister was killed and eaten by nazis (explaining his cannibalism later in life).

It very clear says he is six:

(1) “Hannibal Lecter, six, watched through…”

(2) “…the prayer consumed his six-year-old-mind, but it did…”

Okay, cool, Hannibal Lecter’s sister was killed when he was only six—super fucked up. Explains a lot.

Now we jump forward. I’ve just started reading Hannibal rising, a prequel to the first three books, explaining Hannibal’s. In one of the very first chapters, Hannibal Lecter, EIGHT now, is playing with his sister that is still alive. Not only that, they’re cabin has not been taken over by nazi’s even, as described in the previous book.

I know it’s a small point but it’s driving me insane. Thomas Harris, YOU created the character and story, please stick to the ages you set lol.

Anyway, that’s all. Thanks for reading my rant.

I'm on season 2 episode 7 and I'd like to say F&ck Alana 😂!! The betrayal of Will deviated me. 😭

I always wondered why Harris didn’t write any more books. To me (personal opinion) Red Dragon feels like it was meant to be about Will Graham, but Hannibal ended up being the better character so he ran with that. Even if it was planned out Hannibal was to be the star of his series, Harris has so many other characters he could have run series on - Graham, Starling, etc. I just don’t understand why such an amazing author would stop with four books 😭

• I know he has Cari Mora but it’s not of the series and I got the impression that one didn’t do well. I have not read it.

YALL GET UP THEY PUT RED DRAGON ON NETFLIX !!! I know a lot of people don’t like red dragon but I really do. Especially after the let down of Hannibal. Do excited it’s finally on streaming

There’s a great phrase or quote From Thomas, observing/concluding about one of his malicious characters. How he defaults to mistrusting other people because he knows the deceit of which he is capable. It’s a fantastic expression of how the truth lies within the eye of the beholder. And how our own character can shape our observations.

It might have been about Lounds, from Red Dragon, Or maybe the inspector from Hannibal. It’s definitely one of the “middle” bad guys and not a big bad.

Been googling unsuccessfully. Thanks for any help.

If you had to give me 1 concrete watch order what would it be? Don't say ifs and buts just give it to me straight. Oh and please just list the names of the movies/show and don't go in depth on them. (I'm talking about both the show and the movies)

I'm rereading Hannibal rising and I’ve noticed that Hannibal’s polydactyly is never mentioned you know why?

I've been rewatching a lot of the best acting performances of all time (Brando, De Niro & Pacino as Vito & Michael Corleone, De Niro in Taxi Driver, DDL in There will be Blood, Robert Duvall/ Jack Nicholson/ Dennis Hopper and more -

& having just finished 3 seasons of Mads as Hannibal - I think he's as good, if not better than any of these in that role.

What a masterful performance - and he maintained it for 3 seasons!

I think it's up there with any of the greatest acting performances of all time.

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