Lecter's sexuality?
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sidneyc714 — 11 years ago(January 11, 2015 07:45 AM)
I still believe more gay then bi. The person whose liver he ate with fava beans and chianti was possibly his lover. Also, I did not take his relationship with Starling was at all sexual. It was more parental, in my opinion. Anthony Hopkins was only in the movie for 16 minutes. It would be easy to watch the film and skip to his scenes. I have Googled whether or not Lecter was gay and can not find anything. Maybe it is all up to interpretation. So, that probably includes the relationship with Starling.
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fiatlux-1 — 11 years ago(January 14, 2015 09:31 PM)
The person whose liver he ate with fava beans and chianti was possibly his lover.
The person whose liver he ate was a census taker who came to his door. Lecter states this quite clearly when he first meets Clarice.
I never got the impression Lecter was gay. I always figured he slept with women, even was charming with them. He seemed like he could turn his psychosis on & off when the mood suited him, like many serial killers.
I'd say this cloud is Cumulo Nimbus.
Didn't he discover America?
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sidneyc714 — 11 years ago(January 15, 2015 03:30 PM)
So funny you replied to this. After I typed it, I watched parts of the movie on Netflix and heard him say exactly what you typed. Not to disagree with you - as I do not know - but I really always thought he was gay. Perhaps it was from the book. At the same time, I may be getting it confused with Buffalo Bill. I know that the body that Clarice found in the storage garage was that of Miss Moffet.a lover of Buffalo Bill. Also, the fact that I looked up the possibility of Lecter being gay on the Internet and the fact that it produced no real evidence.
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selenedm999 — 10 years ago(December 24, 2015 12:10 AM)
I never read the book but why would she run away with a murderer/psychopath and throw away her career? Sounds uncharacteristic of her.>>
One of the things they missed in the film version of Hannibal is the ongoing theme of post-hypnotic suggestion. Also drugs with Mason Vergerthat's how Hannibal got him to cut off his own face.
When Hannibal and Clarice meet up again in Hannibal, Clarice's career is failing because she shot someone she shouldn't have. Then the events of the book happen.
And then at the end, he hypnotizes her. The sound of the crossbow shooting will be her signal to "wake up," but she stays with him after that. It's left open-ended if she goes with him by choice or if she's really hypnotized, but the post-hypnotic suggestion is definitely there. I guess the reason it's open-ended is that not everyone can be influenced by hypnosis, and not everyone takes hypnosis as a real thing. -
WeAintFoundShin — 11 years ago(January 27, 2015 05:04 PM)
Wikipedia:
Hannibal[edit]In the third novel, 1999's Hannibal, Lecter lives in a palazzo in Florence, Italy, and works as a museum curator under the alias "Dr. Fell". The novel reveals that one of Lecter's victims survived: Mason Verger, a wealthy, sadistic pedophile whom Lecter had drugged and mutilated during a therapy session. Verger offers a huge reward for anyone who apprehends Lecter, whom he intends to feed to feral pigs specially bred for the purpose. Verger enlists the help of Rinaldo Pazzi, a disgraced Italian police inspector, and Paul Krendler, a corrupt Justice Department official and Starling's boss. Lecter kills Pazzi and returns to the United States to escape Verger's Sardinian henchmen, only to be captured. Starling follows them, intent on apprehending Lecter personally, but is instead also taken captive. After escaping the trap, Lecter convinces Verger's sister Margot to kill her brother as revenge for the years of sexual abuse she suffered at his hands, and leaves a voice mail message taking responsibility for the crime. He then rescues the wounded Starling and takes her to his rented lake house to treat her. During her time there he keeps her sedated, attempting to transform her into his dead sister Mischa through a regimen of classical conditioning and mind-altering drugs. One day, he invites her to a formal dinner where the guest and first course is Krendler. She joins him in eating the still-living Krendler's brain, but refuses to allow Lecter to turn her into Mischa; she says that Mischa can instead live within him. She then offers Lecter her breast, and they become lovers. Three years later, Lecter's former guard, Barney Matthews, sees the pair together in Argentina, and flees the country, fearing for his life.
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Woodgirl-661 — 11 years ago(January 29, 2015 01:49 PM)
Hannibal Lecter is 100% heterosexual. It is pointed out in the books.and ofc especially in the third, Hannibal.
It is only the homosexual Bryan Fuller, the creator of the Hannibal tv series, that is playing around with the issue of Lecter being bi/gay. I guess it is just that Fuller himself possebly have a huge fanfic-crush on the Doctor.
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redban02 — 11 years ago(March 18, 2015 09:54 PM)
He falls in love with Clarice in 2002's
Hannibal
. There's a particular scene where he runs his hand through her hair when he's on a merry-go-round and
he cuts his arm off to avoid hurting her.
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Animated — 3 years ago(June 11, 2022 10:20 AM)
He falls in love with Clarice in 2002's Hannibal. There's a particular scene where he runs his hand through her hair when he's on a merry-go-round
Nobody has mentioned the scene in SoTL where she runs back to his cage to grab the case file off him, and he gently strokes her hand for a moment. -
davcalla777 — 10 years ago(April 21, 2015 12:32 PM)
Actually in the second installment in the series, Hannibal, in the book, after Clarice is disgraced by her colleagues in the FBI, her and Hannibal run off together and the book actually explains in detail the sexual relations they share, they live happily ever after, no I don't believe Hannibal was a baloney smoker
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angelexposed — 10 years ago(June 18, 2015 07:49 PM)
I think some of the bisexuality or homosexuality assumptions came from Hannibal (of am I thinking of the wrong movie?) when he seduced Mason Verger who was homosexual. I see Hannibal as heterosexual, and he does have romantic interest in clarice.
We've become a race of peeping toms.