Lecter's sexuality?
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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.
And hello..the erotic undertone in Sotl.sais it all. -
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.
I don't know what the books says (haven't read it yet). But in the movies, he's clearly heterosexual. -
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.
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radrobd — 10 years ago(October 29, 2015 08:31 PM)
In the movie, they establish that Lecter is straight. When Claire first went to visit Lecter, Dr. Chilton says that the FBI purposefully sent her because she's Lecter's type and he hasn't seen a woman in 8 years.
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CyberpunkCentral — 10 years ago(October 30, 2015 10:31 AM)
In the TV series Hannibal, he is a pansexual.
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DylansFearFiles — 9 years ago(June 07, 2016 09:55 PM)
Hannibal is likely heterosexual in the books and movies, but this is never explicitly stated. In the films and books, we only see him sexually attracted to or involved with women (namely
Lady Murasaki
in
Hannibal Rising
and
Clarice Starling
in
The Silence of the Lambs
and
Hannibal
). Paul Krendler theorizes that Hannibal is homosexual in
Hannibal
, though this is only because of his refined and artistic tastes. In the novel
Hannibal
, Clarice interviews a woman who was romantically linked to Hannibal. At the end of the novel
Hannibal
, Hannibal and
Clarice
become lovers. He also kisses
Clarice
in the film version of
Hannibal
, but she doesn't return it. He pretends to be gay in order to attack Mason Verger.
According to Bryan Fuller, in the TV series
Hannibal
he is "omnisexual". In Season 2, we see him in a sexual relationship with his
student and colleague Alana Bloom
. In Season 3 while in
Florence
, he and his
psychiatrist Bedelia du Maurier
are eating dinner with an acquaintance of Hannibal's named Anthony Dimmond, who wonders if they're planning on having a threesome, Hannibal is clearly open to the idea.
Bedelia
and Hannibal are seen in clearly sensual or sexual situations while in
Florence
, and they are pretending to be husband and wife. When
Jack Crawford
and
Will Graham
figure out Hannibal is
in Florence
, Hannibal and
Bedelia
kiss. I don't believe they were truly in love though either, they were just using each other.
Will Graham
asks if Hannibal is in love with him, and Bedelia responds, "Could he daily feel a stab of hunger for you and find nourishment at the very sight of you? Yes. But do you ache for him?" This doesn't necessarily mean that Hannibal is sexually attracted to
Will
. I don't believe their relationship is sexual or romantic in the traditional sense, but it's certainly possible.
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PeachMelba — 9 years ago(August 23, 2016 07:14 PM)
I never really picked up in the film that Lector was gay.
If it suited him, he would psychologically toy with a gay guy Heck He psychologically toyed with everyone, depending on the time of day and how "bored" he was. I think that Lector only murdered people he was contemptuous of, which was pretty much everyone he came into contact with. Except for Clarice of course. Oh, and I don't think he would have touched those innocent tourists, as he had his sights set on his "old friend".