Lecter was known publicly as a renowned psychiatrist….
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fiatlux-1 — 10 years ago(February 20, 2016 03:31 PM)
.so that certainly would imply that he helped some of his patients (rather than eating them all lol).
I cannot picture him being kind & helpful to anyone though, can you?
I'd say this cloud is Cumulo Nimbus.
Didn't he discover America?
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jnericsonx — 10 years ago(February 28, 2016 01:03 PM)
Eh, watch Mads portrayal on the TV show. Maybe not kind, but logical and clinical, which can help too, I suppose. Hannibal is good at getting directly to the issue, whether with his mind, or a knife, depending on what he's doing.
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Edward_de_Vere — 10 years ago(March 03, 2016 11:26 AM)
Lecter could be kind and thoughtful if he had some level of respect for a person. He goes from taunting Clarice to being quite helpful and even warm with her once he realized that she's worth talking to. In fact, Demme told Hopkins that the reason he was considered for the part was because of his performance as the kind Dr. Treaves in
The Elephant Man
, implying that he did want to see the better side of Lecter's nature in some scenes.
As to the patients who he didn't find interesting or worthy, Lecter was probably practical-minded and professional enough not to torment them, at least the ones that he didn't intend on killing. -
Hopealways — 9 years ago(July 04, 2016 03:20 AM)
I Agree with that totally, I can imagine his voice and his mannerisms really relaxing you and drawing you in so you feel totally comfortable with him treating you ,
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pistrix — 9 years ago(October 20, 2016 03:52 PM)
Lecter likes respect. He can shut off his psycho side to be a functional human on the personal side. Sociopaths are very good with that. The BTK killer was notorious for that.
Lecter was very respectful to Barney and Clarice because they showed him respect.
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alanaronald — 9 years ago(October 23, 2016 10:20 PM)
Absolutely, re: respect. But I don't think he so much turns off his psycho side. When he treated patients, it seems it would have been a) a not terribly boring way of making $ b)a n intellectual challenge for himself, and c) a great way to "hide in plain sight."
Often those with inner conflicts & traumatic experience will go into psychiatry to better understand themselves.
As far as the politesse, it is quite clear that Lechter thinks of himself as a refined,superior, cultivated, civilized person. He appreciates politeness and finds the regular rough and tumble "distasteful" vulgarity if you'll forgive the pun. -
rmoriarty97 — 9 years ago(January 24, 2017 07:18 PM)
Psychiatrists aren't supposed to be kind and helpful - that's for psychologists and counsellors. They are clinicians. Psychiatry is actually quite a dry profession, conditions of the mind are viewed as you would a condition of the body and are treated as such.
Granted, even a physician finds a good bedside manner to be helpful in plying his trade so this would apply equally if not more so to a doctor of the mind