Wsler, I have it on DVD and I’ve just gone through the scene of Lecter feeding “something” (we are given to assume it was Krendler’s brain) to a small child on the plane. It is at the very end of the movie, as he is leaving the US.
And as Carnivorousplant correctly states, Harris helped with the ending, two of which were shot, and you can view the other one on the DVD.
I’m right there with you, Carnivorousplant, Dr. L was in a roomful of knives etc, he should have been able to find something to pick the handcuffs with.
From Harris’ description of preparing brains, I wouldn’t think that they would keep in Tupperware ™.
By a similair arguement, I wouldn’t think that Lecter would eat anything out of Tupperware™. Have you ever seen garlic butter travel well?
Perhaps he makes exceptions for special people.
The book was better. The movie with it’s time restraint at the ending due to the soon to come arrival of the police really put a sense of despiration or hurry into it. The book ended much better.
I can’t believe you folks! You actually LIKED the ending to the book better? I thought it was absolutely awful. I can accept the fact that somebody might be lonely and broken enough to be attracted to Lecter’s genius and succumb to his twisted world view. But I can’t accept that CLARICE would ever do this. It flies in the face of everything we learned about her character in SOTL. Wanting revenge against Krendler is one thing, but joining up with a man who viciously murdered innocent people (remember all the cops he killed escaping in SOTL?) is just NOT something she would ever do.
I don’t know what Harris was smoking when he wrote Hannibal, because it read as if it was taking place in an entirely different universe than SOTL. The incredible sense of realism & believability was lost, replaced by an over-the-top, garish self-parody. The ending just served to make an already bad book awful by utterly ruining one of the best female protagonists ever.
Winston Bongo, you’re totally on the ball. I loved SotL mainly for the creation of such a strong female character in Clarice. But in Hannibal, she succumbs to the man she’s been fighting all along and gives up all her principles. As ridiculous as it sounds to say in a work of fiction, it really hurt me to see such a heroine litararily* raped.
I don’t know. I’ve read the the books, several times. I enjoy them.
The mind of Hannibal Lecter is fascinating. He’s brilliant, and attractive, urbane and polite, and knows which wine goes with what.
He has come to view the majority of people as beneath his (as he should) and as part of his gourmet sense, mayhaps he knows something the rest of us don’t…
He has a greatly refined sense of justice, and a level of knowledge that is just astounding.
Much of this also jibes with Starling. I see no reason why a woman wouldn’t take up with him, especially if he loved her first. He helped her though some rather severe mental issues she had been supressing.
Hell, if I were gay, I’d want to shack up with him.
Lecter tells Clarice than when she hears the tone produced by the crossbow string she will awaken. (I don’t have the book here, I can’t give an exact quote.)
My idea is that should he tire of her, he will kill her with the crossbow and she will realize what has happened to her just before she dies.
Have you read the other books, Tristan? He is cool, but he is one evil mean murdering son of a bitch.
Addendum. His wealth comes from patients that he got to will their stuff to him. Harris doesn’t say if they died of natural causes or not.
Let us not forget that he tries to kill the protagonist of Red Dragon (Manhunter) Will Graham who is also cool.
And as for being a torturing freak, well, he may be a freak, I suppose, but the only person he tortures is the freak he made feed his face to the dogs.
And, IMHO, the man deserved it. Too bad Hannibal didn’t finish him off.
Note: As for kuru, well, I’m willing to bet not a lot of that found here in the States. And, Lecter, being a doctor, would know about the disease and could take proper steps to avoid it.
You only get sick from eating sick people. If you eat the healthy, you would not get sick. Physically sick, anyways.
Ah, lessee, there is the guy he shot with arrows in his garage like “the wound man” which is how Will Graham caught him (Red Dragon); there is the patient whose head he left in the car in a storage facility (SOL) and the Italian policeman (Hannibal); why did he shoot the guy through the head with the crossbow in Hannibal?
He communicated with the Tooth Fairy about how to kill Graham; that’s all I can think of off the cuff. He’s a monster, dude. A Bad Guy.
The Head, well, there is no evidence of torture, AFAIK. Having ones head removed does not necessarily mean it happened in a torturous way.
Honestly, it’s been a while since I read Red Dragon, so I’ll re-read tomorrow and get back to you on the “wound man” thing.
And he shot the guy through the head because he was a lout, and a looser. Also, I think that it may have been a bit of a challenge, the man being a hunter and all.
As for how to kill graham, well, he did put him behind bars, and thereby subject him to prison food for the durration…
In all seriousness, I know that Hannibal is supposed to be a “bad guy”, but I can identify with him in quite a few ways. His eating habits are a bit extreme, but wouldn’t it be nice to be allowed to kill the oaf driving while talking on his cel phone, or the annoying guy in the theater who shouts at the screen the whole time?
I think there’s a little bit of Lecter in all of us.l
Well, yeah, but then you have SDMB posters, and some tasty, er, sorry, testy moderator will think we’re serious and we will get banned or sock-puppeted or whatever they do, and what are fava beans, anyway? What kind of wine goes with moderator?
Am I the only one who doesn’t think the Hannibal character is a “cool guy”?
Not so much so in the first two books, or maybe I just didn’t notice it when I read them, but Hannibal is incredibly pretentious- and fascistic about it too. Harris, the author tries to make the victims unsympathetic, but it is clear that Hannibal considers their biggest crime being “proles”.
Tristan, I’m with you up to a point; Harris did give excuses for the way Lexcter behaves, and make it seem as though he was doing society a favour by getting rid of these sickos. In SotL, I Lecter was sympathetic to me until he the incident when he escaped from the cage. Not only did he kill the Guards in the most horrible of ways, but he left one alive and horribly disfigured. And the policeman in Italy hadn’t done anything to ‘deserve’ being murdered.
