Would you refresh my memory on that?
Thanks!
Lecter used coded messages to give Dolarhyde Graham’s address.
Yep.
Wasn’t this just a case of the Fonzie Syndrome? Fonzie’s character was supposed to be minor on Happy Days, proved a popular “bad boy” and darn near took over the show.
Lecter’s supporting-role-character jumped off the page in Red Dragon, esp vs. the actual killer who didn’t get featured with similar dialogue. Apparently Thomas Harris chose to respond to user feedback, got it right when he featured Hannibal in Silence, but then went way too far beyond that. But no doubt got paid well.
I think Hannibal just got more and more featured as Harris, IMHO, sold out more and more in order to look to maximize his deal and income.
I quit reading after the novel Hannibal and quit watching after the movie Red Dragon. I enjoyed the character more when he was a unique creature of evil and defied explanation. The more more backstory and motivation Harris gave Lecter, the “smaller” he made the character. Harris had a cash cow, though, and I can’t blame him for milking it.
I’ve heard that Mads Mikkelsen’s take on the character is different from how Hopkins portrayed him. I’ve never been curious enough to actually watch an episode of the show, though.
Oh yes, thanks. 
It diverges from the plots of the novels.
No, HANNIBAL actually gives us some of HL’s back story, which is fleshed out more in HANNIBAL RISING.
I read the book version of Hannibal, and was so disappointed that I’ve never had the slightest inclination to watch the movie.
My interpretation is that the book was basically torture porn (not unlike a Saw movie, tho not nearly as well written). It was a way to make a few more bucks off the fans, and to hell with messages or happy endings or anything like that.
I didn’t enjoy the films as much as the books. I don’t believe that Thomas Harris was out to make a few more bucks from the fans. The films altered things enough to end any more if the novels go past Hannibal.
And the justice guy had had his brain eaten was an asshole!
The nurse Lecter mutilated in the OR, what did she do wrong?
Those cops who were guarding him- what was their criminal offense?
It’s been years since I read any of the books, so I may well be misremembering this. It seems to me that I read in one of the later books that she had sneaked friends into the mental hospital to gawk at him.
I don’t understand your point. Lecter is a bad guy.
《When did Hannibal Lecter become someone the audience cheers for?》
Not when, but why?
There is an impression post-Hannibal of Lecter’s victims in some way “deserving” their fate. It grew out of the “he prefers to eat the rude” statement from Barney, I think.
I think that Thomas Harris had an epithany of some sort and began writing Lecter as protagonist. I would say between Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal.
It may have been something as simple as the above example of Penrod’s detective story, where the good and the bad guy change roles.
There is obviously a change, as you describe Barney’s comment.
I’ve read SILENCE within the last year, and DRAGON within the last three, and you’re wrong. She hadn’t done shit to the bad doctor (not that sneaking gawkers would have justified him EATING PART OF HER). Her only offense was forgetting for a moment that he was a [del]sick[/Del] evil sumbitch.
I am utterly mystified by person who think Letter cool.
Perhaps one should say, “I believe that you are mistaken”.
It sounds so much more polite, and the Doctor would appreciate it.
Weasel my words, suitable only for Welshmen and Smurfs.
Weasels are polite?
Who knew?
Is something caught sideways in your rectum? You are being rather more contentious than the subject matter here warrants. Why don’t you go re-read Hannibal and see if it wasn’t there?