In “The Silence of the Lambs”, they won’t let Lecter have a paper clip in his cell, but he never ever seems to need a shave. Eh?
I’m probably paying too much attention to a book/movie, but I was wondering if anyone else has ever thought about this. (I also have a five-o’clock shadow by 10 AM, ala Nixon, which may explain why I worry about something this trivial).
Author Thomas Harris is awfully meticulous – it seems he’d account for this.
Ideas?
F. U. Shakespeare
Perhaps he uses “Neet”.
By the way, this sort of question rightly belongs in the Cafe Society forum. Just so you know for next time.
I imagine every morning (While FBI agents, and Prison Administrators are still asleep) Barney comes in, with all the usual restraint equipment, and shaves Dr. Lecter with a wind up mechanical shaver, which never leaves his hand. That Barney is a very meticulous guy. And, the most important part, Dr. Lecter wants to be clean-shaven, and respects Barney’s consideration and professionalism, so he cooperates.
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” ~ Aristotle ~
Off to Cafe Society.
DrMatrix - General Questions Moderator
Don’t have the text at hand, but I believe in the novel Silence of the Lambs Harris refers to Lecter’s using an electric razor.
I’ve got a better question- though it may only refer to the movie (I seem to recall that Hannibal Lecter altered his appearance after escaping, in Harris’ books):
In the movie version of “Hannibal,” why is Lecter so meticulous about not leaving any fingerprints behind anywhere, when he doesn’t mind showing his famous, undisguised face in front of hundreds of people in broad daylight?
I mean, why did the detective need to go through all the trouble of getting Lecter’s fingerprints, when all he had to do was snap a picture of him? In the movie, at least, Lecter looked exactly the same as he had in SOTL… and more importantly, exactly like the guy in the FBI’s most wanted list!
True, astorian. I never even thought of that. But it’s probably one of those things you need to swallow…you know, implausibility and such.
I thought I’d respond because when I was reading The Silence of the Lambs, I always imagined Lecter with a beard for some reason. Sort of like a demented Santa Claus. Or maybe it was because he was a psychologist (psychiatrist?) and I associated him with Freud. Either way, that was how my sick sick mind functioned.
Well, oops. I replied with the intent of telling you about him altering his appearance, but you’ve already got it.
Well, in case you were wondering, from Chapter 61 of Silence of the Lambs
Nope. Lecter Shave.
Heres a treat…
[sub] wait for it…[/sub]
That can’t be beat…
[sub]keep waiting[/sub]
The suspense is killing me
Tastes even better…
[sub] sorry, work pc crashed… this may not be as good as I thought[/sub]
Than human meat!
*lecter shave! *
[sub] ok, so it wasn’t that great. w/apologies to fenris[/sub]
Wow, Tristan, that was possibly the most blatant attempt to pad a post count that I have ever seen. And human meat tastes like pork.
Hehe. Believe me, robert, you obviously haven’t been here long. You haven’t witnessed the wonder that is handy.
Does anybody actually remember that Burmashave campaign? Or have we all just picked it up through osmosis?
Dare I ask? How do you know?
Well, it’s the other other white meat, and also referred to as “long pig” …
Cannibals in the South Seas say so.
Then there was the Donner Party, and those Soccer guys in the Andes.