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Hannibal Lecter

(Hanibalas Lekteris) is an epic character in the tetralogy of the American writer Thomas Harris. The most iconic incarnation of the doctor was Anthony Hopkins, although Brian Cox tried to pull off this role before him. Hopkins' Lecter is voted #1 villain by the American Film Institute.

short biography

Hannibal was born in Lithuania. At the age of 10, when the Nazis were being expelled from the Soviet Union with all their might, Hannibal with his sister Mika[1], his parents and servants, without any restrictions, moved from their castle to a forest house, where they lived quietly for some time until they were found by a Russian military detachment. They only asked for water from the well. At this very time, a German attack aircraft noticed a Russian tank. Only Hannibal and his sister survived. A little later, the forest brothers came and stayed in the house with the children. Due to the lack of food, the looters hunted Mika. Further events can be found out by reading/watching the tetralogy, but in short: the doctor first began his crusade against those who devoured his sister, then he developed a taste for it and began to eat in a sophisticated and aesthetic way all sorts of assholes that came his way. After the 9th victim (out of the proven ones, only the doctor himself knows how many of them there actually were), Lecter was noticed, tied up and put behind glass (they were forced to put him behind bars, in case he gets someone). After sitting there for eight years, Hannibal became imbued with love for his neighbor even more than before, managing to troll those around him and add to the list of indirect frags right from there.

At this time, they didn’t want to give one cadet at the FBI Academy a test without going to a mental hospital for potatoes...

Hannibal and the lulz

The Good Doctor loves lulz and extracts them all the time. Due to the Doctor's rather specific sense of humor, the target of the joke does not always understand its essence due to natural stupidity or due to the fact that some organ was removed from him along with the Lulz. Being a capable troll, Hannibal can materialize lulz in any situation. Examples include:

• In an episode of Red Dragon, the Doctor fed the management of the Baltimore Philharmonic a stew from their untalented flautist.
• While imprisoned in a high-security cell, the Doctor managed to find out the home address of investigator Graham and transfer it to another serial killer, Toothy Pariah[2]. The latter gave non-illusory pussy to the investigator.
• In the episode of the book "The Silence of the Lambs" the Doctor participated in the search for another serial killer named Buffalo Bill[3]. Hannibal stated that his real name is Billy Rubin. In fact, it turned out that “Bili Rubin” is the bile pigment bilirubin, which gives shit its characteristic color. The piquancy of the situation was that Dr. Chilton, the head of the Baltimore Psychiatric Hospital, had a similar hair color[4]. And also that the doctor placed the piece of paper on which Chilton’s last name was written (C33H36ILTO6N4, where C33H36O6N4 is the chemical formula of bilirubin) where it belongs—in the toilet. And the “candy” with which he lured the FBI was not so sweet and smelled bad.
• The entire episode of “The Silence of the Lambs” The Doctor subtly teased the still inexperienced intern Clarice Starling about her cheap shoes, and in the next episode, the already established special agent Starling, at the end of the chase, believing that she had overtaken him, SUDDENLY discovered a pair of Gucci shoes addressed to her by you know who .
• Hannibal hanged the chief investigator of Florence, Rinaldo Pazzi, after emptying his entrails, under the window of the Palazzo Vecchio. The humor is that the investigator's ancestor, Francesco Pazzi (who in the game "Assassin's Creed 2", which was released, note, very importantly, in November 2009, is one of the main enemies of the main character), was hanged under the same window for 500 years back. In both cases, the killing occurred for the same reason - greed - and symbolically reproduced the death of Judas, about which the Doctor had recently lectured at the University of Florence.
• The doctor made from the body of a poacher who killed a fawn a visual illustration of all types of wounds, just like in a textbook.
• In the film, Lecter, having cut out the right half of the dorsolateral region of the prefrontal cortex of the brain for Paul Krendler of the Department of Justice - according to the doctor, “the abode of good manners” - fried it with parsley, capers and onions, and gave a piece to the ex-owner to try. In the original, Clarice gradually, upon observing the corresponding changes in Krendler’s behavior, yums almost the entire frontal lobe of the cortex. The patient was a sarcastic brute, a cunning, corrupt liar who jeopardized Clarice's career.

The Rise of Thomas Harris: From Black Sunday to Red Dragon

Writer Thomas Harris is a man of mystery. Little is known about his past: he was a crime reporter, he decided to change his profession in 1972, after the terrorist attack at the Munich Olympics, when Palestinians from the Black September group took 11 Israeli athletes hostage; both the prisoners and more than half of the militants died after the unsuccessful police operation. Harris took this story as a basis, but transferred it to American soil - this is how his debut novel Black Sunday (1975) was born, a story about terrorists who want to blow up an airship over a stadium during the Super Bowl. Two years later, John Frankenheimer directed a film adaptation (a typical 1970s political thriller a la “The Day of the Jackal”), which increased the circulation of the original source. Since then, Harris devoted himself entirely to literature and became a recluse who practically never gave interviews.

"Black Sunday"

Few people remember about “Black Sunday” today. In 1981, Harris released his second novel, Red Dragon, which determined his place of honor in genre literature and pop culture. "Dragon" is a thick mixture of vulgar detective story and dark true crime (the writer examined the work of FBI agents from the famous department of behavioral psychology), which hit the zeitgeist. In the late 1970s, American media was captivated by stories about maniacs who became national stars. A serial killer known as the Bloody Dragon, a bodybuilder with a harelip and an obsession with the William Blake painting of the same name, slaughters entire families while going on a full-moon hunt (based on Dennis Rader). Only former FBI profiler Will Graham can stop the Dragon, who has to return to the job that nearly drove him insane. Graham's consultant becomes a prisoner of a psychiatric clinic for criminals, Hannibal Lecter, an esthete and cannibal who once almost killed Graham.

There wasn't much Lecter in the novel, but he was the most impressive character. A mixture of Professor Moriarty and a monster with supernatural abilities, which, based on the smell of the interlocutor, can create almost a complete psychological profile.

Hannibal and religion

He often makes fun of his patients with the fact that the roof of one church collapsed at the very moment when believers were praying in it. To this he receives the usual phimosis response in the style of “It’s all his will.” Alsoo, the name Hannibal is translated from racial pagan Phoenician as the favorite of Baal, which, as it were, symbolizes.

Lightly trolls Clarice when she saves him from the pigs in Mason's barn:

Actually, this is an allusion to Clarissa's childhood, which she spent in a Lutheran orphanage.

Hannibal and work

By training, Lecter is a psychiatrist, and an outstanding one at that (he even has some power over animals), and by profession he is a forensic expert, well, until he was beaten for his strange tastes. He started working in France and finished in the USA.

During the American period, he participated in investigations of his own dinners, the products from which the police periodically found in the forest. Doesn't remind you of anything? Operation Forest Belt.

And then he became a librarian, but in Italy, which, by the way, perhaps refers us to an equally funny, but more endearing figure - Casanova.

Quotes

• As your mother will tell you, and as mine told me, there is nothing more fun than trying new things.
• Well, how will it be? With guts or without guts? (Guts out or in...?)
• Maybe they would give you a medal? And you hung it on the wall so that it would remind you of your courage and integrity. To see this, just look in the mirror.
• Nothing happened to me. I happened.
• What a scary and incomprehensible world we live in. Neither cruelty nor wisdom.
• Quid pro quo, Clarice.
• I don't like rude people.
• A census agent once tried to interview me. I ate his liver with green peas and washed it down with excellent Chianti.
• I must admit, I am seriously considering eating... your wife.
• Rudeness is like an epidemic.
• Sometimes you think that everything is fine, but someone is already digging your grave.
• I'd love to chat with you more, Clarice, but I have an old friend for lunch today...
• In my free time, I prefer to eat roughies. On free grazing.
• People will think we're having an affair...

The story of the real Hannibal Lecter

When I kill, I think about my parents.
If I had killed my parents in 1970, none of these people would have had to die. If I had killed them, I would be free and I would not care about anything in the world. During But at the same time, during these same examinations, the criminal stated that some inner voices were calling on him to kill his parents, who had caused the boy so many unpleasant moments in his life. According to the future cannibal, his parents raped him as a child, and this was the reason for the disruption in his consciousness, that is, the cause of psychological trauma. Later, he made a statement to law enforcement agencies and medical workers that if he had eliminated his parents earlier, then perhaps subsequent victims and crimes would not have happened...

Robert John Maudsley was born in the summer of 1953 in the UK, more precisely, in the city of Liverpool. The family of the future criminal was huge; besides Robert, there were eleven more children. Maudsley spent his childhood in his hometown in the Crosby area. However, he was not brought up in a family, but in the Nazareth House orphanage. This institution was run by nuns. Robert's family was not distinguished by any special manifestation of love for their offspring, but, on the contrary, the children constantly received bad things from their parents, or rather from their father. After some time, parents who used physical violence against children were deprived of parental rights, and the children were distributed by the guardianship authority to orphanages and adoptive parents. Robert Maudsley began to wander between foster parents and psychiatric hospitals. As Maudsley later talked about his father, he wanted to see him only to beat him.

“All I remember from childhood is beatings. Once I was locked in a room for six months and my father came only to beat me. This happened four to six times a day. He beat me with sticks or rods. He once broke a 22-caliber rifle on my back."

At the end of the sixties, Maudsley became a drug addict, first periodically, and then constantly began to use hard drugs. At that time, the teenager had not even reached adulthood. In order to buy drugs for something, Maudsley began to sell his body to men, that is, he began to engage in prostitution. At first, the money raised was enough for drugs, but each time the teenager became more and more depressed. In the end, Robert Maudsley tried to commit suicide, but this did not end with the desired result. After several similar attempts, he decided to act differently, namely, seek psychiatric help.

People I knew spoke positively about Robert Maudsley; everyone considered him a very calm and balanced person. Moreover, people subsequently spoke of him as a well-mannered and intelligent gentleman. He did not have the qualities and appearance that psychos and maniacs usually have. Robert Maudsley looked completely different

Maudsley committed his first murder in 1974. It so happened that an ordinary worker, who had intimate affairs with Robert, showed the latter photographs that showed children. These children were victims of rape. Perhaps remembering the past, Robert Maudsley became enraged, resulting in the worker being strangled by him.

After a short time, the criminal was detained by the police. Next, of course, was the trial. Maudsley was sentenced to prison. The term is life imprisonment. However, the offender was not granted any right to early release. However, Robert Maudsley did not end up in prison, but in a hospital for the mentally ill. He was taken under escort to the Broadmoor Asylum, which housed all mentally unstable criminals. There Maudsley initially received the nickname "Blue". The prisoners associated this nickname with the complexion of Maudsley’s victim.

He set a British record for the longest period of time spent in solitary confinement.
In 1977, murderer Robert, together with another mentally ill prisoner, captured another criminal serving his sentence. The latter was sentenced to prison for pedophilia. Maudsley and his partner took him hostage, locking him in a separate cell. There, both prisoners subjected their victim to numerous tortures and abuses. In the end, after both were tired, the hostage was killed. The guards who burst into the cell, who could not get into it for a long time, which is why the door had to be broken down, were literally dumbfounded and shocked by what they saw. There was a spoon in the pedophile's open skull, and part of the murdered man's brain disappeared. Guards and forensic experts searched the entire cell, but the missing brain was never found. Everyone decided that part of the human brain had been eaten by Robert Maudsley, a villain who after this incident began to be called “The Spoon.” Robert was convicted of this crime, again sentenced to prison and transferred to another prison. However, Maudsley wanted to return back, since he did not like the new Wakefield prison. The authorities did not consider it necessary to satisfy the demands of the imprisoned criminal.

Robert says he never ate anyone, he just smashed one victim's skull so badly it looked like part of his brain was missing

Two more prisoners at Wakefield Prison died at the hands of the cannibal Maudsley in 1978. One of these two was Salni Durwood. He was sentenced to prison for sexual offences. Robert Maudsley managed to lure Durwood into his cell, where, taking advantage of the opportunity, he attacked him. At first, the criminal tried to strangle his victim, but then, apparently changing his mind or deciding that he couldn’t cope, inflicted several stab wounds to his vital organs. Salni Durwood died almost immediately, and Maudsley then stuffed the dead man under his bunk so that he could not be seen. Having completed all these actions, Robert Maudsley continued to carry out his criminal intent. He began to call other prisoners to him for the purpose of murder, but no one responded to his calls, since they did not talk to him and were, to put it mildly, in hostile relations. Then Robert Maudsley, not despairing of carrying out his plan, decided to approach his victim himself. Having sneaked up on Bill Roberts unnoticed, Maudsley stabbed him. Not stopping there, Robert Maudsley began to strike his opponent with punches, and then completely crushed his skull against the wall. Then Robert Maudsley, the serial killer, as if nothing had happened, calmly went to the room of the security officer on duty, put a bloody knife in front of him with the words that the security guards would be missing a couple of prisoners at the evening roll call.

In 1983, after Maudsley’s listed crimes, the prison administration concluded that the psychopath was too dangerous for all prisoners. From a simple and ordinary cell, it was decided to transfer Maudsley to a special room from which he could neither escape nor harm anyone. Since such a special cell did not exist in the institution, the authorities decided to build and equip a new one. For this purpose, two ordinary cells located in the basement of the prison were connected. The maniac was placed in them. Just once a day, Robert Maudsley is allowed a walk in the open air, the duration of which is one hour. The “overall” size of the isolated cell in which the psychopathic killer is serving his sentence is 4.5 by 5.5 m. Since Maudsley was transferred to this cell, he has not once come into contact with any prisoner. The furniture in the room where the famous maniac is kept is made of pressed cardboard, and all other necessary items are firmly screwed either to the walls or to the floor of the chamber.

It was Robert John Maudsley who became the prototype for Hannibal Lecter from the feature film shot by Hollywood filmmakers called “The Silence of the Lambs.”

In 2000, he wrote a series of letters to The Times newspaper. Maudsley asked to be allowed classical music records, paper, to send him a budgie ( “ I promise I will love him, not eat him , ” he commented on his request) or cyanide - if all requests were denied to him. The request was granted - partially. The Maudsleys allowed classical music, and over the years they added a TV and even a games console. The prisoner's few interlocutors say that he has a “ genius level ” . Maudsley wrote a scientific work on music theory - but at the University of Manchester (he collaborates with Wakefield prison) there was no specialist who would agree to accept the work or oppose it.

In his letters, he also asked to soften his conditions of detention. He directly said that he was only dangerous to people who committed violence against women and children. “I am stagnating, becoming a vegetable and regressing,” Maudsley wrote. – It doesn’t matter to the security whether I’m crazy or bad. They don’t know the answer and they don’t care, just keep me in their sight.”

His brother Paul told The Guardian that he had asked for Robert's conditions to be relaxed: “But it's as if the prison authorities want to break him. All his problems began because he was locked up as a child, and he lives with this feeling again and again.”

He also likes to write poetry

Maudsley, now 67, has been in solitary confinement for more than four decades. He spends 23 hours a day alone in his cell, and for an hour he is taken out for a walk, accompanied by six guards . He has no right to release .

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Film adaptations

One of the most famous scenes from The Silence of the Lambs.
There were 6 film adaptations:

• “Manhunter” in 1986 - There is not enough Doctor Lecter in the film, and he is not yet played by Anthony Hopkins. The asylum looks like an ordinary maximum security prison, and the plot with the red dragon is almost completely cut out. But with the suspense, everything is just fine, and the thoughts of Agent Graham are shown perfectly, which, unfortunately, is not in the second film adaptation. Well, the name is ambiguous, which adds atmosphere.
• “The Silence of the Lambs” in 1991 - The film that made the subject popular. One of Hopkins' best roles. The escape scene of Dr. Lektor is a unique combination of epicness, mad skills and unrealistic IRL timing.
• "Hannibal" in 2001 - an older Hopkins is clearly unable to do what his character does on screen, but the chemistry between Clarice and Hannibal still works.
• “Red Dragon” in 2002 - The second film adaptation of the first book with scenery and very heavily made-up actors from The Silence of the Lambs in old roles. When following the book more closely, unfortunately, all the suspense was lost, Agent Graham’s empathy is shown as flashes of genius (with jump scares), and the handsome Ralph Fiennes is not particularly suitable for the role of a psycho who has a complex about the appearance. But the film has a scene of Hannibal's capture at the beginning and a direct lead-up to The Silence of the Lambs at the end.
• "Hannibal Rising" in 2007 - a prequel about Lecter's childhood in Nazi-occupied Latvia, adolescence in the LSSR and youth in France. It is shown how the subject became addicted to human flesh. Although in the film it is stated twice in plain text that the man in Hannibal died and only a monster remained, however, those who are hunted are such great scum that you can’t stop rooting for the student Lecter for a minute.
• “Hannibal” is a series released in 2013; the third (possibly the last) season was released in the summer of 2015. A sort of “Sherlock”, only “Hannibal”. Everything happens in our days, and from the story told by Harris there is only the cannibalism of the doctor and the names of the main characters. Will Graham's penchant for empathy in the series is exaggerated beyond belief. The actor chosen for this role, although suitable, looks more like an unfortunate indigo child rather than a professional. In general, no more canonical than Edward Norton, who clearly misses Tyler Durden. The role of Lecter went to the racial Dane Mads Mikkelsen, who plays very well, although stubborn oldfags still remember Hopkins (who resembles the canonical Harris Lecter a little more than nothing). The series is notable for the fact that it surpasses all the films combined in terms of the amount of savory guro, as well as for its frantic trolling of heterophags and the thickest hints about the strong male friendship of Hannibal Lecter and Will Graham.

It should be noted that the penultimate four film adaptations have been pretty decent in terms of adapting a book into a film. In this regard, “The Silence of the Lambs” especially distinguished itself, where there was practically no distortion, although many minor lines were cut off. In other cases, the plot is tolerably simplified in order to fit it into two hours of screen time. But in the last part of the Hannibal tetralogy, there is a strong distortion in the ending. Most likely it was caused by the fact that the average viewer would have been dissatisfied if Beaver had not won once again.

But in reality everything was like this. (spoiler:

After Hannibal and Clarissa finished their meal, they left together for Buenos Aires, where they lived happily ever after. Clarissa and Hannibal conducted a kind of joint mutual therapy, which cured them of complexes: Clarissa's - associated with her father, and Lecter's - with the death of his sister.
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Journey to Outland: Hannibal by Ridley Scott

“Hannibal”
It is unknown what the third book about Lecter could have turned out to be if Thomas Harris had not been put under pressure by the De Laurentiis family (Dino’s wife, Martha, joined the work). They can be understood: the box office of “The Silence of the Lambs,” in the success of which Dino did not believe, amounted to 272 million dollars with a budget of 19, the producer wanted to make up for lost time.

And Harris’s new novel came out as provocative as possible and became a bestseller. Critics were unhappy with the vulgar style, the radical turn in Clarissa's character and the shocking ending. In the novel “Hannibal,” the title character is free for the first time; he hides in Florence, posing as an art critic. Hannibal is being hunted by the disabled millionaire Mason Verger, who was mutilated by him many years ago, and who dreams of feeding the offender to pigs. Clarice transforms from a talented cadet into a failed agent: several years have passed since Lecter's escape, and her career growth has since slowed down, as sexist official Paul Krendler is plotting against her.

The main target of criticism was the disgusting scenes. We won’t describe the most nauseating ones, but we’ll tell you that at the end of the day Hannibal prepares the brains of her enemy Krendler for Clarice (and he remains conscious!), then they have dinner, have sex (Lecter licks drops of Chianti from Starling’s body), and later the happy the couple flees to Argentina. Compare this to the old-fashioned understatement of The Silence of the Lambs, where the detective and the maniac only touch fingers once.

Demme, Jodie Foster and Silence screenwriter Ted Talley were shocked and refused to take part in the film adaptation. Only Hopkins agreed on the condition that Julianne Moore would play Starling (he would later say that he was faint-hearted).

The great David Mamet drafted the script, and it was finalized by Steven Zaillian and Ridley Scott, who decided to direct the film. Scott, to the best of his ability, cleaned out all the worst things from the plot - in any case, he obtained permission from Harris to change the ending. He saved the audience from the incestuous line within the Verger family (it is in the novel) and from the bed scene with Hopkins, from the scenes of family happiness of Clarissa and Lecter.

The kiss between the detective and the maniac, as well as the same scene with eating the brains of the still living Krendler, remained. One can only imagine how much "Hannibal" influenced "Saw," "Hostel" and the other torture porn that took over screens by the end of the decade. Hannibal's box office gross ($351 million) beat the box office of The Silence of the Lambs, so the producers decided to continue.

Lecter in free creativity

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First film adaptation: Lecter in the Shadows

The literary material of "Dragon" seemed very promising to producer Dino de Laurentiis. He offered to film the dark detective story to Lynch (Dino had already worked with him on Blue Velvet and Dune), but he considered the material “too cruel and absolutely degenerate.” Then De Laurentiis hired Michael Mann as director. They decided to call the film “Manhunter” so as not to evoke associations with the crime drama “Year of the Dragon” by Michael Cimino (1985) or kung fu action films.

"Manhunter"

Mann and William Petersen, who was assigned to play Will Graham, talked a lot with real agents of the FBI's behavioral psychology department (in particular, with those who led the case of the maniac Richard Ramirez) in preparation for filming. Cinematographer Dante Spinotti emphasized the naturalism of the drama with aesthetics. He played with color tones and made extensive use of filters—with its skillful mise-en-scène, attention to architectural forms, and overall visual sophistication, Manhunter was reminiscent of Italian giallo films.

At the same time, the script did not include many episodes from the book: Mann threw out the entire perverse background of the maniac Francis Dolarhyde (Harris practically copied him from Robert Bloch’s “Psycho”), deleted the scene where he devours the original of Blake’s painting, and ignored details like the huge dragon tattoo on his back and his hypertrophied muscles. Lecter's infernal potential remained unnoticed. In the novel, the doctor languished in a gloomy basement, and in the film, Graham comes to a brightly lit back room, where the stern, but all too human Brian Cox sits with a characteristic Scottish accent (what else was a villain in a Hollywood movie before 9/11 supposed to be? European, of course). Lecter-Cox's scenes were shot in just three days, and he was completely lost in the over-the-top production. Mann's film was not a hit. Hannibal's time came only a few years later.

Also

Pathetic imitator. Against Jack the Ripper.

• It was well parodied in the movie "Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore".
• In the second Fallout there are already two references to this sweet personality: firstly, in San Francisco there is a quest with the extraction of a lost spleen, and the doctor who bought it out obviously watched the film, and secondly, at the Sierra military base a couple of centuries ago also a suspiciously similar citizen with the same name and preferences was found.
• In the 7th episode of the 6th season of The Simpsons, Bart was accused of stealing money from a church mug and at the next church service he appeared immobilized in the famous Lecter mask.
• Also, in the South Park episode (ep. 0703, Toilet Paper) the image of the subject (more precisely from The Silence of the Lambs) was played up by a local schoolboy who helps find the Head of Heroes
• Also, this Buffalo Bill of yours was parodied in Family Guy (s7e13(19:40-20:13)), and also by Jay in “Clerks 2” (to the same music).
• Also, there's a satisfying musical number called "Lotion" by The Greenskeepers, made up little more than entirely of Buffalo Bill lines.
• Also, the subject was parodied in "Loaded Weapon". And finally, Lecter’s characteristic gesture (“oh”? - ah yay yay yay yay!) and his catchphrase about “excellent Chianti” were used by Lloyd from “Dumb and Dumber.”
• Also, a parody of the subject is found in the film “The Silence of Ham”.
• Also, Lecter was parodied in Scary Movie 2.
• Alsoo, a character from the old film Con Air Garland Greene, is a very strong reference to Lecter. A gurney, a mask and characteristic speech and appearance are included.
• Also, at the moment there have been (already) 2 seasons of the very satisfying series “Hannibal” (and a third is being prepared for release, a total of 7 seasons have been announced), in which the famous gourmet was played by Mads Mikkelsen (the head guy from “Casino Royale”)
• At the opening ceremony of the Academy Awards (where Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster each received an Oscar), the ceremony's host, Billy Crystal, was wheeled onto the stage like Lecter in the film - strapped to a gurney and wearing a mask. Billy walked up to Hopkins and said, “I’m having a few members of the Academy for dinner tonight, would you like to join me?” “Anytime,” Hopkins joked (proof).
• Eminem, known for his manic alter ego, twice resorts to the image of Lecter in his work: the song Buffalo Bill is entirely dedicated to this, the narration is told from the perspective of Buffalo Bill himself, and also in the video for the song You Don't Know Eminem appears in the role of a particularly dangerous criminal , whose external image (mask, clothing, behavior) is copied from Lecter.
• Hugh Dancy was considered for the role of young Hannibal Lecter in the film Hannibal Rising, but the role was taken by the Frenchman Gaspard Ulliel. The first one ended up playing Detective Graham in the series about the great culinary psychiatrist.
• It is worth adding an interesting point that it was Hugh Dancy who suggested Mads Mikkelsen to Bryan Fuller for the role of Hannibal. Fuller may well have watched the film “The Green Butchers,” where Mikkelsen played the role of a butcher shop owner, selling chicken and pork sausages to old ladies.
• In the game "Prison", the boss Surgeon is copied from E. Hopkins and the "Hannibal" set is assembled from him

But in fact, it wasn’t all about the meat. (spoiler:

It was the marinade.
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Young Cannibal: Red Dragon and Hannibal Rising

"Red Dragon"
Thomas Harris concluded the story of Hannibal Lecter by sending him on his honeymoon with Clarice Starling. What to do? How to continue? The Laurentiis decided to make a new film adaptation of the first book, Red Dragon, closer to the original than the Michael Mann film, especially since everyone had already forgotten about that film. Ted Talley (“The Silence of the Lambs”) took up the script again, and Anthony Hopkins succumbed to his persuasion, returning to the role of Lecter, despite the 20-year age difference with the character. The eternal boy Edward Norton was appointed to play the role of special agent Graham, broken by life. The director was the faceless craftsman Brett Ratner. The result was more than just dismal. Critics complained of a feeling of déjà vu: the themes and techniques of past films were reused here, but without brilliance, imagination, or even irony.

By 2002, the Harris franchise had seemingly run its course. But Dino de Laurentiis had his own opinion. Before his eyes were examples of successful prequels - the Star Wars trilogy (episodes 1-3). The producer told Harris outright that he needed a story about a young Lecter, otherwise he would simply order it from someone else.

"Hannibal Rising"

This is how the novel appeared, and then its film adaptation - Hannibal Rising. Here Harris no longer restrained his imagination: he explained the doctor’s pathology by the fact that in childhood Hannibal saw the Nazis eat his sister Misha (this is almost a biography of Chikatilo, who claimed that his mother frightened him with stories about the horrors of the famine of the 1930s in Ukraine) . Thus, from Moriarty, Lecter, materialized on the screen in the body of the ever-grinning Gaspard Ulliel, turns into a kind of elusive avenger who goes hunting for war criminals (and immediately becomes involved in cannibalism). The icing on the cake is the connection between young Hannibal and his attractive Japanese (!) aunt.

With this raspberry (the film was actually nominated for the anti-award of the same name), the Harris cycle and the life of Hannibal on the big screens come to an end.

Notes

1. In the original - Mischa. In a racially correct translation, the sister was translated into French as “Misha”, so as not to be confused. The variant "Mika" is also known. However, the female name Michaela is found infrequently in Europe, but everywhere
2. Another translation was “tooth fairy” - brains at work. A good fairy who takes a child's lost tooth at night and in return puts a coin under the pillow. What the killer was doing is clear. Toothed pariah is the nickname given to the maniac by the police. The Red Dragon is what the killer called himself. (SHIETO? Tooth Fairy is the “Tooth Fairy”, it doesn’t smell like any pariah)
3. If you really want to translate it, it will be “Buffalo Bill” or “Bill, the winner of the buffaloes.” But in general, Buffalo Bill cannot be translated, since this is the nickname of a real-life American skinner (as well as a soldier, actor, fighter for Indian rights and a generally interesting guy). He killed and skinned a record number of buffalo in one night.
4. In general, the doctor loves all sorts of anagrams and other games with rearranging letters in words, which can be doubly enjoyable for citizens with an unconventional mindset.
5. In this regard, it takes the best of both classes, leaving the worst. Psychologist, lol.