Hannibal Lecter has to be the most maniacally brilliant villain i know. He's a psychiatric doctor, that murders people, and eats them for dinner. He’s incredibly educated, and is very careful with his victims. I think what's really twisted, is that no one even knows who he really is.
I was stunned by his performance in “Silence of the Lambs”. A best selling thriller in 1991, that i think is just a classic. Hannibal is criminally insane, that was captured through someone ratting him out to the police about his doings. They kept him in a high security cell, but by outsmarting the guards, he managed to escape and even kill both guards. Not to mention he bit one of the guard’s cheek off. So know when he is being transported
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So it brings Clarice, an FBI trainee that got assigned to the case, to question Hannibal about the former patient.
When Hannibal meets Clarice, he messes with her head. It's almost as if Hannibal feeds off pain, since he can't inflict it physically he attacks you mentally. Clarice wants to know why the villain does bad, but Hannibal wants to know why the hero does the good. Hannibal would trade information with clarice, but only if clarice told him about herself. What makes him so cynical is that he will say what people don't dare to, without filter. He would use this to gain control, or get in the head of whomever he talks to. He negotiated to talk to the police about the criminal/former patient the media had called, “Buffalo Bill” (because of how he would skin his patients like they did the buffalo) for a better cell, and living conditions. Of course, what he was negotiating for wasn't really his true intentions. This was just part of his plan to escape, and he did succeed.
What really sends a chill down your spine is the fact that he’s a cannibal. I just can't imagine eating another human, or what it takes for someone to willingly turn to
Hannibal was a Punic Carthaginian military commander, reputed to be one of the greatest in history and even a better tactician. Hannibal lived in a time of great friction in the Mediterranean where the Roman Republic dominated Macedon, Syracuse and the Seleucid Empire. He was a notable member of the Barca family, a noble family well known for being staunch antagonists of the Roman Republic. His father Hamilcar was a leading commander in the First Punic War, his brother-in-laws were Hasdrubal the Fair who preferred diplomacy to war and the Numidian king Naravas, and both his brothers, Mago (commanded Hannibal’s forces and made decisive pushes) and Hasdrubal (defended Carthaginian cities in Hispania as Hannibal left for Italy in 218 BC) assisted immensely in the campaign against the Romans . Unlike many other African warlords, not only did Hannibal and his forces protect their home territory but he was also the only African commander to invade Europe in turn. In other words, he did not only defend his town or lie in wait for further oppression but rather counter-attacked and took the fight to the oppressors.
Lecter is a truly evil man, but Dr. Chilton is the worse of the two.
His overwhelming sense of entitlement and hypocrisy, is proven when he refers to himself as ‘royalty.’ Hannibal’s occasional nice gestures are undermined when he is consumed with his cannibalistic urges. Some may say, he is only psychotic because of his early exposure to PTSD, but this theory is proven wrong. He showed severe symptoms earlier in his life, and the trauma only exaggerated the effects. His cunning and manipulative ways are far from unintentional; he manipulates people’s truth to discover their behavior and actions, so when he kills them it is more pleasurable. Hannibal’s unquestionable parasitic lifestyle is verified when he discusses the ‘finer things in life’. He discusses his interest in - dinner parties, fine arts, and fine dining. Authenticating his strange sense of
Dr. Hannibal Lecter a character in the film The Silence of the Lambs is portrayed as a brilliant forensic psychiatrist, an extremely refined gentleman with a charismatic and charming personality. Hannibal Lecter is meticulous in appearance, speaks very exactly, has immaculate wittiness, and astounding intellect (Demme, 1991). Though not directly indicated in the film, there is clear evidence of his educational background as he was a well-known forensic psychiatrist which requires an extensive amount of education. This film did not speak to Lecter’s relationship history nor his childhood background. Hannibal Lecter was sanctioned to the Baltimore State Forensic Hospital for cannibalistic crimes he committed against his own patients during his practice as a psychiatrist (Demme, 1991). At the start of the film it was indicated that he had been housed at the hospital for approximately eight years.
Driven by his sexual fantasies, Jeffrey Dahmer is one of the most infamous examples of a hedonistic killer. Participating in cannibalism, Dahmer claims these acts were attempts at becoming closer to his victims.
Lecter’s analytical, observant, and almost sociopathic outlook on his surroundings contrasts heavily with Starling’s earnest desire to discover the secrets behind Buffalo Bill’s identity and reasons, a desire to save another’s life that humanizes her. It is important to know that this rectification can come in two forms for Lecter. Lecter can either punish the individual, such as in Chilton’s case for their direct discourtesy to him or another, or he can help an individual who has received such discourtesy in his presence. Lecter would only feel this obligation, however, in the unique case that he is unable to prevent such a direct discourtesy from happening to another as it occurred in front of him, as in Clarice’s case.
In the movie “Silence of the Lambs”, the secondary antagonist, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, was interrogated by FBI trainee Clarice Starling on the whereabouts of the main antagonist nicknamed Buffalo Bill. Starling asked Lecter for his help on solving the case because he is a brilliant psychiatrist and psychopath, currently incarcerated at the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Buffalo Bill was kidnapping young women and skinning them in order to make a “woman suit” for him to wear, being a deranged transvestite. Starling asked for Lecter’s expertise because of his medical background and experience with his own personal disorder. Lecter was presently imprisoned because he is a ruthless cannibalistic serial killer. Before the audience actually meets Lecter, they are told he is dangerous, manipulative and an outright monster, calling him a “most prized asset”. Upon meeting him, Lecter appears to be subdued within his cell, a combined mixture of oddness and genuine care in his body language and facial features. When Starling introduces herself, Lecter listens intently, seemingly approachable and friendly for advice. Although the tone of his voice gives off a rather disturbing persona, he can easily be categorized as a disciplined, cultural and polite individual at first glance. In the 16 minutes total that Lecter appears in the movie, his presence automatically commandeers the flow of the conversation and mood of the environment that he is placed in.
“My consuming lust was to experience their bodies. I viewed them as objects, as strangers. It is hard for me to believe a human being could have done what I've done”(Dahmer). Jeffrey Dahmer is notably one of the most infamous serial killers in the United States. Along with seventeen murders under his belt, he was also a pedophile, cannibal and necrophiliac.
Contrary to human meat and organs actually being healthy to a human diet, cannibalism is also said to cause madness and addiction based on sexual urges and gratification. Kate Rix depicts that sexual cannibalism in its truest sense may in fact lead to the development of necrophilia tendencies. Disturbing behavior, such as that of cannibalism as well as necrophilism, is a result of chemical imbalances in the brain.
Dr. Hannibal Lector, one of the main characters of the story is a psychiatrist, but also happens to be a cannibalistic serial killer. Dr. Lector is introduced into the NBC series as a psychiatrist who occasionally helps the FBI with their murder cases. Whereas in Silence of the Lambs, Dr. Lector was being held in prison until he eventually broke loose. It is made clear to the audiences the Hannibal is definitely the killer, there is no mystery to that, which can make things interesting for this character in the Hannibal series of whether or not he’ll be caught.
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... death and destruction for the Romans that Adolf Hitler would to our Civilization. Hannibal’s name became synonymous with the stereotype that Rome had of the Carthaginian perfidy. And it was this that Rome never wanted to see again; so to be a good Roman, one had to be taught what it was to be a "Hannibal" and how not to be a "Hannibal." In the end Rome was taught many valuable lessons and to the victor go the spoils; so it is a measure of the fear Hannibal’s name instilled, that long after he was dead and gone, parents would scold naughty children with the warning that if they weren't good, Hannibal would come to get them in the night.
Whether it was in the form of sexual or physical abuse, something messed this character up very much. Kidnapping ladies after pretending to be injured and in need of assistance is already a terrifying thought – turning sympathy into torture. Buffalo Bill definitely had Anti-Social Personality Disorder, displaying the same lack of empathy for his abducted victims. His murders and acts of skinning the ladies wasn't without a point. He also likely had Gender Identity Disorder, as shown in his dance scene where he puts on make up etc... Hannibal revealed that he was rejected for the sex change surgery due to childhood trauma. He removed the skin of many, and in turn was going to create a suit of the women's skin so he could finally feel complete. Psychiatrist Lecter said of Jame Gumb: “Look for severe childhood disturbances associated with violence. Our Billy wasn’t born a criminal, Clarice — he was made one through years of systematic abuse. Our Billy hates his own identity, you see. He always has, and he thinks that makes him a transsexual. But his pathology is a thousand times more savage and more terrifying.” An important scene is when he refers to his victim as an 'It' while giving her directions. This in a way dehumanizes her, and is his personal justification for his actions. An interesting point to add is that when his victim got a hold of his small dog and was keeping
...others who live transient lifestyles. Typical psychopathic serial killers are not as intelligent as Hannibal himself. He had an unusual gift; he used his senses to be able to remember scents, sights, and details. He also had the ability to break a person down to their weakness, which is how he was able to get them off guard. He dehumanized his victim’s, flattened them to worthless objects in his mind.
In the orphanage, Hannibal experiences horrific night mares about Mischa’s unresolved death. He is haunted by the image of his parents’ deaths, Mischa’s death, Mischa’s cannibalized body, and the faces of his abusers from this childhood trauma. In the orphanage he does not speak, except when he is screaming in his sleep due to nightmares. It is possible that this form of muteness s...