Lecter's sexuality?
is Lector's sexuality mentioned or discussed in the books or the movies?
It has been a long time since reading the book or seeing the movie, but I do recall him being gay. I thought there was talk of a male lover.
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I still believe more gay then bi. The person whose liver he ate with fava beans and chianti was possibly his lover. Also, I did not take his relationship with Starling was at all sexual. It was more parental, in my opinion. Anthony Hopkins was only in the movie for 16 minutes. It would be easy to watch the film and skip to his scenes. I have Googled whether or not Lecter was gay and can not find anything. Maybe it is all up to interpretation. So, that probably includes the relationship with Starling.
shareThe person whose liver he ate with fava beans and chianti was possibly his lover.
The person whose liver he ate was a census taker who came to his door. Lecter states this quite clearly when he first meets Clarice.
I never got the impression Lecter was gay. I always figured he slept with women, even was charming with them. He seemed like he could turn his psychosis on & off when the mood suited him, like many serial killers.
I'd say this cloud is Cumulo Nimbus.
Didn't he discover America?
Penfold, shush. share
So funny you replied to this. After I typed it, I watched parts of the movie on Netflix and heard him say exactly what you typed. Not to disagree with you - as I do not know - but I really always thought he was gay. Perhaps it was from the book. At the same time, I may be getting it confused with Buffalo Bill. I know that the body that Clarice found in the storage garage was that of Miss Moffet....a lover of Buffalo Bill. Also, the fact that I looked up the possibility of Lecter being gay on the Internet and the fact that it produced no real evidence.
shareWell, Hannibal and Clarice become lovers so...
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
I never read the book but why would she run away with a murderer/psychopath and throw away her career? Sounds uncharacteristic of her.
Y'know, I could eat a peach for hours
>>I never read the book but why would she run away with a murderer/psychopath and throw away her career? Sounds uncharacteristic of her.>>
One of the things they missed in the film version of Hannibal is the ongoing theme of post-hypnotic suggestion. Also drugs with Mason Verger--that's how Hannibal got him to cut off his own face.
When Hannibal and Clarice meet up again in Hannibal, Clarice's career is failing because she shot someone she shouldn't have. Then the events of the book happen.
And then at the end, he hypnotizes her. The sound of the crossbow shooting will be her signal to "wake up," but she stays with him after that. It's left open-ended if she goes with him by choice or if she's really hypnotized, but the post-hypnotic suggestion is definitely there. I guess the reason it's open-ended is that not everyone can be influenced by hypnosis, and not everyone takes hypnosis as a real thing.
Where the heck do you get that Hannibal & Clarice became lovers??
That was not in the film nor the novel.
I'd say this cloud is Cumulo Nimbus.
Didn't he discover America?
Penfold, shush.
In the novel Hannibal.
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Excuse u, but in the novel Hannibal, lecter and Clarice do in fact run off together, and it also implies that they had sexual relations
shareAnd when does this happen? I do not recall that in any of the movies or books I have read.
shareWikipedia:
Hannibal[edit]In the third novel, 1999's Hannibal, Lecter lives in a palazzo in Florence, Italy, and works as a museum curator under the alias "Dr. Fell". The novel reveals that one of Lecter's victims survived: Mason Verger, a wealthy, sadistic pedophile whom Lecter had drugged and mutilated during a therapy session. Verger offers a huge reward for anyone who apprehends Lecter, whom he intends to feed to feral pigs specially bred for the purpose. Verger enlists the help of Rinaldo Pazzi, a disgraced Italian police inspector, and Paul Krendler, a corrupt Justice Department official and Starling's boss. Lecter kills Pazzi and returns to the United States to escape Verger's Sardinian henchmen, only to be captured. Starling follows them, intent on apprehending Lecter personally, but is instead also taken captive. After escaping the trap, Lecter convinces Verger's sister Margot to kill her brother as revenge for the years of sexual abuse she suffered at his hands, and leaves a voice mail message taking responsibility for the crime. He then rescues the wounded Starling and takes her to his rented lake house to treat her. During her time there he keeps her sedated, attempting to transform her into his dead sister Mischa through a regimen of classical conditioning and mind-altering drugs. One day, he invites her to a formal dinner where the guest and first course is Krendler. She joins him in eating the still-living Krendler's brain, but refuses to allow Lecter to turn her into Mischa; she says that Mischa can instead live within him. She then offers Lecter her breast, and they become lovers. Three years later, Lecter's former guard, Barney Matthews, sees the pair together in Argentina, and flees the country, fearing for his life.
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Pretty sure Miss Moffet was a male transexual, not a woman at all.
shareHannibal Lecter is 100% heterosexual. It is pointed out in the books....and ofc especially in the third, Hannibal.
It is only the homosexual Bryan Fuller, the creator of the Hannibal tv series, that is playing around with the issue of Lecter being bi/gay. I guess it is just that Fuller himself possebly have a huge fanfic-crush on the Doctor.
And hello.....the erotic undertone in Sotl....sais it all.
I think he's either gay or asexual.
He falls in love with Clarice in 2002's Hannibal. There's a particular scene where he runs his hand through her hair when he's on a merry-go-round and he cuts his arm off to avoid hurting her.
I don't know what the books says (haven't read it yet). But in the movies, he's clearly heterosexual.
Actually in the second installment in the series, Hannibal, in the book, after Clarice is disgraced by her colleagues in the FBI, her and Hannibal run off together and the book actually explains in detail the sexual relations they share, they live happily ever after, no I don't believe Hannibal was a baloney smoker
shareI think some of the bisexuality or homosexuality assumptions came from Hannibal (of am I thinking of the wrong movie?) when he seduced Mason Verger who was homosexual. I see Hannibal as heterosexual, and he does have romantic interest in clarice.
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