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Hannibal Lecter

Creator
Thomas Harris
Original work
Red Dragon
Print publications

Novels
Red Dragon (1981)
The Silence of the Lambs (1988)
Hannibal (1999)
Hannibal Rising (2006)

Films and television

Films
Manhunter (1986)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Hannibal (2001)
Red Dragon (2002)
Hannibal Rising (2007)

Television series
Hannibal (2013–present)
The Hannibal Lecter franchise is an American media franchise that features the character of Hannibal Lecter, who originally appeared in a series of novels (starting with Red Dragon in 1981) by Thomas Harris. The series has since expanded into film and television.


Contents  [hide]
1 Novels
2 Films and television 2.1 Cast and characters
2.2 Critical reaction
3 References

Novels[edit]
Red Dragon (1981)
The Silence of the Lambs (1988)
Hannibal (1999)
Hannibal Rising (2006)
Films and television[edit]
Manhunter (1986)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Hannibal (2001)
Red Dragon (2002)
Hannibal Rising (2007)
Hannibal (TV series) (2013–present)
The first adaptation was the 1986 film Manhunter, which was an adaptation of Red Dragon, directed by Michael Mann.
The next adaptation was 1991's The Silence of the Lambs, which was directed by Jonathan Demme and was the first film to feature Anthony Hopkins in the role of Hannibal Lecter. Silence was a success, both critically and financially, and went on to become the third film in Academy Awards history to win in all top five categories (Best Actor for Hopkins, Best Actress for Jodie Foster, Best Director for Demme, Best Adapted Screenplay for Ted Tally, and Best Picture). Hopkins reprised the role in the next two films, 2001's Hannibal, a sequel directed by Ridley Scott, and 2002's Red Dragon, a prequel directed by Brett Ratner. In 2002, Hopkins revealed that he had written a screenplay for another sequel, ending with Clarice killing Lecter; it was not produced.[1]
In 2007, Hannibal Rising was released. The film is a prequel, directed by Peter Webber and starring Gaspard Ulliel as Lecter.
In 2013, the TV series Hannibal premiered. Developed by Bryan Fuller, it is not a direct adaptation, but based on characters and elements from the novels. Some characters appear under the opposite gender, such as Freddy Lounds, who is renamed Fredricka "Freddie" Lounds. The series has garnered much critical acclaim since its premiere, winning the 2014 Saturn Award for Best Network Television Series.
Cast and characters[edit]


Manhunter
 (1986)
The Silence of the Lambs
 (1991)
Hannibal
 (2001)
Red Dragon
 (2002)
Hannibal Rising
 (2007)
Hannibal
 (TV series)
 (2013–present)

Hannibal Lecter
Brian Cox
(as Hannibal Lecktor) Anthony Hopkins Gaspard Ulliel
Aaran Thomas (young) Mads Mikkelsen
Will Graham
William Petersen  Edward Norton  Hugh Dancy
Jack Crawford
Dennis Farina Scott Glenn  Harvey Keitel  Laurence Fishburne
Frederick Chilton
Benjamin Hendrickson Anthony Heald  Anthony Heald  Raúl Esparza
Francis Dolarhyde
 (The Tooth Fairy)
Tom Noonan
(as Francis Dollarhyde)  Ralph Fiennes  Richard Armitage
Clarice Starling
 Jodie Foster
Masha Skorobogatov (young) Julianne Moore 
Buffalo Bill
 (Jame Gumb)
 Ted Levine 
Barney Matthews
 Frankie Faison  Jonathan Tucker
(as Matthew Brown)
Freddy Lounds
Stephen Lang  Philip Seymour Hoffman  Lara Jean Chorostecki
(as Fredricka "Freddie" Lounds)
Mason Verger
 Gary Oldman  Michael Pitt
Joe Anderson
Paul Krendler
 Ron Vawter Ray Liotta  Cynthia Nixon[2]
(as Kade Prurnell)
Reba McClane
Joan Allen  Emily Watson  Rutina Wesley
Molly Graham
Kim Greist  Mary-Louise Parker  Nina Arianda
Rinaldo Pazzi
 Giancarlo Giannini  Fortunato Cerlino
Cordell Doemling
 Željko Ivanek  Glenn Fleshler
Lady Murasaki
 Gong Li 
Bedelia Du Maurier
 Gillian Anderson
Abel Gideon
 Eddie Izzard
Critical reaction[edit]
Film Rotten Tomatoes Metacritic
Manhunter 94% (33 reviews) [3] 78 (10 reviews) [4]
The Silence of the Lambs 94% (71 reviews) [5] 84 (17 reviews) [6]
Hannibal 39% (164 reviews) [7] 57 (36 reviews) [8]
Red Dragon 69% (185 reviews) [9] 60 (36 reviews) [10]
Hannibal Rising 15% (143 reviews) [11] 35 (30 reviews) [12]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Oldenburg, Ann (October 3, 2002). "Marquee names serve up another helping of Hannibal". USA Today. Retrieved April 19, 2013.
2.Jump up ^ VanDerWerff, Todd (March 8, 2014). "Hannibal’s Bryan Fuller on blending Busby Berkeley with murder". The A.V. Club. Retrieved March 8, 2014. "Kade Prurnell is an anagram of a character from Hannibal, actually the Ray Liotta character. So it’s like, “Your anagrams are showing, Dr. Lecter.” We couldn’t get the rights to that character, because that character originated in Silence of the Lambs. The character’s name was Paul Krendler, and we wanted to call her Paula Krendler, and they said no, because the way the rights go, it’s not by the literature, it’s actually by the character’s introduction. So if a character is first seen in Silence of the Lambs, we’re screwed, as far as rights go. In order to change the character so it’s not that but sort of services the same mythology in the show and reinvent the character in a way that won’t get us sued, [Laughs.] we anagrammed her and made her slightly different from the character in both Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal to our own purposes."
3.Jump up ^ "Manhunter RT: Reviews". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2014-01-11.
4.Jump up ^ "Manhunter MC: Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 2014-01-11.
5.Jump up ^ "Silence of the Lambs RT: Reviews". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2014-01-11.
6.Jump up ^ "Silence of the Lambs MC: Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 2014-01-11.
7.Jump up ^ "Hannibal RT: Reviews". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2014-01-11.
8.Jump up ^ "Hannibal MC: Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 2014-01-11.
9.Jump up ^ "Red Dragon RT: Reviews". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2014-01-11.
10.Jump up ^ "Red Dragon MC: Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 2014-01-11.
11.Jump up ^ "Hannibal Rising RT: Reviews". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2014-01-11.
12.Jump up ^ "Hannibal Rising MC: Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 2014-01-11.


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Hannibal Lecter (franchise)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search


Hannibal Lecter

Creator
Thomas Harris
Original work
Red Dragon
Print publications

Novels
Red Dragon (1981)
The Silence of the Lambs (1988)
Hannibal (1999)
Hannibal Rising (2006)

Films and television

Films
Manhunter (1986)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Hannibal (2001)
Red Dragon (2002)
Hannibal Rising (2007)

Television series
Hannibal (2013–present)
The Hannibal Lecter franchise is an American media franchise that features the character of Hannibal Lecter, who originally appeared in a series of novels (starting with Red Dragon in 1981) by Thomas Harris. The series has since expanded into film and television.


Contents  [hide]
1 Novels
2 Films and television 2.1 Cast and characters
2.2 Critical reaction
3 References

Novels[edit]
Red Dragon (1981)
The Silence of the Lambs (1988)
Hannibal (1999)
Hannibal Rising (2006)
Films and television[edit]
Manhunter (1986)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Hannibal (2001)
Red Dragon (2002)
Hannibal Rising (2007)
Hannibal (TV series) (2013–present)
The first adaptation was the 1986 film Manhunter, which was an adaptation of Red Dragon, directed by Michael Mann.
The next adaptation was 1991's The Silence of the Lambs, which was directed by Jonathan Demme and was the first film to feature Anthony Hopkins in the role of Hannibal Lecter. Silence was a success, both critically and financially, and went on to become the third film in Academy Awards history to win in all top five categories (Best Actor for Hopkins, Best Actress for Jodie Foster, Best Director for Demme, Best Adapted Screenplay for Ted Tally, and Best Picture). Hopkins reprised the role in the next two films, 2001's Hannibal, a sequel directed by Ridley Scott, and 2002's Red Dragon, a prequel directed by Brett Ratner. In 2002, Hopkins revealed that he had written a screenplay for another sequel, ending with Clarice killing Lecter; it was not produced.[1]
In 2007, Hannibal Rising was released. The film is a prequel, directed by Peter Webber and starring Gaspard Ulliel as Lecter.
In 2013, the TV series Hannibal premiered. Developed by Bryan Fuller, it is not a direct adaptation, but based on characters and elements from the novels. Some characters appear under the opposite gender, such as Freddy Lounds, who is renamed Fredricka "Freddie" Lounds. The series has garnered much critical acclaim since its premiere, winning the 2014 Saturn Award for Best Network Television Series.
Cast and characters[edit]


Manhunter
 (1986)
The Silence of the Lambs
 (1991)
Hannibal
 (2001)
Red Dragon
 (2002)
Hannibal Rising
 (2007)
Hannibal
 (TV series)
 (2013–present)

Hannibal Lecter
Brian Cox
(as Hannibal Lecktor) Anthony Hopkins Gaspard Ulliel
Aaran Thomas (young) Mads Mikkelsen
Will Graham
William Petersen  Edward Norton  Hugh Dancy
Jack Crawford
Dennis Farina Scott Glenn  Harvey Keitel  Laurence Fishburne
Frederick Chilton
Benjamin Hendrickson Anthony Heald  Anthony Heald  Raúl Esparza
Francis Dolarhyde
 (The Tooth Fairy)
Tom Noonan
(as Francis Dollarhyde)  Ralph Fiennes  Richard Armitage
Clarice Starling
 Jodie Foster
Masha Skorobogatov (young) Julianne Moore 
Buffalo Bill
 (Jame Gumb)
 Ted Levine 
Barney Matthews
 Frankie Faison  Jonathan Tucker
(as Matthew Brown)
Freddy Lounds
Stephen Lang  Philip Seymour Hoffman  Lara Jean Chorostecki
(as Fredricka "Freddie" Lounds)
Mason Verger
 Gary Oldman  Michael Pitt
Joe Anderson
Paul Krendler
 Ron Vawter Ray Liotta  Cynthia Nixon[2]
(as Kade Prurnell)
Reba McClane
Joan Allen  Emily Watson  Rutina Wesley
Molly Graham
Kim Greist  Mary-Louise Parker  Nina Arianda
Rinaldo Pazzi
 Giancarlo Giannini  Fortunato Cerlino
Cordell Doemling
 Željko Ivanek  Glenn Fleshler
Lady Murasaki
 Gong Li 
Bedelia Du Maurier
 Gillian Anderson
Abel Gideon
 Eddie Izzard
Critical reaction[edit]
Film Rotten Tomatoes Metacritic
Manhunter 94% (33 reviews) [3] 78 (10 reviews) [4]
The Silence of the Lambs 94% (71 reviews) [5] 84 (17 reviews) [6]
Hannibal 39% (164 reviews) [7] 57 (36 reviews) [8]
Red Dragon 69% (185 reviews) [9] 60 (36 reviews) [10]
Hannibal Rising 15% (143 reviews) [11] 35 (30 reviews) [12]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Oldenburg, Ann (October 3, 2002). "Marquee names serve up another helping of Hannibal". USA Today. Retrieved April 19, 2013.
2.Jump up ^ VanDerWerff, Todd (March 8, 2014). "Hannibal’s Bryan Fuller on blending Busby Berkeley with murder". The A.V. Club. Retrieved March 8, 2014. "Kade Prurnell is an anagram of a character from Hannibal, actually the Ray Liotta character. So it’s like, “Your anagrams are showing, Dr. Lecter.” We couldn’t get the rights to that character, because that character originated in Silence of the Lambs. The character’s name was Paul Krendler, and we wanted to call her Paula Krendler, and they said no, because the way the rights go, it’s not by the literature, it’s actually by the character’s introduction. So if a character is first seen in Silence of the Lambs, we’re screwed, as far as rights go. In order to change the character so it’s not that but sort of services the same mythology in the show and reinvent the character in a way that won’t get us sued, [Laughs.] we anagrammed her and made her slightly different from the character in both Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal to our own purposes."
3.Jump up ^ "Manhunter RT: Reviews". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2014-01-11.
4.Jump up ^ "Manhunter MC: Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 2014-01-11.
5.Jump up ^ "Silence of the Lambs RT: Reviews". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2014-01-11.
6.Jump up ^ "Silence of the Lambs MC: Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 2014-01-11.
7.Jump up ^ "Hannibal RT: Reviews". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2014-01-11.
8.Jump up ^ "Hannibal MC: Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 2014-01-11.
9.Jump up ^ "Red Dragon RT: Reviews". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2014-01-11.
10.Jump up ^ "Red Dragon MC: Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 2014-01-11.
11.Jump up ^ "Hannibal Rising RT: Reviews". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2014-01-11.
12.Jump up ^ "Hannibal Rising MC: Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 2014-01-11.


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 Clarice Starling ·
 Francis Dolarhyde ·
 Buffalo Bill ·
 Frederick Chilton ·
 Jack Crawford ·
 Freddy Lounds ·
 Mason Verger
 

Novels
Red Dragon (1981) ·
 The Silence of the Lambs (1988) ·
 Hannibal (1999) ·
 Hannibal Rising (2006)
 

Films
Manhunter (1986) ·
 The Silence of the Lambs (1991) ·
 Hannibal (2001) ·
 Red Dragon (2002) ·
 Hannibal Rising (2007)
 

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Mason Verger (character)
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Mason Verger
Hannibal Tetralogy character
Created by
Thomas Harris
Portrayed by
Gary Oldman
 (Hannibal)
Michael Pitt (Hannibal season 2)
Joe Anderson (Hannibal season 3)
Information

Gender
Male
Occupation
CEO of Verger Enterprises
Relatives
Margot Verger (sister)
 Molson Verger (father, deceased)
Nationality
American
Mason Verger is a fictional character and the main antagonist in Thomas Harris' 1999 novel Hannibal, as well as its 2001 film adaptation and the second season of the TV series Hannibal. In the film, he is portrayed by Gary Oldman, while in the TV series he is portrayed by Michael Pitt and Joe Anderson.


Contents  [hide]
1 Character overview
2 Appearances 2.1 Novel
2.2 Film
2.3 TV series
3 References
4 External links

Character overview[edit]
Mason Verger is introduced in the novel Hannibal as a wealthy, sadistic pedophile who is horribly disfigured during a therapy session with Dr. Hannibal Lecter. He plans gruesome revenge against Lecter, which sets the novel's plot in motion. The novel and TV series also portray his dysfunctional relationship with his twin sister Margot, whom he subjects to years of emotional and sexual abuse.
Appearances[edit]
Novel[edit]
Mason Verger is the scion of one of Baltimore, Maryland's most wealthy, politically connected families. His father, Molson, founded a meat packing company that grew into an empire by the time of Mason's birth. As a teenager, Mason raped his twin sister, Margot, who went into therapy with Lecter to deal with the trauma. Lecter suggested that it would be cathartic for her to kill her brother. As an adult, Mason has a wide array of paraphilias, including autoerotic asphyxiation, zoosadism, and child molestation. At one point he befriends Idi Amin, with whom he claims to have re-enacted the crucifixion of Jesus by nailing a migrant worker to a cross. Publicly, he claims to be a born-again Christian, and operates a Christian camp for underprivileged children - whom he molests. He also takes pleasure in collecting children's tears with sterile swatches and flavoring his martinis with them.
He is eventually arrested for and found guilty of several counts of child molestation, but thanks to his family's political connections he is sentenced to community service and court-mandated therapy in lieu of prison time. Lecter serves as his court-appointed psychiatrist. During one of their sessions, Lecter gives Mason PCP and tells him to peel off his own face with a piece of broken mirror. In a state of drug-induced euphoria, Mason complies, and afterwards feeds the pieces to his dogs, except for his nose, which he himself eats. Lecter then tells Mason to demonstrate autoerotic asphyxiation; Mason then hangs himself and breaks his neck. He survives the ordeal, but is left disfigured – losing his lips, nose, cheeks, eyelids and left eye – and paralyzed from the neck down. Lecter is arrested soon afterward for committing a series of murders, and Mason tries to influence the resulting trial to make sure that Lecter receives the death penalty. When Lecter is instead found not guilty by reason of insanity and institutionalized, Mason is enraged, and begins plotting to feed Lecter alive to a pack of wild boars bred for the purpose.
After his disfigurement, Mason becomes a recluse, rarely leaving his darkened mansion. (He nevertheless indulges in whatever paraphilias his disability allows, such as getting sexual gratification from emotionally abusing children.) His only sources of human contact are his physician, Cordell Doemling; himself a sex offender, and Margot, who works for him as a bodyguard. Margot despises her brother, but stays in his employ to persuade him to donate sperm to her domestic partner, Judy. He strings her along, knowing that she cannot leave if she ever wants to see her share of the Verger family fortune; their father had disinherited her when she came out as a lesbian, and willed his estate to any future heir Mason might have.
Seven years after Lecter's escape in The Silence of the Lambs, Mason pays Lecter's former guard, Barney Matthews, for information leading to his capture. When Detective Rinaldo Pazzi spots Lecter in Florence, Italy, he contacts Mason in hopes of collecting the reward money. Mason bribes Justice Department official Paul Krendler to discredit Lecter's foil Clarice Starling in order to coax Lecter out of hiding. He hires a gang of Sardinian gangsters to kidnap Lecter, and instructs Pazzi to lead Lecter to them. Lecter learns of Mason's plot, however, and kills Pazzi as he flees to the United States. Mason's men eventually capture Lecter and Starling, and Mason prepares to enjoy his long-awaited revenge. Lecter escapes his bonds, however, and persuades Margot to kill her brother, promising to take the blame. Margot kills Mason by stuffing his pet Moray eel down his throat. At the same time, she sodomizes him with a cattle prod, causing him to ejaculate in his death throes, providing her with the sperm she needs to conceive a child.
Film[edit]
Mason is portrayed by Gary Oldman in the 2001 film Hannibal. The film's characterization of Mason Verger follows that in the novel except for two key aspects: the film omits the character of Margot Verger, and changes the nature of his death scene. In the film, Mason dies at the hands of his physician Cordell Doemling (Željko Ivanek), who at Lecter's suggestion pushes his hated boss into the pig pen in which Lecter was intended to die. Mason is then devoured by a pack of wild boars.
TV series[edit]
Mason Verger appears as a supporting antagonist in the second season of the NBC television series Hannibal, which is set prior to Lecter's capture and imprisonment. He is portrayed by Michael Pitt. Series creator Bryan Fuller called this version of the character "The Joker to Hannibal's Batman".[1]
In the TV series, he sexually assaults his sister Margot (Katharine Isabelle), who then tries to kill him. He sends her to therapy with Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen) to keep her quiet.[2] Mason meets with Lecter to discuss Margot's treatment, and agrees to enter therapy with Lecter to find out what his sister is saying about him.[3][4] Lecter takes an instant dislike to Mason, considering him "discourteous".[5]
Mason tells Margot that he wants an heir, the implication being that he wants to father his own sister's child. He threatens to cut her off financially if she disobeys him.[4] Desperate, Margot has sex with another of Lecter's patients, Will Graham (Hugh Dancy) and becomes pregnant with his child. In response, Mason causes Margot to get into a car accident, and has her womb surgically removed so that only he can father an heir and inherit their father's money. A furious Graham confronts Mason and warns him that Lecter is manipulating them both.[6]
Mason eventually grows suspicious of Lecter and has him kidnapped, intending to feed him to his prize pigs. Lecter escapes, however, and takes Mason as a captive to Graham's house. Lecter gives Mason a hallucinogenic drug cocktail and tells him to cut off pieces of his own face and feed them to Graham's dogs. Mason does so, and also obeys Lecter's command to cut off his own nose and eat it. Lecter then breaks Mason's neck with his bare hands. Mason survives, but is confined to a respirator and forced to wear a neck brace and a facial mask. He tells FBI Agent-in-Charge Jack Crawford (Laurence Fishburne) that he broke his neck when he fell into a feeding lot, and that his pigs ate his face. He is last seen talking with a vengeful Margot, who promises to "take care of you like you took care of me."[5]
Joe Anderson will replace Pitt in the role for the third season.[7]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Jeffrey, Morgan. "Hannibal: Michael Pitt's Mason Verger is 'the Joker meets Scott Disick'" www.digitalspy.com. April 29, 2014.
2.Jump up ^ Hannibal, Season 2, Episode 8, "Su-zakana"
3.Jump up ^ Hannibal, Season 2, Episode 10, "Nāka-Choko"
4.^ Jump up to: a b Cook, Josie Rhodes. "Hannibal Recap: The Secret's Out". www.tvbuddy.com. May 9, 2014.
5.^ Jump up to: a b Hannibal, Season 2, Episode 8, "Tome-Wan"
6.Jump up ^ Hannibal, Season 2, Episode 10, "Kō No Mono"
7.Jump up ^ http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/12/19/michael-pitt-exits-hannibal-joe-anderson/
External links[edit]
##Internet Movie Database profile of the character, Mason Verger


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Novels
Red Dragon (1981) ·
 The Silence of the Lambs (1988) ·
 Hannibal (1999) ·
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Films
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 The Silence of the Lambs (1991) ·
 Hannibal (2001) ·
 Red Dragon (2002) ·
 Hannibal Rising (2007)
 

Television
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 (List of episodes)
 

  


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Mason Verger (character)
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Mason Verger
Hannibal Tetralogy character
Created by
Thomas Harris
Portrayed by
Gary Oldman
 (Hannibal)
Michael Pitt (Hannibal season 2)
Joe Anderson (Hannibal season 3)
Information

Gender
Male
Occupation
CEO of Verger Enterprises
Relatives
Margot Verger (sister)
 Molson Verger (father, deceased)
Nationality
American
Mason Verger is a fictional character and the main antagonist in Thomas Harris' 1999 novel Hannibal, as well as its 2001 film adaptation and the second season of the TV series Hannibal. In the film, he is portrayed by Gary Oldman, while in the TV series he is portrayed by Michael Pitt and Joe Anderson.


Contents  [hide]
1 Character overview
2 Appearances 2.1 Novel
2.2 Film
2.3 TV series
3 References
4 External links

Character overview[edit]
Mason Verger is introduced in the novel Hannibal as a wealthy, sadistic pedophile who is horribly disfigured during a therapy session with Dr. Hannibal Lecter. He plans gruesome revenge against Lecter, which sets the novel's plot in motion. The novel and TV series also portray his dysfunctional relationship with his twin sister Margot, whom he subjects to years of emotional and sexual abuse.
Appearances[edit]
Novel[edit]
Mason Verger is the scion of one of Baltimore, Maryland's most wealthy, politically connected families. His father, Molson, founded a meat packing company that grew into an empire by the time of Mason's birth. As a teenager, Mason raped his twin sister, Margot, who went into therapy with Lecter to deal with the trauma. Lecter suggested that it would be cathartic for her to kill her brother. As an adult, Mason has a wide array of paraphilias, including autoerotic asphyxiation, zoosadism, and child molestation. At one point he befriends Idi Amin, with whom he claims to have re-enacted the crucifixion of Jesus by nailing a migrant worker to a cross. Publicly, he claims to be a born-again Christian, and operates a Christian camp for underprivileged children - whom he molests. He also takes pleasure in collecting children's tears with sterile swatches and flavoring his martinis with them.
He is eventually arrested for and found guilty of several counts of child molestation, but thanks to his family's political connections he is sentenced to community service and court-mandated therapy in lieu of prison time. Lecter serves as his court-appointed psychiatrist. During one of their sessions, Lecter gives Mason PCP and tells him to peel off his own face with a piece of broken mirror. In a state of drug-induced euphoria, Mason complies, and afterwards feeds the pieces to his dogs, except for his nose, which he himself eats. Lecter then tells Mason to demonstrate autoerotic asphyxiation; Mason then hangs himself and breaks his neck. He survives the ordeal, but is left disfigured – losing his lips, nose, cheeks, eyelids and left eye – and paralyzed from the neck down. Lecter is arrested soon afterward for committing a series of murders, and Mason tries to influence the resulting trial to make sure that Lecter receives the death penalty. When Lecter is instead found not guilty by reason of insanity and institutionalized, Mason is enraged, and begins plotting to feed Lecter alive to a pack of wild boars bred for the purpose.
After his disfigurement, Mason becomes a recluse, rarely leaving his darkened mansion. (He nevertheless indulges in whatever paraphilias his disability allows, such as getting sexual gratification from emotionally abusing children.) His only sources of human contact are his physician, Cordell Doemling; himself a sex offender, and Margot, who works for him as a bodyguard. Margot despises her brother, but stays in his employ to persuade him to donate sperm to her domestic partner, Judy. He strings her along, knowing that she cannot leave if she ever wants to see her share of the Verger family fortune; their father had disinherited her when she came out as a lesbian, and willed his estate to any future heir Mason might have.
Seven years after Lecter's escape in The Silence of the Lambs, Mason pays Lecter's former guard, Barney Matthews, for information leading to his capture. When Detective Rinaldo Pazzi spots Lecter in Florence, Italy, he contacts Mason in hopes of collecting the reward money. Mason bribes Justice Department official Paul Krendler to discredit Lecter's foil Clarice Starling in order to coax Lecter out of hiding. He hires a gang of Sardinian gangsters to kidnap Lecter, and instructs Pazzi to lead Lecter to them. Lecter learns of Mason's plot, however, and kills Pazzi as he flees to the United States. Mason's men eventually capture Lecter and Starling, and Mason prepares to enjoy his long-awaited revenge. Lecter escapes his bonds, however, and persuades Margot to kill her brother, promising to take the blame. Margot kills Mason by stuffing his pet Moray eel down his throat. At the same time, she sodomizes him with a cattle prod, causing him to ejaculate in his death throes, providing her with the sperm she needs to conceive a child.
Film[edit]
Mason is portrayed by Gary Oldman in the 2001 film Hannibal. The film's characterization of Mason Verger follows that in the novel except for two key aspects: the film omits the character of Margot Verger, and changes the nature of his death scene. In the film, Mason dies at the hands of his physician Cordell Doemling (Željko Ivanek), who at Lecter's suggestion pushes his hated boss into the pig pen in which Lecter was intended to die. Mason is then devoured by a pack of wild boars.
TV series[edit]
Mason Verger appears as a supporting antagonist in the second season of the NBC television series Hannibal, which is set prior to Lecter's capture and imprisonment. He is portrayed by Michael Pitt. Series creator Bryan Fuller called this version of the character "The Joker to Hannibal's Batman".[1]
In the TV series, he sexually assaults his sister Margot (Katharine Isabelle), who then tries to kill him. He sends her to therapy with Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen) to keep her quiet.[2] Mason meets with Lecter to discuss Margot's treatment, and agrees to enter therapy with Lecter to find out what his sister is saying about him.[3][4] Lecter takes an instant dislike to Mason, considering him "discourteous".[5]
Mason tells Margot that he wants an heir, the implication being that he wants to father his own sister's child. He threatens to cut her off financially if she disobeys him.[4] Desperate, Margot has sex with another of Lecter's patients, Will Graham (Hugh Dancy) and becomes pregnant with his child. In response, Mason causes Margot to get into a car accident, and has her womb surgically removed so that only he can father an heir and inherit their father's money. A furious Graham confronts Mason and warns him that Lecter is manipulating them both.[6]
Mason eventually grows suspicious of Lecter and has him kidnapped, intending to feed him to his prize pigs. Lecter escapes, however, and takes Mason as a captive to Graham's house. Lecter gives Mason a hallucinogenic drug cocktail and tells him to cut off pieces of his own face and feed them to Graham's dogs. Mason does so, and also obeys Lecter's command to cut off his own nose and eat it. Lecter then breaks Mason's neck with his bare hands. Mason survives, but is confined to a respirator and forced to wear a neck brace and a facial mask. He tells FBI Agent-in-Charge Jack Crawford (Laurence Fishburne) that he broke his neck when he fell into a feeding lot, and that his pigs ate his face. He is last seen talking with a vengeful Margot, who promises to "take care of you like you took care of me."[5]
Joe Anderson will replace Pitt in the role for the third season.[7]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Jeffrey, Morgan. "Hannibal: Michael Pitt's Mason Verger is 'the Joker meets Scott Disick'" www.digitalspy.com. April 29, 2014.
2.Jump up ^ Hannibal, Season 2, Episode 8, "Su-zakana"
3.Jump up ^ Hannibal, Season 2, Episode 10, "Nāka-Choko"
4.^ Jump up to: a b Cook, Josie Rhodes. "Hannibal Recap: The Secret's Out". www.tvbuddy.com. May 9, 2014.
5.^ Jump up to: a b Hannibal, Season 2, Episode 8, "Tome-Wan"
6.Jump up ^ Hannibal, Season 2, Episode 10, "Kō No Mono"
7.Jump up ^ http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/12/19/michael-pitt-exits-hannibal-joe-anderson/
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Freddy Lounds
Hannibal Tetralogy character
Freddy Lounds.jpg
Three on-screen versions of Freddy Lounds (clockwise from top left): Stephen Lang, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Lara Jean Chorostecki.

Created by
Thomas Harris
Portrayed by
Stephen Lang
 (Manhunter)
Philip Seymour Hoffman
 (Red Dragon)
Lara Jean Chorostecki
 (Hannibal)
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Gender
Male (novel, films), Female (TV series)
Occupation
Tabloid journalist
Nationality
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Freddy Lounds (or Fredricka "Freddie" Lounds) is a fictional character in the Hannibal Lecter series, created by author Thomas Harris. Lounds first appears in the 1981 novel Red Dragon. Lounds appeared in the 1986 film Manhunter, which was based on the novel, and was played in that adaptation by Stephen Lang. The character did not appear in the 1991 sequel, The Silence of the Lambs, but was again portrayed in the 2002 film Red Dragon, this time by Philip Seymour Hoffman. In the 2013 television series Hannibal, Lounds was recast as a woman, Fredricka "Freddie" Lounds, played by Lara Jean Chorostecki.


Contents  [hide]
1 Character overview
2 Appearances 2.1 Red Dragon
2.2 Hannibal TV series 2.2.1 Season 1
2.2.2 Season 2

3 References
4 External links

Character overview[edit]
Harris describes Lounds as "lumpy and ugly and small", with "buck teeth", and whose "rat eyes had the sheen of spit on asphalt".[1] Harris describes Lounds as having "the longing need to be noticed that is often miscalled ego",[1] sharpened by frustrated ambition:

He had worked in straight journalism for ten years when he realized that no one would ever send him to the White House. He saw that his publishers would wear his legs out, use him until it was time for him to become a broken-down old drunk manning a dead-end desk, drifting inevitably toward cirrhosis or a mattress fire.
 They wanted the information he could get, but they didn't want Freddy. They paid him top scale, which is not very much money if you have to buy women. They patted his back and told him he had a lot of balls and they refused to put his name on a parking place.[1]
Resentful of this treatment, Lounds goes into tabloid journalism, receiving much higher pay and better treatment for writing popular but factually questionable news stories.[1] Lounds has been characterized by reviewers as a film noir throwback:

Noir tropes appear again concerning the character of Freddy Lounds, a sleazy journalist that's too good for the trashy job he's doing, Lounds is burned by ambition and by desire for vindication in front of those colleagues that look down upon his tabloid-related work. Everything in the character of Lounds, from his disregard for truth masquerading as desire to serve the public, down to his stripper girl-friend, comes straight from the rain-soaked and neon-lighted alleys of a generic 1950s noir downtown, and Freddy Lounds is certainly the most traditional noir character in the novel.[2]
Lounds is also said to represent "the vulgarian who does not believe in anything except his own career; he does not understand the idealistic insanity of Dolarhyde or Lecter or the idealistic sanity of Graham".[3] The death of Lounds is reflected as a consequence of his having only "a modicum of understanding" of people with desires unlike his own.[3] As a tabloid photographer, it is also through Lounds that Harris "introduces a theme important to the three novels, the use of film and various optical apparatus to spy upon victims, because the antagonists of the novels need distance".[3] Through photojournalism, Lounds publicly highlights Graham's role in the investigation, thereby making Graham himself a target of the killer,[4][5] and also conveying to Graham's wife and stepson the dangerous world in which he has involved himself.[5]
Appearances[edit]
Red Dragon[edit]
In the novel Red Dragon, Lounds attempts to elicit information from Will Graham as Graham investigates serial killer Francis Dolarhyde, whom Lounds has sensationally publicized as "The Tooth Fairy". Graham despises Lounds, who had sneaked into Graham's hospital room after Graham was attacked by Lecter and taken pictures of his wounds, publishing them the next day in the Tattler. Lounds becomes aware of secret correspondence between the killer and the now-imprisoned Lecter, and sneaks onto a crime scene to get information. He is caught, however, and threatened with imprisonment unless he cooperates with the investigation. Hoping to lure Dolarhyde into a trap, Graham gives Lounds an interview in which he blatantly misrepresents the killer as an impotent homosexual and the product of incest. This infuriates Dolarhyde, who kidnaps Lounds, glues him to an antique wheelchair, shows him slides of his victims, and forces him to recant the published allegations into a tape recorder. Dolarhyde then shows his face to Lounds, bites his lips off and sets him on fire, leaving his maimed body outside the Tattler '​s offices. Lounds eventually dies in the hospital, but not before providing information to aid in the hunt for Dolarhyde. Lecter sends Graham a note congratulating him on Lounds' death, which "implies that the Tooth Fairy's murder of reporter Freddy Lounds is at least a sort of wish-fulfillment for Graham".[6]
Lounds' mutilation at Dolarhyde's hands is not shown in the film Manhunter, but is "depicted with both more restraint and more ambiguity".[7] In the film, Dolarhyde puts something in his mouth that can not clearly be seen and taunts Lounds, before "[c]utting to an exterior night shot of the killer's house... lets Lounds's distant, muffled screams tell the real story".[7]
Hannibal TV series[edit]
In the 2013 television series Hannibal, Lounds is recast as "a shifty redheaded female",[8] Fredricka "Freddie" Lounds, and is played by Lara Jean Chorostecki. The series precedes the events of Red Dragon, and the character is shown as a tabloid blogger who runs a true-crime website called TattleCrime, and who reports on some of the murders investigated by Will Graham. As with the character's appearance in Red Dragon, the character sometimes complicates these investigations, and is sometimes used to spread information in order to influence the behavior of the killers Graham is investigating.
Chorostecki has noted in interviews that the Freddie Lounds of the TV series differs from earlier portrayals in a number of ways. She observes that the change from a male character to a female character provides a great deal of room for interpretation,[9][10] and finds her character to be an equally sleazy journalist, "but in a more sophisticated way".[9] Contrary to the slovenliness of previous portrayals, Chorostecki notes that this versions of Lounds is "fresh and central and so high fashion, she always looks her best".[10] Chorostecki has also spoken about the inspiration for the reinvented character, explaining how Hannibal producer Bryan Fuller suggested that Chorostecki study the case of Rebekah Brooks, an editor of News of the World charged with in a widely reported telephone hacking conspiracy.[10][9]
Season 1[edit]
In the series, Lounds is introduced in episode 2, "Amuse-Bouche".[8] In that episode, Lounds snoops around a crime scene, and around Lecter's office, to write a story about Graham. To the chagrin of the FBI, the killer is able to use these reports to stay a step ahead of the investigation. She is caught engaging in unethical journalism on several occasions, once by Lecter, when she attempts to secretly tape record a conversation between them.[8] In the next episode, "Potage", Lounds meets the brother of Cassie Boyle, who was impaled on deer antlers, and reveals to him that the suspected killer's daughter, Abigail Hobbs, is out of the hospital. She distrusts Graham, and writes an article implying that he is able to empathize with psychopaths because he is one himself.
In episode 6, "Entrée", Jack Crawford and Dr. Alana Bloom make a deal with Lounds to write a story about Dr. Abel Gideon, a patient at the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane who has murdered a nurse. The murder was committed in a manner reminiscent of the "Chesapeake Ripper", who hasn't been active in two years, the same number of years Gideon has been incarcerated. Hoping to provoke the real Ripper into making himself visible, Bloom and Crawford have Lounds write that Gideon is believed to be the "Chesapeake Ripper".[11]
In episode 9, "Trou Normand", Lounds attempts to convince Abigail Hobbs to let her write a book about Abigail and her father, both for monetary gain and to clear Abigail of involvement in her father's crimes.[12] This is met with grave concern from Graham and Lecter, both of whom have helped Abigail cover up her "accidental murder" of Boyle's brother. In that episode, Lounds also joins Graham and Abigail for a dinner served by Lecter, but whereas the other guests dine on meat, Lounds informs them that she is a vegetarian.[13]
Lounds' involvement in publishing the Gideon story comes around in episode 11, "Rôti", when Gideon escapes from custody and begins murdering the psychiatrists who attempted to treat him. Gideon lures Lounds into a trap by pretending to be one of those psychiatrists who wishes to be interviewed by her. Gideon instead shows Lounds the psychiatrist's dead body, and forces her to write an article about him. He also makes her assist as he surgically removes organs from still-conscious hospital psychiatrist Dr. Frederick Chilton,[14] with the intention of leaving a "gift basket" for the Ripper. When the FBI arrives at the scene, Gideon has fled, and Lounds must keep Chilton alive with a respirator.
Season 2[edit]
In season 2, Lounds first appears in episode 3, "Hassun", as a witness in Graham's murder trial. She falsely testifies that Abigail Hobbs had told her that she was afraid of Graham, but Graham's attorney elicits that fact that Lounds has been sued for libel six times, and has settled in each case.[15] Lounds appears more prominently in episode 5, "Mukōzuke". An anonymous tip brings Lounds back to the observatory she and Chilton were taken to by Abel Gideon, where she finds the body of FBI agent Beverly Katz, sectioned vertically and displayed in tableau. When Graham is brought to the crime scene, Lounds photographs him being removed from an FBI van in restraints. Later, when Lecter visits the prison to interview Gideon, Lounds photographs him as he comes out of the prison, prompting Lecter to again chastise her for being rude. Lounds then interviews Graham, who agrees to give her exclusive rights to his life story, in order to persuade her to write an article through which Graham can contact the killer of the bailiff and the judge at his trial.[16]
In episode 10, "Naka-Choko", Graham meets with Lounds to fulfill his obligation to give her his life story, and says she still believes Graham's story of Lecter being the real Chesapeake Ripper, and that she will never let go of the death of Abigail Hobbs. Lounds also approaches Alana Bloom for an interview, explaining that a recently discovered murder victim (Randall Tier) is the fourth ex-patient of Lecter's to have been murdered, and suggesting that Graham and Lecter are killing together. Learning of Lounds' suspicions from Bloom, Lecter waits in Lounds' apartment to kill her. Concurrently, Lounds arrives at Graham's house and investigates his locked barn; inside, she finds Tier's bloodied animal suit, along with his jawbone in Graham's meat stores. Graham then appears and, when Lounds flees and calls Crawford, Graham overpowers her. When Crawford later shares Lounds' phone call - only unintelligible screams - Graham notes he invited her to an interview that she failed to attend. Joining Lecter for dinner, Graham provides the meat; when Graham is vague about the meat's origin, Lecter notes it isn't pig when they're eating, to which Graham explains it is long pig.[17] In Episode 11, "Ko No Mono", a flaming body in a wheelchair rolls into Lounds' parking space, and coroners identify the body as that of Lounds. A funeral is held, but it is later discovered that the body has been dug up and arranged (with some parts of other bodies) in the form of the Hindu god Shiva. At the end of the episode, however, it is revealed that Lounds is still alive, and is conspiring with Graham and Crawford to draw Lecter out.[18]
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c d Thomas Harris, Red Dragon (1981), p. 147-148.
2.Jump up ^ Davide Mana, "This Is the Blind Leading the Blind", in Benjamin Szumskyj, ed., Dissecting Hannibal Lecter: Essays on the Novels of Thomas Harris (2008), p. 95, isbn=0786432756.
3.^ Jump up to: a b c Robert H. Waugh, "The Butterfly and the Beast: The Imprisoned Soul in Thomas Harris's Lecter Trilogy", in Benjamin Szumskyj, ed., Dissecting Hannibal Lecter: Essays on the Novels of Thomas Harris (2008), p. 71, isbn=0786432756.
4.Jump up ^ Philip L. Simpson, Psycho Paths: Tracking the Serial Killer Through Contemporary American Film and Fiction (2000), p. 102, isbn=080932329X.
5.^ Jump up to: a b Mark E. Wildermuth, Blood in the Moonlight: Michael Mann and Information Age Cinema (2005), p. 99-100.
6.Jump up ^ Philip L. Simpson, Psycho Paths: Tracking the Serial Killer Through Contemporary American Film and Fiction (2000), p. 89, isbn=080932329X.
7.^ Jump up to: a b Daniel O'Brien, The Hannibal Files: The Unauthorized Guide to the Hannibal Lector Trilogy (2001), p. 51, isbn=1903111196.
8.^ Jump up to: a b c Ricky da Conceição, "Hannibal, Ep.1.02: “Amuse-bouche,” one of the most effective thrillers on TV", Sound on Sight (April 12, 2013).
9.^ Jump up to: a b c "'In the Belly of the Beast': Actress Lara Jean Chorostecki Talks About Her New Role in NBC's Hannibal". Toronto Verve. April 3, 2013.
10.^ Jump up to: a b c Storrow, Holly (March 23, 2013). "An interview with ‘Hannibal’ star Lara Jean Chorostecki". The Daily Quirk.
11.Jump up ^ Ricky da Conceição, "Hannibal, Ep.1.06: “Entrée” raises goose bumps and a few questions about the future of the series", Sound on Sight (May 3, 2013).
12.Jump up ^ Ricky da Conceição, "Hannibal, Ep.1.09: “Trou Normand,” a nearly flawless cohesion of visual poetry", Sound on Sight (May 24, 2013).
13.Jump up ^ Jennifer Wolfe, "Hannibal Lecter's meals: an all-consuming project", CNN (May 31, 2013).
14.Jump up ^ Ricky da Conceição, "Hannibal Ep 1.11 “Rôti” and breaking down Will Graham’s dreams", Sound on Sight (June 7, 2013).
15.Jump up ^ Kevin Fitzpatrick, "‘Hannibal’ Review: “Hassun”", Screen Crush (March 15, 2014).
16.Jump up ^ Josie Rhodes Cook, "'Hannibal' Recap: Will's Dangerous Decision", Buddy TV (March 28, 2014).
17.Jump up ^ Josie Rhodes Cook, "'Hannibal' Recap: Boundaries are Crossed", Buddy TV (May 2, 2014).
18.Jump up ^ Josie Rhodes Cook, "'Hannibal' Recap: The Secret's Out", Buddy TV (May 9, 2014).
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##IMDB page on the character, Freddie Lounds


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Freddy Lounds
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Freddy Lounds
Hannibal Tetralogy character
Freddy Lounds.jpg
Three on-screen versions of Freddy Lounds (clockwise from top left): Stephen Lang, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Lara Jean Chorostecki.

Created by
Thomas Harris
Portrayed by
Stephen Lang
 (Manhunter)
Philip Seymour Hoffman
 (Red Dragon)
Lara Jean Chorostecki
 (Hannibal)
Information

Gender
Male (novel, films), Female (TV series)
Occupation
Tabloid journalist
Nationality
American
Freddy Lounds (or Fredricka "Freddie" Lounds) is a fictional character in the Hannibal Lecter series, created by author Thomas Harris. Lounds first appears in the 1981 novel Red Dragon. Lounds appeared in the 1986 film Manhunter, which was based on the novel, and was played in that adaptation by Stephen Lang. The character did not appear in the 1991 sequel, The Silence of the Lambs, but was again portrayed in the 2002 film Red Dragon, this time by Philip Seymour Hoffman. In the 2013 television series Hannibal, Lounds was recast as a woman, Fredricka "Freddie" Lounds, played by Lara Jean Chorostecki.


Contents  [hide]
1 Character overview
2 Appearances 2.1 Red Dragon
2.2 Hannibal TV series 2.2.1 Season 1
2.2.2 Season 2

3 References
4 External links

Character overview[edit]
Harris describes Lounds as "lumpy and ugly and small", with "buck teeth", and whose "rat eyes had the sheen of spit on asphalt".[1] Harris describes Lounds as having "the longing need to be noticed that is often miscalled ego",[1] sharpened by frustrated ambition:

He had worked in straight journalism for ten years when he realized that no one would ever send him to the White House. He saw that his publishers would wear his legs out, use him until it was time for him to become a broken-down old drunk manning a dead-end desk, drifting inevitably toward cirrhosis or a mattress fire.
 They wanted the information he could get, but they didn't want Freddy. They paid him top scale, which is not very much money if you have to buy women. They patted his back and told him he had a lot of balls and they refused to put his name on a parking place.[1]
Resentful of this treatment, Lounds goes into tabloid journalism, receiving much higher pay and better treatment for writing popular but factually questionable news stories.[1] Lounds has been characterized by reviewers as a film noir throwback:

Noir tropes appear again concerning the character of Freddy Lounds, a sleazy journalist that's too good for the trashy job he's doing, Lounds is burned by ambition and by desire for vindication in front of those colleagues that look down upon his tabloid-related work. Everything in the character of Lounds, from his disregard for truth masquerading as desire to serve the public, down to his stripper girl-friend, comes straight from the rain-soaked and neon-lighted alleys of a generic 1950s noir downtown, and Freddy Lounds is certainly the most traditional noir character in the novel.[2]
Lounds is also said to represent "the vulgarian who does not believe in anything except his own career; he does not understand the idealistic insanity of Dolarhyde or Lecter or the idealistic sanity of Graham".[3] The death of Lounds is reflected as a consequence of his having only "a modicum of understanding" of people with desires unlike his own.[3] As a tabloid photographer, it is also through Lounds that Harris "introduces a theme important to the three novels, the use of film and various optical apparatus to spy upon victims, because the antagonists of the novels need distance".[3] Through photojournalism, Lounds publicly highlights Graham's role in the investigation, thereby making Graham himself a target of the killer,[4][5] and also conveying to Graham's wife and stepson the dangerous world in which he has involved himself.[5]
Appearances[edit]
Red Dragon[edit]
In the novel Red Dragon, Lounds attempts to elicit information from Will Graham as Graham investigates serial killer Francis Dolarhyde, whom Lounds has sensationally publicized as "The Tooth Fairy". Graham despises Lounds, who had sneaked into Graham's hospital room after Graham was attacked by Lecter and taken pictures of his wounds, publishing them the next day in the Tattler. Lounds becomes aware of secret correspondence between the killer and the now-imprisoned Lecter, and sneaks onto a crime scene to get information. He is caught, however, and threatened with imprisonment unless he cooperates with the investigation. Hoping to lure Dolarhyde into a trap, Graham gives Lounds an interview in which he blatantly misrepresents the killer as an impotent homosexual and the product of incest. This infuriates Dolarhyde, who kidnaps Lounds, glues him to an antique wheelchair, shows him slides of his victims, and forces him to recant the published allegations into a tape recorder. Dolarhyde then shows his face to Lounds, bites his lips off and sets him on fire, leaving his maimed body outside the Tattler '​s offices. Lounds eventually dies in the hospital, but not before providing information to aid in the hunt for Dolarhyde. Lecter sends Graham a note congratulating him on Lounds' death, which "implies that the Tooth Fairy's murder of reporter Freddy Lounds is at least a sort of wish-fulfillment for Graham".[6]
Lounds' mutilation at Dolarhyde's hands is not shown in the film Manhunter, but is "depicted with both more restraint and more ambiguity".[7] In the film, Dolarhyde puts something in his mouth that can not clearly be seen and taunts Lounds, before "[c]utting to an exterior night shot of the killer's house... lets Lounds's distant, muffled screams tell the real story".[7]
Hannibal TV series[edit]
In the 2013 television series Hannibal, Lounds is recast as "a shifty redheaded female",[8] Fredricka "Freddie" Lounds, and is played by Lara Jean Chorostecki. The series precedes the events of Red Dragon, and the character is shown as a tabloid blogger who runs a true-crime website called TattleCrime, and who reports on some of the murders investigated by Will Graham. As with the character's appearance in Red Dragon, the character sometimes complicates these investigations, and is sometimes used to spread information in order to influence the behavior of the killers Graham is investigating.
Chorostecki has noted in interviews that the Freddie Lounds of the TV series differs from earlier portrayals in a number of ways. She observes that the change from a male character to a female character provides a great deal of room for interpretation,[9][10] and finds her character to be an equally sleazy journalist, "but in a more sophisticated way".[9] Contrary to the slovenliness of previous portrayals, Chorostecki notes that this versions of Lounds is "fresh and central and so high fashion, she always looks her best".[10] Chorostecki has also spoken about the inspiration for the reinvented character, explaining how Hannibal producer Bryan Fuller suggested that Chorostecki study the case of Rebekah Brooks, an editor of News of the World charged with in a widely reported telephone hacking conspiracy.[10][9]
Season 1[edit]
In the series, Lounds is introduced in episode 2, "Amuse-Bouche".[8] In that episode, Lounds snoops around a crime scene, and around Lecter's office, to write a story about Graham. To the chagrin of the FBI, the killer is able to use these reports to stay a step ahead of the investigation. She is caught engaging in unethical journalism on several occasions, once by Lecter, when she attempts to secretly tape record a conversation between them.[8] In the next episode, "Potage", Lounds meets the brother of Cassie Boyle, who was impaled on deer antlers, and reveals to him that the suspected killer's daughter, Abigail Hobbs, is out of the hospital. She distrusts Graham, and writes an article implying that he is able to empathize with psychopaths because he is one himself.
In episode 6, "Entrée", Jack Crawford and Dr. Alana Bloom make a deal with Lounds to write a story about Dr. Abel Gideon, a patient at the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane who has murdered a nurse. The murder was committed in a manner reminiscent of the "Chesapeake Ripper", who hasn't been active in two years, the same number of years Gideon has been incarcerated. Hoping to provoke the real Ripper into making himself visible, Bloom and Crawford have Lounds write that Gideon is believed to be the "Chesapeake Ripper".[11]
In episode 9, "Trou Normand", Lounds attempts to convince Abigail Hobbs to let her write a book about Abigail and her father, both for monetary gain and to clear Abigail of involvement in her father's crimes.[12] This is met with grave concern from Graham and Lecter, both of whom have helped Abigail cover up her "accidental murder" of Boyle's brother. In that episode, Lounds also joins Graham and Abigail for a dinner served by Lecter, but whereas the other guests dine on meat, Lounds informs them that she is a vegetarian.[13]
Lounds' involvement in publishing the Gideon story comes around in episode 11, "Rôti", when Gideon escapes from custody and begins murdering the psychiatrists who attempted to treat him. Gideon lures Lounds into a trap by pretending to be one of those psychiatrists who wishes to be interviewed by her. Gideon instead shows Lounds the psychiatrist's dead body, and forces her to write an article about him. He also makes her assist as he surgically removes organs from still-conscious hospital psychiatrist Dr. Frederick Chilton,[14] with the intention of leaving a "gift basket" for the Ripper. When the FBI arrives at the scene, Gideon has fled, and Lounds must keep Chilton alive with a respirator.
Season 2[edit]
In season 2, Lounds first appears in episode 3, "Hassun", as a witness in Graham's murder trial. She falsely testifies that Abigail Hobbs had told her that she was afraid of Graham, but Graham's attorney elicits that fact that Lounds has been sued for libel six times, and has settled in each case.[15] Lounds appears more prominently in episode 5, "Mukōzuke". An anonymous tip brings Lounds back to the observatory she and Chilton were taken to by Abel Gideon, where she finds the body of FBI agent Beverly Katz, sectioned vertically and displayed in tableau. When Graham is brought to the crime scene, Lounds photographs him being removed from an FBI van in restraints. Later, when Lecter visits the prison to interview Gideon, Lounds photographs him as he comes out of the prison, prompting Lecter to again chastise her for being rude. Lounds then interviews Graham, who agrees to give her exclusive rights to his life story, in order to persuade her to write an article through which Graham can contact the killer of the bailiff and the judge at his trial.[16]
In episode 10, "Naka-Choko", Graham meets with Lounds to fulfill his obligation to give her his life story, and says she still believes Graham's story of Lecter being the real Chesapeake Ripper, and that she will never let go of the death of Abigail Hobbs. Lounds also approaches Alana Bloom for an interview, explaining that a recently discovered murder victim (Randall Tier) is the fourth ex-patient of Lecter's to have been murdered, and suggesting that Graham and Lecter are killing together. Learning of Lounds' suspicions from Bloom, Lecter waits in Lounds' apartment to kill her. Concurrently, Lounds arrives at Graham's house and investigates his locked barn; inside, she finds Tier's bloodied animal suit, along with his jawbone in Graham's meat stores. Graham then appears and, when Lounds flees and calls Crawford, Graham overpowers her. When Crawford later shares Lounds' phone call - only unintelligible screams - Graham notes he invited her to an interview that she failed to attend. Joining Lecter for dinner, Graham provides the meat; when Graham is vague about the meat's origin, Lecter notes it isn't pig when they're eating, to which Graham explains it is long pig.[17] In Episode 11, "Ko No Mono", a flaming body in a wheelchair rolls into Lounds' parking space, and coroners identify the body as that of Lounds. A funeral is held, but it is later discovered that the body has been dug up and arranged (with some parts of other bodies) in the form of the Hindu god Shiva. At the end of the episode, however, it is revealed that Lounds is still alive, and is conspiring with Graham and Crawford to draw Lecter out.[18]
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c d Thomas Harris, Red Dragon (1981), p. 147-148.
2.Jump up ^ Davide Mana, "This Is the Blind Leading the Blind", in Benjamin Szumskyj, ed., Dissecting Hannibal Lecter: Essays on the Novels of Thomas Harris (2008), p. 95, isbn=0786432756.
3.^ Jump up to: a b c Robert H. Waugh, "The Butterfly and the Beast: The Imprisoned Soul in Thomas Harris's Lecter Trilogy", in Benjamin Szumskyj, ed., Dissecting Hannibal Lecter: Essays on the Novels of Thomas Harris (2008), p. 71, isbn=0786432756.
4.Jump up ^ Philip L. Simpson, Psycho Paths: Tracking the Serial Killer Through Contemporary American Film and Fiction (2000), p. 102, isbn=080932329X.
5.^ Jump up to: a b Mark E. Wildermuth, Blood in the Moonlight: Michael Mann and Information Age Cinema (2005), p. 99-100.
6.Jump up ^ Philip L. Simpson, Psycho Paths: Tracking the Serial Killer Through Contemporary American Film and Fiction (2000), p. 89, isbn=080932329X.
7.^ Jump up to: a b Daniel O'Brien, The Hannibal Files: The Unauthorized Guide to the Hannibal Lector Trilogy (2001), p. 51, isbn=1903111196.
8.^ Jump up to: a b c Ricky da Conceição, "Hannibal, Ep.1.02: “Amuse-bouche,” one of the most effective thrillers on TV", Sound on Sight (April 12, 2013).
9.^ Jump up to: a b c "'In the Belly of the Beast': Actress Lara Jean Chorostecki Talks About Her New Role in NBC's Hannibal". Toronto Verve. April 3, 2013.
10.^ Jump up to: a b c Storrow, Holly (March 23, 2013). "An interview with ‘Hannibal’ star Lara Jean Chorostecki". The Daily Quirk.
11.Jump up ^ Ricky da Conceição, "Hannibal, Ep.1.06: “Entrée” raises goose bumps and a few questions about the future of the series", Sound on Sight (May 3, 2013).
12.Jump up ^ Ricky da Conceição, "Hannibal, Ep.1.09: “Trou Normand,” a nearly flawless cohesion of visual poetry", Sound on Sight (May 24, 2013).
13.Jump up ^ Jennifer Wolfe, "Hannibal Lecter's meals: an all-consuming project", CNN (May 31, 2013).
14.Jump up ^ Ricky da Conceição, "Hannibal Ep 1.11 “Rôti” and breaking down Will Graham’s dreams", Sound on Sight (June 7, 2013).
15.Jump up ^ Kevin Fitzpatrick, "‘Hannibal’ Review: “Hassun”", Screen Crush (March 15, 2014).
16.Jump up ^ Josie Rhodes Cook, "'Hannibal' Recap: Will's Dangerous Decision", Buddy TV (March 28, 2014).
17.Jump up ^ Josie Rhodes Cook, "'Hannibal' Recap: Boundaries are Crossed", Buddy TV (May 2, 2014).
18.Jump up ^ Josie Rhodes Cook, "'Hannibal' Recap: The Secret's Out", Buddy TV (May 9, 2014).
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Francis Dolarhyde
Hannibal Tetralogy character
Francisdolarhydereddragon.jpg
Ralph Fiennes as Francis Dolarhyde in Red Dragon.

Created by
Thomas Harris
Portrayed by
Tom Noonan
 (Manhunter)
Ralph Fiennes
 (Red Dragon)
Richard Armitage
 (Hannibal)
Voiced by
Frank Langella
 (Red Dragon, deleted scenes)
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Nickname(s)
The Tooth Fairy
 Mr. D
 D.
Aliases
The Great Red Dragon
Gender
Male
Francis Dolarhyde is a fictional character and the primary antagonist of Thomas Harris' 1981 novel Red Dragon.[1][2]


Contents  [hide]
1 Character overview
2 Character history
3 Murders
4 Film adaptations
5 Television adaptation
6 References in other media
7 References

Character overview[edit]
Dolarhyde is a serial killer who murders entire families. He is nicknamed "The Tooth Fairy" due to his tendency to bite his victims' bodies, the uncommon size and sharpness of his teeth and other apparent oral fixations. He refers to his other self as "The Great Red Dragon" after William Blake's painting The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun.[3] Dolarhyde is diagnosable with Schizoid personality disorder with strong antisocial and narcissistic features.
Character history[edit]



The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun – the painting that Dolarhyde is obsessed with.
Dolarhyde's backstory is supplied in the novel and alluded to in the film adaptations. Born in Springfield, Missouri on June 14, 1938 with a cleft lip and palate, he is abandoned by his mother and cared for in an orphanage until the age of five. He is then taken in by his grandmother, who subjects him to severe emotional and physical abuse. He begins torturing animals at a young age to vent his anger over the abuse. After his grandmother becomes afflicted with dementia, Dolarhyde is turned over to the care of his estranged mother and her husband in St. Louis; he is further abused by this family and is sent back to the orphanage after being caught hanging his stepsister's cat. After being caught breaking into a house at age 17, he enlists in the United States Army. While on his tour in Japan and neighboring countries, he learns how to develop film and receives cosmetic surgery for his cleft palate. He later gets a job with the Gateway Corp. as the production chief in their home movies division.
Dolarhyde is a bodybuilder and exceptionally strong; it is mentioned in the novel that even in his early forties, Dolarhyde could have successfully competed in regional bodybuilding competitions.
Dolarhyde begins his killing spree by murdering two families within a month after discovering The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun, which gives voice to his alternate personality. He commits both crimes on or near a full moon; it is hinted in the book that he had killed before that, however. He chooses his victims through the home movies that he edits as a film processing technician; it is implied that he selects his victims as matches to his step-family. He believes that by killing people — or "transforming" them, as he calls it — he can fully "become" the Dragon. On a trip to Hong Kong during his army service, he has a large dragon tattooed across his back and had two sets of false teeth made; one of them normal for his day-to-day life, the other distorted and razor sharp for his killings, based on a mold of his grandmother's teeth. The tabloid The National Tattler nicknames him "The Tooth Fairy" for his tendency to bite his victims.
FBI profiler Will Graham is asked to return from early retirement to aid in his capture. Graham had previously captured Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a cannibalistic psychiatrist and serial killer, whom Dolarhyde idolizes. Graham visits Lecter in the Baltimore State Forensic Hospital for the Criminally Insane, hoping that the doctor would be able to help identify the killer or at least assist in creating a psychological profile. Following this meeting, Lecter "helps" by sending Dolarhyde Graham's address in code with the note, "Kill them all." Dolarhyde is foiled when FBI Director Jack Crawford intercepts the message in time to warn Graham's family and the local sheriff.
Dolarhyde reads The National Tattler, a tabloid, and collects clippings about Lecter's arrest and trial, about Graham, and about his own murders. In an attempt to provoke Dolarhyde out of hiding, Graham gives an interview to Freddy Lounds of The Tattler, in which he refers to "The Tooth Fairy" as impotent, homosexual, and possibly the product of incest; he also implies that Lecter is offended that the killer considers himself Lecter's equal. The interview enrages Dolarhyde, who kidnaps Lounds, intimidates him into recanting his article on tape, and then bites his lips off. Dolarhyde returns to Chicago, sets Lounds on fire, and rolls him down an incline into The Tattler '​s parking garage.
Dolarhyde develops a relationship with a blind female coworker named Reba McClane. The relationship quells his murderous impulses at first, but her presence only infuriates the other part of Dolarhyde's psyche. Desperate now to retain control of himself, Dolarhyde flies to New York, where he devours the original Blake watercolor, believing that doing so would destroy the Dragon. This plan fails, though, as his ingestion of the painting only makes the Dragon angrier. Dolarhyde plans to kill McClane and himself by setting his house on fire with her in it. He relents at the last minute, however, and apparently shoots himself in the face with a shotgun.
It turns out, however, that he shot the corpse of a gas station attendant named Arnold Lang who had previously offended him. Being blind, McClane was fooled when she felt the shattered head of the corpse. Dolarhyde comes to Graham's home in Florida, where he stabs Graham in the face, disfiguring him. Graham's wife Molly shoots and kills Dolarhyde with a gun that Graham had given her.
Murders[edit]
Dolarhyde's modus operandi is to select a family based on home videos he has access to at his job as a video editor. He selects families in which the mother has blonde hair, because this resembles "the woman clothed in the sun" from the Great Red Dragon paintings. He also picks families with large, wooded back yards, so he can hide in a tree and observe them before the killing. Dolarhyde uses details from these home videos to plan out his infiltration of their houses, i.e. bringing glass knives and bolt cutters to quietly bypass sliding glass doors and padlocks.
Disgusted with his own appearance, Dolarhyde is obsessed with seeing, watching, fixating on voyeurism (which is possibly what attracted him to work in photo development and film editing). Sight is his primary means of sensory input, obsessing over it to the exclusion of his other senses.
After selecting a target family, Dolarhyde will observe them for some time while hidden in a tree within their yard, timing his ultimate attack to coincide with a full moon. The police think this might simply be so he has more light to navigate his home invasion, though they also speculate that it might be some fixation he has on lunar cycles. Dr. Lecter speculates that he enjoys basking in the moonlight outdoors after his murders while covered in blood. A few days before the home invasion, Dolarhyde will discreetly kill the family's pet by stabbing it, leave it where they will find it, then secretly watch when they later bury it in their yard. Graham says this is basically foreplay for Dolarhyde, warming up to the main kill.
On the night of the full moon (give or take a day or two, depending on the family's schedule) Dolarhyde will infiltrate the house. His attacks during the home invasion are not rage-killings but methodically executed. First, he will shoot the family's father dead, to neutralize the main threat to him: he will immediately shoot the family's mother next to him, but in the stomach, so she is incapacitated but can see what he is doing. He will then go to the children's rooms and shoot each of them dead as well: he uses a silenced pistol so the children will not hear their parents being shot. Afterwards, he will drag the corpses of the father and children into the master bedroom and line them up along a wall, like dolls, as an "audience" to watch as he rapes the mother's corpse. To make them seem more lifelike, he will put broken shards of mirror in the family's eye-sockets – which he obtains by smashing mirrors in the house. He makes it a point to smash every mirror in the house, however, more than he needs to take the shards, because he is disgusted with his own appearance.
Dolarhyde wears latex gloves during his kills, and while he takes them off when he rapes the mother's corpse, he is careful enough to wipe his fingerprints from her when he finishes (though he crucially forgot that his fingerprints would also be left on the mother's eyeballs). Despite this attention to destroying fingerprints, Dolarhyde takes no precautions against leaving his semen in her corpse, or his saliva on her – wearing his modified, distorted and sharp dentures, Dolarhyde bites the corpse multiple times, as part of his oral fixation. This allows the police to determine his blood type, though they are baffled at the reconstructed bite model from his teeth marks (not realizing he was wearing custom dentures).
Film adaptations[edit]



 Tom Noonan as Francis Dolarhyde in Manhunter.
Dolarhyde has been twice portrayed in film adaptations of Harris' novel: By Tom Noonan in 1986's Manhunter (in which he was called 'Dollarhyde'), and by Ralph Fiennes in 2002's Red Dragon.[4] In deleted scenes in Red Dragon, Dolarhyde's Great Red Dragon personality is voiced by Frank Langella.
In Manhunter, Dolarhyde was filmed two different ways; shirtless with an elaborate tattoo covering his upper torso and back (as opposed to Dolarhyde's tattoos in the book, which only covered his back), and with a shirt on thus covering his tattoo. The former was not used in the finished film, partly because the tattoos were considered too distracting and similar to the ones that the Yakuza wore. The look, however, appeared on promotional photos for the film.
In the first film, Graham kills Dolarhyde, while in the second, both he and his wife have a hand in Dolarhyde's death, with Graham firing the majority of the shots in a crossfire with Dolarhyde, and his wife finishing him off as Dolarhyde rises back up, even with the bullet wounds.
Cinevistaramascope voted Francis Dolarhyde the #18th Scariest Characters in Cinema with respect to both Tom Noonan's and Ralph Fiennes' respective portrayals.[5]
Television adaptation[edit]
Dolarhyde is projected to appear as a major antagonist in Hannibal, the 2013 television adaptation of the book series. As creator Bryan Fuller explained during the run of season 1, his general outline for the series is that the first three seasons will cover the relationship between Graham and Lecter, culminating in Graham capturing Lecter. Season 4 will then adapt the events of Red Dragon, and feature Dolarhyde, though he has not been cast as of the end of season 1, given that the show has not been confirmed to last at least four seasons. However, given how important Dolarhyde is going to be in later seasons, Fuller included an off-screen cameo of Dolarhyde in the opening scene of the first episode, "Apéritif", when Graham is reconstructing the crime scene in a house. Graham concludes that the killer intentionally shot his victims through the throat in such a way that they would die slowly, so they could see what he was doing. Fuller confirmed in interviews that this is an early kill of Dolarhyde's, before he perfected his full pattern of home invasion and decorating corpses with pieces of mirrors.[6] On January 13, 2015, The Hobbit alumn Richard Armitage was cast as Dolarhyde and is set to appear in season 3 but won't make his first appearance until episode 8.[7]
References in other media[edit]
In the South Park season eight episode "Cartman's Incredible Gift", Eric Cartman fakes psychic powers and pretends to identify a serial killer who has cut off and collected the left hands of his victims. The real killer, present at each crime scene and furious that he is being ignored, kidnaps Cartman to subjects him to slideshow of his transformation (albeit one of boring vacation slides). When the police arrive at the killer's house to question him, the killer answers the door in his underwear and identifies himself as "God".
DollaHyde is the name of a client company on the TV series House of Lies.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0001400/?ref_=tt_cl_t3
2.Jump up ^ http://www.serialkillercalendar.com/bio-of-FRANCIS-DOLARHYDE.html
3.Jump up ^ The Great Red Dragon Paintings
4.Jump up ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289765/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
5.Jump up ^ http://cinevistaramascope.blogspot.in/2011/10/scariest-characters-in-cinema-18.html
6.Jump up ^ Bernstein, Abbie (June 13, 2013). "Exclusive Interview: HANNIBAL news on Season 1, Season 2 and beyond from showrunner Bryan Fuller". Assignment X. Retrieved June 21, 2013.
7.Jump up ^ Slezak, Michael (January 13, 2015). "Hannibal Recruits The Hobbit Star Richard Armitage For Killer Role". TV Line. Retrieved January 13, 2015.


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Francis Dolarhyde
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Francis Dolarhyde
Hannibal Tetralogy character
Francisdolarhydereddragon.jpg
Ralph Fiennes as Francis Dolarhyde in Red Dragon.

Created by
Thomas Harris
Portrayed by
Tom Noonan
 (Manhunter)
Ralph Fiennes
 (Red Dragon)
Richard Armitage
 (Hannibal)
Voiced by
Frank Langella
 (Red Dragon, deleted scenes)
Information

Nickname(s)
The Tooth Fairy
 Mr. D
 D.
Aliases
The Great Red Dragon
Gender
Male
Francis Dolarhyde is a fictional character and the primary antagonist of Thomas Harris' 1981 novel Red Dragon.[1][2]


Contents  [hide]
1 Character overview
2 Character history
3 Murders
4 Film adaptations
5 Television adaptation
6 References in other media
7 References

Character overview[edit]
Dolarhyde is a serial killer who murders entire families. He is nicknamed "The Tooth Fairy" due to his tendency to bite his victims' bodies, the uncommon size and sharpness of his teeth and other apparent oral fixations. He refers to his other self as "The Great Red Dragon" after William Blake's painting The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun.[3] Dolarhyde is diagnosable with Schizoid personality disorder with strong antisocial and narcissistic features.
Character history[edit]



The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun – the painting that Dolarhyde is obsessed with.
Dolarhyde's backstory is supplied in the novel and alluded to in the film adaptations. Born in Springfield, Missouri on June 14, 1938 with a cleft lip and palate, he is abandoned by his mother and cared for in an orphanage until the age of five. He is then taken in by his grandmother, who subjects him to severe emotional and physical abuse. He begins torturing animals at a young age to vent his anger over the abuse. After his grandmother becomes afflicted with dementia, Dolarhyde is turned over to the care of his estranged mother and her husband in St. Louis; he is further abused by this family and is sent back to the orphanage after being caught hanging his stepsister's cat. After being caught breaking into a house at age 17, he enlists in the United States Army. While on his tour in Japan and neighboring countries, he learns how to develop film and receives cosmetic surgery for his cleft palate. He later gets a job with the Gateway Corp. as the production chief in their home movies division.
Dolarhyde is a bodybuilder and exceptionally strong; it is mentioned in the novel that even in his early forties, Dolarhyde could have successfully competed in regional bodybuilding competitions.
Dolarhyde begins his killing spree by murdering two families within a month after discovering The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun, which gives voice to his alternate personality. He commits both crimes on or near a full moon; it is hinted in the book that he had killed before that, however. He chooses his victims through the home movies that he edits as a film processing technician; it is implied that he selects his victims as matches to his step-family. He believes that by killing people — or "transforming" them, as he calls it — he can fully "become" the Dragon. On a trip to Hong Kong during his army service, he has a large dragon tattooed across his back and had two sets of false teeth made; one of them normal for his day-to-day life, the other distorted and razor sharp for his killings, based on a mold of his grandmother's teeth. The tabloid The National Tattler nicknames him "The Tooth Fairy" for his tendency to bite his victims.
FBI profiler Will Graham is asked to return from early retirement to aid in his capture. Graham had previously captured Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a cannibalistic psychiatrist and serial killer, whom Dolarhyde idolizes. Graham visits Lecter in the Baltimore State Forensic Hospital for the Criminally Insane, hoping that the doctor would be able to help identify the killer or at least assist in creating a psychological profile. Following this meeting, Lecter "helps" by sending Dolarhyde Graham's address in code with the note, "Kill them all." Dolarhyde is foiled when FBI Director Jack Crawford intercepts the message in time to warn Graham's family and the local sheriff.
Dolarhyde reads The National Tattler, a tabloid, and collects clippings about Lecter's arrest and trial, about Graham, and about his own murders. In an attempt to provoke Dolarhyde out of hiding, Graham gives an interview to Freddy Lounds of The Tattler, in which he refers to "The Tooth Fairy" as impotent, homosexual, and possibly the product of incest; he also implies that Lecter is offended that the killer considers himself Lecter's equal. The interview enrages Dolarhyde, who kidnaps Lounds, intimidates him into recanting his article on tape, and then bites his lips off. Dolarhyde returns to Chicago, sets Lounds on fire, and rolls him down an incline into The Tattler '​s parking garage.
Dolarhyde develops a relationship with a blind female coworker named Reba McClane. The relationship quells his murderous impulses at first, but her presence only infuriates the other part of Dolarhyde's psyche. Desperate now to retain control of himself, Dolarhyde flies to New York, where he devours the original Blake watercolor, believing that doing so would destroy the Dragon. This plan fails, though, as his ingestion of the painting only makes the Dragon angrier. Dolarhyde plans to kill McClane and himself by setting his house on fire with her in it. He relents at the last minute, however, and apparently shoots himself in the face with a shotgun.
It turns out, however, that he shot the corpse of a gas station attendant named Arnold Lang who had previously offended him. Being blind, McClane was fooled when she felt the shattered head of the corpse. Dolarhyde comes to Graham's home in Florida, where he stabs Graham in the face, disfiguring him. Graham's wife Molly shoots and kills Dolarhyde with a gun that Graham had given her.
Murders[edit]
Dolarhyde's modus operandi is to select a family based on home videos he has access to at his job as a video editor. He selects families in which the mother has blonde hair, because this resembles "the woman clothed in the sun" from the Great Red Dragon paintings. He also picks families with large, wooded back yards, so he can hide in a tree and observe them before the killing. Dolarhyde uses details from these home videos to plan out his infiltration of their houses, i.e. bringing glass knives and bolt cutters to quietly bypass sliding glass doors and padlocks.
Disgusted with his own appearance, Dolarhyde is obsessed with seeing, watching, fixating on voyeurism (which is possibly what attracted him to work in photo development and film editing). Sight is his primary means of sensory input, obsessing over it to the exclusion of his other senses.
After selecting a target family, Dolarhyde will observe them for some time while hidden in a tree within their yard, timing his ultimate attack to coincide with a full moon. The police think this might simply be so he has more light to navigate his home invasion, though they also speculate that it might be some fixation he has on lunar cycles. Dr. Lecter speculates that he enjoys basking in the moonlight outdoors after his murders while covered in blood. A few days before the home invasion, Dolarhyde will discreetly kill the family's pet by stabbing it, leave it where they will find it, then secretly watch when they later bury it in their yard. Graham says this is basically foreplay for Dolarhyde, warming up to the main kill.
On the night of the full moon (give or take a day or two, depending on the family's schedule) Dolarhyde will infiltrate the house. His attacks during the home invasion are not rage-killings but methodically executed. First, he will shoot the family's father dead, to neutralize the main threat to him: he will immediately shoot the family's mother next to him, but in the stomach, so she is incapacitated but can see what he is doing. He will then go to the children's rooms and shoot each of them dead as well: he uses a silenced pistol so the children will not hear their parents being shot. Afterwards, he will drag the corpses of the father and children into the master bedroom and line them up along a wall, like dolls, as an "audience" to watch as he rapes the mother's corpse. To make them seem more lifelike, he will put broken shards of mirror in the family's eye-sockets – which he obtains by smashing mirrors in the house. He makes it a point to smash every mirror in the house, however, more than he needs to take the shards, because he is disgusted with his own appearance.
Dolarhyde wears latex gloves during his kills, and while he takes them off when he rapes the mother's corpse, he is careful enough to wipe his fingerprints from her when he finishes (though he crucially forgot that his fingerprints would also be left on the mother's eyeballs). Despite this attention to destroying fingerprints, Dolarhyde takes no precautions against leaving his semen in her corpse, or his saliva on her – wearing his modified, distorted and sharp dentures, Dolarhyde bites the corpse multiple times, as part of his oral fixation. This allows the police to determine his blood type, though they are baffled at the reconstructed bite model from his teeth marks (not realizing he was wearing custom dentures).
Film adaptations[edit]



 Tom Noonan as Francis Dolarhyde in Manhunter.
Dolarhyde has been twice portrayed in film adaptations of Harris' novel: By Tom Noonan in 1986's Manhunter (in which he was called 'Dollarhyde'), and by Ralph Fiennes in 2002's Red Dragon.[4] In deleted scenes in Red Dragon, Dolarhyde's Great Red Dragon personality is voiced by Frank Langella.
In Manhunter, Dolarhyde was filmed two different ways; shirtless with an elaborate tattoo covering his upper torso and back (as opposed to Dolarhyde's tattoos in the book, which only covered his back), and with a shirt on thus covering his tattoo. The former was not used in the finished film, partly because the tattoos were considered too distracting and similar to the ones that the Yakuza wore. The look, however, appeared on promotional photos for the film.
In the first film, Graham kills Dolarhyde, while in the second, both he and his wife have a hand in Dolarhyde's death, with Graham firing the majority of the shots in a crossfire with Dolarhyde, and his wife finishing him off as Dolarhyde rises back up, even with the bullet wounds.
Cinevistaramascope voted Francis Dolarhyde the #18th Scariest Characters in Cinema with respect to both Tom Noonan's and Ralph Fiennes' respective portrayals.[5]
Television adaptation[edit]
Dolarhyde is projected to appear as a major antagonist in Hannibal, the 2013 television adaptation of the book series. As creator Bryan Fuller explained during the run of season 1, his general outline for the series is that the first three seasons will cover the relationship between Graham and Lecter, culminating in Graham capturing Lecter. Season 4 will then adapt the events of Red Dragon, and feature Dolarhyde, though he has not been cast as of the end of season 1, given that the show has not been confirmed to last at least four seasons. However, given how important Dolarhyde is going to be in later seasons, Fuller included an off-screen cameo of Dolarhyde in the opening scene of the first episode, "Apéritif", when Graham is reconstructing the crime scene in a house. Graham concludes that the killer intentionally shot his victims through the throat in such a way that they would die slowly, so they could see what he was doing. Fuller confirmed in interviews that this is an early kill of Dolarhyde's, before he perfected his full pattern of home invasion and decorating corpses with pieces of mirrors.[6] On January 13, 2015, The Hobbit alumn Richard Armitage was cast as Dolarhyde and is set to appear in season 3 but won't make his first appearance until episode 8.[7]
References in other media[edit]
In the South Park season eight episode "Cartman's Incredible Gift", Eric Cartman fakes psychic powers and pretends to identify a serial killer who has cut off and collected the left hands of his victims. The real killer, present at each crime scene and furious that he is being ignored, kidnaps Cartman to subjects him to slideshow of his transformation (albeit one of boring vacation slides). When the police arrive at the killer's house to question him, the killer answers the door in his underwear and identifies himself as "God".
DollaHyde is the name of a client company on the TV series House of Lies.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0001400/?ref_=tt_cl_t3
2.Jump up ^ http://www.serialkillercalendar.com/bio-of-FRANCIS-DOLARHYDE.html
3.Jump up ^ The Great Red Dragon Paintings
4.Jump up ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289765/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
5.Jump up ^ http://cinevistaramascope.blogspot.in/2011/10/scariest-characters-in-cinema-18.html
6.Jump up ^ Bernstein, Abbie (June 13, 2013). "Exclusive Interview: HANNIBAL news on Season 1, Season 2 and beyond from showrunner Bryan Fuller". Assignment X. Retrieved June 21, 2013.
7.Jump up ^ Slezak, Michael (January 13, 2015). "Hannibal Recruits The Hobbit Star Richard Armitage For Killer Role". TV Line. Retrieved January 13, 2015.


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Jack Crawford
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Four on-screen versions of Jack Crawford (clockwise from top left): Dennis Farina, Scott Glenn, Laurence Fishburne and Harvey Keitel.

Created by
Thomas Harris
Portrayed by
Dennis Farina
 (Manhunter)
Scott Glenn
 (The Silence of the Lambs)
Harvey Keitel
 (Red Dragon)
Laurence Fishburne
 (Hannibal)
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Occupation
BHU Agent-in-Charge
Nationality
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Jack Crawford is a fictional character who appears in the Hannibal Lecter series of books by Thomas Harris, in which Crawford is the Agent-in-Charge of the Behavioral Science Unit of the FBI in Quantico, Virginia. He is modeled after John E. Douglas, who held the same position.


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1 Red Dragon
2 The Silence of the Lambs
3 Hannibal
4 Film and television adaptations
5 References

Red Dragon[edit]
Jack Crawford first appears in the novel Red Dragon, in which he calls upon Will Graham, his former protégé, for assistance in solving the murders being committed by a serial killer dubbed "The Tooth Fairy." Graham, as a profiler, has a reputation for being able to think like the criminals he hunts, thus assisting the FBI in a criminal's ultimate apprehension. Graham had retired after being attacked and nearly killed by Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a Baltimore psychiatrist he had been consulting with about a series of cannibalistic murders, after Graham intuited that Lecter was the killer he sought. Crawford convinces Graham to come out of retirement to help solve the "Tooth Fairy" murders, and soon they both realize that they would need Lecter's help again. Crawford helps shelter Graham and his family after Lecter sends the killer, Francis Dolarhyde, his old nemesis' address. With Crawford's help, Graham eventually solve the case, but Dolarhyde disfigures him before Graham kills him. Crawford feels responsible for Graham's misfortune, and resents Lecter for the rest of his life.
The Silence of the Lambs[edit]
Jack Crawford appears again in the novel The Silence of the Lambs, again investigating a serial killer. This time, the serial killer is called "Buffalo Bill", and his killing signature involves killing and skinning women. Crawford is stumped in trying to determine who Buffalo Bill is, and is forced to once again call upon Lecter for assistance. This time, however, Crawford sends an FBI trainee, Clarice Starling, to interview him. By way of information obtained from Lecter, Crawford and the FBI attempt to track down the killer, Jame Gumb. However, the address they obtain for him is out of date. Gumb had killed the employer of one of his former victims and moved into her house to use its large basement, which contains a disused and empty well. He uses the well as a makeshift holding space for his victims. Realizing that Buffalo Bill probably knew his first victim, Fredrica Bimmel, Starling sets about interviewing everyone close to her and ends up stumbling upon Gumb's house. By the time Crawford and his men arrive, Starling has singlehandedly killed Gumb and rescued his intended victim.
Throughout the novel, Crawford is struggling under a double burden, as he is caring for his terminally ill wife, Bella, at home while leading the investigation into the 'Buffalo Bill' case. Bella dies near the end of the novel.
Hannibal[edit]
Crawford appears as a relatively minor character in the book Hannibal. He is portrayed as very sympathetic toward Starling, yet increasingly distant due to failing health and his powerlessness against the corrupt bureaucrats set to destroy her career.
Film and television adaptations[edit]
The Crawford character appears in the film adaptations of Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lambs; he does not appear in the adaptation of Hannibal, although a deleted scene explains that he has died. He has been portrayed by four different actors:
##Dennis Farina in Manhunter, the 1986 film adaptation of Red Dragon.
##Scott Glenn in The Silence of the Lambs.
In the supplemental section on the special edition DVD of The Silence of the Lambs, Scott Glenn revealed that he was given an audio tape by FBI agent John Douglas as a form of research for his character. The tape was an audio recording serial killers Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris had made of themselves raping and torturing a 16-year-old girl as they drove around Los Angeles.[1] Upon questioning Douglas as to his motives for presenting these tapes, Douglas simply said to Glenn, "Now you are part of my world." This experience preyed upon Glenn's mind all throughout filming, and he refused to return to the role in Hannibal because he didn't want to place himself in such a mindset again. To this day, he says that the tapes still cause him anxiety and bad dreams.##Harvey Keitel in the 2002 adaptation of Red Dragon, which uses the novel's original title.
##Laurence Fishburne in the television adaptation Hannibal.
The TV series portrays Crawford as deliberately pushing the limits of Graham's sanity in order to fully exploit his protegé's gift for profiling serial killers. At the end of the first season, he reluctantly arrests Graham after finding evidence that he is the serial killer known as the "Chesapeake Ripper"; he is unaware that Lecter had framed Graham. When Graham is exonerated in the second season, Crawford helps him with an elaborate plan to entrap and capture Lecter, which puts Crawford's career in jeopardy when his superiors at the FBI find out about it. In the second season finale, Crawford attempts to arrest Lecter, who escapes, leaving him severely injured.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ CrimeLibrary.com. p. 10


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Jack Crawford (character)
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Jack Crawford
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Four on-screen versions of Jack Crawford (clockwise from top left): Dennis Farina, Scott Glenn, Laurence Fishburne and Harvey Keitel.

Created by
Thomas Harris
Portrayed by
Dennis Farina
 (Manhunter)
Scott Glenn
 (The Silence of the Lambs)
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 (Red Dragon)
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Jack Crawford is a fictional character who appears in the Hannibal Lecter series of books by Thomas Harris, in which Crawford is the Agent-in-Charge of the Behavioral Science Unit of the FBI in Quantico, Virginia. He is modeled after John E. Douglas, who held the same position.


Contents  [hide]
1 Red Dragon
2 The Silence of the Lambs
3 Hannibal
4 Film and television adaptations
5 References

Red Dragon[edit]
Jack Crawford first appears in the novel Red Dragon, in which he calls upon Will Graham, his former protégé, for assistance in solving the murders being committed by a serial killer dubbed "The Tooth Fairy." Graham, as a profiler, has a reputation for being able to think like the criminals he hunts, thus assisting the FBI in a criminal's ultimate apprehension. Graham had retired after being attacked and nearly killed by Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a Baltimore psychiatrist he had been consulting with about a series of cannibalistic murders, after Graham intuited that Lecter was the killer he sought. Crawford convinces Graham to come out of retirement to help solve the "Tooth Fairy" murders, and soon they both realize that they would need Lecter's help again. Crawford helps shelter Graham and his family after Lecter sends the killer, Francis Dolarhyde, his old nemesis' address. With Crawford's help, Graham eventually solve the case, but Dolarhyde disfigures him before Graham kills him. Crawford feels responsible for Graham's misfortune, and resents Lecter for the rest of his life.
The Silence of the Lambs[edit]
Jack Crawford appears again in the novel The Silence of the Lambs, again investigating a serial killer. This time, the serial killer is called "Buffalo Bill", and his killing signature involves killing and skinning women. Crawford is stumped in trying to determine who Buffalo Bill is, and is forced to once again call upon Lecter for assistance. This time, however, Crawford sends an FBI trainee, Clarice Starling, to interview him. By way of information obtained from Lecter, Crawford and the FBI attempt to track down the killer, Jame Gumb. However, the address they obtain for him is out of date. Gumb had killed the employer of one of his former victims and moved into her house to use its large basement, which contains a disused and empty well. He uses the well as a makeshift holding space for his victims. Realizing that Buffalo Bill probably knew his first victim, Fredrica Bimmel, Starling sets about interviewing everyone close to her and ends up stumbling upon Gumb's house. By the time Crawford and his men arrive, Starling has singlehandedly killed Gumb and rescued his intended victim.
Throughout the novel, Crawford is struggling under a double burden, as he is caring for his terminally ill wife, Bella, at home while leading the investigation into the 'Buffalo Bill' case. Bella dies near the end of the novel.
Hannibal[edit]
Crawford appears as a relatively minor character in the book Hannibal. He is portrayed as very sympathetic toward Starling, yet increasingly distant due to failing health and his powerlessness against the corrupt bureaucrats set to destroy her career.
Film and television adaptations[edit]
The Crawford character appears in the film adaptations of Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lambs; he does not appear in the adaptation of Hannibal, although a deleted scene explains that he has died. He has been portrayed by four different actors:
##Dennis Farina in Manhunter, the 1986 film adaptation of Red Dragon.
##Scott Glenn in The Silence of the Lambs.
In the supplemental section on the special edition DVD of The Silence of the Lambs, Scott Glenn revealed that he was given an audio tape by FBI agent John Douglas as a form of research for his character. The tape was an audio recording serial killers Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris had made of themselves raping and torturing a 16-year-old girl as they drove around Los Angeles.[1] Upon questioning Douglas as to his motives for presenting these tapes, Douglas simply said to Glenn, "Now you are part of my world." This experience preyed upon Glenn's mind all throughout filming, and he refused to return to the role in Hannibal because he didn't want to place himself in such a mindset again. To this day, he says that the tapes still cause him anxiety and bad dreams.##Harvey Keitel in the 2002 adaptation of Red Dragon, which uses the novel's original title.
##Laurence Fishburne in the television adaptation Hannibal.
The TV series portrays Crawford as deliberately pushing the limits of Graham's sanity in order to fully exploit his protegé's gift for profiling serial killers. At the end of the first season, he reluctantly arrests Graham after finding evidence that he is the serial killer known as the "Chesapeake Ripper"; he is unaware that Lecter had framed Graham. When Graham is exonerated in the second season, Crawford helps him with an elaborate plan to entrap and capture Lecter, which puts Crawford's career in jeopardy when his superiors at the FBI find out about it. In the second season finale, Crawford attempts to arrest Lecter, who escapes, leaving him severely injured.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ CrimeLibrary.com. p. 10


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 Mason Verger
 

Novels
Red Dragon (1981) ·
 The Silence of the Lambs (1988) ·
 Hannibal (1999) ·
 Hannibal Rising (2006)
 

Films
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 The Silence of the Lambs (1991) ·
 Hannibal (2001) ·
 Red Dragon (2002) ·
 Hannibal Rising (2007)
 

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Will Graham
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For the American Christian evangelist, see Will Graham (evangelist).

Will Graham
Hannibal Tetralogy character
Created by
Thomas Harris
Portrayed by
William Petersen
 (Manhunter)
Edward Norton
 (Red Dragon)
Hugh Dancy
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Will Graham is a fictional character and the protagonist of Thomas Harris' 1981 novel Red Dragon. He is an FBI profiler responsible for the capture of serial killer Hannibal Lecter, and who is later assigned to capture serial killer Francis Dolarhyde. In both the text and film adaptations, Graham has the ability to empathize with psychopaths, an ability he finds extremely disturbing. He also has a photographic memory rivaling Lecter's.
Other than passing mentions in Harris' sequel The Silence of the Lambs, he does not appear in any other book of the Lecter series. In the film adaptations Manhunter and Red Dragon, he is portrayed by William Petersen and Edward Norton, respectively. In the television series Hannibal, he is portrayed by Hugh Dancy.


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2 Films
3 TV series 3.1 Season 1
3.2 Season 2
4 References

Profile[edit]
This history is based on the novel by Thomas Harris, not any of the screenplays in which Will Graham appears:
Red Dragon establishes Graham's backstory. He grew up poor in Louisiana, eventually moving to New Orleans, where he became a homicide detective. He leaves New Orleans to attend graduate school in forensic science at George Washington University. After attaining his degree, Graham goes to work for the FBI's crime lab. Following exceptional work both in the crime lab and in the field, Graham is given a post as teacher at the FBI Academy. During his career in the FBI, Graham is given the title of 'Special Investigator' while he is in the field.
His first major case involves a serial killer called the 'Minnesota Shrike', who had been murdering college coeds for eight months. In the 1970s, he catches the killer, Garrett Jacob Hobbs, at the suspect's home, in the process of trying to murder his own family. Graham finds Hobbs' wife on the apartment landing, bleeding from multiple stab wounds, who clutches at Graham before dying. Graham breaks down the door and shoots Hobbs to death as Hobbs is repeatedly stabbing his own daughter in the neck. Hobbs' daughter survives and eventually goes on with her life following intensive psychotherapy. Graham is profoundly disturbed by the incident and is referred to the psychiatric ward of Bethesda Naval Hospital. After a month in the hospital, he returns to the FBI.
In 1975, he tracks down another serial killer known as the 'Chesapeake Ripper', who removes his victims' organs. He notices that a victim with multiple stab wounds has a healed stab wound; according to his medical records, the victim received the wound in a hunting accident five years previous. He tracks down the doctor who treated the victim in the emergency room, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, now a renowned psychiatrist, to see if he remembers any suspicious circumstances surrounding the patient. During their first meeting, Lecter claims not to remember very much. Graham returns to see Lecter in his office, and within minutes realizes that Lecter is the killer he seeks. Graham goes to Lecter's outer office and makes a phone call to the FBI's Baltimore Field Office. Lecter, who has removed his shoes, sneaks up on Graham and slashes his abdomen with a linoleum knife, nearly disemboweling him. FBI agents and Maryland State Troopers arrive and arrest Lecter, and Graham spends months recovering in a hospital. It was only after a while in the hospital that he realized what had tipped him off — the antique medical diagram Wound Man, whose wounds match exactly those of the Ripper's victim. Graham's capture of Lecter makes him a celebrity, and he is revered as a legend at the FBI. A tabloid reporter, Freddy Lounds, sneaks into the hospital where Graham is recuperating, photographs Graham's wounds, and humiliates him in the National Tattler. Graham retires after his recovery.
In 1978, Graham is living with his wife Molly, whom he met a year after the incident with Lecter, and her son Willy in Sugarloaf Key, Florida. His former boss, Jack Crawford, persuades him to come out of retirement and help the FBI catch a killer nicknamed the 'Tooth Fairy', who had killed two families on a lunar cycle, the first in Birmingham and the second in Atlanta. After studying the crime scenes, Graham consults Lecter, now institutionalized in the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, on the case. Lecter only taunts him, however, and later sends Graham's address to the killer, Francis Dolarhyde, in code, threatening the safety of his wife and stepson. The family are moved first to a cottage owned by Crawford's brother, but Molly later decides to take Willy to stay with her late first husband's parents in Oregon. Graham resumes tracking Dolarhyde and uses Lounds in an attempt to break the coded communication between Lecter and Dolarhyde by giving Lounds false information, insinuating that Dolarhyde is an impotent homosexual. Enraged, Dolarhyde kidnaps and brutally murders Lounds. After linking him to a film developing company, Graham, Crawford, and FBI agents arrive at Dolarhyde's home to arrest him, only to find that the killer had set it on fire while his blind girlfriend, Reba McClane, was inside; he then apparently committed suicide. Graham rescues and consoles McClane, and returns home, believing Dolarhyde's reign of terror to be over.
However, Dolarhyde's apparent suicide is revealed to have been a ruse; he had shot a previous victim, fooling McClane into thinking he was dead. Dolarhyde attacks Graham and his family at their Florida home, stabbing Graham in the face before being killed by Graham's wife. Graham and his family survive, but he is left disfigured. Soon afterward, he receives a note from Lecter wishing him good luck on his recovery, in which the killer writes that he hopes Graham isn't "too ugly".
Will Graham is briefly referred to in The Silence of the Lambs, the sequel to Red Dragon, when Clarice Starling notes that "Will Graham, the keenest hound ever to run in Crawford's pack, was a legend at the (FBI) Academy; he was also a drunk in Florida now with a face that's hard to look at..." Crawford tells her that "[Graham's] face looks like damned Picasso drew it." When Starling first meets Lecter, he asks her how Graham's face looks. Before Lecter's escape, Dr. Frederick Chilton tells him that Crawford is not happy that Lecter "cut up his protege", referencing Graham.[1]
Films[edit]
Graham has been portrayed twice in movies: in Manhunter by William Petersen and again in Red Dragon by Edward Norton.
The 2002 film version of Red Dragon changes the nature of his connection to Lecter. While in the novel he meets Lecter for the first time while questioning him about the death of a patient, in the film he and Lecter have apparently known each other for some time, with Graham often consulting Lecter on several of his cases until intuiting that Lecter is the killer he has been trying to catch. The film also omits Graham's facial disfigurement, the final scene depicting him as being unscarred and relatively healthy.
TV series[edit]
Main article: Hannibal (TV series)
In March 2012, NBC announced that Hugh Dancy had been cast as Graham in Hannibal, a television series about his and Lecter's relationship prior to the latter's capture. The show premiered on April 4, 2013.[2]
Dancy's version of Graham is implied to be on the autism spectrum, but showrunner Bryan Fuller has refuted the idea that he has Asperger's Syndrome, stating instead that he has "the opposite of"[3][4] the disorder. He possesses "pure empathy" and an overactive imagination, allowing him to mentally recreate the murders he is investigating. He also unknowingly suffers from advanced encephalitis, often making it difficult for him to cope with his mental recreations. Throughout the series, Lecter acts as Graham's psychiatrist, and the two form a tentative friendship. Lecter is fascinated by Graham's ability to think like the serial killers he investigates, and he spends much of the series trying to manipulate him into becoming a killer himself. In this continuity, Graham has a love interest in Dr. Alana Bloom, a forensic psychiatrist.
Season 1[edit]
The TV series amends continuity so that Graham first works with Lecter during the hunt for Garret Jacob Hobbs, the "Minnesota Shrike". The method with which Graham discerns Lecter's identity as the Chesapeake Ripper in the novels' universe (i.e. talking to Lecter regarding a murder victim's injuries and discovering the Wound Man picture) is instead attributed to an FBI trainee named Miriam Lass: Lecter attacks her before she can tell anyone, and it is revealed in season 2 that he has been holding her hostage and brainwashing her since then in order to redirect Graham's investigation away from him.
As in Red Dragon, Graham kills Garret Jacob Hobbs and saves his daughter Abigail. Fearing that he enjoyed killing Hobbs, Graham seeks Lecter's counseling, and the two form a tenuous friendship. He also develops paternal feelings for Abigail Hobbs, and, along with Lecter, covers for her when he discovers she has committed murder. Graham is devastated when Abigail is herself apparently murdered.
Throughout the season, Graham's sanity deteriorates under Lecter's manipulation until he begins to wonder if he committed murder in a state of psychosis. In "Savoureux", the final episode of the first season, Graham is arrested for several murders that Lecter committed — but not before realizing that Lecter is "The Chesapeake Ripper", the very serial killer he has been trying to catch.
Season 2[edit]
The second season focuses on Graham's attempts to capture Lecter. While institutionalized in the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, he insists to his skeptical former colleagues that Lecter is the real killer and pulls strings from the confines of his cell to expose him. Eventually he persuades a deranged hospital orderly to make an (unsuccessful) attempt on Lecter's life. Lecter exonerates Graham by purposely leaving forensic evidence from Graham's alleged victims at the scene of one of his own murders, leading to Graham's release. In his continuing efforts to prove Lecter's guilt, Graham asks to resume his therapy sessions: this is actually an elaborate attempt by Graham and Crawford to entrap Lecter. Lecter realizes it may be a ruse, but is fascinated by the experience and allows it to continue because of the connection he feels with Graham.
In an attempt to push Graham into becoming a serial killer, Lecter sends Randall Tier, a psychotic former patient of his, to kill Graham, but Graham kills and mutilates Tier instead - just as Lecter had hoped he would. Later, Graham attacks tabloid reporter Freddie Lounds, and he and Lecter share a meal of what appears to be her flesh: however, it is subsequently revealed that Lounds is alive and that she is working with Graham and Crawford to draw Lecter out and capture him. He also engages in a sexual relationship with another of Lecter's patients, Margot Verger, and gets her pregnant. When Margot's brother Mason removes her womb, thus aborting the child, an enraged Graham attacks him. When he later finds Lecter holding Mason captive, he does nothing to stop Lecter from breaking Mason's neck.
In the final episode of the season, "Mizumono", Graham learns that he is about to be arrested for helping Crawford entrap Lecter, as well as for Tier's murder. He goes to Lecter's house to find that Lecter has severely wounded Crawford; he is also stunned to discover that Abigail is alive and has thrown Alana Bloom out of a window. Moments later, Lecter stabs Graham and then slits Abigal's throat in front of him, leaving them both to die.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Harris, Thomas (February 15, 1991). The Silence of the Lambs (novel). St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-92458-5.
2.Jump up ^ Gould, J.J. "Who Is Will Graham?" The Atlantic. April 3, 2013.
3.Jump up ^ Turek, Ryan. "Bloodcast Ep 33: Hannibal Showrunner Bryan Fuller" Bloodcast. April 17, 2013.
4.Jump up ^ Faye, Denis. "It's a Matter of Taste" Writers Guide of America, West. May 10, 2013.


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For the American Christian evangelist, see Will Graham (evangelist).

Will Graham
Hannibal Tetralogy character
Created by
Thomas Harris
Portrayed by
William Petersen
 (Manhunter)
Edward Norton
 (Red Dragon)
Hugh Dancy
 (Hannibal)
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Will Graham is a fictional character and the protagonist of Thomas Harris' 1981 novel Red Dragon. He is an FBI profiler responsible for the capture of serial killer Hannibal Lecter, and who is later assigned to capture serial killer Francis Dolarhyde. In both the text and film adaptations, Graham has the ability to empathize with psychopaths, an ability he finds extremely disturbing. He also has a photographic memory rivaling Lecter's.
Other than passing mentions in Harris' sequel The Silence of the Lambs, he does not appear in any other book of the Lecter series. In the film adaptations Manhunter and Red Dragon, he is portrayed by William Petersen and Edward Norton, respectively. In the television series Hannibal, he is portrayed by Hugh Dancy.


Contents  [hide]
1 Profile
2 Films
3 TV series 3.1 Season 1
3.2 Season 2
4 References

Profile[edit]
This history is based on the novel by Thomas Harris, not any of the screenplays in which Will Graham appears:
Red Dragon establishes Graham's backstory. He grew up poor in Louisiana, eventually moving to New Orleans, where he became a homicide detective. He leaves New Orleans to attend graduate school in forensic science at George Washington University. After attaining his degree, Graham goes to work for the FBI's crime lab. Following exceptional work both in the crime lab and in the field, Graham is given a post as teacher at the FBI Academy. During his career in the FBI, Graham is given the title of 'Special Investigator' while he is in the field.
His first major case involves a serial killer called the 'Minnesota Shrike', who had been murdering college coeds for eight months. In the 1970s, he catches the killer, Garrett Jacob Hobbs, at the suspect's home, in the process of trying to murder his own family. Graham finds Hobbs' wife on the apartment landing, bleeding from multiple stab wounds, who clutches at Graham before dying. Graham breaks down the door and shoots Hobbs to death as Hobbs is repeatedly stabbing his own daughter in the neck. Hobbs' daughter survives and eventually goes on with her life following intensive psychotherapy. Graham is profoundly disturbed by the incident and is referred to the psychiatric ward of Bethesda Naval Hospital. After a month in the hospital, he returns to the FBI.
In 1975, he tracks down another serial killer known as the 'Chesapeake Ripper', who removes his victims' organs. He notices that a victim with multiple stab wounds has a healed stab wound; according to his medical records, the victim received the wound in a hunting accident five years previous. He tracks down the doctor who treated the victim in the emergency room, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, now a renowned psychiatrist, to see if he remembers any suspicious circumstances surrounding the patient. During their first meeting, Lecter claims not to remember very much. Graham returns to see Lecter in his office, and within minutes realizes that Lecter is the killer he seeks. Graham goes to Lecter's outer office and makes a phone call to the FBI's Baltimore Field Office. Lecter, who has removed his shoes, sneaks up on Graham and slashes his abdomen with a linoleum knife, nearly disemboweling him. FBI agents and Maryland State Troopers arrive and arrest Lecter, and Graham spends months recovering in a hospital. It was only after a while in the hospital that he realized what had tipped him off — the antique medical diagram Wound Man, whose wounds match exactly those of the Ripper's victim. Graham's capture of Lecter makes him a celebrity, and he is revered as a legend at the FBI. A tabloid reporter, Freddy Lounds, sneaks into the hospital where Graham is recuperating, photographs Graham's wounds, and humiliates him in the National Tattler. Graham retires after his recovery.
In 1978, Graham is living with his wife Molly, whom he met a year after the incident with Lecter, and her son Willy in Sugarloaf Key, Florida. His former boss, Jack Crawford, persuades him to come out of retirement and help the FBI catch a killer nicknamed the 'Tooth Fairy', who had killed two families on a lunar cycle, the first in Birmingham and the second in Atlanta. After studying the crime scenes, Graham consults Lecter, now institutionalized in the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, on the case. Lecter only taunts him, however, and later sends Graham's address to the killer, Francis Dolarhyde, in code, threatening the safety of his wife and stepson. The family are moved first to a cottage owned by Crawford's brother, but Molly later decides to take Willy to stay with her late first husband's parents in Oregon. Graham resumes tracking Dolarhyde and uses Lounds in an attempt to break the coded communication between Lecter and Dolarhyde by giving Lounds false information, insinuating that Dolarhyde is an impotent homosexual. Enraged, Dolarhyde kidnaps and brutally murders Lounds. After linking him to a film developing company, Graham, Crawford, and FBI agents arrive at Dolarhyde's home to arrest him, only to find that the killer had set it on fire while his blind girlfriend, Reba McClane, was inside; he then apparently committed suicide. Graham rescues and consoles McClane, and returns home, believing Dolarhyde's reign of terror to be over.
However, Dolarhyde's apparent suicide is revealed to have been a ruse; he had shot a previous victim, fooling McClane into thinking he was dead. Dolarhyde attacks Graham and his family at their Florida home, stabbing Graham in the face before being killed by Graham's wife. Graham and his family survive, but he is left disfigured. Soon afterward, he receives a note from Lecter wishing him good luck on his recovery, in which the killer writes that he hopes Graham isn't "too ugly".
Will Graham is briefly referred to in The Silence of the Lambs, the sequel to Red Dragon, when Clarice Starling notes that "Will Graham, the keenest hound ever to run in Crawford's pack, was a legend at the (FBI) Academy; he was also a drunk in Florida now with a face that's hard to look at..." Crawford tells her that "[Graham's] face looks like damned Picasso drew it." When Starling first meets Lecter, he asks her how Graham's face looks. Before Lecter's escape, Dr. Frederick Chilton tells him that Crawford is not happy that Lecter "cut up his protege", referencing Graham.[1]
Films[edit]
Graham has been portrayed twice in movies: in Manhunter by William Petersen and again in Red Dragon by Edward Norton.
The 2002 film version of Red Dragon changes the nature of his connection to Lecter. While in the novel he meets Lecter for the first time while questioning him about the death of a patient, in the film he and Lecter have apparently known each other for some time, with Graham often consulting Lecter on several of his cases until intuiting that Lecter is the killer he has been trying to catch. The film also omits Graham's facial disfigurement, the final scene depicting him as being unscarred and relatively healthy.
TV series[edit]
Main article: Hannibal (TV series)
In March 2012, NBC announced that Hugh Dancy had been cast as Graham in Hannibal, a television series about his and Lecter's relationship prior to the latter's capture. The show premiered on April 4, 2013.[2]
Dancy's version of Graham is implied to be on the autism spectrum, but showrunner Bryan Fuller has refuted the idea that he has Asperger's Syndrome, stating instead that he has "the opposite of"[3][4] the disorder. He possesses "pure empathy" and an overactive imagination, allowing him to mentally recreate the murders he is investigating. He also unknowingly suffers from advanced encephalitis, often making it difficult for him to cope with his mental recreations. Throughout the series, Lecter acts as Graham's psychiatrist, and the two form a tentative friendship. Lecter is fascinated by Graham's ability to think like the serial killers he investigates, and he spends much of the series trying to manipulate him into becoming a killer himself. In this continuity, Graham has a love interest in Dr. Alana Bloom, a forensic psychiatrist.
Season 1[edit]
The TV series amends continuity so that Graham first works with Lecter during the hunt for Garret Jacob Hobbs, the "Minnesota Shrike". The method with which Graham discerns Lecter's identity as the Chesapeake Ripper in the novels' universe (i.e. talking to Lecter regarding a murder victim's injuries and discovering the Wound Man picture) is instead attributed to an FBI trainee named Miriam Lass: Lecter attacks her before she can tell anyone, and it is revealed in season 2 that he has been holding her hostage and brainwashing her since then in order to redirect Graham's investigation away from him.
As in Red Dragon, Graham kills Garret Jacob Hobbs and saves his daughter Abigail. Fearing that he enjoyed killing Hobbs, Graham seeks Lecter's counseling, and the two form a tenuous friendship. He also develops paternal feelings for Abigail Hobbs, and, along with Lecter, covers for her when he discovers she has committed murder. Graham is devastated when Abigail is herself apparently murdered.
Throughout the season, Graham's sanity deteriorates under Lecter's manipulation until he begins to wonder if he committed murder in a state of psychosis. In "Savoureux", the final episode of the first season, Graham is arrested for several murders that Lecter committed — but not before realizing that Lecter is "The Chesapeake Ripper", the very serial killer he has been trying to catch.
Season 2[edit]
The second season focuses on Graham's attempts to capture Lecter. While institutionalized in the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, he insists to his skeptical former colleagues that Lecter is the real killer and pulls strings from the confines of his cell to expose him. Eventually he persuades a deranged hospital orderly to make an (unsuccessful) attempt on Lecter's life. Lecter exonerates Graham by purposely leaving forensic evidence from Graham's alleged victims at the scene of one of his own murders, leading to Graham's release. In his continuing efforts to prove Lecter's guilt, Graham asks to resume his therapy sessions: this is actually an elaborate attempt by Graham and Crawford to entrap Lecter. Lecter realizes it may be a ruse, but is fascinated by the experience and allows it to continue because of the connection he feels with Graham.
In an attempt to push Graham into becoming a serial killer, Lecter sends Randall Tier, a psychotic former patient of his, to kill Graham, but Graham kills and mutilates Tier instead - just as Lecter had hoped he would. Later, Graham attacks tabloid reporter Freddie Lounds, and he and Lecter share a meal of what appears to be her flesh: however, it is subsequently revealed that Lounds is alive and that she is working with Graham and Crawford to draw Lecter out and capture him. He also engages in a sexual relationship with another of Lecter's patients, Margot Verger, and gets her pregnant. When Margot's brother Mason removes her womb, thus aborting the child, an enraged Graham attacks him. When he later finds Lecter holding Mason captive, he does nothing to stop Lecter from breaking Mason's neck.
In the final episode of the season, "Mizumono", Graham learns that he is about to be arrested for helping Crawford entrap Lecter, as well as for Tier's murder. He goes to Lecter's house to find that Lecter has severely wounded Crawford; he is also stunned to discover that Abigail is alive and has thrown Alana Bloom out of a window. Moments later, Lecter stabs Graham and then slits Abigal's throat in front of him, leaving them both to die.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Harris, Thomas (February 15, 1991). The Silence of the Lambs (novel). St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-92458-5.
2.Jump up ^ Gould, J.J. "Who Is Will Graham?" The Atlantic. April 3, 2013.
3.Jump up ^ Turek, Ryan. "Bloodcast Ep 33: Hannibal Showrunner Bryan Fuller" Bloodcast. April 17, 2013.
4.Jump up ^ Faye, Denis. "It's a Matter of Taste" Writers Guide of America, West. May 10, 2013.


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 Jack Crawford ·
 Freddy Lounds ·
 Mason Verger
 

Novels
Red Dragon (1981) ·
 The Silence of the Lambs (1988) ·
 Hannibal (1999) ·
 Hannibal Rising (2006)
 

Films
Manhunter (1986) ·
 The Silence of the Lambs (1991) ·
 Hannibal (2001) ·
 Red Dragon (2002) ·
 Hannibal Rising (2007)
 

Television
Hannibal (2013–present) ·
 (List of episodes)
 

  


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 Chilton (left, played by Anthony Heald) taunts Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) in The Silence of the Lambs.
Dr. Frederick Chilton is a fictional character appearing in Thomas Harris' novels Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lambs.

Contents  [hide]
1 In the novels 1.1 Red Dragon
1.2 The Silence of the Lambs
1.3 Hannibal
2 In other media
3 References

In the novels[edit]
Red Dragon[edit]
Chilton is first introduced in Red Dragon as the pompous, incompetent director of a sanitarium near Baltimore, Maryland, acting as the jailer for the cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter. When FBI profiler Will Graham goes to Lecter for advice on capturing another serial killer, Francis Dolarhyde, Chilton makes an unwelcome attempt to question Graham about Lecter's psyche. When Dolarhyde learns of Graham's visits with Lecter, the two killers attempt to correspond through the classifieds of a tabloid; a cleaning crew finds one of Dolarhyde's letters, hidden within Lecter's toilet paper spool. Chilton informs Graham and his partner, Jack Crawford, of the discovery. Lecter's reply is intercepted and revealed to contain Graham's home address, which Dolarhyde uses to track down Graham in the novel's climax.
The Silence of the Lambs[edit]
In The Silence of the Lambs, Chilton allows an FBI trainee, Clarice Starling, to interview Lecter about another serial killer, "Buffalo Bill." He makes a clumsy pass at Starling on their first meeting, and she quickly rejects him. Chilton gradually grows jealous of Starling's success, where he has failed, in moving Lecter to share information. He eventually uses a recording device to eavesdrop on their interviews, from which he learns of Crawford's offer to transfer Lecter to a better prison facility in exchange for Buffalo Bill's identity. Chilton learns that the offer is false but sets it up anyway, then quickly hogs the spotlight as the plan's architect. Lecter is transferred, but gives false information: he claims that the killer's name is "Billy Rubin," a pun on bilirubin, which is exactly the shade of Chilton's hair. Lecter gives Starling the real information needed to track down Buffalo Bill. Afterwards, Lecter makes a bloody escape from custody after using an improvised handcuff key made from a pen tube and paper clip that he had concealed for several years and was able to use only when transferred to police custody. While still on the run, Lecter sends a letter to Chilton, with a promise of gruesome vengeance.
Hannibal[edit]
Chilton does not appear in Hannibal; the hospital has been shut down by the time the novel's events take place. Hannibal mentions that Chilton disappeared while on vacation in Jamaica seven years earlier. It is strongly suggested that he was killed by Lecter.
In other media[edit]
In Manhunter, the first film adaptation of Red Dragon, Chilton is played by Benjamin Hendrickson. In both The Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon, he is played by Anthony Heald.
The films portray Chilton in the same manner as the novels, though some scenes with the character are altered in their adaptations. In Silence of the Lambs, for example, instead of the bilirubin pun and its specific disparaging of Chilton, Lecter supplies the name "Louis Friend" (an anagram of "iron sulfide", i.e. fool's gold) and Lecter's handcuff key is improvised from a pen stolen from Chilton shortly before Lecter's escape. While the novel leaves Chilton's demise at Lecter's hands an open question, the ending of the film shows Lecter sitting in a small cafe, contacting Starling to tell her that "I'm having an old friend for dinner." He then proceeds to follow Chilton through a small Caribbean village as the credits roll.
In the television adaptation Hannibal, Chilton is portrayed by Raúl Esparza. He first appears in the episode "Entrée", in which his patient Dr. Abel Gideon (Eddie Izzard) kills a nurse after Chilton influences him into believing that he is the serial killer known as the Chesapeake Ripper. Gideon eventually learns the truth and suffers an identity crisis, and he escapes to seek revenge against all of his previous psychiatrists, including Chilton. Gideon kidnaps and tortures Chilton, intending to leave his organs as a 'gift basket' for the real Ripper. Gideon is forced to flee from the police after having removed some of Chilton's less vital organs, leaving him alive but in critical condition.
Chilton reappears in the second season, minus one kidney, walking with a cane, and now unable to consume protein-rich food. Will Graham (Hugh Dancy) - who has been falsely accused of the Ripper murders - is now a patient under Chilton's custody. He successfully appeals to Chilton's vanity and convinces him to help expose Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen). Through Chilton's resources, Graham is able to regain key memories, including the fact that Lecter is the Chesapeake Ripper. He also discovers that Lecter was inducing his previous blackouts and seizures. Chilton confronts Lecter with this, but claims he will keep his secret, as he is also guilty of "making a patient kill". Graham also discovers that Gideon is aware that Lecter is the Ripper, and armed with this knowledge, Graham points out to Chilton that both he and Gideon claim to know who the Ripper is, and he further tempts Chilton with the intriguing possibility that the two of them might independently name the same person. Lured by the prospect of being the one to discover the Ripper's identity, Chilton bring Gideon back into his custody, though Gideon does not cooperate and is eventually kidnapped by Lecter. However, Chilton begins to believe Graham's accusations of Lecter, and but attempts to maintain the pretense of ignorance when socializing with Lecter. In the episode "Yakimono", Lecter frames Chilton for the Ripper killings, murders two FBI agents in Chilton's home, and leaves a dying, dismembered Gideon in his basement. Chilton plans to flee the country, and tries to seek refuge with Graham, who has been exonerated. However, with Chilton's bank accounts frozen and knowing Hannibal will find him if he flees, Graham calls Jack Crawford (Laurence Fishburne) to arrest Chilton for his own safety. During Chilton's interrogation, a surviving Ripper victim, Miriam Lass (Anna Chlumsky), is observing behind a one-way mirror. Upon hearing Chilton's voice, Lass experiences a false memory implanted by Lecter during her imprisonment of Chilton tormenting her: in a moment of distress, Lass impulsively draws Crawford's gun and shoots Chilton in the face through the mirror.
At San Diego Comic-Con 2014, Raúl Esparza confirmed that Chilton had survived the gunshot wound and would be appearing in the upcoming third season.[1]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Fowler, Matt (July 24, 2014). "SDCC 14: Which Characters - Returning and New - Will We See in Hannibal Season 3?". IGN.


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 Chilton (left, played by Anthony Heald) taunts Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) in The Silence of the Lambs.
Dr. Frederick Chilton is a fictional character appearing in Thomas Harris' novels Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lambs.

Contents  [hide]
1 In the novels 1.1 Red Dragon
1.2 The Silence of the Lambs
1.3 Hannibal
2 In other media
3 References

In the novels[edit]
Red Dragon[edit]
Chilton is first introduced in Red Dragon as the pompous, incompetent director of a sanitarium near Baltimore, Maryland, acting as the jailer for the cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter. When FBI profiler Will Graham goes to Lecter for advice on capturing another serial killer, Francis Dolarhyde, Chilton makes an unwelcome attempt to question Graham about Lecter's psyche. When Dolarhyde learns of Graham's visits with Lecter, the two killers attempt to correspond through the classifieds of a tabloid; a cleaning crew finds one of Dolarhyde's letters, hidden within Lecter's toilet paper spool. Chilton informs Graham and his partner, Jack Crawford, of the discovery. Lecter's reply is intercepted and revealed to contain Graham's home address, which Dolarhyde uses to track down Graham in the novel's climax.
The Silence of the Lambs[edit]
In The Silence of the Lambs, Chilton allows an FBI trainee, Clarice Starling, to interview Lecter about another serial killer, "Buffalo Bill." He makes a clumsy pass at Starling on their first meeting, and she quickly rejects him. Chilton gradually grows jealous of Starling's success, where he has failed, in moving Lecter to share information. He eventually uses a recording device to eavesdrop on their interviews, from which he learns of Crawford's offer to transfer Lecter to a better prison facility in exchange for Buffalo Bill's identity. Chilton learns that the offer is false but sets it up anyway, then quickly hogs the spotlight as the plan's architect. Lecter is transferred, but gives false information: he claims that the killer's name is "Billy Rubin," a pun on bilirubin, which is exactly the shade of Chilton's hair. Lecter gives Starling the real information needed to track down Buffalo Bill. Afterwards, Lecter makes a bloody escape from custody after using an improvised handcuff key made from a pen tube and paper clip that he had concealed for several years and was able to use only when transferred to police custody. While still on the run, Lecter sends a letter to Chilton, with a promise of gruesome vengeance.
Hannibal[edit]
Chilton does not appear in Hannibal; the hospital has been shut down by the time the novel's events take place. Hannibal mentions that Chilton disappeared while on vacation in Jamaica seven years earlier. It is strongly suggested that he was killed by Lecter.
In other media[edit]
In Manhunter, the first film adaptation of Red Dragon, Chilton is played by Benjamin Hendrickson. In both The Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon, he is played by Anthony Heald.
The films portray Chilton in the same manner as the novels, though some scenes with the character are altered in their adaptations. In Silence of the Lambs, for example, instead of the bilirubin pun and its specific disparaging of Chilton, Lecter supplies the name "Louis Friend" (an anagram of "iron sulfide", i.e. fool's gold) and Lecter's handcuff key is improvised from a pen stolen from Chilton shortly before Lecter's escape. While the novel leaves Chilton's demise at Lecter's hands an open question, the ending of the film shows Lecter sitting in a small cafe, contacting Starling to tell her that "I'm having an old friend for dinner." He then proceeds to follow Chilton through a small Caribbean village as the credits roll.
In the television adaptation Hannibal, Chilton is portrayed by Raúl Esparza. He first appears in the episode "Entrée", in which his patient Dr. Abel Gideon (Eddie Izzard) kills a nurse after Chilton influences him into believing that he is the serial killer known as the Chesapeake Ripper. Gideon eventually learns the truth and suffers an identity crisis, and he escapes to seek revenge against all of his previous psychiatrists, including Chilton. Gideon kidnaps and tortures Chilton, intending to leave his organs as a 'gift basket' for the real Ripper. Gideon is forced to flee from the police after having removed some of Chilton's less vital organs, leaving him alive but in critical condition.
Chilton reappears in the second season, minus one kidney, walking with a cane, and now unable to consume protein-rich food. Will Graham (Hugh Dancy) - who has been falsely accused of the Ripper murders - is now a patient under Chilton's custody. He successfully appeals to Chilton's vanity and convinces him to help expose Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen). Through Chilton's resources, Graham is able to regain key memories, including the fact that Lecter is the Chesapeake Ripper. He also discovers that Lecter was inducing his previous blackouts and seizures. Chilton confronts Lecter with this, but claims he will keep his secret, as he is also guilty of "making a patient kill". Graham also discovers that Gideon is aware that Lecter is the Ripper, and armed with this knowledge, Graham points out to Chilton that both he and Gideon claim to know who the Ripper is, and he further tempts Chilton with the intriguing possibility that the two of them might independently name the same person. Lured by the prospect of being the one to discover the Ripper's identity, Chilton bring Gideon back into his custody, though Gideon does not cooperate and is eventually kidnapped by Lecter. However, Chilton begins to believe Graham's accusations of Lecter, and but attempts to maintain the pretense of ignorance when socializing with Lecter. In the episode "Yakimono", Lecter frames Chilton for the Ripper killings, murders two FBI agents in Chilton's home, and leaves a dying, dismembered Gideon in his basement. Chilton plans to flee the country, and tries to seek refuge with Graham, who has been exonerated. However, with Chilton's bank accounts frozen and knowing Hannibal will find him if he flees, Graham calls Jack Crawford (Laurence Fishburne) to arrest Chilton for his own safety. During Chilton's interrogation, a surviving Ripper victim, Miriam Lass (Anna Chlumsky), is observing behind a one-way mirror. Upon hearing Chilton's voice, Lass experiences a false memory implanted by Lecter during her imprisonment of Chilton tormenting her: in a moment of distress, Lass impulsively draws Crawford's gun and shoots Chilton in the face through the mirror.
At San Diego Comic-Con 2014, Raúl Esparza confirmed that Chilton had survived the gunshot wound and would be appearing in the upcoming third season.[1]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Fowler, Matt (July 24, 2014). "SDCC 14: Which Characters - Returning and New - Will We See in Hannibal Season 3?". IGN.


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 The Silence of the Lambs (1988) ·
 Hannibal (1999) ·
 Hannibal Rising (2006)
 

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 The Silence of the Lambs (1991) ·
 Hannibal (2001) ·
 Red Dragon (2002) ·
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Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb
Hannibal Tetralogy character
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Created by
Thomas Harris
Portrayed by
Ted Levine
Information

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John Grant
 Jack Gordon
Gender
Male wearing female suits
This article is about the character in The Silence of the Lambs. For other uses, see Buffalo Bill (disambiguation).
Jame Gumb (known by the nickname Buffalo Bill) is a fictional character and the primary antagonist of Thomas Harris's 1988 novel The Silence of the Lambs and its 1991 film adaptation, in which he was played by Ted Levine. In the film and the novel, he is a serial killer who murders overweight women and skins them so he can make a "woman suit" for himself.


Contents  [hide]
1 Overview 1.1 Background
1.2 Modus operandi
1.3 Role in the plot
2 Influences
3 Analysis
4 Controversy
5 References

Overview[edit]
Background[edit]
According to the novel, Gumb was born in California on October 25, 1949, and abandoned by his mother — an alcoholic prostitute who misspelled "James" on his birth certificate — and then taken into foster care at age two. The film's screenplay omits Gumb's backstory, but does imply that he had a traumatic childhood. In the movie, Lecter summarizes Gumb's life thus: "Billy was not born a criminal, but made one by years of systematic abuse."
The novel goes on to tell of Gumb living in foster homes until the age of 10 before getting adopted by his grandparents, who became his first victims. The story then puts him in Tulare Vocational Rehabilitation, a psychiatric hospital where he learns to be a tailor. Later, Gumb has a relationship with Benjamin Raspail. After Raspail left him, he kills Raspail's new lover, Klaus, and flays him.[1]
Both the novel and film tell of Gumb wanting to become a woman but being too disturbed to qualify for gender reassignment surgery. He kills women so he can skin them and create a "woman suit" for himself. He is described as not really transgender, but merely believing himself to be because he "hates his own identity".
Modus operandi[edit]



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Gumb's modus operandi is to approach a woman, pretending to be injured and asking for help, then knocking her out in a surprise attack and kidnapping her. He takes her to his house and leaves her in a well in his basement, where he starves her until her skin is loose enough to easily remove. In the first three cases, he leads the victims upstairs, slips nooses around their necks and pushes them from the stairs, strangling them. He then skins parts of their body (a different section on each victim), and then dumps each body into a different river, destroying any trace evidence. This MO caused the homicide squad to nickname him Buffalo Bill (Buffalo Bill's Wild West show typically claimed that Buffalo Bill Cody had scalped a Cheyenne warrior). One officer quipped it was because he "skins his humps." [2] In the case of Gumb's first victim, Fredrica Bimmel, he weighed down her body, so she ends up being the third victim found. In the case of the fourth victim, he shoots her instead of strangling her, then inserts a Death's-head Hawkmoth in her throat, and dumps the body.
Role in the plot[edit]
At the start of the novel, Gumb has already murdered five women. FBI Director Jack Crawford assigns gifted trainee Clarice Starling to question incarcerated serial killer Hannibal Lecter about the case. (Lecter had met Gumb while treating Raspail.) When Gumb kidnaps Catherine Martin, the daughter of U.S. Senator Ruth Martin, Lecter offers to give Starling a psychological profile of the killer in return for a transfer to a federal institution; this profile is mostly made up of cryptic clues designed to help Starling figure it out for herself.
Starling eventually deduces from Lecter's riddles that Gumb knew his first victim, Bimmel, and goes to Bimmel's hometown of Belvedere, Ohio to gather information. By this time, Crawford has already found out the killer's true identity and gone with a SWAT team to his house to arrest him, but they find that it is only a business address. Meanwhile, Starling goes to the home of Bimmel's employer, Mrs. Lippman, only to find Gumb — calling himself "Jack Gordon" — living there. (Gumb had murdered Mrs. Lippman earlier.) When Starling sees a Death's head moth flutter by, she realizes she has found her man and orders him to surrender. Gumb flees into the basement and stalks her with a revolver and night vision goggles. Just as he is about to shoot Starling, she hears him behind her, turns around and opens fire, killing him.
Influences[edit]
Harris based various elements of Gumb's MO on six real-life killers:[3][4]
Jerry Brudos, who dressed up in his victims' clothing and kept their shoes.
Ed Gein, who fashioned trophies and keepsakes from the bones and skin of corpses he dug up at cemeteries. He also made a female skin suit and skin masks.
Ted Bundy, who pretended to be injured (using an arm-brace or crutches) as a ploy to ask his victims for help. When they helped him, he incapacitated and killed them, dumping their bodies far away.
Gary M. Heidnik, who kidnapped and tortured six women and held them prisoner as sex slaves.
Edmund Kemper, who, like Gumb, killed his grandparents as a teenager "just to see what it felt like."
Gary Ridgway, the Green River Killer (still unidentified at the time of the novel's writing), who, like Gumb, dumped women's bodies in rivers and inserted foreign objects into their corpses.
Analysis[edit]
Marjorie Garber, author of Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety, asserts that despite the book and the film indicating that Buffalo Bill merely believes himself to be transsexual, they still imply negative connotations about transsexualism. Garber says, "Harris's book manifests its cultural anxiety through a kind of baroque bravado of plot," and calls the book "a fable of gender dysphoria gone spectacularly awry".[5]
Barbara Creed, writing in Screening the Male: Exploring Masculinities in the Hollywood Cinema, says that Buffalo Bill wants to become a woman "presumably because he sees femininity as a more desirable state, possibly a superior one". For Buffalo Bill, the woman is "[a] totem animal". Not only does he want to wear women's skin, he wants to become a woman; he dresses in women's clothes and tucks his penis behind his legs to appear female. Creed writes, "To experience a rebirth as woman, Buffalo Bill must wear the skin of woman not just to experience a physical transformation but also to acquire the power of transformation associated with woman's ability to give birth." Buffalo Bill wears the skin of his totem animal to assume its power.[6]
Judith Halberstam, author of Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters, writes, "The cause for Buffalo Bill's extreme violence against women lies not in his gender confusion or his sexual orientation but in his humanist presumption that his sex and his gender and his orientation must all match-up to a mythic norm of white heterosexual masculinity." Halberstam says Buffalo Bill symbolizes a lack of ease with one's skin. She writes that the character is also a combination of Victor Frankenstein and his monster in how he is the creator gathering body parts and experimenting with his own body. Halberstam writes, "He does not understand gender as inherent, innate; he reads it only as a surface effect, a representation, an external attribute engineered into identity." Buffalo Bill challenges "the interiority of gender" by taking skin and remaking it into a costume.[7]
Controversy[edit]
The film adaptation of Silence of the Lambs was criticized by some gay rights groups for its portrayal of the psychopathic Gumb as bisexual and transgender.[8] A Johns Hopkins sex-reassignment surgeon, present in the book but not the film (his scene was deleted and is found in bonus materials on the DVD), protests exactly the same thing; FBI Director Jack Crawford pacifies him by repeating that Gumb is not in fact transsexual, but merely believes himself to be. In the film, a similar scene is shown with Starling and Lecter in the same roles as the surgeon and Crawford, respectively. In the director's commentary for the 1991 film, director Jonathan Demme draws attention to various Polaroids taken of Buffalo Bill in the company of strippers; these are visible in Gumb's basement in the film.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Harris, Thomas (1991). The Silence Of The Lambs. St. Martin's Paperbacks. ISBN 0-312-92458-5.
2.Jump up ^ http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0001411/bio
3.Jump up ^ Bruno, Anthony. "Buffalo Bill" page 2 - "All About Hannibal Lecter - Facts and Fiction" @ Crime Library.com
4.Jump up ^ Bowman, David."Profiler" Interview with John E. Douglas @ Salon.com July 8, 1999.
5.Jump up ^ Garber, Marjorie (1997). Vested Interests: Cross-dressing and Cultural Anxiety. Routledge. p. 116. ISBN 978-0-415-91951-7.
6.Jump up ^ Creed, Barbara (1993). "Dark Desires: Male masochism in the horror film". In Cohan, Steven; Hark, Ina Rae. Screening the Male: Exploring Masculinities in the Hollywood Cinema. Routledge. pp. 126–127. ISBN 978-0-415-07759-0.
7.Jump up ^ Halberstam, Judith (1995). "Skinflick: Posthuman Gender in Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs". Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters. Duke University Press Books. ISBN 978-0-8223-1663-3.
8.Jump up ^ http://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/Silence-Lambs.html


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Buffalo Bill (character)
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Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb
Hannibal Tetralogy character
Silencelamp7.jpg
Ted Levine as Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs.

Created by
Thomas Harris
Portrayed by
Ted Levine
Information

Aliases
John Grant
 Jack Gordon
Gender
Male wearing female suits
This article is about the character in The Silence of the Lambs. For other uses, see Buffalo Bill (disambiguation).
Jame Gumb (known by the nickname Buffalo Bill) is a fictional character and the primary antagonist of Thomas Harris's 1988 novel The Silence of the Lambs and its 1991 film adaptation, in which he was played by Ted Levine. In the film and the novel, he is a serial killer who murders overweight women and skins them so he can make a "woman suit" for himself.


Contents  [hide]
1 Overview 1.1 Background
1.2 Modus operandi
1.3 Role in the plot
2 Influences
3 Analysis
4 Controversy
5 References

Overview[edit]
Background[edit]
According to the novel, Gumb was born in California on October 25, 1949, and abandoned by his mother — an alcoholic prostitute who misspelled "James" on his birth certificate — and then taken into foster care at age two. The film's screenplay omits Gumb's backstory, but does imply that he had a traumatic childhood. In the movie, Lecter summarizes Gumb's life thus: "Billy was not born a criminal, but made one by years of systematic abuse."
The novel goes on to tell of Gumb living in foster homes until the age of 10 before getting adopted by his grandparents, who became his first victims. The story then puts him in Tulare Vocational Rehabilitation, a psychiatric hospital where he learns to be a tailor. Later, Gumb has a relationship with Benjamin Raspail. After Raspail left him, he kills Raspail's new lover, Klaus, and flays him.[1]
Both the novel and film tell of Gumb wanting to become a woman but being too disturbed to qualify for gender reassignment surgery. He kills women so he can skin them and create a "woman suit" for himself. He is described as not really transgender, but merely believing himself to be because he "hates his own identity".
Modus operandi[edit]



[hide]This section has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page.




##This section needs additional citations for verification.  (August 2014)




##This article possibly contains original research.  (August 2014)


Gumb's modus operandi is to approach a woman, pretending to be injured and asking for help, then knocking her out in a surprise attack and kidnapping her. He takes her to his house and leaves her in a well in his basement, where he starves her until her skin is loose enough to easily remove. In the first three cases, he leads the victims upstairs, slips nooses around their necks and pushes them from the stairs, strangling them. He then skins parts of their body (a different section on each victim), and then dumps each body into a different river, destroying any trace evidence. This MO caused the homicide squad to nickname him Buffalo Bill (Buffalo Bill's Wild West show typically claimed that Buffalo Bill Cody had scalped a Cheyenne warrior). One officer quipped it was because he "skins his humps." [2] In the case of Gumb's first victim, Fredrica Bimmel, he weighed down her body, so she ends up being the third victim found. In the case of the fourth victim, he shoots her instead of strangling her, then inserts a Death's-head Hawkmoth in her throat, and dumps the body.
Role in the plot[edit]
At the start of the novel, Gumb has already murdered five women. FBI Director Jack Crawford assigns gifted trainee Clarice Starling to question incarcerated serial killer Hannibal Lecter about the case. (Lecter had met Gumb while treating Raspail.) When Gumb kidnaps Catherine Martin, the daughter of U.S. Senator Ruth Martin, Lecter offers to give Starling a psychological profile of the killer in return for a transfer to a federal institution; this profile is mostly made up of cryptic clues designed to help Starling figure it out for herself.
Starling eventually deduces from Lecter's riddles that Gumb knew his first victim, Bimmel, and goes to Bimmel's hometown of Belvedere, Ohio to gather information. By this time, Crawford has already found out the killer's true identity and gone with a SWAT team to his house to arrest him, but they find that it is only a business address. Meanwhile, Starling goes to the home of Bimmel's employer, Mrs. Lippman, only to find Gumb — calling himself "Jack Gordon" — living there. (Gumb had murdered Mrs. Lippman earlier.) When Starling sees a Death's head moth flutter by, she realizes she has found her man and orders him to surrender. Gumb flees into the basement and stalks her with a revolver and night vision goggles. Just as he is about to shoot Starling, she hears him behind her, turns around and opens fire, killing him.
Influences[edit]
Harris based various elements of Gumb's MO on six real-life killers:[3][4]
Jerry Brudos, who dressed up in his victims' clothing and kept their shoes.
Ed Gein, who fashioned trophies and keepsakes from the bones and skin of corpses he dug up at cemeteries. He also made a female skin suit and skin masks.
Ted Bundy, who pretended to be injured (using an arm-brace or crutches) as a ploy to ask his victims for help. When they helped him, he incapacitated and killed them, dumping their bodies far away.
Gary M. Heidnik, who kidnapped and tortured six women and held them prisoner as sex slaves.
Edmund Kemper, who, like Gumb, killed his grandparents as a teenager "just to see what it felt like."
Gary Ridgway, the Green River Killer (still unidentified at the time of the novel's writing), who, like Gumb, dumped women's bodies in rivers and inserted foreign objects into their corpses.
Analysis[edit]
Marjorie Garber, author of Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety, asserts that despite the book and the film indicating that Buffalo Bill merely believes himself to be transsexual, they still imply negative connotations about transsexualism. Garber says, "Harris's book manifests its cultural anxiety through a kind of baroque bravado of plot," and calls the book "a fable of gender dysphoria gone spectacularly awry".[5]
Barbara Creed, writing in Screening the Male: Exploring Masculinities in the Hollywood Cinema, says that Buffalo Bill wants to become a woman "presumably because he sees femininity as a more desirable state, possibly a superior one". For Buffalo Bill, the woman is "[a] totem animal". Not only does he want to wear women's skin, he wants to become a woman; he dresses in women's clothes and tucks his penis behind his legs to appear female. Creed writes, "To experience a rebirth as woman, Buffalo Bill must wear the skin of woman not just to experience a physical transformation but also to acquire the power of transformation associated with woman's ability to give birth." Buffalo Bill wears the skin of his totem animal to assume its power.[6]
Judith Halberstam, author of Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters, writes, "The cause for Buffalo Bill's extreme violence against women lies not in his gender confusion or his sexual orientation but in his humanist presumption that his sex and his gender and his orientation must all match-up to a mythic norm of white heterosexual masculinity." Halberstam says Buffalo Bill symbolizes a lack of ease with one's skin. She writes that the character is also a combination of Victor Frankenstein and his monster in how he is the creator gathering body parts and experimenting with his own body. Halberstam writes, "He does not understand gender as inherent, innate; he reads it only as a surface effect, a representation, an external attribute engineered into identity." Buffalo Bill challenges "the interiority of gender" by taking skin and remaking it into a costume.[7]
Controversy[edit]
The film adaptation of Silence of the Lambs was criticized by some gay rights groups for its portrayal of the psychopathic Gumb as bisexual and transgender.[8] A Johns Hopkins sex-reassignment surgeon, present in the book but not the film (his scene was deleted and is found in bonus materials on the DVD), protests exactly the same thing; FBI Director Jack Crawford pacifies him by repeating that Gumb is not in fact transsexual, but merely believes himself to be. In the film, a similar scene is shown with Starling and Lecter in the same roles as the surgeon and Crawford, respectively. In the director's commentary for the 1991 film, director Jonathan Demme draws attention to various Polaroids taken of Buffalo Bill in the company of strippers; these are visible in Gumb's basement in the film.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Harris, Thomas (1991). The Silence Of The Lambs. St. Martin's Paperbacks. ISBN 0-312-92458-5.
2.Jump up ^ http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0001411/bio
3.Jump up ^ Bruno, Anthony. "Buffalo Bill" page 2 - "All About Hannibal Lecter - Facts and Fiction" @ Crime Library.com
4.Jump up ^ Bowman, David."Profiler" Interview with John E. Douglas @ Salon.com July 8, 1999.
5.Jump up ^ Garber, Marjorie (1997). Vested Interests: Cross-dressing and Cultural Anxiety. Routledge. p. 116. ISBN 978-0-415-91951-7.
6.Jump up ^ Creed, Barbara (1993). "Dark Desires: Male masochism in the horror film". In Cohan, Steven; Hark, Ina Rae. Screening the Male: Exploring Masculinities in the Hollywood Cinema. Routledge. pp. 126–127. ISBN 978-0-415-07759-0.
7.Jump up ^ Halberstam, Judith (1995). "Skinflick: Posthuman Gender in Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs". Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters. Duke University Press Books. ISBN 978-0-8223-1663-3.
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Clarice Starling
Hannibal Tetralogy character
SOTLClariceLecter.jpg
Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs.

Created by
Thomas Harris
Portrayed by
Jodie Foster
 Masha Skorobogatov (young)
 (The Silence of the Lambs)
Julianne Moore
 (Hannibal)
Information

Gender
Female
Occupation
FBI agent
Religion
Lutheranism
Nationality
American
Clarice M. Starling is a fictional character and the protagonist of the novels The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal by Thomas Harris.
In the film adaptation of The Silence of the Lambs, she was played by Jodie Foster, while in the film adaptation of Hannibal, she was played by Julianne Moore.
Clarice Starling, as portrayed by Foster, was ranked the sixth greatest protagonist in film history on AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains, making her the highest-ranking heroine.[1]


Contents  [hide]
1 The Silence of the Lambs
2 Hannibal
3 Films
4 Television
5 References

The Silence of the Lambs[edit]
In The Silence of the Lambs, Starling is a student at the FBI Academy. Her mentor, FBI director Jack Crawford, sends her to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer. He is housed in a Baltimore mental institution. Upon arriving at the asylum for her first interview with Lecter, the asylum manager Frederick Chilton makes a crude pass at her, which she rebuffs; this helps her bond with Lecter, who also despises Chilton. As time passes, Lecter gives Starling information about Buffalo Bill, a currently active serial killer being hunted by the FBI, but only in exchange for personal information, which Crawford has specifically warned her to keep secret from Lecter.
She tells Lecter that she was raised in a small town in West Virginia with her father, a police officer. When she was about 10 years old, her father was shot when responding to a robbery; he died a month after the incident. Starling was sent to live with her uncle on a Montana sheep and horse farm, from which she briefly ran away in horror when she witnessed the lambs being slaughtered (the title of the book refers to her being haunted by the screaming she heard from the lambs).
She spent the rest of her childhood in a Lutheran orphanage. According to the novel, Starling attended the University of Virginia as a double major in psychology and criminology. During that time, she spent two summers working as a counselor in a mental health center. Starling first met Jack Crawford when he was a guest lecturer at UVA. His criminology seminars were a factor in her decision to join the FBI.
During the investigation, Starling is assigned to coax Lecter into revealing Buffalo Bill's identity; Lecter gives her clues in the form of cryptic, riddling information designed to help Starling figure it out for herself. The two grow to respect each other, so when Lecter escapes during a transfer engineered by Chilton to a state prison in Tennessee, Starling feels that he "would consider it rude" to attack her by surprise and kill her without talking to her first.
Starling deduces from Lecter's hints that Buffalo Bill's first victim had a personal relationship with him, and so goes to the victim's home in Belvedere, Ohio, to interview people who knew her. She unknowingly stumbles onto the killer himself, Jame Gumb (he is living under the alias "Jack Gordon" when they meet). When she sees a Death's Head moth, the same rare kind that Bill stuffs in the throats of each of his victims, flutter through the house, she knows that she has found her man and tries to arrest him. Gumb flees, and Starling follows him into his basement, where his latest victim is alive and screaming for help. Gumb turns off the electricity in the basement, and stalks Starling through the rooms wearing night vision goggles. He judges her to be too small to be of any use to him though she has an luscious head of hair that could be easily scalped and worn. As Gumb readies to shoot Starling, Starling hears the cocking of Gumb's Colt Python revolver and she opens fire towards the sound, killing him. The victim is rescued.
Weeks later, Lecter writes Starling a letter from a hotel room somewhere in Detroit asking her if the lambs have stopped screaming.
The final scene of the novel has Starling sleeping peacefully at a friend's vacation house at the Maryland seashore.
Hannibal[edit]
In Hannibal, Starling is in her early thirties and a full-fledged FBI agent, although her career has been held back by a vengeful superior, Paul Krendler, at the Department of Justice. She takes part in a bungled drug raid, in which she returns fire after a drug kingpin fires at her, using an infant as a hostage; her superiors blame her for the resulting mess, and she is removed from active duty, mostly at Krendler's instigation. She receives a supportive letter from Lecter, who is (unknown to her at the time) residing in Florence, Italy. One of Lecter's surviving victims, a sadistic pedophile named Mason Verger, is searching for Lecter and has offered a huge reward, which a corrupt Florentine police inspector named Pazzi tries to claim when he deduces Lecter's true identity in Florence.
Starling finds out that Lecter is in Florence and attempts to warn Pazzi. As Starling predicted, Lecter knows about the plot to capture him and, as a result, he kills Pazzi. Lecter then flees to the United States and immediately starts to follow Starling. Starling, meanwhile, is being harassed at the FBI by various corrupt agents, especially by Krendler, who is secretly assisting Verger in his attempt to capture Lecter. Starling attempts to find Lecter first, not only to capture him but also to save him from Verger. Krendler attempts to frame Starling in a scheme planned by Verger, alleging she sent coded newspaper messages to Lecter; this only results in her being suspended, but she is now powerless to stop Verger's men. Lecter is captured by Verger, who plans to feed him to a pack of specially bred wild boars.



Julianne Moore as Starling in Hannibal; Lecter is in the background.
Starling is aware that Lecter is being held by Verger, so she attempts to save him. She is wounded in the ensuing gunfight; Lecter rescues her and nurses her back to health. He then subjects her to a regimen of mind-altering drugs and classical conditioning in an attempt to make her believe she is his long-dead sister, Mischa.
During this time, Lecter captures Krendler and performs a craniotomy on him while he is still alive. During an elaborate dinner, Lecter scoops spoonfuls of Krendler's forebrain to saute with lemon and capers. In the novel, he feeds Krendler's brain to Starling, who finds it delicious.
Lecter's plan to brainwash Starling ultimately fails, as she refuses to have her own personality sublimated. She then opens her dress and offers her breast to Lecter; he accepts her offer and the two become lovers. They disappear together, only to be sighted again three years later entering the Teatro Colón opera house in Buenos Aires by former orderly Barney Matthews, who had befriended and respected Lecter while he was incarcerated in Baltimore. Fearing for his life, Barney leaves Buenos Aires immediately, never to return.
Films[edit]
In the film adaptation of The Silence of the Lambs, Starling's role remains relatively unchanged from the book. However, the film adaptation of Hannibal significantly diverges from the novel's conclusion, with no reference being made to Lecter's attempts to brainwash her. Lecter does not attempt to feed Starling Krendler's brain (though he does feed portions of it to Krendler himself). Starling tries to apprehend Lecter, but he overpowers her. Starling handcuffs herself to him in an attempt to keep him in the house before the imminent arrival of the police. Lecter then cuts off his own hand and escapes, leaving Starling to explain the situation to the police. He is later seen on a plane, apparently fleeing the country again.
Although she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for playing Starling in The Silence of the Lambs, Jodie Foster decided not to reprise her role in Hannibal.[2] Julianne Moore portrayed the character in the sequel, with Anthony Hopkins himself recommending her for the role after his previous experience working with her in the film Surviving Picasso.
Television[edit]
In May 2012, Lifetime announced that they are developing a television series centered on Clarice Starling after her graduation from the FBI academy, titled Clarice, which will be produced by MGM.[3]
Bryan Fuller, the creator of the TV series Hannibal, has stated that he plans for the show's fifth season to cover the events of The Silence of the Lambs, and the sixth to cover the events of Hannibal, with the seventh to be an original storyline resolving Hannibal '​s ending.[4] Fuller has stated his desire to include Clarice Starling as a character, provided that he can get the rights from MGM.[5]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ AFI. "AFI's 100 YEARS...100 HEROES & VILLAINS". Retrieved 20 September 2011.
2.Jump up ^ Hollywood.com (29 December 1999). "Jodie Foster Declines "Hannibal's" Invite". Retrieved 20 September 2011.
3.Jump up ^ Schneider, Michael (May 25, 2012). "Exclusive: Lifetime Developing Clarice, Based on Silence of the Lambs Character". TVGuide. Lions Gate Entertainment. Retrieved 2012-11-10.
4.Jump up ^ Bernstein, Abbie (June 13, 2013). "Exclusive Interview: HANNIBAL news on Season 1, Season 2 and beyond from showrunner Bryan Fuller". Assignment X. Retrieved June 21, 2013.
5.Jump up ^ Goldman, Eric (April 3, 2013). "Hannibal: How Bryan Fuller Approached the Iconic Character". IGN. Retrieved April 5, 2013.


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Clarice Starling
Hannibal Tetralogy character
SOTLClariceLecter.jpg
Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs.

Created by
Thomas Harris
Portrayed by
Jodie Foster
 Masha Skorobogatov (young)
 (The Silence of the Lambs)
Julianne Moore
 (Hannibal)
Information

Gender
Female
Occupation
FBI agent
Religion
Lutheranism
Nationality
American
Clarice M. Starling is a fictional character and the protagonist of the novels The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal by Thomas Harris.
In the film adaptation of The Silence of the Lambs, she was played by Jodie Foster, while in the film adaptation of Hannibal, she was played by Julianne Moore.
Clarice Starling, as portrayed by Foster, was ranked the sixth greatest protagonist in film history on AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains, making her the highest-ranking heroine.[1]


Contents  [hide]
1 The Silence of the Lambs
2 Hannibal
3 Films
4 Television
5 References

The Silence of the Lambs[edit]
In The Silence of the Lambs, Starling is a student at the FBI Academy. Her mentor, FBI director Jack Crawford, sends her to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer. He is housed in a Baltimore mental institution. Upon arriving at the asylum for her first interview with Lecter, the asylum manager Frederick Chilton makes a crude pass at her, which she rebuffs; this helps her bond with Lecter, who also despises Chilton. As time passes, Lecter gives Starling information about Buffalo Bill, a currently active serial killer being hunted by the FBI, but only in exchange for personal information, which Crawford has specifically warned her to keep secret from Lecter.
She tells Lecter that she was raised in a small town in West Virginia with her father, a police officer. When she was about 10 years old, her father was shot when responding to a robbery; he died a month after the incident. Starling was sent to live with her uncle on a Montana sheep and horse farm, from which she briefly ran away in horror when she witnessed the lambs being slaughtered (the title of the book refers to her being haunted by the screaming she heard from the lambs).
She spent the rest of her childhood in a Lutheran orphanage. According to the novel, Starling attended the University of Virginia as a double major in psychology and criminology. During that time, she spent two summers working as a counselor in a mental health center. Starling first met Jack Crawford when he was a guest lecturer at UVA. His criminology seminars were a factor in her decision to join the FBI.
During the investigation, Starling is assigned to coax Lecter into revealing Buffalo Bill's identity; Lecter gives her clues in the form of cryptic, riddling information designed to help Starling figure it out for herself. The two grow to respect each other, so when Lecter escapes during a transfer engineered by Chilton to a state prison in Tennessee, Starling feels that he "would consider it rude" to attack her by surprise and kill her without talking to her first.
Starling deduces from Lecter's hints that Buffalo Bill's first victim had a personal relationship with him, and so goes to the victim's home in Belvedere, Ohio, to interview people who knew her. She unknowingly stumbles onto the killer himself, Jame Gumb (he is living under the alias "Jack Gordon" when they meet). When she sees a Death's Head moth, the same rare kind that Bill stuffs in the throats of each of his victims, flutter through the house, she knows that she has found her man and tries to arrest him. Gumb flees, and Starling follows him into his basement, where his latest victim is alive and screaming for help. Gumb turns off the electricity in the basement, and stalks Starling through the rooms wearing night vision goggles. He judges her to be too small to be of any use to him though she has an luscious head of hair that could be easily scalped and worn. As Gumb readies to shoot Starling, Starling hears the cocking of Gumb's Colt Python revolver and she opens fire towards the sound, killing him. The victim is rescued.
Weeks later, Lecter writes Starling a letter from a hotel room somewhere in Detroit asking her if the lambs have stopped screaming.
The final scene of the novel has Starling sleeping peacefully at a friend's vacation house at the Maryland seashore.
Hannibal[edit]
In Hannibal, Starling is in her early thirties and a full-fledged FBI agent, although her career has been held back by a vengeful superior, Paul Krendler, at the Department of Justice. She takes part in a bungled drug raid, in which she returns fire after a drug kingpin fires at her, using an infant as a hostage; her superiors blame her for the resulting mess, and she is removed from active duty, mostly at Krendler's instigation. She receives a supportive letter from Lecter, who is (unknown to her at the time) residing in Florence, Italy. One of Lecter's surviving victims, a sadistic pedophile named Mason Verger, is searching for Lecter and has offered a huge reward, which a corrupt Florentine police inspector named Pazzi tries to claim when he deduces Lecter's true identity in Florence.
Starling finds out that Lecter is in Florence and attempts to warn Pazzi. As Starling predicted, Lecter knows about the plot to capture him and, as a result, he kills Pazzi. Lecter then flees to the United States and immediately starts to follow Starling. Starling, meanwhile, is being harassed at the FBI by various corrupt agents, especially by Krendler, who is secretly assisting Verger in his attempt to capture Lecter. Starling attempts to find Lecter first, not only to capture him but also to save him from Verger. Krendler attempts to frame Starling in a scheme planned by Verger, alleging she sent coded newspaper messages to Lecter; this only results in her being suspended, but she is now powerless to stop Verger's men. Lecter is captured by Verger, who plans to feed him to a pack of specially bred wild boars.



Julianne Moore as Starling in Hannibal; Lecter is in the background.
Starling is aware that Lecter is being held by Verger, so she attempts to save him. She is wounded in the ensuing gunfight; Lecter rescues her and nurses her back to health. He then subjects her to a regimen of mind-altering drugs and classical conditioning in an attempt to make her believe she is his long-dead sister, Mischa.
During this time, Lecter captures Krendler and performs a craniotomy on him while he is still alive. During an elaborate dinner, Lecter scoops spoonfuls of Krendler's forebrain to saute with lemon and capers. In the novel, he feeds Krendler's brain to Starling, who finds it delicious.
Lecter's plan to brainwash Starling ultimately fails, as she refuses to have her own personality sublimated. She then opens her dress and offers her breast to Lecter; he accepts her offer and the two become lovers. They disappear together, only to be sighted again three years later entering the Teatro Colón opera house in Buenos Aires by former orderly Barney Matthews, who had befriended and respected Lecter while he was incarcerated in Baltimore. Fearing for his life, Barney leaves Buenos Aires immediately, never to return.
Films[edit]
In the film adaptation of The Silence of the Lambs, Starling's role remains relatively unchanged from the book. However, the film adaptation of Hannibal significantly diverges from the novel's conclusion, with no reference being made to Lecter's attempts to brainwash her. Lecter does not attempt to feed Starling Krendler's brain (though he does feed portions of it to Krendler himself). Starling tries to apprehend Lecter, but he overpowers her. Starling handcuffs herself to him in an attempt to keep him in the house before the imminent arrival of the police. Lecter then cuts off his own hand and escapes, leaving Starling to explain the situation to the police. He is later seen on a plane, apparently fleeing the country again.
Although she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for playing Starling in The Silence of the Lambs, Jodie Foster decided not to reprise her role in Hannibal.[2] Julianne Moore portrayed the character in the sequel, with Anthony Hopkins himself recommending her for the role after his previous experience working with her in the film Surviving Picasso.
Television[edit]
In May 2012, Lifetime announced that they are developing a television series centered on Clarice Starling after her graduation from the FBI academy, titled Clarice, which will be produced by MGM.[3]
Bryan Fuller, the creator of the TV series Hannibal, has stated that he plans for the show's fifth season to cover the events of The Silence of the Lambs, and the sixth to cover the events of Hannibal, with the seventh to be an original storyline resolving Hannibal '​s ending.[4] Fuller has stated his desire to include Clarice Starling as a character, provided that he can get the rights from MGM.[5]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ AFI. "AFI's 100 YEARS...100 HEROES & VILLAINS". Retrieved 20 September 2011.
2.Jump up ^ Hollywood.com (29 December 1999). "Jodie Foster Declines "Hannibal's" Invite". Retrieved 20 September 2011.
3.Jump up ^ Schneider, Michael (May 25, 2012). "Exclusive: Lifetime Developing Clarice, Based on Silence of the Lambs Character". TVGuide. Lions Gate Entertainment. Retrieved 2012-11-10.
4.Jump up ^ Bernstein, Abbie (June 13, 2013). "Exclusive Interview: HANNIBAL news on Season 1, Season 2 and beyond from showrunner Bryan Fuller". Assignment X. Retrieved June 21, 2013.
5.Jump up ^ Goldman, Eric (April 3, 2013). "Hannibal: How Bryan Fuller Approached the Iconic Character". IGN. Retrieved April 5, 2013.


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Novels
Red Dragon (1981) ·
 The Silence of the Lambs (1988) ·
 Hannibal (1999) ·
 Hannibal Rising (2006)
 

Films
Manhunter (1986) ·
 The Silence of the Lambs (1991) ·
 Hannibal (2001) ·
 Red Dragon (2002) ·
 Hannibal Rising (2007)
 

Television
Hannibal (2013–present) ·
 (List of episodes)
 

  


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This article is about the character. For the franchise, see Hannibal Lecter (franchise).

Hannibal Lecter
Hannibal Tetralogy character
Hannibal Lecter.png
Four on-screen versions of Hannibal Lecter (clockwise from top left): Brian Cox, Anthony Hopkins, Mads Mikkelsen and Gaspard Ulliel.

Created by
Thomas Harris
Portrayed by
Brian Cox
 (Manhunter)
Anthony Hopkins
 (The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, Red Dragon)
Gaspard Ulliel
 Aaran Thomas (young)
 (Hannibal Rising)
Mads Mikkelsen
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Information

Nickname(s)
Hannibal the Cannibal
 The Chesapeake Ripper
Aliases
Lloyd Wyman
 Dr. Fell
 Mr. Closter
Gender
Male
Occupation
Psychiatrist
Title
Dr. Hannibal Lecter
 Count Hannibal Lecter VIII
Relatives
Mischa Lecter (sister)
 Count Robert Lecter (uncle)
 Lady Murasaki (aunt-by-marriage)
Nationality
Lithuanian born, naturalized French
Dr. Hannibal Lecter is a fictional character in a series of suspense novels by Thomas Harris.
Lecter was introduced in the 1981 thriller novel Red Dragon as a forensic psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer. The novel and its sequel, The Silence of the Lambs, feature Lecter as one of the primary antagonists after the two serial killers in both novels. In the third novel, Hannibal, Lecter becomes a protagonist. His role as the antihero occurs in the fourth novel, Hannibal Rising, which explores his childhood and development into a serial killer.
The first film adapted from the Harris novels was Manhunter (based on Red Dragon) which features Brian Cox as Lecter, spelled "Lecktor". In 1991, Anthony Hopkins won an Academy Award for his portrayal of the character in The Silence of the Lambs. He would reprise the role in Hannibal in 2001 and in a second adaptation of Red Dragon made in 2002 under the original title.
Since 2013, NBC has been airing Hannibal, a television series based on the development of the relationship between Lecter and Will Graham, an FBI agent who becomes Lecter's greatest foe. In the series, Lecter is portrayed by Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen.
In 2003, Hannibal Lecter (as portrayed by Hopkins) was chosen by the American Film Institute as the #1 movie villain.[1] In June 2010, Entertainment Weekly named him one of the 100 Greatest Characters of the Last 20 Years.[2]


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1 Character overview 1.1 Novels 1.1.1 Red Dragon
1.1.2 The Silence of the Lambs
1.1.3 Hannibal
1.1.4 Hannibal Rising
1.2 In film
1.3 In television 1.3.1 Season 1
1.3.2 Season 2

2 Real-life models
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

Character overview[edit]
Red Dragon firmly states that Lecter does not fit any known psychological profile. In The Silence of the Lambs, Lecter's keeper, Dr. Frederick Chilton, claims that Lecter is a "pure sociopath" ("pure psychopath" in the film adaptation). In the novel Red Dragon, protagonist Will Graham says that Lecter tortured animals as a child, but in later novels Lecter has an affinity towards animals: this is either a retcon or an example of Lecter misleading profilers with false information, with the latter explanation being more in tune with his character. Lecter's pathology is explored in greater detail in Hannibal and Hannibal Rising, which explain that he was traumatized as a child in Lithuania in 1944 when he witnessed the murder and cannibalism of his beloved younger sister, Mischa, by Lithuanian Hilfswillige. One of the Hilfswillige members claimed that Lecter unwittingly ate his sister as well.
All media in which Lecter appears portray him as intellectually brilliant, cultured and sophisticated, with refined tastes in art, music and cuisine. He is frequently depicted preparing gourmet meals from his victims' flesh, the most famous example being his admission in the film adaptation of The Silence of the Lambs that he once ate a census taker's liver "with some fava beans and a nice Chianti" (a "big Amarone" in the novel). He is well-educated and speaks several languages. He is deeply offended by rudeness, and frequently kills people who have bad manners. Prior to his capture and imprisonment, he was a member of Baltimore, Maryland's social elite, and a sitting member of the Baltimore Philharmonic Orchestra's board of directors.
In The Silence of the Lambs, Lecter is described through protagonist Clarice Starling's eyes: "small, sleek, and in his hands and arms she saw wiry strength like her own". The novel also reveals that Lecter's left hand has a condition called mid ray duplication polydactyly, i.e. a duplicated middle finger.[3] In Hannibal, he performs plastic surgery on his own face on several occasions, and removes his extra digit. Lecter's eyes are a shade of maroon, and reflect the light in "pinpoints of red".[4] He has small white teeth[5] and dark, slicked-back hair with a widow's peak. He also has a keen sense of smell; in The Silence of the Lambs, he is able to identify through a plate glass window the brand of perfume that Starling wore the day before. He has an eidetic memory, and has constructed in his mind an elaborate "memory palace" with which he relives memories and sensations in rich detail.
Novels[edit]
Red Dragon[edit]
In the backstory of Red Dragon, FBI profiler Will Graham interviews Lecter about one of his patients who was murdered by a serial killer, before realizing that Lecter is the culprit. Lecter realizes that Graham is on to him, creeps up behind him and stabs him, nearly disemboweling him. Graham survives, however, and is hospitalized. Lecter is convicted of a series of nine murders, but is found not guilty by reason of insanity. He is institutionalized in the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, under the care of Dr. Frederick Chilton, a pompous, incompetent psychologist whom Lecter despises. Some years later, Graham comes out of retirement and consults Lecter in order to catch another serial killer, Francis Dolarhyde, known by the nickname "The Tooth-Fairy". Through the classifieds of a tabloid, The National Tattler, Lecter provides Dolarhyde with Graham's home address, enabling Dolarhyde to disfigure Graham and attempt to kill his family. At the end of the novel, Lecter sends Graham a taunting note saying that he hopes Graham isn't "too ugly".
The Silence of the Lambs[edit]
In the 1988 sequel The Silence of the Lambs, Lecter assists FBI agent-in-training Clarice Starling in catching a serial killer known as "Buffalo Bill". Lecter is fascinated by Starling, and they form an unusual relationship in which he provides her with a profile of the killer and his modus operandi in exchange for details about her unhappy childhood. Lecter had previously met Buffalo Bill, the former lover of his patient (and eventual victim) Benjamin Raspail. He does not reveal this information directly, instead giving Starling vague clues to help her figure it out for herself. In return for his assistance, Lecter is transferred to a lower security prison, from which he soon escapes, killing and mutilating his guards and using the face of one of them as a mask to fool paramedics. While in hiding, he writes a letter to Starling wishing her well, and another to Chilton swearing gruesome revenge. Chilton disappears soon afterward.
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.
Hannibal Rising[edit]
Harris wrote a 2006 prequel, Hannibal Rising, after film producer Dino De Laurentiis (who owned the cinematic rights to the Lecter character) announced that he was going to make a film depicting Lecter's childhood and development into a serial killer with or without Harris' help. Harris would also write the film's screenplay. The novel chronicles Lecter's early life, from birth into an aristocratic family in Lithuania in 1933, to being orphaned, along with his beloved sister Mischa, in 1944 when a German Stuka bomber attacks a Soviet tank in front of their forest hideaway. Shortly thereafter, Hannibal and Mischa are captured by a band of Nazi collaborators, who murder and cannibalize Mischa before her brother's eyes; Lecter later learns that the collaborators also fed him Mischa's remains. Irreparably traumatized, Lecter escapes from the deserters and wanders through the forest, robbed of the ability to speak. He is found and taken in by an orphanage, where he is bullied by the other children and abused by the dean. He is adopted by his uncle Robert and his Japanese wife, Lady Murasaki, who nursed him back to health and taught him to speak again. After his uncle's death, Lecter forms a close, pseudo-romantic relationship with his step-aunt. During this time he also shows great intellectual aptitude, entering medical school at a young age. Despite his seemingly comfortable life, Lecter is consumed by a savage obsession with avenging Mischa's death. He kills for the first time as a teenager, beheading a racist fishmonger who insulted Murasaki. He then methodically tracks down, tortures, and murders each of the men who had killed his sister. In the process of taking his revenge, he forsakes his relationship with Murasaki and seemingly loses all traces of his humanity. The novel ends with Lecter being accepted into the Johns Hopkins Medical Center.
In film[edit]
Main article: Hannibal Lecter (franchise)



 Sir Anthony Hopkins, the only actor to play Lecter in multiple films.
Red Dragon was first adapted to film in 1986 as the Michael Mann film Manhunter, although the spelling of Lecter's name was changed to "Lecktor". He was played by actor Brian Cox.[6] Cox based his performance on Scottish serial killer Peter Manuel.[7]
In 1991, Orion Pictures produced a Jonathan Demme-directed adaptation of The Silence of the Lambs, in which Lecter was played by actor Anthony Hopkins. Hopkins' Academy Award–winning performance made Lecter into a cultural icon. In 2001, Hannibal was adapted to film, with Hopkins reprising his role. In the film adaptation, the ending is revised: Starling attempts to apprehend Lecter, who escapes after cutting off his own hand to free himself from her handcuffs. In 2002, Red Dragon was adapted again, this time under its original title, with Hopkins again as Lecter and Edward Norton as Will Graham. Hopkins wrote a screenplay for a Hannibal sequel, ending with Starling killing Lecter, but it was never produced.[8]
In late 2006, the novel Hannibal Rising was adapted into the film of the same name, which explained Lecter's development into a serial killer. In the film, which was finished by 2007, eight-year-old Lecter is portrayed by Aaran Thomas, while Gaspard Ulliel portrays him as a young man. Both the novel and film received generally negative critical reviews.[9]
In television[edit]
Main article: Hannibal (TV series)
In February 2012, NBC gave a series order to Hannibal, a television adaptation of Red Dragon to be written and executive-produced by Bryan Fuller.[10] Mads Mikkelsen plays Lecter,[11] opposite Hugh Dancy as Will Graham.[12]
Fuller commented on Mikkelsen's version of Lecter: "What I love about Mads' approach to the character is that, in our first meeting, he was adamant that he didn't want to do Hopkins or Cox. He talked about the character not so much as 'Hannibal Lecter the cannibal psychiatrist', but as Satan – this fallen angel who's enamoured with mankind and had an affinity for who we are as people, but was definitely not among us – he was other. I thought that was a really cool, interesting approach, because I love science fiction and horror and – not that we'd ever do anything deliberately to suggest this – but having it subtextually play as him being Lucifer felt like a really interesting kink to the series. It was slightly different than anything that's been done before and it also gives it a slightly more epic quality if you watch the show through the prism of, 'This is Satan at work, tempting someone with the apple of their psyche'. It appealed to all of those genre things that get me excited about any sort of entertainment."[13]
Season 1[edit]
The TV series amends the continuity so that Graham and Lecter first work together during the hunt for Garrett Jacob Hobbs, aka the "Minnesota Shrike", a serial killer who preys on college girls. During the investigation, Lecter secretly calls Hobbs to tip him off that Graham is on to him, resulting in Hobbs killing his wife and slitting his daughter Abigail's throat as Graham charges in to arrest him. Graham shoots Hobbs dead, and the experience preys upon him and gives him nightmares, for which he seeks Lecter's counseling. Throughout the first season, Lecter acts as Graham's informal psychiatrist, and the two form a tenuous friendship. Lecter is fascinated by Graham's ability to think like the serial killers he investigates, and he spends much of the series trying to undermine Graham's fragile sanity and push him into becoming a killer himself. To this end, Lecter prevents Graham from learning that he has advanced encephalitis, just to see how Graham would function under the circumstances. In the first season finale, "Savoreux", Lecter reluctantly frames Graham for a series of murders that he himself committed throughout the season – but not before Graham realises that Lecter is the "Chesapeake Ripper", the very killer he has been trying to catch.
Season 2[edit]
Throughout the beginning of the season, Graham, who is now institutionalized, attempts to convince his skeptical former colleagues that Lecter is the real killer and begins pulling strings from his cell in order to expose him. Outside the hospital, Lecter begins to manipulate evidence from the outside, exonerating himself after the FBI's initial investigations into Graham's claims. Eventually Graham persuades a deranged hospital orderly to kill Lecter: the attempt fails, but the orderly is able to get Lecter to involuntarily confirm Graham's suspicions. Lecter exonerates Graham by planting forensic evidence of Graham's alleged victims at the scene of one of his own murders, resulting in Graham's release.
Graham resumes therapy with Lecter as an attempt to entrap him. Lecter is aware of this, but finds the experience fascinating and allows it to continue because of the connection he feels with Graham. In an attempt to push Graham into becoming a serial killer, Lecter sends his psychotic former patient Randall Tier to kill Graham, but Graham kills and mutilates Tier instead - just as Lecter hoped he would. Graham later attacks tabloid reporter Freddie Lounds and shares a meal with Lecter of what is implied to be her flesh, but it is soon revealed that Lounds is still alive and conspiring with Graham and Crawford to draw Lecter into their trap. Lecter and Graham have a common enemy in Mason Verger, and Graham stands by as Lecter mutilates Verger and breaks his neck. In "Mizumono", the second season finale, Graham and Crawford move to arrest Lecter against the orders of the FBI. In the ensuing struggle, Lecter seriously wounds Graham and Crawford, while Alana is pushed out of a window at the hands of Abigail Hobbs, whom Lecter had led the police to believe had been murdered. Lecter then cuts Abigail's throat in front of Graham and leaves him to die as he flees before police arrive; He is shown in a post-credits scene aboard a flight to France with Bedelia Du Maurier.
Real-life models[edit]
Thomas Harris has given few interviews, and did not explain where he got inspiration for Hannibal Lecter until mid 2013. Harris revealed that the character was inspired by a real-life Mexican doctor and murderer he met while visiting a prison in Monterrey city, in the state of Nuevo León, during a trip to Mexico in the 1960s, when he was a 23-year-old reporter.[14] The doctor was serving life after murdering a young man, supposedly a "close friend", mutilating his body into several body parts and putting them in a very small box. Harris, who would only refer to the surgeon by the fake name "Dr. Salazar", described him as a "small lithe pale man with dark red hair". He added: "There was certain intelligence and elegance about him."[15] Harris had gone to México to interview Dykes Askew Simmons, a US citizen on death row for murdering three young people in the country, but he ended up also speaking to "Salazar", who saved Simmons' life after a guard shot him during an escape bid. "Salazar" revealed his dark side as he began discussing Simmons’ disfigured face, tormented upbringing and how attractive his victims had been.



 Dr. Alfredo Ballí Treviño, the real-life inspiration for Lecter, according to Thomas Harris.
Several reporters and investigators have traced the records and whereabouts of the Mexican prison doctor in later years and discovered that "Salazar" was in reality Alfredo Ballí Treviño, a physician from an upper-class Monterrey family who was found guilty of murdering a close friend (and lover) and mutilating his body; he was also suspected of killing and dismembering several hitchhikers in the city outskirts during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Treviño was initially condemned to death, but his sentence was later commuted to 20 years and he was released in 1981. After his release, Treviño continued working as a physician in an austere office until his death by natural causes in 2009.[16][17][18]
In a making-of documentary for the film version of Hannibal Rising, Lecter's early murders were said to be based on murders that Harris had covered when he was a crime reporter in the 1960s. In 1992, Harris also attended the ongoing trials of Pietro Pacciani, who was suspected of being the serial killer nicknamed the "Monster of Florence". Parts of the killer's modus operandi were used as reference for the novel Hannibal, which was released in 1999.
According to David Sexton, author of The Strange World of Thomas Harris: Inside the Mind of the Creator of Hannibal Lecter, Harris once told a librarian in Cleveland, Mississippi, that Lecter was inspired by William Coyne, a local murderer who had escaped from prison in 1934 and gone on a rampage that included acts of murder and cannibalism.
In her book Evil Serial Killers, Charlotte Greig asserts that the serial killer Albert Fish was the inspiration, at least in part, for Lecter.[19] Greig also states that to explain Lecter's pathology, Harris borrowed the story of serial killer and cannibal Andrei Chikatilo's brother Stepan being kidnapped and eaten by starving neighbours (though she states that it is unclear whether the story was true or whether Stepan Chikatilo even existed).[20]
In an interview on Inside the Actors Studio, Hopkins revealed that he used the characteristics of Katharine Hepburn and HAL 9000's voice from 2001: A Space Odyssey as inspiration for his performance. In the same interview Hopkins revealed that he observed and imitated movements of snakes for Lecter's body language.[citation needed]
See also[edit]
Hannibal Lecter (franchise)
Hannibal (TV series)

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Dorangel Vargas, a serial killer known as the "Hannibal Lecter of the Andes"
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "AFI's 100 Heroes & Villains". American Film Institute. June 2003. Retrieved 2007-02-12.
2.Jump up ^ Adam B. Vary (June 1, 2010). "The 100 Greatest Characters of the Last 20 Years: Here's our full list!". Entertainment Weekly. Time Inc. Retrieved July 7, 2012.
3.Jump up ^ Silence of the Lambs p. 15, para. 2: "Dr. Lecter has six fingers on his left hand".
4.Jump up ^ Silence of the Lambs p. 16, para 4: "Dr. Lecter's eyes are maroon, and they reflect the light in pinpoints of red".
5.Jump up ^ The Silence of the Lambs p. 17, para. 4: "He tapped his small white teeth against the card and breathed in its smell".
6.Jump up ^ BBC interview with Brian Cox on youtube.com
7.Jump up ^ Mottram, James (March 2011). "Manhunter". In Aubrey, Day. Total Film (Future Publishing) (177): 112–116.
8.Jump up ^ Oldenburg, Ann (October 3, 2002). "Marquee names serve up another helping of Hannibal". USA Today. Retrieved April 19, 2013.
9.Jump up ^ Hannibal Rising at Rotten Tomatoes
10.Jump up ^ Pilot Season: NBC Orders Hannibal Straight to Series; Also Picks Up Notorious - TVGuide.com
11.Jump up ^ NBC casts Bond villain as Hannibal Lecter
12.Jump up ^ Morgan, Jeffrey. "Hannibal Lecter TV series casts Hugh Dancy as Will Graham" www.digitalspy.com. March 23, 2012
13.Jump up ^ Jeffery, Morgan (May 3, 2013). "Bryan Fuller 'Hannibal' Q&A: 'Lecter is like Satan at work'". digitalspy.ie. Retrieved May 11, 2013.
14.Jump up ^ "The REAL Hannibal Lecter: Author Thomas Harris reveals for first time how killer doctor in Mexican prison inspired him to create most famous cannibal in history". Daily Mail (London).
15.Jump up ^ Shapland, Mark. "Hannibal Lecter Was Based On A Sinister Surgeon Locked Up For Murder In The 1960s". The Sun (London).
16.Jump up ^ Osorno, Diego Enrique. "Hannibal Lecter is From Monterrey". VICE (in Spanish) (México).
17.Jump up ^ Real Hannibal Lecter was Murderous Gay Mexican Doctor Alfredo Ballí Treviño Umberto Bacchi, IB Times, July 2013
18.Jump up ^ Who Was The Real Hannibal Lecter? Valdez, Latin Times, 2013
19.Jump up ^ Grieg, Charlotte, Evil Serial Killers: In the Minds of Monsters (2009), p. 27
20.Jump up ^ Grieg, Charlotte, Evil Serial Killers: In the Minds of Monsters (2009), p. 102
External links[edit]
Hannibal Lecter at the Internet Movie Database
Information about Hannibal Lecter, with a focus on Manhunter (1986)
Crime Library profile of Lecter
NPR broadcast on Lecter
Brian Cox interview about portraying Hannibal Lecter


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This article is about the character. For the franchise, see Hannibal Lecter (franchise).

Hannibal Lecter
Hannibal Tetralogy character
Hannibal Lecter.png
Four on-screen versions of Hannibal Lecter (clockwise from top left): Brian Cox, Anthony Hopkins, Mads Mikkelsen and Gaspard Ulliel.

Created by
Thomas Harris
Portrayed by
Brian Cox
 (Manhunter)
Anthony Hopkins
 (The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, Red Dragon)
Gaspard Ulliel
 Aaran Thomas (young)
 (Hannibal Rising)
Mads Mikkelsen
 (Hannibal)
Information

Nickname(s)
Hannibal the Cannibal
 The Chesapeake Ripper
Aliases
Lloyd Wyman
 Dr. Fell
 Mr. Closter
Gender
Male
Occupation
Psychiatrist
Title
Dr. Hannibal Lecter
 Count Hannibal Lecter VIII
Relatives
Mischa Lecter (sister)
 Count Robert Lecter (uncle)
 Lady Murasaki (aunt-by-marriage)
Nationality
Lithuanian born, naturalized French
Dr. Hannibal Lecter is a fictional character in a series of suspense novels by Thomas Harris.
Lecter was introduced in the 1981 thriller novel Red Dragon as a forensic psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer. The novel and its sequel, The Silence of the Lambs, feature Lecter as one of the primary antagonists after the two serial killers in both novels. In the third novel, Hannibal, Lecter becomes a protagonist. His role as the antihero occurs in the fourth novel, Hannibal Rising, which explores his childhood and development into a serial killer.
The first film adapted from the Harris novels was Manhunter (based on Red Dragon) which features Brian Cox as Lecter, spelled "Lecktor". In 1991, Anthony Hopkins won an Academy Award for his portrayal of the character in The Silence of the Lambs. He would reprise the role in Hannibal in 2001 and in a second adaptation of Red Dragon made in 2002 under the original title.
Since 2013, NBC has been airing Hannibal, a television series based on the development of the relationship between Lecter and Will Graham, an FBI agent who becomes Lecter's greatest foe. In the series, Lecter is portrayed by Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen.
In 2003, Hannibal Lecter (as portrayed by Hopkins) was chosen by the American Film Institute as the #1 movie villain.[1] In June 2010, Entertainment Weekly named him one of the 100 Greatest Characters of the Last 20 Years.[2]


Contents  [hide]
1 Character overview 1.1 Novels 1.1.1 Red Dragon
1.1.2 The Silence of the Lambs
1.1.3 Hannibal
1.1.4 Hannibal Rising
1.2 In film
1.3 In television 1.3.1 Season 1
1.3.2 Season 2

2 Real-life models
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

Character overview[edit]
Red Dragon firmly states that Lecter does not fit any known psychological profile. In The Silence of the Lambs, Lecter's keeper, Dr. Frederick Chilton, claims that Lecter is a "pure sociopath" ("pure psychopath" in the film adaptation). In the novel Red Dragon, protagonist Will Graham says that Lecter tortured animals as a child, but in later novels Lecter has an affinity towards animals: this is either a retcon or an example of Lecter misleading profilers with false information, with the latter explanation being more in tune with his character. Lecter's pathology is explored in greater detail in Hannibal and Hannibal Rising, which explain that he was traumatized as a child in Lithuania in 1944 when he witnessed the murder and cannibalism of his beloved younger sister, Mischa, by Lithuanian Hilfswillige. One of the Hilfswillige members claimed that Lecter unwittingly ate his sister as well.
All media in which Lecter appears portray him as intellectually brilliant, cultured and sophisticated, with refined tastes in art, music and cuisine. He is frequently depicted preparing gourmet meals from his victims' flesh, the most famous example being his admission in the film adaptation of The Silence of the Lambs that he once ate a census taker's liver "with some fava beans and a nice Chianti" (a "big Amarone" in the novel). He is well-educated and speaks several languages. He is deeply offended by rudeness, and frequently kills people who have bad manners. Prior to his capture and imprisonment, he was a member of Baltimore, Maryland's social elite, and a sitting member of the Baltimore Philharmonic Orchestra's board of directors.
In The Silence of the Lambs, Lecter is described through protagonist Clarice Starling's eyes: "small, sleek, and in his hands and arms she saw wiry strength like her own". The novel also reveals that Lecter's left hand has a condition called mid ray duplication polydactyly, i.e. a duplicated middle finger.[3] In Hannibal, he performs plastic surgery on his own face on several occasions, and removes his extra digit. Lecter's eyes are a shade of maroon, and reflect the light in "pinpoints of red".[4] He has small white teeth[5] and dark, slicked-back hair with a widow's peak. He also has a keen sense of smell; in The Silence of the Lambs, he is able to identify through a plate glass window the brand of perfume that Starling wore the day before. He has an eidetic memory, and has constructed in his mind an elaborate "memory palace" with which he relives memories and sensations in rich detail.
Novels[edit]
Red Dragon[edit]
In the backstory of Red Dragon, FBI profiler Will Graham interviews Lecter about one of his patients who was murdered by a serial killer, before realizing that Lecter is the culprit. Lecter realizes that Graham is on to him, creeps up behind him and stabs him, nearly disemboweling him. Graham survives, however, and is hospitalized. Lecter is convicted of a series of nine murders, but is found not guilty by reason of insanity. He is institutionalized in the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, under the care of Dr. Frederick Chilton, a pompous, incompetent psychologist whom Lecter despises. Some years later, Graham comes out of retirement and consults Lecter in order to catch another serial killer, Francis Dolarhyde, known by the nickname "The Tooth-Fairy". Through the classifieds of a tabloid, The National Tattler, Lecter provides Dolarhyde with Graham's home address, enabling Dolarhyde to disfigure Graham and attempt to kill his family. At the end of the novel, Lecter sends Graham a taunting note saying that he hopes Graham isn't "too ugly".
The Silence of the Lambs[edit]
In the 1988 sequel The Silence of the Lambs, Lecter assists FBI agent-in-training Clarice Starling in catching a serial killer known as "Buffalo Bill". Lecter is fascinated by Starling, and they form an unusual relationship in which he provides her with a profile of the killer and his modus operandi in exchange for details about her unhappy childhood. Lecter had previously met Buffalo Bill, the former lover of his patient (and eventual victim) Benjamin Raspail. He does not reveal this information directly, instead giving Starling vague clues to help her figure it out for herself. In return for his assistance, Lecter is transferred to a lower security prison, from which he soon escapes, killing and mutilating his guards and using the face of one of them as a mask to fool paramedics. While in hiding, he writes a letter to Starling wishing her well, and another to Chilton swearing gruesome revenge. Chilton disappears soon afterward.
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.
Hannibal Rising[edit]
Harris wrote a 2006 prequel, Hannibal Rising, after film producer Dino De Laurentiis (who owned the cinematic rights to the Lecter character) announced that he was going to make a film depicting Lecter's childhood and development into a serial killer with or without Harris' help. Harris would also write the film's screenplay. The novel chronicles Lecter's early life, from birth into an aristocratic family in Lithuania in 1933, to being orphaned, along with his beloved sister Mischa, in 1944 when a German Stuka bomber attacks a Soviet tank in front of their forest hideaway. Shortly thereafter, Hannibal and Mischa are captured by a band of Nazi collaborators, who murder and cannibalize Mischa before her brother's eyes; Lecter later learns that the collaborators also fed him Mischa's remains. Irreparably traumatized, Lecter escapes from the deserters and wanders through the forest, robbed of the ability to speak. He is found and taken in by an orphanage, where he is bullied by the other children and abused by the dean. He is adopted by his uncle Robert and his Japanese wife, Lady Murasaki, who nursed him back to health and taught him to speak again. After his uncle's death, Lecter forms a close, pseudo-romantic relationship with his step-aunt. During this time he also shows great intellectual aptitude, entering medical school at a young age. Despite his seemingly comfortable life, Lecter is consumed by a savage obsession with avenging Mischa's death. He kills for the first time as a teenager, beheading a racist fishmonger who insulted Murasaki. He then methodically tracks down, tortures, and murders each of the men who had killed his sister. In the process of taking his revenge, he forsakes his relationship with Murasaki and seemingly loses all traces of his humanity. The novel ends with Lecter being accepted into the Johns Hopkins Medical Center.
In film[edit]
Main article: Hannibal Lecter (franchise)



 Sir Anthony Hopkins, the only actor to play Lecter in multiple films.
Red Dragon was first adapted to film in 1986 as the Michael Mann film Manhunter, although the spelling of Lecter's name was changed to "Lecktor". He was played by actor Brian Cox.[6] Cox based his performance on Scottish serial killer Peter Manuel.[7]
In 1991, Orion Pictures produced a Jonathan Demme-directed adaptation of The Silence of the Lambs, in which Lecter was played by actor Anthony Hopkins. Hopkins' Academy Award–winning performance made Lecter into a cultural icon. In 2001, Hannibal was adapted to film, with Hopkins reprising his role. In the film adaptation, the ending is revised: Starling attempts to apprehend Lecter, who escapes after cutting off his own hand to free himself from her handcuffs. In 2002, Red Dragon was adapted again, this time under its original title, with Hopkins again as Lecter and Edward Norton as Will Graham. Hopkins wrote a screenplay for a Hannibal sequel, ending with Starling killing Lecter, but it was never produced.[8]
In late 2006, the novel Hannibal Rising was adapted into the film of the same name, which explained Lecter's development into a serial killer. In the film, which was finished by 2007, eight-year-old Lecter is portrayed by Aaran Thomas, while Gaspard Ulliel portrays him as a young man. Both the novel and film received generally negative critical reviews.[9]
In television[edit]
Main article: Hannibal (TV series)
In February 2012, NBC gave a series order to Hannibal, a television adaptation of Red Dragon to be written and executive-produced by Bryan Fuller.[10] Mads Mikkelsen plays Lecter,[11] opposite Hugh Dancy as Will Graham.[12]
Fuller commented on Mikkelsen's version of Lecter: "What I love about Mads' approach to the character is that, in our first meeting, he was adamant that he didn't want to do Hopkins or Cox. He talked about the character not so much as 'Hannibal Lecter the cannibal psychiatrist', but as Satan – this fallen angel who's enamoured with mankind and had an affinity for who we are as people, but was definitely not among us – he was other. I thought that was a really cool, interesting approach, because I love science fiction and horror and – not that we'd ever do anything deliberately to suggest this – but having it subtextually play as him being Lucifer felt like a really interesting kink to the series. It was slightly different than anything that's been done before and it also gives it a slightly more epic quality if you watch the show through the prism of, 'This is Satan at work, tempting someone with the apple of their psyche'. It appealed to all of those genre things that get me excited about any sort of entertainment."[13]
Season 1[edit]
The TV series amends the continuity so that Graham and Lecter first work together during the hunt for Garrett Jacob Hobbs, aka the "Minnesota Shrike", a serial killer who preys on college girls. During the investigation, Lecter secretly calls Hobbs to tip him off that Graham is on to him, resulting in Hobbs killing his wife and slitting his daughter Abigail's throat as Graham charges in to arrest him. Graham shoots Hobbs dead, and the experience preys upon him and gives him nightmares, for which he seeks Lecter's counseling. Throughout the first season, Lecter acts as Graham's informal psychiatrist, and the two form a tenuous friendship. Lecter is fascinated by Graham's ability to think like the serial killers he investigates, and he spends much of the series trying to undermine Graham's fragile sanity and push him into becoming a killer himself. To this end, Lecter prevents Graham from learning that he has advanced encephalitis, just to see how Graham would function under the circumstances. In the first season finale, "Savoreux", Lecter reluctantly frames Graham for a series of murders that he himself committed throughout the season – but not before Graham realises that Lecter is the "Chesapeake Ripper", the very killer he has been trying to catch.
Season 2[edit]
Throughout the beginning of the season, Graham, who is now institutionalized, attempts to convince his skeptical former colleagues that Lecter is the real killer and begins pulling strings from his cell in order to expose him. Outside the hospital, Lecter begins to manipulate evidence from the outside, exonerating himself after the FBI's initial investigations into Graham's claims. Eventually Graham persuades a deranged hospital orderly to kill Lecter: the attempt fails, but the orderly is able to get Lecter to involuntarily confirm Graham's suspicions. Lecter exonerates Graham by planting forensic evidence of Graham's alleged victims at the scene of one of his own murders, resulting in Graham's release.
Graham resumes therapy with Lecter as an attempt to entrap him. Lecter is aware of this, but finds the experience fascinating and allows it to continue because of the connection he feels with Graham. In an attempt to push Graham into becoming a serial killer, Lecter sends his psychotic former patient Randall Tier to kill Graham, but Graham kills and mutilates Tier instead - just as Lecter hoped he would. Graham later attacks tabloid reporter Freddie Lounds and shares a meal with Lecter of what is implied to be her flesh, but it is soon revealed that Lounds is still alive and conspiring with Graham and Crawford to draw Lecter into their trap. Lecter and Graham have a common enemy in Mason Verger, and Graham stands by as Lecter mutilates Verger and breaks his neck. In "Mizumono", the second season finale, Graham and Crawford move to arrest Lecter against the orders of the FBI. In the ensuing struggle, Lecter seriously wounds Graham and Crawford, while Alana is pushed out of a window at the hands of Abigail Hobbs, whom Lecter had led the police to believe had been murdered. Lecter then cuts Abigail's throat in front of Graham and leaves him to die as he flees before police arrive; He is shown in a post-credits scene aboard a flight to France with Bedelia Du Maurier.
Real-life models[edit]
Thomas Harris has given few interviews, and did not explain where he got inspiration for Hannibal Lecter until mid 2013. Harris revealed that the character was inspired by a real-life Mexican doctor and murderer he met while visiting a prison in Monterrey city, in the state of Nuevo León, during a trip to Mexico in the 1960s, when he was a 23-year-old reporter.[14] The doctor was serving life after murdering a young man, supposedly a "close friend", mutilating his body into several body parts and putting them in a very small box. Harris, who would only refer to the surgeon by the fake name "Dr. Salazar", described him as a "small lithe pale man with dark red hair". He added: "There was certain intelligence and elegance about him."[15] Harris had gone to México to interview Dykes Askew Simmons, a US citizen on death row for murdering three young people in the country, but he ended up also speaking to "Salazar", who saved Simmons' life after a guard shot him during an escape bid. "Salazar" revealed his dark side as he began discussing Simmons’ disfigured face, tormented upbringing and how attractive his victims had been.



 Dr. Alfredo Ballí Treviño, the real-life inspiration for Lecter, according to Thomas Harris.
Several reporters and investigators have traced the records and whereabouts of the Mexican prison doctor in later years and discovered that "Salazar" was in reality Alfredo Ballí Treviño, a physician from an upper-class Monterrey family who was found guilty of murdering a close friend (and lover) and mutilating his body; he was also suspected of killing and dismembering several hitchhikers in the city outskirts during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Treviño was initially condemned to death, but his sentence was later commuted to 20 years and he was released in 1981. After his release, Treviño continued working as a physician in an austere office until his death by natural causes in 2009.[16][17][18]
In a making-of documentary for the film version of Hannibal Rising, Lecter's early murders were said to be based on murders that Harris had covered when he was a crime reporter in the 1960s. In 1992, Harris also attended the ongoing trials of Pietro Pacciani, who was suspected of being the serial killer nicknamed the "Monster of Florence". Parts of the killer's modus operandi were used as reference for the novel Hannibal, which was released in 1999.
According to David Sexton, author of The Strange World of Thomas Harris: Inside the Mind of the Creator of Hannibal Lecter, Harris once told a librarian in Cleveland, Mississippi, that Lecter was inspired by William Coyne, a local murderer who had escaped from prison in 1934 and gone on a rampage that included acts of murder and cannibalism.
In her book Evil Serial Killers, Charlotte Greig asserts that the serial killer Albert Fish was the inspiration, at least in part, for Lecter.[19] Greig also states that to explain Lecter's pathology, Harris borrowed the story of serial killer and cannibal Andrei Chikatilo's brother Stepan being kidnapped and eaten by starving neighbours (though she states that it is unclear whether the story was true or whether Stepan Chikatilo even existed).[20]
In an interview on Inside the Actors Studio, Hopkins revealed that he used the characteristics of Katharine Hepburn and HAL 9000's voice from 2001: A Space Odyssey as inspiration for his performance. In the same interview Hopkins revealed that he observed and imitated movements of snakes for Lecter's body language.[citation needed]
See also[edit]
Hannibal Lecter (franchise)
Hannibal (TV series)

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Dorangel Vargas, a serial killer known as the "Hannibal Lecter of the Andes"
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "AFI's 100 Heroes & Villains". American Film Institute. June 2003. Retrieved 2007-02-12.
2.Jump up ^ Adam B. Vary (June 1, 2010). "The 100 Greatest Characters of the Last 20 Years: Here's our full list!". Entertainment Weekly. Time Inc. Retrieved July 7, 2012.
3.Jump up ^ Silence of the Lambs p. 15, para. 2: "Dr. Lecter has six fingers on his left hand".
4.Jump up ^ Silence of the Lambs p. 16, para 4: "Dr. Lecter's eyes are maroon, and they reflect the light in pinpoints of red".
5.Jump up ^ The Silence of the Lambs p. 17, para. 4: "He tapped his small white teeth against the card and breathed in its smell".
6.Jump up ^ BBC interview with Brian Cox on youtube.com
7.Jump up ^ Mottram, James (March 2011). "Manhunter". In Aubrey, Day. Total Film (Future Publishing) (177): 112–116.
8.Jump up ^ Oldenburg, Ann (October 3, 2002). "Marquee names serve up another helping of Hannibal". USA Today. Retrieved April 19, 2013.
9.Jump up ^ Hannibal Rising at Rotten Tomatoes
10.Jump up ^ Pilot Season: NBC Orders Hannibal Straight to Series; Also Picks Up Notorious - TVGuide.com
11.Jump up ^ NBC casts Bond villain as Hannibal Lecter
12.Jump up ^ Morgan, Jeffrey. "Hannibal Lecter TV series casts Hugh Dancy as Will Graham" www.digitalspy.com. March 23, 2012
13.Jump up ^ Jeffery, Morgan (May 3, 2013). "Bryan Fuller 'Hannibal' Q&A: 'Lecter is like Satan at work'". digitalspy.ie. Retrieved May 11, 2013.
14.Jump up ^ "The REAL Hannibal Lecter: Author Thomas Harris reveals for first time how killer doctor in Mexican prison inspired him to create most famous cannibal in history". Daily Mail (London).
15.Jump up ^ Shapland, Mark. "Hannibal Lecter Was Based On A Sinister Surgeon Locked Up For Murder In The 1960s". The Sun (London).
16.Jump up ^ Osorno, Diego Enrique. "Hannibal Lecter is From Monterrey". VICE (in Spanish) (México).
17.Jump up ^ Real Hannibal Lecter was Murderous Gay Mexican Doctor Alfredo Ballí Treviño Umberto Bacchi, IB Times, July 2013
18.Jump up ^ Who Was The Real Hannibal Lecter? Valdez, Latin Times, 2013
19.Jump up ^ Grieg, Charlotte, Evil Serial Killers: In the Minds of Monsters (2009), p. 27
20.Jump up ^ Grieg, Charlotte, Evil Serial Killers: In the Minds of Monsters (2009), p. 102
External links[edit]
Hannibal Lecter at the Internet Movie Database
Information about Hannibal Lecter, with a focus on Manhunter (1986)
Crime Library profile of Lecter
NPR broadcast on Lecter
Brian Cox interview about portraying Hannibal Lecter


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