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Currently reading: Red Dragon Ch. 5

[claricegraham]

Will be reading Thomas Harris' Red Dragon, The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal and document my thoughts. Use the following tags to find them:

#reading log

#reading red dragon

Not sure if I'll read Hannibal Rising, though. The first time I tried, I found it so bad I couldn't bring myself to finish it.

[cparti-mkiki]

hannibal lecter is three apples tall

[claricegraham]

I wanna hug Thomas Harris

[theflikchic]

hi so what do you mean Clarice CHOOSES to grab Hannibal's hands in the play version. hi, what does this mean, excuse me.

[willgrahamsbouncingbulge]

[willgrahamsbouncingbulge]

My only gripe with Bryan's adaptation of The Red Dragon is that my absolute favorite line of all time was changed:

Red Dragon!Will was a whole other beast. The man did not give two fucks.

[tallestredforcefem]

omg he is so pretty in this art oujgh… if any1 knows the og artist pls tell me their name

[claricegraham]

Red Dragon | Chapters 1-3

I love the archetype of the detective, so I was bound to like Will Graham, but the way he is presented as someone tormented by his own mind is something I find relatable.

He viewed his own mentality as grotesque but useful, like a chair made of antlers. There was nothing he could do about it.

I like how the way he imitates Jack's speech shows that Graham's empathy is never really gone, and that getting into others' shoes is second nature to him.

I like how he doesn't enjoy bring perceived, even the fake eyes of dolls are enought to trigger him as a child.

It was nice to find out that the pendulum we see in the show actually has its origins in the original text. Speaking of, the show has by far the most interesting way to show how Graham's mind works. So far I'm not impressed by Will's soliloquies in the book, and neither Norton nor Petersen blew me away with their delivery of those lines.

I also like that we see from the very start how manipulative Crawford is.

It's interesting how things the narrator says became dialogue in the show. Or how some dialogue got recontextualized.

Wasn't expecting Jimmy Price to be a character here.

[userlecter]

How I like to imagine Clarice was acting if the BSU kept coming to her about Hannibal Lecter and the tips/sightings that have been reported after repeatedly rejecting her transfer to the unit...

[claricegraham]

Still amazed at this casting choice

Ray Liotta as Paul Krendler in Hannibal.

Michael Cudlitz as Paul Krendler in Clarice.

[claricegraham]

I am so tired

[alittlebitch]

just finished reading red dragon and suddenly had a moment where i realised that hannibal the TV show is based on the books. i only know hannibal the tv show from tumblr. forgot that two things can exist at the same time. i’m trying to work out how that shits gay.

[claricegraham]

Due to copyright issues, they combined the storylines of Will and Clarice into the Will Graham character of the show.

The show started as a prequel to Red Dragon, but as it became evident that they would not get to use Clarice, and knowing the show would be cancelled, they decided to work with what they had—which meant going full gay.

Imo, a good solution to the problem. I've seen shows (prematurely calcelled or not) that wish they had the finale Hannibal had.

[livelovelaugh-777]

[claricegraham]

Why did they give Lecter a pony tail in Red Dragon???

[summerlyewe]

me when I eat watermelon btw

[lanativite]

we need to talk about how jack crawford's first appearance in the silence of the lambs is him immediately serving cunt

[underworld-offical]

Yk maybe I’m being too woke silence of the lambs was great n all but I wasn’t a fan of the implication that Hannibal could just like. Decide she wasn’t really trans because he said so idk

[claricegraham]

Since the movie insists that Gumb is not trans, I would argue it is you who is making the villain into a trans woman. Well, you and the transphobes, ironically enough.

Not that SOTL is completely without blame, Buffalo Bill is probably the character that has damaged the way the public sees trans people the most, and Harris could've made a serial killer that hated themselves so much that wanted to transform that didn't kill women and fashioned their skin into a woman suit...

Speaking of skin suits, I think people who talk about this subject tend to forget that Ed Gein was the inspiration for Gumb (and other horror icons), and, if I recall correctly, he stated that he fashioned his skin suit not because he wanted to be a woman but because he wanted to be inside his own (may I add—abusive) mother, who he worshipped.

So there is a precedent, in real life, for a man who fashions a woman suit for him to wear and who is not trans. Unless being trans is about being inside the skin of the one who abused you.

Again, not to downplay the transphobic legacy of Silence, but how much of that is people actively ignoring what the movie is actually telling them?