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The Hannibal Lecter books ~ canon. Heavy on Hannibal Lecter x Clarice Starling With a side of Anthony Hopkins movies About ♡ Edits ♡ Main

[memorypalace-observer]

One must always have a copy of Hannibal (1999) in their car.

[userlecter]

I would prefer to just have Hannibal in my car but the book is probably safer. It won't lick my steering wheel.

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Silence of the Lambs open matte 35mm scan

[userlecter]

So, can we talk a little bit about how Clarice's last name is Starling?

The Starling bird most people are familiar with is the Common Starling. During her first meeting with Hannibal, he says:

"And you'd hate to think you were common. Wouldn't that sting? My! Well, you're far from common, Officer Starling. All you have is fear of it."

Clarice was warned to not let Hannibal Lecter inside of her head but Starlings are an invasive species.

Clarice's invasion didn't cause destruction but she entered his life and never left him. He escaped but wrote her letters. He checked 3 newspapers every week for 7 years to see if she wrote him back. Clarice ended up in his home, spending his money, living in his mind.

Someone should have warned Hannibal about Starlings.

[basilosu]

for a lack of a better word, we will call him a monster

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the thing that I always notice about the show hannibal is how high everyone's pay must be for them to have such refined tastes like... no way a psychiatrist is getting paid that much

[userlecter]

Well, I don’t know if you've read the books & I don't remember if this was in the show, but in canon, Hannibal has money because he’s also a con artist.

“Lecter doesn’t have to come out. He’s got the money to hide forever.” “How does he have money?” Margot said. “He had some very rich old people in his psychiatric practice,” Krendler said. “He got them to sign over a lot of money and stocks to him and he hid it good. The IRS hasn’t been able to find it. They exhumed the bodies of a couple of his benefactors to see if he’d killed them, but they couldn’t find anything. Toxin scans negative.” Hannibal (1999) by Thomas Harris

READ THE BOOKS!

[ilcantodellastarling]

If you can get your hands on Mussolini and I, I highly recommend taking the time to watch the miniseries. I found Bob Hoskins miscast as Mussolini, but if you're anything like me, you'll shamelessly enjoy everything about Hopkins in this.

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HANNIBAL (2001)

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Shadowlands | dir: Richard Attenborough (1993)

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thank you people that still fw clannibal it’s us three against the world

[toptony]

Well Fuck off, Chilton. “I graduated from the University of Virginia with honors, Doctor. It’s not a charm school.” - The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS | dir. Jonathan Demme | 1991

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🐗 HANNIBAL (2001)

BTS footage from the music video found on the DVD bonus features.

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MEET JOE BLACK | dir. Martin Brest ✧ 1998

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rogue fbi agent…

[ilcantodellastarling]

Since your latest chapter of 'The Fever of the Bone' has posted, and you have gone a completely different direction, I can tell you the one moment I've mentally explored if Hannibal hadn't been incarcerated and they worked the case together.

It's when Clarice is at Buffalo Bill's house, but I had Hannibal with Crawford. I like the thought of him having his fun with Crawford and going with him to Chicago. Hannibal is at Quanitco for whatever reason and Crawford invites him along for his expertise and familiarity with the case due to the likelihood of a hostage situation. I like putting him in the moment of Crawford's horrifying realization that Clarice is probably in danger, and Hannibal being like WTF because he thinks she's safely sitting in class.

Now he's stuck with stupid Jack trying to figure out where she is and if she's alive. He's dealing with the panic, fear, uncertainty, and some guilt that maybe he put her in that situation with his breadcrumbs instead of just helping her properly etc. I go different directions from there depending on mood. What if things go as normal? What if she dies? What if she's shot and uh oh! she stays at Hannibal's house during her convalescence because he's a doctor and wants to help her....? ~userlecter

Ohhhh, I love this!! I'm so glad you told me what you'd been thinking. That creates a different, wonderful kind of tension for Hannibal, and I love the idea of him and Crawford facing that moment together.

I love the idea that she gets hurt, and his guilt compels him to take care of her instead of letting her go from the hospital to the dorm.

When I was writing the scene with her showing up at his home after the storage unit, I wanted to write something where he had to take care of her over something more serious than a cut. I might have to do a one-shot for that.

[userlecter]

Yes! I always love when Hannibal has the opportunity to take care of her. Even if she's just sick.

Another moment I hadn't considered from the book until after I read your chapter with the storage unit is how funny it would be if Hannibal learned Clarice went to the storage unit because he saw it on the nightly local news. He has it on in the background until he hears...

"Stay tuned for WPIK news where our very own Jonetta Johnson has the scoop on a severed head found at a local storage unit."

Thankful for the commercial break, he pops in a VHS tape to record the moment, and watches a ragged Clarice yell at the reporters, pin a guy with the door, and use the jack to make her point. He falls just a little bit more for her after that.

*Even if he's still incarcerated and Barney lets him watch the news when he's certain Chilton won't hear about it. I think Hannibal would get a real kick out of it and it'd go a ways to endearing her to him.

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THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS dir. Johnathan Demme ✧ 1991

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“Did you hurt yourself?” “No, I-” “You have on a fresh Band-Aid, Clarice.” Then she remembered. “I got a scrape on the side of the pool swimming today.” The Band-Aid was out of sight, on her calf beneath her trousers. He must smell it. - The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS | dir. Jonathan Demme | 1991

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