Hannibal Lecter's sexuality

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In one of the books—Silence of the Lambs?—we first meet him reading Vogue magazine. He quotes Truman Capote to Clarice, and he tells the Senator, the woman whose daughter has been kidnapped, that he “loves her shoes,”or something like that. He’s gay. It’s not said directly, but we can take a hint. (The fact that all of his victims are male is also a tell).

Written after the success of Lambs, the next novel, ghastly Hannibal, tried to straighten him out.

He was a psychiatrist so therefore he was confused about himself, period.

like many sociopaths, Lecter was whatever was necessary at the time.

how else ya gonna make a meal, eh?

'Mason, would you like a popper?'

I knew a girl named Hannah Blecter and she was straight.

It adds up psychologically.

My guess is that the higher, male sex drive means there are more kinky men willing to accept sadistic, BDSM treatment from a psychopath like Lecter than women, so guys like Lecter would accept them.

The book implies that Lector was involved in BSDM with Benjamin Raspail and possibly Jame Gumb.

He wants to fuck Will Graham so badly.

A gay analysis of Hannibal.

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[quote]However, the show subverts that paradigm by using heterosexual erasure and Lee Edelman's vision of negative futurity to promote a more positive queer perspective.

I'm all for hetero erasure at every possible opportunity!

Sure the Hannibal series was damn homoerotic, but still Hannibal was shown engaging in sex with women and never with men.

I know from interviews Mads Mikkelsen/Hugh Dancy threw in some super-gay takes of their final scene together just in case Fuller wanted to use it and go more explicit, but he didn't.

I don't think NBC would go for explicit gayness.

I thought it was implied that Will and Hannibal were lovers when Bedelia asked Will if his wife knew how intimate he was with Hannibal.

Bryan Fuller has recently said that watching Killing Eve made him realize he has to seriously up the stakes when it comes to homo stuff in the possible next season of Hannibal.

r13 I'm pretty sure that's not true anymore in 2018.

They wouldn't even show butt cracks on Hannibal. They were always blurred out.

I hope Amazon or Netflix picks up a fourth season.

Bryan Fuller has quit/been fired from 3 series since Hannibal right?

That is going to make networks even more nervous about getting in business with him unfortunately.

I haven’t seen a single episode of Hannibal and only know of Mads from his role in Doctor Strange. He’s weird looking, but I suppose he could be sexy in a Rufus Sewell/Chris Walken/Michael Wincott sort of way. Has he had any scenes in Hannibal or any other project where he appears shirtless and/or actually makes out with a man? Because otherwise, I’m not interested.

We will be sure to let him know. Of course he will be devastated.

Hannibal Lecter is a homosexual? No wonder he eats ass.

Mads appears shirtless several times. He has a manly hairy chest. There are a couple of scenes where's he nude with his dick strategically covered.

Also a blurred out butt crack scene when he's tied up by Mason Verger.

In Red Dragon, it’s seriously implied that he dated Taylor Swift. So, um...

For the dunce at R25, it was Olivia Munn, actually.

He should have eaten them both.

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Well. Thanks for those, r28 & r29. He’s a’ight. Kind of a blocky, stiff build. Very reminiscent of a young Rutger Hauer.

Not that young. Mads is 52.

Yeah I laughed at the "young" description as well when he is very much a middle-aged man. Though I am sure Mads appreciates you saying that.

Mads started out as an acrobat and a dancer.

.Mads was sexy as hell in his early Danish films.

Bryan Fuller said if there had been a fourth season of Hannibal it would have focused on Hanniibal and Will's relationship.

It really sucks Fuller isn't doing the Vampire Chronicles anymore. Anyone know what happened there?

He chose to leave. I don't think a reason was given.

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I've read all the books. In one of them, he lured Mason Verger into a bondage scene which led to Mason's disfigurement. In the last book Lecter has brainwashed/entranced Clarice into running away with him in a presumably sexual relationship. Then there was that weird book and film that explored his childhood in which he seduces a Japanese woman, but I've forgotten much of that one because it was so dreadful. Lecter is beyond hetero- or homosexuality; as a poster above mentioned, he's a psychopath who morphs into whatever the scenario calls for.

A lot of dialogue from the books that was spoken between Hannibal and Clarice was used for Hannibal /Will scenes in the series.

He's definitely straight. He takes me to all the psychiatrist award shows.

Ha! Pretty good, R41.

r36 Creative differences.

[quote]Fuller opted to step back from the project rather than step on the toes of longtime friends Anne Rice and her son, Christopher Rice, who penned the original script.

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He was completely heterosexual in the books. He and Clarice embark on a world tour and fuck their way through it.

I've started watching RED DRAGON. God, it's shit. Ed Norton is completely miscast as Graham. He looks like a little boy with his died blonde hair.

R2 - In the film, Hannibal says to the (female) Senator, "Love your suit!" because he's alluding to Buffalo Bill's plans to sew together a "girl suit" out of all the victims' skin!

The series wasn't allowed to use any characters that originated in Silence of the Lambs. Will Graham essentially took the place of Clarice Starling.

Mads has kissed a man in one of his movies R20

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