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Hannibal Lecter

Dr. Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter (født i Litauen) er en fiktiv person, der optræder i romaner af den amerikanske forfatter Thomas Harris samt i filmatiseringerne af disse. Hannibal Lecter er en uhyggeligt klog person, uddannet psykiater, der i flere omgange bliver bedt om at hjælpe med politiets opklaringsarbejde, selvom han selv er kannibal og seriemorder.

Hannibal Lecter spilles af Anthony Hopkins i filmene Ondskabens Øjne, Den Røde Drage, Hannibal og Brian Cox i filmen Manhunter, som er den første film om Hannibal Lecter.

I bogen Red Dragon, filmatiseret som Manhunter () og genindspilningen Den Røde Drage (), bliver Hannibal Lecter fanget af FBI detektiven Will Graham efter et middagsselskab, hvor Lecter har serveret mad baseret på menneskekød til en middag.

På grund af hans viden om menneskets sind bliver han en gang i mellem sat til at hjælpe med mordefterforskinger fra sin celle. Han kræver dog altid nogle modtjenester. I slutningen af bogen og filmen Ondskabens Øjne flygter Lecter fra sine vogtere, og er dermed på fri fod i hele bogen og filmen Hannibal, hvor det sidste man ser til Lecter er i en flyvemaskine på vej væk fra U

Hannibal (bog)

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Hannibal er en roman fra af den amerikanskeforfatterThomas Harris og efterfølgeren til Ondskabens Øjne. Den blev filmatiseret i med Ridley Scott som instruktør.

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Syv år efter FBI-agenten Clarice Starling skød og dræbte seriemorderen "Buffalo Bill" er kannibalen Hannibal Lecter stadig på fri fod. Han lever livet i Firenze, langt væk fra FBI's lange arm.

Starling har levet højt på sine bedrifter for syv år siden, men hun havner pludselig i unåde pga. en fejlslagen anholdelse, der kostede en kollega livet. Starling bliver dog reddet i sidste øjeblik af rigmanden Mason Verger, der igennem sine forbindelser i den amerikanske regering, får FBI til at genoptage eftersøgningen af Lecter. Starling bliver sat på sagen.

Verger er Lecters sjette offer, og det eneste, der har overlevet. Men ikke uden en pris! Verger er lam, hans ansigt er vansiret, og han tørster efter hævn over Hannibal Lecter. I kulissen manipulerer Ver

Yes, Dr. Hannibal Lecter Was Based on a Real-Life Doctor Who Did Horrific Things

The Gist:

  • Hannibal Lecter isn't based on a real person but instead, inspired by a real doctor who was jailed for murdering his boyfriend.
  • While some of Hannibal's characteristics are pure fiction, others closely resemble those of the man the character is inspired by.

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There are some movie and TV characters who seem to captivate our imaginations more than others, and they're usually people who aren't the nicest of folks.

Tyler Durden in Fight Club, for example. Or the Joker, who has kind of become like the modern version of Hamlet — in a way, it's a role that's become a huge and heavy honor for actors to play. Another infamous cinema character is Dr. Hannibal Lecter, who's been portrayed by several people. But is Hannibal a real person? In a way, he was. Here's what we know.

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Dr. Hannibal Lecter isn't real, but he is based off of an actual individual.

In the s, writer Thomas Harris was visiting the Topo Chico Penitentiary in Nuevo Leon, Mexico while working on a story for Argosy, whi

The Road to Hannibal

Harris, now 80 years old and a former journalist for the Associated Press, published his second novel, Red Dragon, in That story introduced Hannibal Lecter fto the world for the first time. When the book begins, Lecter is already imprisoned for his ghastly crimes, having been caught by the haunted FBI profiler Will Graham. When Graham is called out of retirement to catch another killer, he consults with Dr. Lecter on the case despite the serial killer’s ability to manipulate Graham psychologically. Lecter is very much a supporting character in Red Dragon, which was also reflected in the first film made from the book, Michael Mann’s Manhunter.

Released in , the movie starred William Petersen (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation) as Graham and Scottish actor Brian Cox (Succession) as Lecter (spelled “Lektor” in the movie). Cox is only in a handful of scenes, but makes a strong impression in his few minutes of screen time; both his performance and the film&#;which was not a success with either critics or audiences in its initial release- have grown in popular stature over the years.

Two years later, in , Harris published his third novel, T

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