Human history abounds in the length and breadth of its history with millions of stories about murderers and thugs, some saved by human memory and others lost in oblivion. But whether the story tells the story of medieval slaughterers or modern-day criminals, they are all subject to one rule, the moral rule, where most of us share a sense of alarm and anger at the hands of those who renounce the laws of humanity, who attack the grace of life.
But as everyone knows, every exception rule that excludes and excludes us here is a personality that succeeded in blurring our view of right and wrong and creating new rules for itself to start and return to. It is the character of Dr. Hannibal Lecter, who won the title of the most evil character. History of Cinema. Let us know it closely and publicly and realize why it is distinguished.
Personal birth of Hannibal Lecter
The "Hannibal Lecter" was first published in 1981 in Thomas Harris's "The Red Dragon," and it is impressive that the novel revolves around the federal client Will Grahm, who has a killer known as the "tooth fairy" "Lecter" was just a minor figure helping the hero solve the issue.
It was a classic detective story about a murderous serial killer, a maniacal policeman and an end to the arrest of the "tooth fairy," which was reinforced by a 1986 film called Manhunter, which failed miserably commercially.
Thus, the "Hannibal Lecter" passed through it, until it was sent out of its ashes in Harris' second book, "The Silence of the Lambs", which was published in 1988. This time too, the role of "Lecter" was secondary but its area was larger than the previous one And deeper and moved from the background of events to the forefront and became the evil hero in the face of the hero of the good actress "Clarisse Starling," which is confirmed in the film "Silence Lambs" adapted from the book and issued in 1991, and we can say that the spark spark The strange obsession with "Lecter", which, contrary to expectations, continues to this day, until it became the character of the "Legend of Evil" despite the emergence New Navsin every year.
Who is Dr. Hannibal Lecter?
As we said at the beginning, Hannibal Lecter was destined to be a secondary character, disappearing by the disappearance of the reason for her existence and the success of the interrogator, Will Grahm, in capturing his unknown killer. Thomas Harris, in his first book, The Red Dragon, did not tell the story of Lecter. Rather, he gave a few simple details as a brief definition that enabled the reader to understand Graham's relationship with Lecter and his psychological consequences for the investigator's life and work.
He sought to correct it in his subsequent books, where he presented with each new book more details about his hero "Hannibal Lecter" and tried to answer all the questions that readers may have asked.
We can say today that we have the almost complete story behind Dr. Hannibal Lecter.
He was born in 1938 in Lithuania to an aristocratic family, where his father was a nobleman with the title Conte and owns vast tracts of land and palaces. His mother came from an ancient Italian family in Milan, the Visconti family. Hannibal was the older brother of a sister called Misha, who would have a big role in his later life.
At the age of eight, Hannibal and his family left their province to escape the Nazi invasion. They moved to a hut in the forest and were nevertheless the victims of a group of German soldiers fleeing the frozen winter of Russia who tortured and killed Count Litter and his wife And the servants who accompanied them and kept the two young children.
In the cold weather and the shortage of supplies, the Nazis killed Micha and ate them, while Hannibal managed to escape.
It is necessary to mention the existence of a different version of the story of the death of the "Lecter" family, which appeared in the book "Hannibal Rising" and is completely contrary to the first novel used by "Harris" in his previous books, saying that a group of farmers disgruntled aristocracy, they attacked the Palace The family of Count "Lecter" were killed and then slaughtered and ate the youngest son "Misha" in sight and hearing from her brother who managed to escape.
The survival of the child "Hannibal" from the massacre of his family, was only the beginning of a new plight, will accompany him for the rest of his life and will have an important impact in the formation of his character as we know it now.
After his escape, he joined the orphanage, pretending to be a poor child, deaf and dumb, to keep away the pimps and wealth hunters and completely isolate himself from his surroundings and showed violent behavior against bullying and bad children.
Just before the war ended and before Hannibal reached the age of thirteen, his uncle Count Robert Litter succeeded in finding him and taking him to France. Where he received his education at home, and his uncle's keenness to teach him various arts and arts such as painting and sculpture, while drinking from his Japanese cousin the origins of the culture of Japan, and perhaps the reason behind the fondness of Dr. "Lecter" cooking later.
In 1951, Hannibal Lecter committed his first crime against his cousin's butcher and his uncle's death in a heart attack during a violent quarrel between them. The boy was killed by a samurai sword, his cheeks cut, and his fish cooked and eaten. However, thanks to the complicity of Ms. Lecter, her nephew was never arrested even though he was the main culprit, and thus Hannibal continued his life as if nothing had happened. He passed the secondary examination and joined the University of Medicine in Paris as the youngest student in this Specialization in France. He started out with surgery and then abandoned it to practice psychiatry. He then settled in Baltimore, USA, and became one of the most prominent faces of society in the city thanks to his charming modern style and his aristocratic European behavior, especially his psychological tricks.
Crimes of "Hannibal Lecter"
The follower of the story of Dr. "Lecter" will certainly recognize that his criminal career is divided into two major chapters, the first combines his crimes of revenge and the second is centered on the crimes committed by "Chaseabic killer."
Hannibal Lecter was the serial killer of a series of revenge killings that caused his family tragedy. In his first years at university, as Thomas Harris writes in his book "Hannibal Rising," the young doctor returned to his native Lithuania and chased his family's killers one by one. His crimes here were of a similar nature to that of his first victim, lacking in imagination and diversity. No wonder his goal was only revenge, so he ripped his victims and ate some of them in an attempt to simulate what happened to his sister Misha, As if he wanted to drink from the same cup that they gave him.
This time he is arrested and brought to trial, but he survives because of the lack of evidence to condemn him, in addition to supporting public opinion. The French saw that what Lecter had done to his victims, who were a group of war criminals and Nazi spies, Championship deserves to be honored not punishment. In the end, the young man leaves Paris triumphantly towards the United States to complete his studies under a scholarship.
He took advantage of his new situation in Baltimore as a respected psychiatrist and employed all his talents to become the so-called Chasebeek's serial killer, a savage and sadistic serial killer who carefully chooses his victims. They are devout in inventing ways to kill them and eat their organs.
While ignoring the rest of the victims and crimes, Harris made the details of these three crimes a sample of what his hero could do. Interestingly enough, except for "Will Grahm", all of Dr. Hannibal Lecter's dead were bad people in one way or another.
For example, Mason Farger, the fourth victim of Dr. Lecter, was a child molester and a sexually obsessed man who assaulted his sister and gave him a bad luck in Hannibal's hands. He anesthetized him and cut his face and fed him to his dogs. Eat your nose. Then he broke his neck and left him to die. But Mason Farger miraculously survived to live the rest of his life, locking artificial respirators, deformed and looking for revenge.
Benjamin Respiel was a talented guitarist in the Baltimore Philharmonic, and Dr. Lecter was spoiled for enjoying the beauty of his symphonic music. He was kidnapped, pulled out of his throat and pancreas and left in a church. While he later hosted a feast for members of the symphony orchestra in which they presented their fellow members as a dinner.
At this stage, Hannibal Lecter developed his methods in selecting his victims and in attracting them, especially in killing them and arranging the scene of his crime before they were discovered. He made every crime a stand-alone act, dealing with him with the artist's taste, not the murderer. Obsessed with making them striped as pieces of art.
Hannibal's falling into the hands of justice
During the investigation into the Chasbek serial killer, federal agent Will Grahm was given to Dr. Lecter after discovering that he treated one of the victims from an injury while working as a surgeon. In the course of their discussion, Ghrahem witnessed an old medical book that embodies the way in which the sixth victim was killed. He tried to shackle Lecter in connection with the police, but Dr. Hannibal quietly infiltrated and attacked him from behind with a surgical incision. "Will Grahm". Thus, the incest of Chasebek was arrested in 1975. He was sent to the psychiatric clinic in Baltimore.
His presence in prison did not prevent him from committing his tenth crime, one year after his arrest, where he claimed that he suffered from chest pains and was transferred to the prison medical center where he succeeded in unzipping his handcuffs through a key made of paper clips. He broke her jaw and ate her tongue.
Hannibal is a free cutter again
After his recent crime, Lecter was subjected to aggravated measures that led him into a frenzied conflict with the prison director Shelton.
Dr. Shelton was an incompetent psychiatrist who was misled by Lecter as a psychiatrist and wanted to use his identity as a Chasepic killer for academic gain. While Dr. "Hannibal" despises "Shelton" and reduce and manipulate it in all possible ways. It was the only entertainment match for Hannibal Lecter before FBI agent Clarice Starligh visited him three years after his arrest and suggested that she help her and her boss, Jack Crawford, to find the killer of Buffalo Bell, a specialist in kidnapping and killing girls.
"Cutter" in Crawford and Starling had a special opportunity, and the last victim of Buffalo Bell was the daughter of a senator in the US Senate. After a few meetings with the trainee, Lecter asked the senator personally to reveal the whereabouts of her missing daughter. He was actually transferred to Memphis. In his detention center, Lecter attacked his bodyguards and killed them and then managed to escape after making a mask. From the face of one of them.
The death of the interrogator "Farger" did not stop him from grabbing his taste with the irresistible taste of Clarice Starling. He had prepared a plan for him to spend years in his weaving to give the dead Hannibal Lecter his deserved death. But as usual, "Lecter" managed to manipulate the sister of "Mason" and convince her to kill her brother, fond of memories of the rape suffered.
"Heniebel Lecter" this time "Clarisse Starling" with him, and held her for months trying to manipulate her mind and erase her memories and personality and convince her that his sister "Misha" but resisted his attempts to convert to his sister to become his sweetheart and disappear in 1993.
Throughout his virtual life, Hannibal Lecter has killed 28 people. He is believed by some hints in Hannibal's novel that "Lecter" is "il mostro" or a Florentine monster who committed a series of crimes in the Italian city before Hannibal Lecter's stability . If it is true then the death toll rises to 44.
The real character behind Hannibal Lecter
In 2013, at the end of the 25th anniversary of the release of his book "The Silence of the Lambs," Thomas Harris exploded a surprise when he discovered that the famous "Hannibal Lecter" was derived from a Mexican surgeon named Alfredo Bali Trevino. Harris met him in a prison in Mexico when he was Covers the story of another prisoner saved by Trivino from the death of an investigator after being shot while trying to escape from prison.
The doctor, "Alfredo Pali Trevino" was convicted of killing his lover "Castillo Rangel" and is awaiting execution. The details of the crime, as reported by "Harris", is a dispute between the two friends, quickly turned into a physical conflict, where "Wrangel" attacked his lover with a screwdriver and wounded a serious wound, which provoked the madness of the doctor, "Trevino," who succeeded in anesthetizing his friend and transferred to The bathroom where he slaughtered the sheep as he slaughtered his blood as a professional butcher and then ended his crime by cutting his victim's body into small pieces placed in plastic bags and carrying them in a box to the farm of one of his relatives claiming it was medical waste. He was helped by a relative to bury her, but the alleged grave aroused the suspicions of one of the farm workers. He contacted the police and Trevino was quickly arrested and sentenced to death.
Thomas Harris, who tells the story of his meeting with the real Dr. Lecter, did not hide the fact that he was surprised by the high level of Trevino and his broad culture, saying: "It had a different kind of elegance."
In fact, the killer doctor overthrew the violent, crazy and neglected traditional killer, and presented a puzzling alternative, which led Harris to create the unique Hannibal Cutter character.
Although Trevino was supposed to be executed shortly after his meeting with the writer Harris, he somehow managed to avoid the death sentence. He was released in 2000, then returned to practice medicine and served the poor and needy until he passed away. In 2009.
What is the secret behind Hannibal's myth of Cutter?
Since her debut in "Silence of the Lambs", Hannibal Lecter's character has been cast on the throne of indisputable evil and has become its timeless icon.
Before the appearance of "Lecter" on a certain type of thugs who suffer from serious mental and psychological problems that make them alone and frightening, but with "Hannibal Lecter" emerged a new type of killers, it is true, or what was later called "thugs Philosophers "who treat their crimes as a valuable art museum worthy of appreciation. Thus, Lecter tried every time to dramatize his crimes and provide them with a mythological and artistic dimension, as in the murder of the Italian interrogator, who hanged him after his own cow, in a simulation of the death of "Judas" In which ancient methods of medicine were imitated.
Hannibal Lecter is characterized by contradictory psychic qualities that rarely meet in one person without making him a sickly monster in the eyes of others. But Thomas Harris somehow sculpted these qualities and refined them into a magical and enchanting halo.
Hannibal Lecter is a cultured man with a strong social and economic background. He has many talents. He is an accomplished player, a seasoned painter, a seasoned doctor, a first-class cook, and more importantly, he has sharp intelligence, supernatural memory and intellectual ability. The king of the analysis of situations and events, which made the rhythm or manipulation of his mind is impossible.
But, as it is said, "each of us has a dark side" and the darkness of "Cutter" was dark black, behind the mask of a prominent psychiatrist lover of art and beauty, was sitting a sadist, making human flesh his favorite food.
Litter was not long enough for his special ability to manipulate those around him, turning them into pawns in his patch, his ability to avoid arrest many times, and the revenge of Will Graham by inciting the "tooth fairy" to kill him; Perhaps his greatest masterpiece was the manipulation of "Clarice Starling" and eventually turned into a feminine version of him.
On the other hand, the magic of Lecter lies in the selection of its victims. Its goal of killing and cannibals was not the pleasure of committing the crime per se nor for the sake of sadistic sexual desires like the rest of the thugs. It is a kind of self-empowerment that he has given himself to rid society of its subversive elements, whether they are sadistic rapists like Mason Farger or incompetent people like Benjamin Resbill or greedy as the Italian investigator. In Hannibal Lecter's view, every victim targeted was a weak link in a chain or a rotten apple that could threaten the whole basket.
Thus, the moral interpretation of Litter's crimes has succeeded in tickling people's feelings and turning them into a "black knight" who fights for justice but in his own way.
Hannibal Lecter's personality succeeded in breaking the barrier between truth and fantasy, until people became aware of flesh and blood. She was the first imaginative figure of psychiatrists to study in an attempt to break the code of her mental disorders, but Dr. "Lecter" who knows the mysteries of psychiatry and his tests, doctors failed reality after winning the doctors of fiction and father, but remains a mystery insoluble solution And forgetful.
Sources
- Hannibal Lecter - Wikipedia
- Thomas Harris Based Hannibal Lecter On Real Life Murderer
- Hannibal Lecter: A Psycho with an Unlikely Soft Spot
- Real Hannibal Lecter was Murderous Gay Mexican Doctor Alfredo Ballà Treviño
- Red Dragon (2002 film)
- The Silence of the Lambs (film)
- Manhunter (film)
- Hannibal Rising (film)
- Hannibal Lecter Eating Humans: Between Truth and Imagination
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