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Bostonmess
30-10-2004, 09:09 PM
http://gallery.zgeek.com/albums/uploads/hannibal.thumb.jpgEver wondered what made Hannibal a cannibal?

The answer will come when Thomas Harris' new novel about serial killer Hannibal Lecter, "Behind the Mask," is published next year.

"Millions of readers in 25 languages have wondered how Dr. Lecter developed his particular appetite for evil. This novel will satisfy their curiosity," publisher Bantam Dell said in a statement announcing the book would be ready late in 2005.

Chillingly brought to the screen by Anthony Hopkins in the 1991 film "The Silence of the Lambs," Hannibal Lecter is due to be back on movie screens for another outing based on the new novel. Film rights for the book have been acquired by The Dino De Laurentiis Company, producer of "Red Dragon" and "Hannibal".

"Behind the Mask" will be the fourth book about Hannibal, who first appeared in "Red Dragon".

"Hannibal," the third book in the series, was a number one New York Times hardcover and paperback bestseller, with sales of nearly 1.5 million hardcovers in 1999 and more than 3 million paperbacks.

Irwyn Applebaum, president of Bantam Dell Publishing Group, part of Random House, called Harris, "the premier novelist of psychological suspense of our time" and said Lecter was "the literary figure to whom all other villains are compared.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/entertainmentstorydisplay.cfm?storyID=3605579&thesection=entertainment&thesubsection=books&thesecondsubsection=general

Whiskers
30-10-2004, 09:22 PM
I'm writing an essay about Red Dragon at the moment. Or should I say, I'm supposed to be writing an essay.
Why is he a cannibal?
Most probable answer: Because his Mummy was mean to him. That always seems to be the justification.
Actually- his cannabalistic tendencies have already been explained. As a child, his younger sister was murdered and parts of her body were eaten. His cannibalistic desires stem from his need to 'internalise' his pain.
Or some mumbo jumbo similar.

Bostonmess
30-10-2004, 09:31 PM
Maybe it's to take on the power of his enemies/victims?

Juice Biscuit
30-10-2004, 09:34 PM
Actually- his cannabalistic tendencies have already been explained. As a child, his younger sister was murdered and parts of her body were eaten. His cannibalistic desires stem from his need to 'internalise' his pain.
Or some mumbo jumbo similar.


I was wondering for a sec if I had imagined that part in the book. Maybe this is why it didn't appear in the movie.

Whiskers
30-10-2004, 09:44 PM
In psychobabble its called a 'cycle of internalised persecution'. He watched his younger sister being eaten, therefore he eats other people to make the bad memories go away.

I'd just go for a steak myself....

StygiaN
31-10-2004, 08:41 AM
Ooops. I posted a thing in the news just then, i didn't see this thread ;)

Maybe it's to take on the power of his enemies/victims?

You only need to eat the heart to do that!

lostreality
31-10-2004, 08:56 AM
You only need to eat the heart to do that!


so thats where i went wrong!