We're going to talk about Hannibal Lecter, the cannibalistic psychiatrist. The four stories are The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, Red Dragon and Hannibal Rising. He was played by Anthony Hopkins who is a top rate actor and did a fine job in his character.
Hannibal Lecter was born in Lithuania January 20, 1938. He was 5' 10'' and 178 pounds. He was an American citizen. He was considered to be extremely dangerous.
Lecter's interests: Fine Art, History, Symphonic Music, Psychology, Anthropology, Fine Cusine and Mathematics. He was an avid reader and a connoisseur of fine wines and a world travler.
His father was a Count in Lithuania and his mother was high bred Italian Tuscan Guillano Beyisangue and from Machiavelli and Visconti bloodlines.
During the Second World War the Nazis pushed into Russia but got caught up in the bitter cold winter of 1940-41. Starving and cold they retreated back through Lithuania and took refuge in Lecter's father's estate. They killed all members of the estate except Hannibal and his sister Mischa. As they were hold up in the estate they ran out of food and began to starve. They took Mischa and cannibalized her for food. Hannibal was too thin and frail so they didn't bother him. This trauma was probably the reason for Hannibal's cannibalism. From 1944 to 1970 he came to the United States and became a citizen. From 1970 to 1975 he had a psychiatric practice in Maryland. Hannibal's I. Q. was obviously in the genius range. It had to be extremely high. The same goes for Anthony Hopkins.
I started with Silence of the Lambs which was made, or came out in 1991. Jodie Foster plays the major role along with Hopkins.
To start this right you have to start with the prequel - Red Dragon which was made I believe around 2003. At this time Hannibal still hadn't been captured for his crimes yet and he had a good psychiatric practice going.
We are studying all of this for two reasons
1) To fill up my website
2) To study the ways of a serial killer.
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