[ SECRET POST #2407 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2407 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

The original books weren't written from Hannibal's POV, and he did a lot of horrible things. He is not a sympathetic character and I doubt if there's anything he's not capable of.

We must also remember that the addition of Hannibal's sister was done by a movie director, not Thomas Harris:

The February 22, 2007 issue of Entertainment Weekly features a quote that suggests that the only reason Thomas Harris wrote the story was out of the fear that a Lecter prequel/origin story would inevitably be written without his involvement. Hannibal Rising film producer Dino De Laurentiis said "I say to Thomas, 'If you don't do [the prequel], I will do it with someone else...I don't want to lose this franchise. And the audience wants it...' He said, 'No. I'm sorry.' And I said, 'I will do it with somebody else.' And then he said, 'Let me think about it. I will come up with an idea.'"[2]

[(Anonymous)]

But wasn't Hannibal written prior to Hannibal Rising? The specifics of his sister's demise might have been written on the fly, but she did exist, was mentioned prior to the prequel.

[(Anonymous)]

Hannibal was written in 1999, Hannibal Rising in 2006.

[(Anonymous)]

From the Hannibal (book) wiki:

Using a regimen of psychotropic drugs and behavioral therapy, Lecter attempts to brainwash Starling, hoping to make her believe she is Mischa, returned to life. She ultimately proves too strong, however, and tells him that Mischa will have to live on within him.

Mischa was not an addition by a movie director.

[(Anonymous)]

No, Harris wrote the story by himself. He was just told that if he didn't, someone else would.

[(Anonymous)]

Hannibal is very much a sympathetic character. Harris all but made him a woobie in the latter books.