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Do you like this video? Play Sound. This article is about the character. You may be looking for the television series. This section covers content from the Clarice television series , a sequel taking place a year after The Silence of the Lambs.
Following his bloody escape at the end of The Silence of the Lambs , Lecter is living under a false name in Florence. Whereas the police procedural of The Silence of the Lambs is punctuated by moments of bright gore, Hannibal goes full-on Grand Guignol, featuring everything from disembowelment at a famous Italian landmark to death by moray eel.
Then they travel the world together, spotted last at an opera in Buenos Aires. For a generation who viewed Starling as a hero, that ending was a betrayal. She was not only deprived of agency, but helped the monstrous Lecter cannibalize another human being.
The controversy over the ending threatened to disrupt the making of the inevitable movie; Hollywood executives tend to get nervous when asked to spend tens of millions of dollars on a production with a weird, downbeat conclusion. What if Harris was trying something thematically bold, only for a significant portion of his audience to miss the point? Seven women. Skinned six. Six of them. I saved one. The last one. You know.
Ate his patients. Starling is difficult to define, because so much of her is drawn in opposition to—and later, in parallel with—Lecter. Your eyes are like cheap birthstones—all surface shine when you stalk some little answer. The assessment is an act of invasion, almost an assault.
Lecter is now free and living the high life in Florence, but on top of the FBI's continuing hunt for him, he faces a new threat in the form of the maniacally evil Mason Verger. How evil is he? He's a serial pedophile who literally drinks the tears of children and trains boars to eat people so that he can exact revenge on Hannibal for getting him high on poppers and encouraging him to eat his own face.
It's that kind of book. The Clarice of Hannibal is a seasoned FBI agent who has become disenfranchised with her work thanks to her wildly misogynistic bosses and a culture of corruption. The only man who seems supportive of her plight is, shock horror, Hannibal Lecter, and she feels the need to save him from the clutches of Verger, although she still wishes to see him behind bars. A lot of Hannibal is actually pretty fascinating, if utterly bonkers.
Clarice's turmoil over her work and her strange companionship to a literal cannibal proves intriguing, and all of the scenes in Florence are beautifully written, evoking a city of wonder and darkness. It's when Hannibal saves Clarice from the killer pigs that things fall off the rails. Now in his care, Hannibal does the logical thing with Clarice: He pumps her full of mind-altering drugs, tries to brainwash her then "help" her with her unresolved father issues through a gentle veneer of gaslighting, then tries to force her into becoming his long-dead younger sister Mischa.
Thankfully, that doesn't work, but instead, Clarice opens her dress and offers her breasts to Lecter, then they become lovers and run away to Buenos Aires together. To say that reading this narrative as a teenager was a kick in the teeth would be an understatement.
It felt genuinely insulting to see someone as strong and driven as Clarice Starling deciding to run away and become Mrs. Lecter, complete with cannibalistic dinners and the occasional breastfeeding session. It didn't make sense that, even at her most disillusioned with the FBI, Clarice would stop caring about justice or the wronged victims of people like Lecter.
She'd gone from a hero fighting the system for a righteous cause to a trophy wife for a guy who eats people. The novel was a huge hit, but the reviews were sharply divisive, and Jonathan Demme was so disappointed with the material that he chose not to direct the movie. Enter Ridley Scott, fresh from the Oscar-winning success of Gladiator.
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