#Manhunter 1986

[aerikvon]

[patchouii]

His forehead being half an inch away from the damn bars in Manhunter and Will leaning back in his chair a little like he knows Hannibal would rather be menacingly invading his personal bubble 💀 Hannibal being somehow visibly queer is novels accurate, honestly…. Checkmate queercoding the villain trope, you amplified his power and popularity tenfold

I really love how all the Hannibals are a bit gay

[patchouii]

It’s just so funny to me that like. All the other iterations of Hannibal are only too happy to be cold bastards who want to mess with Will Graham like a mouse in a lab maze at most. But tv Hannibal wanted someone to match his freak almost pathetically badly. And tv Will just happened to match his freak in a way that was lethal to the general public 💀

[silence-falls]

“Will we passive aggressively flirt in every lifetime?”

Every lifetime:

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

[wardengrill]

Manhunter (1986)

[richard-is-bored]

Hannibal Lecter (Manhunter/The Silence Of The Lambs/Hannibal Rising/Hannibal)

[classicpalladium]

So in love with how NBC Hannibal clearly references the Hannibal films but instead of taking them as an inspiration for Hannibal’s character, the parallels between the movies and the series always depict Will instead.

Like this scene. This is a visual reference to Hannibal Rising (2007), where Hannibal kills one of the men that ate his sister.

In the show it’s WILL taking Hannibal’s place.

After this scene in Hannibal Rising, Hannibal continues to eat the man’s cheeks.

Sounds familiar?

Also, Will’s whole prison setup is a mirror of the setup in Silence of the Lambs (1991).

Hannibal in SOTL vs Will at the end of season 1/beginning of season 2:

They could have done the obvious, which is link the tv show Hannibal to the movie Hannibals (which, to be fair, they did in S3b; Hannibal’s prison chic minimalism was very much inspired by Manhunter (1986)). But I find it so interesting that they chose to visually mirror Hannibal’s development in Will’s storyline!! They’re the same. Will is following in Hannibal’s footsteps, he’s tracing it back to where it all began to become him. Ugh

[arkashas]

MANHUNTER (1986) dir. Michael Mann

[tvsnationalgeosapphic]

Any Manhunter (1986) fans in the house??

[teenagedirtstache]

[for-hunger]

[rosyshortcakes]

God forbid I want them to fuck

[therulerofallpotatos]

I will be needing 3 business days to recover from Speak No Evil so I'm putting on something I think will be more fun and lighthearted for me.

Manhunter (1986). I only recently learned this was a Hannibal movie so I'm playing it while its free on prime.

[ogenoger]

I just have this feeling you're not gonna come back