Self Reflected, Greg Dunn / Hannibal 1.02 Amuse-Bouche

Donn P. Crane (1878 - 1944) - Illustrations for Dante’s Divine Comedy

Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - Shadows and Silhouettes

No man needs nothing.

Ali smacking people.

Jewels of Versailles | Marie Antoinette 2006

why does oscar wilde take 150 pages to write something he could literally say in a paragraph

Dracula and Jonathan’s Tango - from The Polish National Opera production of ‘Dracula’.

With Choreography by Krzysztof Pastor and Music by Wojciech Kilar.

Hunger is obviously a major theme in Hannibal—it’s literally the cannibal show—but the difference in how that’s portrayed with Hannigram is intriguing.

Hannibal was starving for connection before he had Will, and then everything changed for him. As Bedelia tells Will, “Did he daily feel a stab of hunger, and find nourishment at the very sight of you? Yes.” Hannibal’s hunger is sated by so much as the sight of Will. A mere look at him is enough to satisfy him.

But Will is different. Rather than being sated by his connection with Hannibal, it is the very thing that makes him hungry. There’s a frame in the Italy chapter that makes it look like he’s trapped in a starvation cage. In the script for his sailing scene, he’s literally described to look hungry:

Both Hannibal and Will have a possessive, obsessive, all-consuming love for one another, but it affects them quite differently. Hannibal is nourished by the very sight of Will, but for Will, no amount of the profound attention he experiences from Hannibal can fully sate his hunger—it’s a high he can’t help but chase. It fuels his pathological need to return to Hannibal again and again, no matter how self-destructive it is. I think this is why Will is more outwardly possessive of Hannibal than Hannibal is of Will. Hannibal wants Will to be his; Will wants Hannibal to be no one else’s. Both forms of possession, but Will’s is more jealous because of the way he experiences Hannibal’s attention. It’s a high, it’s a hunger—it’s a need, not a want.

K I N G  S T A N N I S  B A R A T H E O N  I

I was trying to win the throne to save the kingdom, when I should have been trying to save the kingdom to win the throne.

Becket (1964) / NBC Hannibal

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“Hours of Étienne Chevalier”, Tours c. 1452-1460

NY, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.1.2490