![]() ![]() However, to also juxtapose the crime drama and/or law enforcement aspects of the three previous books (which occur much later in Hannibal's life), the novel also introduces Inspector Pascal Popil (played by Dominic West in the film adaptation),whose trying to figure out whose committing the murderous crimes Hannibal has been committing, He is a war crime specialist.Īs it turns out, Popil was friends with both Robert Lecter and Lady Murasaki, so when he believes he has figured it out, he pleads with Murasaki to force Hannibal to come forward, implying he would try and protect Hannibal and cut a deal-the men Hannibal is killing are responsible for war crimes (And Popil wants them) and also did something nearly unspeakable in front of Hannibal. His Uncle dies early on protecting his wife from obscenities coming from a crude fish monger. The novel in part explores the relationship and philosophical struggle Hannibal has with his exotic Japanese aunt, Lady Murasaki, as he comes to live with her and his Uncle in France after tragic events occur in the beginning of the novel during WWII in Lithuania. In Hannibal Rising, Hannibal is never proven the killer for a few a reasons. ![]() The events of Lecter's capture immediately follow this scene.Īll that being said, I think Hannibal Rising was mostly a cash grab, and nobody sweated any inconsistencies with the existing Lecter mythology. Will Graham assumes the killer is keeping organs as trophies, and it is only in the dramatic scene in which Graham sees Lecter's cookbook that he realizes that the killer is eating the organs. Anyone who looks into it years later only sees that he was once briefly suspected of the death of some Nazis.Įven if Lecter was known to have cannibal activities in his past, it is made clear in the beginning of Red Dragon that the police don't even know they are looking for a cannibal. He is indicted for murder, but the case is not pursued because of circumstantial evidence and knowledge that the victims were war criminals. In all the murders Lecter is connected to, evidence of cannibalism is hidden by Lecter's disposal of the bodies, or, in one case, by his aunt covering for him. I don't believe that anybody knew that Lecter was a cannibal after the events of Rising. I can offer a possible explanation, but I have not seen the film version of Hannibal Rising and have to go by events in the book. ![]()
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