Hannibal "Nothing made me this way"
Harris "he was forced to eat his own sister"
Me "that'll do it"

“The Vile Eye tried to analyze me once. I commented on his video, with a like, and subscription.”

Hopkins described Lecter as the "Robin Hood of killers", who kills "the terminally rude".

Only Sir Anthony Hopkins can win an Oscar with a role that has less than 20 minutes of screen time.

Two cannibals were eating a clown, one cannibal said to the other: Does this taste funny to you?

I think it's too simple to call Dr Lecter's feelings for Misha love. Those feelings are much more complicated and confused.  Let's not forget that he ate Misha, and that saved him from starving to death, and as such tasted better than anything else, before or after. That he didn't know at the time that he was eating his sister and thereby saving his own life, has resulted in a very complex mental trauma, mixing guilt, revulsion  and hate with the wonderful feeling of finally eating and surviving starvation. I believe that's why he goes to such lengths to create wonderful human dishes to serve his friends, thereby possibly alleviating his own sense of guilt by eliciting pleasure and adulation from his dinner guests who love the meal when being unaware of what they were actually consuming. A bit like: "See, you like it too" to make himself feel less like a monster.

me, watching beginning, not hearing anything, thinking my sound is off, turns up sound
Vile Eye: HELLO, EVERYONE.

42:09 "None of these victims are fleshed out." I disagree. I think Dr. Lector fleshes out quite a few of his victims.

Both Mads Mikkelsen and Anthony Hopkins masterfully portrayed their respective versions of Hannibal, but personally I find Mads's version slightly more terrifying.  There's something bone chilling about how nonchalantly he carries out the most horrific actions, pulling strings on a grand scale with cold and calculated precision. It's also that the series gives him time to be fleshed out as a more adaptation-faithful character, which allows Mads to play a Lecter with more depth than the Silence of the Lambs version.

"...Most crucial and notable things about Hannibal, his intellect"

not gonna lie i thought it was his cannibalism but hey the dude is smart too i guess

When you see a hannibal lecter analysis that's 53 minutes you know it's good

I think Hannibals greatest weapon is in fact his ability to empathize. As you might know clinical psychopaths lack the ability to truly empathize so that immediately scratches that off the list. In the book Red Dragon Chilton tells Graham that no one is really able to categorize him before Graham meets Hannibal for the first time since he had caught him. He says he shares many traits with a sociopath but isn't quite that either. It is truly fascinating how no one can ever truly put a finger on him, but everybody he encounters is an open book to him. What a fascinating and fantastic character.

Terrifying for me is the fact that
Dr. Lecter rarely, if ever,
lends himself to fits of anger.
Hopkins portrayal is Brilliant.

He is basically the closest “human” character we get to Count Dracula. He basically is a supernatural ancient evil. He is what Dracula would be if he were flesh and blood.

One minor nitpick, Lector was not a psychologist, but a psychiatrist.

He has edietic memory. He also suffered a traumatic childhood. It's pretty clear what his "curse" is. He is unable to forget what he went through. He's trying to bypass it with extravagant behaviour and experiences in order to feel like he is "above" it all.

"They don't have a name for what he is." - Clarice Starling

I think monster describes the Doctor well. To be able to empathize with people, yet choose to torture and murder them means you revel in their pain and suffering. It means you enjoy it, you get off on it. To me, that's the definition of a monster.

Fun Fact: The real life doctor who Thomas Harris credited as inspiration for Hannibal Lector actually served his sentence & subsequently went back to treating patients with thriving success. He died a few years back

20:44 In the Hannibal TV series he finds out Jack Crawford's wife Bella has lung cancer just by smelling her and said he realised one of his teachers had stomach cancer the same way. He finds out about Will Graham's encephalitis through it too but doesn't tell him as a sick experiment to see how it affects Will's thoughts and his ability to empathise with people including serial killers.